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New Egyptian VP Ran Mubarak’s Security Team, Oversaw Torture
By MATTHEW COLE and SARAH O. WALI ABC News, Feb. 1, 2011 Omar Suleiman Offered To Chop Off Man’s Arm For CIA, Says Author The intelligence chief tapped by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as his vice...
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Lessons of the Glorious Egyptian Revolution
By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, February 11, 2011 Wow, what an exciting day! It’s thrilling to be alive when history comes alive. Egypt is free. Mubarak has fled. The people have won. This is...
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The Demands of the Egyptian Revolution
from CodePink Demands for an immediate response: 1. The resignation of President Mohammad Hosni Mubarak 2. The abolition of Emergency Law 3. Abolition of the State Security Investigation 4. The...
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Be Consistent—Invade Saudi Arabia
by Robert Scheer, Truthdig, 3/22/11. Excerpt: …from the London School of Economics to Harvard, influential foreign policy experts were all too happy until quite recently to accept Libyan payoffs in...
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A history lesson from Noam Chomsky
excerpt from Noam Chomsky, “Who Owns The World? The Contours of Global Order,” TomDispatch, 4/21/11: Despite all the changes since, there is every reason to suppose that today’s policy-makers basically...
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Chris Hedges Speaks on Osama bin Laden’s Death
Truthdig.com, 5/1/11, excerpt: …You can’t make war on terror. Terrorism has been with us since Sallust wrote about it in the Jugurthine wars. And the only way to successfully fight terrorist groups is...
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US allies are among the leading funders of international terrorism
Rania Khalek, “5 WikiLeaks Hits of 2011 That Are Turning the World on Its Head — And That the Media Are Ignoring,”AlterNet, 6/7/11, excerpt: 3) US allies are among the leading funders of international...
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U.S. Sends Emergency Shipment of Negative Ads to Egypt
The Borowitz Report, 5/24/12 Aid to Fledgling Democracy CAIRO (The Borowitz Report – In what it is calling a mission to support a fledgling democracy in the Middle East, the United States this week...
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Why the Obama team feared Jon Huntsman
by Nathaniel Smith, Politics: A View from West Chester, 12/19/12 I agree with those who say Huntsman would have been a more formidable opponent to Obama than Romney was. Huntsman actually has some...
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Egypt’s All-Or-Nothing Politics — An Analysis
by Lawrence Davidson, To the Point Analyses, 7/6/13 Part I – The Heritage of Westernization The cultural situation in much of the Middle East resembles a volcanic landscape. On the surface there is a...
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I didn’t join the military to…
excerpt of montage from Nick Wing, “Tea Party Troops Protest Syria Strike On Facebook, Raise Questions About Military Code Of Conduct,” Huffington Post, 9/4/13
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Syria Video Turns the Debate on U.S. Intervention
by Lloyd Grove, The Daily Beast, Sept. 6, 2013 The tape made ‘New York Times’ editors sick. Lloyd Grove on the footage of a rebel slaughter that’s upended talk of an authorized U.S. intervention. The...
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Poll: Majority Of Americans Approve Of Sending Congress To Syria
The Onion, 9/5/13 WASHINGTON—As President Obama continues to push for a plan of limited military intervention in Syria, a new poll of Americans has found that though the nation remains wary over the...
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Fourteen questions on Syria for the U.S. Congress
by Nathaniel Smith, Politics A View from West Chester, 9/3/13: Is it worse for a government to kill its own people (Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, China…) or other people (Israel, Palestine, Pakistan,...
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Group stages protest at Meehan office against military strike on Syria
by Vince Sullivan, DelCo Times, 9/7/13 PRINGFIELD — A small group of protesters gathered outside of the district office of U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan, R-7, of Upper Darby, to gather support for a...
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It’s Not War, So Stop Saying That
by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout, 9/5/13, excerpt: …Secretary of State John Kerry made it abundantly clear during a congressional hearing on Tuesday that he is ready to ask someone to be the first to...
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The Big Dog and its Tail: Who’s Hiding Behind the Accountability Mask?
By John Grant, This Can’t Be Happening, 9/5/13 Responses to wrongdoing must not exacerbate problems. - Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute Watching news coverage of the debate over...
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Excerpt on chemical weapons and the U.S.
excerpt on chemical weapons from George Monbiot, “Obama’s rogue state tramples over every law it demands others uphold,” The Guardian, 9/9/13 …In 1997 the US agreed to decommission the 31,000 tonnes of...
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The Russian Proposal: Two Questions about the Syria Crisis that Matter
by Susan Eisenhower, September 11, 2013 Last night, President Obama confirmed that he is in favor of giving diplomacy a chance to succeed in defusing a potential conflict with Syria. It was a relief...
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