Cheney Ordered The CIA Not To Inform Congress On Secret Program + Congress Angry

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July 10, 2009 MSNBC

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Members Of Congress Angry About Being Kept In The Dark About CIA Secret Program

The Multiple Faces of War By Siv O’Neall

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By Siv O’Neall
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axisoflogic.com
July 12, 2009

Wars have always been fought for the profit of the very few and brought about anguish and suffering for the very many. They have always been caused by the rapaciousness of the leaders. The people have always been the ones who had to bear the grim consequences of the selfish greed and lust for power of these very few who see plunder and destruction of lives and happiness of the many as their self-evident birthright. Wars have had many different stated reasons over the centuries, but the common denominator has always been greed. It’s frightening to realize that in every generation there are a number of unfeeling human beings who gladly sacrifice anything of real value in their lives in order to gain power and accumulate wealth. The price does not count, only the booty that is carried home. These emotionally handicapped people do not know of the sufferings of others. They are blind and deaf to anything that might intrude on their predatory instincts and get in the way of their own self-interests.

Wars of conquest of yesteryear

New NATO: Germany Returns To World Military Stage, Part 1 by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/40658
July 12, 2009

When the post-World War II German states the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, West and East Germany, respectively, were united in 1990, it was for many in Europe and the world as a whole a heady time, fraught with hopes of a continent at peace and perhaps disarmed.

Despite US pledges to the last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would not move “one inch” eastward, what German reunification achieved was that the former German Democratic Republic joined not only the Federal Republic but NATO and the military bloc moved hundreds of kilometers nearer the Russian border, over the intervening years to be joined by twelve Eastern European nations. Five of those twelve new NATO members were republics of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union itself, neither of which any longer exists.

Naomi Klein in Bil’in + Klein and the Boycott Movement

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Updated: July 19, 2009

Crossposted with permission from Jewish Peace News

Naomi Klein in Bil’in – 26-6-09

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June 29, 2009

Prior to the demonstration a press conference took place, where a representative of the village’s popular committee, a member of the Palestinian Boycott National Committee and world renowned Canadian journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke of the local struggle, of the village’s new court case in Canada against Canadian companies building the new neighborhoods on Bil’in land, on the boycott, and of the inability to detach art and politics.

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Naomi Klein and the Boycott Movement

by Rebecca Vilkomerson
Jewish Peace News
July 12, 2009

www.boycottisrael.info: supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (Israel)
www.whoprofits.org: exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry, a project of Coalition of Women for Peace (Israel)
http://www.bdsmovement.net/: Palestinian Global Call for BDS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC8TX0TXcds: Naomi Klein press conference in Bil’in [see above video]

Naomi Klein’s recently completed visit to Israel had a galvanizing effect on the “boycott from within” movement here (www.boycottisrael.info), which has endorsed the Palestinian call for BDS (www.bdsmovement.net). Her public meetings, in Ramallah, East Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa drew hundreds of people to hear her clear-eyed analysis of why it is time for a full boycott of Israel until the occupation ends, Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel have full and equal rights, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees is fully realized under international law.

Gareth Porter: McNamara deceived LBJ on Vietnam + McNamara’s mindset

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Updated: July 15, 2009 added Part 2

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Part 1

Paul Jay speaks to Garth Porter about former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara who died Monday, July 6th. Porter says that documents he uncovered from the Lyndon B. Johnson library demonstrate that McNamara deceived LBJ over the Gulf of Tonkin incident. In spite of dubious reports that U.S. Navy ships were attacked by North Vietnamese fleet, “[McNamara] went ahead with drafting the strike order for the retaliation that night and actually [sent] that strike order without having basically consulted further with President Johnson about the situation that he now understood of real doubt on the part of the commander on the scene that they had been attacked.”