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The True Meaning of Patriotism

http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=1840 An American Patriot Does Not Defend Land nor Government, It Defends The... more

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McNamara Died Without Finding the Right Equation for the Vietnam War

To the end, Robert McNamara, one of the chief architects of the Vietnam War, was a confused and tortured man wrestling with his... more

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EA Confirms Command & Conquer 4 Announcement

Yesterday we reported to you that EA UK's PR department mistakenly jumped the gun by tweeting about the unannounced Command... more

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My Debate With A Socialist (Argument #2)

http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=1748 by Jim Anderson Interestingly enough, he agreed by saying that I was... more

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Freedom Watch 7/8/09 Dr Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Tom Woods, Jim Demint, Dr. Rand Paul

http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=1832 Freedom Watch 7/8/2009 ***This article has been chosen as a discussion... more

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Ron Paul Is Right! We Should Audit the Fed: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/techticker/article/275761/Ron-Paul-Is-Right!-We-Should-Audit-the-Fed Yahoo! Ticker Posted Jul 08,... more

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CENSORSHIP BURNS THE BOOKS NOBODY READ

BAN CENSORSHIP

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An American Fairy Tale

http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=1818 Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, Jack fell down and... more

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Zionism, anti-Zionism and the state of Israel

Haim Bresheeth is an activist and film-maker of Israeli origin, living in Britain, where he is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He is co-author of “The Gulf War and the New Word Order” (with Nira Yuval-Davis) - an edited anthology on the first Gulf War, and “Introduction to the Holocaust” (with Stuart Hood). His documentary films include A State of Danger (BBC2, March 1989) - a film on the early stages of the first Palestinian Intifada. He is currently researching: Palestinian Cinema, Global Media Markets, Cinematic Narrative Structures, Film and memory.

Understanding the Occupation

"Most of my family was destroyed in the holocaust - in different concentration camps and in the Warsaw ghetto and I was born in a refugee camp in Italy immediately after the war... I'm not saying this in order to elicit some sympathy because this is nonsensical on this audience [mostly Jewish] obviously. I'm saying this in order to explain why its so easy for me to understand the Palestinians in Gaza and in the rest of Palestine. It is very easy for me to understand them because they live in a combination of a concentration camp and Warsaw ghetto for so many years that we have stopped counting...

Israeli Governments

"I don't think there is the slightest difference between the different Israeli governments in one important respect - the Zionist project was, is, and will be about the dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinian population of Palestine. It was this, it is this, and it will be this - every Israeli government has done this - it doesn't matter if it was Barak and now Sharon or Netayahu before him - it was no different..."

Water

"Israelis use 41 times more water than Palestinians - well what does it mean? Think about it. Its not just that they have very large swimming pools in the occupied territories - which of course they do, it also means the Palestinians do not have proper water supply for their agriculture which is the only industry such as it is that they are running here and there - there is no other industry that they were allowed to develop all those years. They weren't even allowed to open a bank during the Israeli occupation. Its interesting - most of the water in Israel comes from the West Bank... Palestinians cant even have their tomatoes growing, I'm not even talking about having a wash, cleanliness - I'm talking about very simple things - you cant even grow anything because the water will be cut off for a week at a time. I was in Gaza and my Gazan hosts were apologising to me an Israeli that they cant give me water to drink when we are having lunch with pitta's because the water was turned off..."

Wanting Peace?

"They [Israel] will do everything to make you believe that they want peace - I even believed it once and most of you have believed it - I know that. They will do everything to make sure that people in the West believe that they want peace - they will go to meetings, they will sign documents - they will do all that and then they will make damn sure that there is no chance of any of this happening..."
Boycott Israel

"If you are making sure in every shop you go everyone knows that because they hold Israeli products you don't buy there - if you bring about the destruction of the Israeli economy which Mr. Sharon is doing such a great job of and you help him in that destruction, more Israelis will come to their bloody senses and will realize that justice is not divisible, peace is not divisible, humanity is not divisible - you cannot divide them. We will have peace - they will have peace, we will have water - they will have water, we will have human existence if they will have it..."Haim Bresheeth is an activist and film-maker of Israeli origin, living in Britain, where he is Professor of Cultural Studies at... more

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Come Back Home

In Northern Uganda over 65,000 Acholi children have been abducted from their homes and forced to fight in the rebel ranks of the... more

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Adam Kokesh Announces Congressional Run! Endorsed by Dr. Ron Paul

http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=1806 Adam Kokesh Announces His Congressional Bid ***This article has been... more

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My Debate With A Socialist (Introduction and The First Argument)

http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=1744 The debate started on a Sunday and ended officially on the following Saturday.... more

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Ron Paul 7/6/09 on Independence Celebration, Federal Reserve, Foreign Policy

http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=1795 7/6/2009 Dr. Ron Paul On The Federal Reserve and Foreign Policy ***This... more

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Pope sanctions the death of thousands of Irish Catholics!

We can reveal today the shocking truth regarding the real political agenda of the vatican.

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Robert McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, Dies at 93

Robert Strange McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of... more

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Mexican drug cartel claims divine right to push narcotics

The rival cartels battling for control of Mexico's multibillion-dollar narcotics trade are as notorious for their consumption... more

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Obama in Russia amid fading hopes of nuclear arms deal : Medvedev seeks to tie weapons reduction tre

Barack Obama arrived in Moscow this morning for his first trip to Russia as US president, amid dwindling hopes of a breakthrough... more

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Senior Iranian clerics reject re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:Qom assembly calls for release of p

Deepening splits among Iran's clergy came to the surface today , with a senior clerical group calling Mahmoud... more

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Video Is The Economy A Perpetual Motion Machine? The Paradox Of Thrift Keynesian Myth

http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=1780 ***This article has been chosen as a discussion topic on PFP Movement Radio,... more

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Spending 102 billion a year on 800 worldwide military bases is bankrupting the country

The U.S. Empire of Bases -- at $102 billion a year already the world's costliest military enterprise -- just got a good deal more expensive. As a start, on May 27th, we learned that the State Department will build a new "embassy" in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will be the second priciest ever constructed, only $4 million less, if cost overruns don't occur, than the Vatican-City-sized one the Bush administration put up in Baghdad. The State Department was also reportedly planning to buy the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel (complete with pool) in Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan, to use as a consulate and living quarters for its staff there.

Unfortunately for such plans, on June 9th Pakistani militants rammed a truck filled with explosives into the hotel, killing 18 occupants, wounding at least 55, and collapsing one entire wing of the structure. There has been no news since about whether the State Department is still going ahead with the purchase.

Whatever the costs turn out to be, they will not be included in our already bloated military budget, even though none of these structures is designed to be a true embassy -- a place, that is, where local people come for visas and American officials represent the commercial and diplomatic interests of their country. Instead these so-called embassies will actually be walled compounds, akin to medieval fortresses, where American spies, soldiers, intelligence officials, and diplomats try to keep an eye on hostile populations in a region at war. One can predict with certainty that they will house a large contingent of Marines and include roof-top helicopter pads for quick get-aways.

While it may be comforting for State Department employees working in dangerous places to know that they have some physical protection, it must also be obvious to them, as well as the people in the countries where they serve, that they will now be visibly part of an in-your-face American imperial presence. We shouldn't be surprised when militants attacking the U.S. find one of our base-like embassies, however heavily guarded, an easier target than a large military base.

And what is being done about those military bases anyway -- now close to 800 of them dotted across the globe in other people's countries? Even as Congress and the Obama administration wrangle over the cost of bank bailouts, a new health plan, pollution controls, and other much needed domestic expenditures, no one suggests that closing some of these unpopular, expensive imperial enclaves might be a good way to save some money.

Instead, they are evidently about to become even more expensive. On June 23rd, we learned that Kyrgyzstan, the former Central Asian Soviet Republic which, back in February 2009, announced that it was going to kick the U.S. military out of Manas Air Base (used since 2001 as a staging area for the Afghan War), has been persuaded to let us stay. But here's the catch: In return for doing us that favor, the annual rent Washington pays for use of the base will more than triple from $17.4 million to $60 million, with millions more to go into promised improvements in airport facilities and other financial sweeteners. All this because the Obama administration, having committed itself to a widening war in the region, is convinced it needs this base to store and trans-ship supplies to Afghanistan.

continued at the linkThe U.S. Empire of Bases -- at $102 billion a year already the world's costliest military enterprise -- just got a good deal... more