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Open Letter From the Peace Movement to President Obama on His Upcoming Decision Regarding the Afghan War

By Cynthia McKinney

We urge you to end the policy of using Predator drones to assassinate Pakistani civilians on the territory of their own country, in defiance of all concepts of international law. We also call upon you to cease all covert CIA and Pentagon operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23972.htm



The general is right. Liam Fox is wrong

Just when President Barack Obama looked as if he might be railroaded into sending tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan, the American envoy to Kabul has warned him not to do so.

https://snipurl.com/t95kw



Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children

By David Michael Green

There is an era of bad feeling in America, long in the making, but hardly at its nadir. The United States has been on a southward glide path for three decades now, an act of political physics as natural and inevitable as gravity itself, but also deeply exacerbated by the predatory political movement pioneered by Reagan and Thatcher, and continued by Bushes, Blairs, Clintons and Obamas alike.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23970.htm



Poverty, Global Trade Justice, and the Roots of Terrorism

By John Perkins

Our narrow-minded attitudes and the policies that result from them foment violence, rebellions, and wars. In the long run, almost no one benefits from attacking the people we label as "terrorists." With one glaring exception: the corporatocracy.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23971.htm



The Audacity of Failure

The 4-year presidency of Barack Hoover Obama

By Mike Whitney

The administration's announcement is tantamount to a stealth-attack on Social Security in the name of "fiscal responsibility". It's another public relations ploy intended to enrich the parasite class by stealing crusts of bread from penniless retirees.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23976.htm



How the Servant Became a Predator

Finance's Five Fatal Flaws

By William K. Black

The financial sector is a tool to help those that make real tools, not an end in itself. But five fatal flaws in the financial sector's current structure have created a monster that drains the real economy, promotes fraud and corruption, threatens democracy, and causes recurrent, intensifying crises.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23967.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Shining Light on Roots of Terrorism
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/16-0



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