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Libya and the end of Western Illusions

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Five months into the bombing campaign, it is no longer possible to believe the initial official version of the events and the massacres attributed to the “Gaddafi regime”. Moreover, it is now essential to take into account Libya’s legal and diplomatic rebuttal, highlighting the crimes against peace committed by television propaganda, the war crimes perpetrated by NATO military forces, and the crimes against humanity sponsored by political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance.

August 18th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,Foreign Policy | Read More »

US Jobless Claims Up, Gasoline Lifts Consumer Prices

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The number of Americans claiming new jobless benefits rose last week and consumer prices increased at the fastest pace in four months in July, highlighting the challenges facing the Federal Reserve.

August 18th, 2011 | Posted in Economy,Featured | Read More »

But America IS A Police State

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Six Fullerton cops, responding to a phone call alleging that someone in the downtown area might be breaking into cars, approached a 130-pound homeless man named Kelly Thomas, grabbed his backpack and, according to eyewitnesses, began Tasering him and beating him into a pulp. He died a few days later at a local hospital.

August 18th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,Police State | Read More »

Congress and Obama: We Need More Innocent People in Prison

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This past year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down much of the “Honest Services Fraud” law that federal prosecutors were using as the catch-all for targeting whomever they wanted to have thrown into prison.

August 17th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,U.S. News | Read More »

Who’s really destroying the Republican Party?

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I first became a conservative by listening to Rush Limbaugh as a teenager, a habit I picked up from my mother. Those were exciting times, and I remember Limbaugh, the fiery outsider, supporting renegade Republican Pat Buchanan and his presidential challenge to incumbent George H.W. Bush in 1992.

August 17th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,Politics,Ron Paul News | Read More »

Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels

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The Central Intelligence Agency was intimately involved with the federal government’s infamous “Operation Fast and Furious” scheme to send American weapons to Mexican drug cartels while simultaneously working with other agencies allowing narcotics to be shipped over the border, according to a series of explosive reports.

August 17th, 2011 | Posted in Drug War,Featured | Read More »

Rick Perry’s Bad Medicine

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Texas, we have a problem. Your GOP governor is running for president against Barack Obama. Yet, one of his most infamous acts as executive of the nation’s second-largest state smacks of every worst habit of the Obama administration. And his newly crafted rationalizations for the atrocious decision are positively Clintonesque.

August 17th, 2011 | Posted in Elections 2012,Featured | Read More »

Ron Paul exposes media bias

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For the last few days, the American media and political classes have been debating the fallout from the Ames straw poll: the Iowa ritual that marks the first real hurdle in the Republican nomination race.

August 16th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,Politics,Ron Paul News | Read More »

Sea-level rises are slowing, tidal gauge records show

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ONE of Australia’s foremost experts on the relationship between climate change and sea levels has written a peer-reviewed paper concluding that rises in sea levels are “decelerating”.

August 16th, 2011 | Posted in Environment,Featured | Read More »

Germany, France call for European economic government

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PARIS (AP) — All 17 countries that use the euro currency should have mandatory balanced budgets and better coordination of economic policy, the leaders of France and Germany said Tuesday.

August 16th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,World News | Read More »

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