What CAN happen here –

JEREMY SCAHILL: ...you were one of only half-a-dozen members of Congress -- not a single senator -- to simply state on the record that American citizens have the right not to be assassinated by their own government without due process. REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: ...it's...

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Destroying Palestinian Homes and Livelihoods

Via Electronic Intifada: This is an area of intense Israeli settlement activity, where some villages, such as Susya, have been ordered totally destroyed by the occupation forces. Video shot by Operation Dove (website) shows bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli...

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Iranian Jets Fire at US Drone

It seems very odd to me that this CNN reporter Pentagon spokesperson can say with a straight face that Iran fired unprovoked. Just imagine how Washington would respond to Iranian drones flying over US airspace.

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The Economic Costs of ‘a Permanent War Economy’

Probably the most dominant rhetorical pitch thrown about by politicians and media pundits regarding defense cuts is that they will cost the country much-needed jobs. Actually, the number of jobs in the military industrial complex that would be lost as a result of the...

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Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection

Not even a full day had passed before newly reelected President Obama ordered another drone strike in Yemen. A U.S. drone strike targeted a group of al-Qaida militants on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday night, killing at least three terrorists,...

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Who Is Not So Happy About Obama’s Win?

Many are excited today about President Obama's reelection. But not everybody. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ain't so happy, according to Haaretz: "The prime minister won’t soon forget the night of November 6. It started with the election of his ex-bureau...

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The Stab in the Back

How quickly did the neocons stick the shiv in their candidate's back? Minutes after Fox News called the election for Obama, they hauled out Charles Krauthammer, who opined that Romney "is a northeastern liberal" -- a fact he had withheld from Fox News viewers until...

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Starve the Beast

Grover Norquist in Foreign Affairs railing against the suggestion that taxes be raised: Despite these strict [constitutional] limits, the U.S. federal government has grown enormously in size, cost, and power over the last two centuries, mostly as a result of the...

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