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Al Qaeda Attacks on U.S. Soil: Brought to you by the military industrial complex « I Stay In So You Can Go Out

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A People's History of American Empire

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The Secret Adventures of the Projectionist

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The Secret Adventures of the Projectionist

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Ron Paul On World War I & US Interventionism

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DEAR MR. TERRORIST...

Hello and Happy New Year from an American friend. I hope your new year is one that offers both health, spirtual enlightenment and an opportunity to learn what you have gotten yourself into before its too late. Take a look at that man beside you, the one who will some day hand you a bomb and tell you to kill yourself and, maybe, dozens of women and children, many Muslims. Are you really sure he is who he says he is? Like the "Al Qaeda" leaders in Yemen, you know, the ones who Dick Cheney decided to release for some unknown reason, are you, maybe, taking orders from someone like this?

You remember Usama bin Laden, Sallahu Alayhi Wa Sallams, do you not? Remember why he said he had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks? He said the Koran would not allow it. Does not the Koran say this is sin? Look at poor Abdulmutallab, sitting in a prison in Milan, Michigan. How do you think he was helped thru airport after airport, all run by Israelis, put on a plane full of Muslims, men, women, families, going back to their home in Detroit, Fi AmanAllah, with orders to blow it up?

Do you think the people who walked him around passport control at Schipol Airport could have only done so with the highly secure special keys available only to the security company running the airport? Of course you know who these people are.

Let us say your are in Afghanistan. Did you ever wonder where all those brand new weapons come from? Look at the markings. Does it say "Made in India?" So, you are heading into Pakistan to kill Muslims with your new weapons from Israel and India. You think they were free?

Imagine the laughter in Tel Aviv and Mumbai.

You believe you are acting in Fi Sabillah (for the cause of allah)? Do you believe that America goes to war to make money for their defense companies and big oil? Are you aware that much of the ownership of America's military suppliers is from the Middle East? Without money from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the money financing the bombs and planes, Islamic money, would there be a war?

Many say they fight America because it is here, in an Islamic country, supporting a puppet government. America is here to fight you, you are here to fight them. Who is winning? Will you want a government like the Islamic Republic of Iran? There is now little difference between the government there today and the puppet dictatorship of the Shah. Patriots are being murdered by secret police now as they were 40 years ago.

Years ago, when America was cast out of Iran and hostages were taken, did not Iran turn to Israel to bargain with the Americans for weapons to trade? Perhaps giving away your trust without opening your eyes to what can be seen is unwise.

No matter if the US stays in Afghanistan or goes, India and Israel will control the country as they do so many others. If they don't, then China will. Look at the map. Only Pakistan has nuclear weapons, a powerful military and an elected government, albeit problematic and unstable.

You would destroy it and turn it over to India and Israel in the name of Islam.

Who do you serve?Hello and Happy New Year from an American friend. I hope your new year is one that... more

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One Day We'll All Be Terrorists | | AlterNet

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BIG HAT, NO CATTLE

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Why Afghanistan? The Battle for Asia between New and Old Empires

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Learning From Brazil: When Will America Stop Playing Empire

By Mark Weisbrot

Over the last decade an epoch-making political change has taken place in the Western Hemisphere: Latin America, a region that was once considered the United States' "back yard," is now more independent of Washington than Europe is.

But while Latin America has changed, U.S. foreign policy has not - even now, with the election of President Obama. Hence the region, including Brazil, finds itself increasingly at odds with Washington. The military coup in Honduras is just one recent and glaring example.

The elected president is kidnapped at gunpoint and flown out of the country; his supporters are arrested by the thousands, beaten, tortured, and some even killed by security forces; media outlets opposing the coup are intermittently shut down, their equipment confiscated. Despite widespread condemnation of these crimes from human rights groups worldwide, the coup regime now tries to legitimate itself with an "election." Almost every country in Latin America says no, we must first restore democracy, civil liberties, and basic human rights; Washington supports the "election."

It is not only on the question of democracy that Washington finds itself on the wrong side of history. It has also gotten the economics wrong. From 1960-1980, when according to Washington folklore the region's governments couldn't do anything right, the average Latin American's income grew by 82 percent. From 1980- 2009, a much longer period filled with Washington-sponsored neoliberal reforms, it grew by about 18 percent. No wonder that most of the electorate in the region has voted over the last decade to reject neoliberal policies. It is little comfort that the U.S.-based authors of failed policies in Latin America have now managed to tank the U.S. economy as well.

It is enough to just mention Washington's "war on drugs" in the hemisphere as another colossal failure that has trampled on the sovereignty of various nations. The Obama administration now continues the Bush policy of punishing Bolivia with trade sanctions for dubious "offenses." As for security policy, the Obama administration's decision to expand its military presence in Colombia, once again in opposition to almost every government in South America, has made Washington into more of a destabilizing force in the region.

Brazil cannot afford to sit on the sidelines while the United States causes trouble in Latin America - most menacingly in the case of Honduras, threatening to push the region back to an uglier era when the military could overthrow elected governments that Washington and the local elite did not like. As for policy outside the region, Brazil's interest in reaching out to all parties in the Middle East will be more than welcome there, as well as throughout the world. Brazil has advantages that could enable it to play a positive role: Lula is one of the most popular leaders in the world, the government has a skilled diplomatic corps, and Brazil has no conflicts of interest that would prevent it from being an honest mediator.

Lula's Brazil has politely but firmly rejected the United States' policies on a number of important issues, including the proposed "Free Trade Area of the Americas;" Washington's attempt to ram through a bad deal for developing countries at the 2003 WTO negotiations; and the Bush Administration's failed attempt to isolate Venezuela in the region. On all of these issues and more, Brazil turned out to be correct, and needed. With no major changes in U.S. foreign policy or international commercial policy on the horizon, an independent and assertive Brazilian foreign policy is likely to be more important than ever.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/brazils-differences-with-washington-are-unavoidable-and-positive/

http://purapolitica.com.br/novosite/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Obama-e-lula.jpegBy Mark Weisbrot Over the last decade an epoch-making political change has taken... more

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Obama's "empire"

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Hollywood legends recreate famous scenes [pics]

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Will the Empire End with Good Leadership or Blood?

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The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt2

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Monty Python's Killing Joke ?

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An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order

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Empire state building lights up for China

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How the US Became a Vassal State of China

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The end of American empire -- closer than we think?

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