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http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2010/10/24/wikileaks-documents-in-the-arab-media/ 

From Saudi Ara­bia news­pa­per Al-Riyadh:

If crimes were pros­e­cuted on behalf of the [inter­na­tional] law, then what hap­pened in Iraq is no less hor­ri­ble of what hap­pened in Bosnia and Herze­gov­ina, or what said on the exter­mi­na­tion of the Jews, Arme­ni­ans, and Dar­fur and others.
The prob­lem is that this case, is very sim­i­lar to Israel’s crimes in Pales­tine when its lead­ers are excluded from the [inter­na­tional] courts, or in the U.S., which avoided the name of power and hege­mony, it lead­ers are unques­tion­able of the crimes of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, My Lai, and then finally what the series of doc­u­ments uncov­ered by what hap­pened in Afghanistan and Iraq.

SOTT.NET

All across the mainstream media, we're reading:

"US Mid-term elections herald new political era"

Are these supposedly intelligent newspaper editors actually that stupid or are they part of the deception?
...
Supposedly Obama and the democrats were elected a few years ago to get RID of the corrupt republicans! So two years later the same gang are back and we are told to expect a "new era"???

 

Campaign Cash: Citizens United Becomes Get Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Corporate Criminals

www.truth-out.org

The votes are in, and while some close races are still being tallied, there is a clear winner from the 2010 elections: Secret corporate cash.

 

Bill Moyers: "Welcome to the Plutocracy!"

www.truth-out.org

I was honored when you asked me to join in celebrating Howard Zinn’s life and legacy. I was also surprised. I am a journalist, not a historian. The difference between a journalist and an historian is that the historian knows the difference.

 

Cluster Munitions Treaty Leaves US Behind

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Bangkok - A campaign to rid the world of cluster munitions has still to rope in the U.S. government, a major producer and stockpiler of the deadly payload, on the eve of a key global conference in Laos to ban its production and use.

 

FDA finds Listeria monocytogenes at SanGar Fresh Cut Produce in Texas

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in processed celery at the SanGar Fresh Cut Produce facility in San Antonio. The results matched the initial testing done by Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), which had closed down the facility on Oct. 20 after the Listeria bacteria was linked to five deaths in Texas. The tests found Listeria in multiple locations in the plant....

Source: Marler Blog

 

After the Election Disaster: Back to Basics

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Norman Solomon: "We need to build a grassroots progressive movement - wide, deep and strong enough to fight the right and challenge the corporate center of the Democratic Party."

( Good luck with that. How, exactly ? )

 

 

 

 

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