Notes From The American Lunatic Asylum

Americans have been conditioned to think the U.S. is always in the right and its enemies are always in the wrong. A prime example: the POW/MIA flags that flutter over public buildings everywhere. Americans believe the Vietnamese held hundreds of U.S. prisoners after the war ended.

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The End of Hypocrisy: Crime's Gleeful Abandon in Gaza

The escalation of the on-going American war crime in Iraq -- the so-called "surge" -- is lauded as a "success beyond our wildest dreams" by the new, "progressive" manager of the empire, Barack Obama.

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Bomb A Ghetto, Raise A Cheer - The Video

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks

Once they were as gods, but the deities of the American banking system are now in ruins, plunged from their pedestals into the maw of taxpayer largesse.

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Rattling The Cage: Israel should get out of Gaza now

Israel should turn its troops, tanks and fighter planes around and get them out of Gaza right now. At the same time, it should try to negotiate a truce with Hamas based on this principle: They stop firing rockets at Israel in return for our lifting of the siege on Gaza.

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Freedom Rider: Bush Goes Out a Winner

Bush has every reason to spend his final days in the White House gloating. He can gloat because his Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, will keep his job in the Obama White House.

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Gazing at Gaza's Destruction: Israelis Sip Pepsi, US Progressives See 'Silver Lining'

It's those homemade bombs falling on Sderot, you see; they are such an overwhelming, ever-present, inescapable threat.

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Israeli Lies

A must have requirement skill for every Zionist Israeli official position is the ability to flagrantly lie and to distort even proven facts. Israeli officials would rudely look you straight in the eyes and tell you their lies without even the slightest twitch of the face.

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OUR TWISTED MEDIA:Blaming the Victims - The Dominant Media Vilify Hamas

For its part, Hamas has been conciliatory and sought peace. It's willing to recognize Israel in return for a sovereign Palestinian state inside pre-1967 borders - just 22% of it original homeland.

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Israel is America's hands

It takes a severely psychopathic mind to fire missiles into crowds of unarmed civilians. Such an act is indistinguishable from a car bomb attack.

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Israel and the U.S.: Partners in Permanent Aggression

As a candidate, Obama went further than any U.S. president in recognizing Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem - a position that guarantees there can be no lasting piece in the region.

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'Stand with Gaza or leave Iran'

The students, who stormed a British embassy compound earlier in the evening, sent an open letter to the director of the interests section on Tuesday and set a 48-hour deadline for the Egyptian government to condemn the Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

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Herding Humans For Profit

American leaders and all the foreign leaders who work with them represent the greatest evil that this world has ever known.

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Brokeback to Saddleback: The Rev. Rick Warren's purpose is to drive liberals crazy

The reaction to Warren's pick for the inauguration is being spun as "an olive branch to conservative Christian evangelicals," as if they deserve any deference after eight years of their tomfoolery.

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U.S. Draws India Into The Afghan "War"

If Barack Obama genuinely wants to end the bloodshed and the suffering in Afghanistan, tackle terrorism effectively and enduringly, as well as stabilise Afghanistan and secure South Asia as a stable region, all he needs to do is to turn away from the great game, and instead seek …

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One Leg Raised on the Bush-Cheney Legacy: Deconstructing the Spin and Propaganda

►The acronym-happy Bush / Cheney Administration and not the Democrats created several programs --including MATRIX, TIPS, TIAP, TTIC, TALON, and CAPPS II, among others-- to spy upon Americans, and curtail their constitutionally-mandated rights of due process and protections  …

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Laura Bush: George Freeded 50 Million People

A study conducted by ORB -- a well-known British polling agency which has been tracking public opinion in Iraq since 2005 -- estimated in September 2007 that 1.2 million Iraqis had been killed in violence-related incidents following the March 2003 invasion of the country.

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Sarkozy declares war on elitism and offers return to liberty, equality and fraternity

Discrimination in France remains a taboo subject for politicians. Only one of the 555 MPs from mainland France is non-white.

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Utilities cut off to 1 in 20 US households in 2007

Utility shutoffs are certain to increase as more and more cash-strapped households are forced to choose which bills to pay, and which to put off, often to avoid being late on mortgage payments. US foreclosure filings climbed 28 percent in November compared to a year ago.

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A Million McVeighs Now: The American-Made Insurgency in Afghanistan

The "Good War" in Afghanistan – the Bush-launched war that Barack Obama tells us we must fight and win – continues to deteriorate before our eyes.

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The Pentagon's War on the Internet

The Pentagon sees the internet in terms of a military adversary that poses a vital threat to its stated mission of global domination.

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Iraq cheers reporter for Bush shoe attack

"Al-Baghdadia television demands that the Iraqi authorities immediately release their stringer Muntadhar al-Zaidi, in line with the democracy and freedom of expression that the American authorities promised the Iraqi people," reads a statement released by the station.

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Hard times mean more abuse

Over the past 30 years, economic downturns have triggered surges in abuse, says professor Chitra Raghavan, a domestic violence researcher at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "Every time there's a recession, you see a clear increase," she said.

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A Brief History of CIA Involvement in Drug Trafficking

During U.S. military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indochina, Air America flew opium and heroin throughout the area. Many GI's in Vietnam became addicts. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin.

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Gates Memo Announces Final Assimilation of National Guard and Reserve

Many laws, such as the Patriot Act, Victory Act (analysis here), and the John Warner Military Commission Act, authorize the federal government to forcibly vaccinate, remove and redistribute the population, and to designate anyone who talks about the Constitution as a "terrorist"  …

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