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" I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?
: Thomas Jefferson

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"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." -- Henry Steele Commager - (1902-1998) Historian and author

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"Who are a free people? Not those over whom government is exercised, but those who live under a government so constitutionally checked and controlled that proper provision is made against its being otherwise exercised." : John Dickenson - (1732-1808) - Source: Farmer’s Letters, 1767

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"No man survives when freedom fails, The best men rot in filthy jails, And those who cry 'appease, appease' Are hanged by those they tried to please.": Hiram Mann

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"The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members": Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1844

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Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In Bush's War 100,000 +


Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered In Bush's War 2107


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Revolution

By John S. Hatch

There is within the mythology America finds so indispensable something so sick and downright evil, but so pervasive that even after all the revelations of torture and rape and murder sanctioned at the highest levels of government, even now the numbness persists, and writers still insist on thinking that America is somehow a shining example of decency
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Assassinations...

By River Bend Blog

When you read it on the internet, it’s nothing like seeing scenes of it on television. They showed the corpses and the family members- an elderly woman wailing and clawing at her face and hair and screaming that soldiers from the Ministry of Interior had killed her sons. They shot them in front of their mother, wives and children… Even when they slaughter sheep, they take them away from the fold so that the other sheep aren’t terrorized by the scene.
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The US Plans a Long, Long Stay in Iraq

by Eric Margolis

While President George Bush hints at eventual troop withdrawals, the Pentagon is busy building four major, permanent air bases in Iraq that will require heavy infantry protection.
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The long march of Dick Cheney

For his entire career, he sought untrammeled power. The Bush presidency and 9/11 finally gave it to him -- and he's not about to give it up.

By Sidney Blumenthal

The hallmark of the Dick Cheney administration is its illegitimacy. Its essential method is bypassing established lines of authority; its goal is the concentration of unaccountable presidential power. When it matters, the regular operations of the CIA, Defense Department and State Department have been sidelined.
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Lost Legs, Burned Faces and White House Lies: What Are They Dying For?:

Nothing has appeared in the mainstream media about Specialist Benson of the 101st Airborne who has lost his legs, or about Sergeant Akers of the Michigan National Guard who is horribly burned. They are not on the front pages.
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Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq:

This article considers who the intellectual authors of these crimes against humanity are and what purpose they serve in the context of the ongoing occupation of the country.
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CIA Whitewashing Torture :

Statements by Goss Contradict U.S. Law and Practice
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Britain gives approval to torture, claims Amnesty :

"We want to open people's eyes to what is being done in their name. Whilst we used to be sending diplomats around the world stopping torture we are flying them around the world to sign agreements with countries that use torture.
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VIDEO: ONE NIGHT OF ABUSE

"A Few Bad Apples", unravels the events of one night—October 25, 2003—events captured in one of those famous photographs. Three Iraqis, detained by American soldiers at the prison, are dragged from their cells, made to crawl naked along the floor and chained together on the ground and forced to mimic sex. More soldiers gather. Some participate in the humiliation of the detainees, others stand by and watch.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/video_player.html?badapples

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/badapples/index.html

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Terror suspects should be prosecuted not tortured:

For the past year, beginning with the Senate testimony of Alberto Gonzales, US attorney general, in January, the Bush administration has claimed the power to subject detainees to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”, as long as the victim is a non-American held outside the US. To provide a locale for such mistreatment, it has established secret detention centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
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Jazeera seeks Blair meeting:

Arabic news channel Al Jazeera's general manager flew to London on Friday to demand the government explain a leaked report that U.S. President George W. Bush wanted to bomb the TV station.
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We're Prepared To Pay The Price Of Freedom, Are You? :

After Blair's threat to jail any editor who reports the Bomb Al-Jazeera memo, we thought there would be an outcry. Who would stand up for press freedom, or at least the freedom not to be bombed to buggery?
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Iranian president calls for war crimes charges on US :

Iran’s hard-line president called for the Bush administration to be tried on war crimes charges related to Iraq and denounced the West for its stance on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, state-run television reported today.
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Commuting By Bus In Denver? Papers, Please:

The cops shoved her out of the bus, handcuffed her, threw her into the back seat of a police cruiser, and drove her to a police station
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** I have just read this article and it brought back childhood memories of living under a Stalinist regime's boot in Eastern Europe. This lady has a son fighting in Iraq for Bush's "noble cause"! Is this what the USA is coming to? Why is the corporate MSM silent about this? Have Americans become so complacent -- so sheeplike -- that they no longer care about the erosion of their civil liberties, their freedoms they hold so dear? People, wake up! Believe me, this is how the totalitarian state starts, by subverting freedom and insidiously taking control, one ID paper step at a time! I know, for I have lived under its cruel tyranny. Do you think it cannot happen in your 'democratic' country? Think again, for it's already happening, and this is just the beginning. It gets worse, much much worse, take it from one who's been there.... -- Annamarie
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America is caught in a conflict between science and God :

A new exhibition on Darwin's life and work is a defiant gesture against US biblical literalism
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Why the middle classes go scavenging in dustbins:

A 1997 study by the US Department of Agriculture estimated that the US wastes about 43 billion kilograms of food a year. That is about 27 per cent of US production, but the true figure is as much as 50 per cent, according to ten years of research by Timothy Jones at the University of Arizona.
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posted by Annamarie at 11:20 PM