Lies my president still tells me? By Jerry Mazza

By Jerry Mazza
Featured Writer
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crossposted at Intrepid Report
www.jerrymazza.com
May 4, 2011

As the president’s ratings continue to sink, his approval for four wars diminishes, and there is a rise in the 14 billion-plus national debt ceiling being pushed by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, all with Wall Street speculation driving up gas and food prices, what better time for Barack Obama to announce the assassination of Osama bin Laden by a team of Navy Seals. It’s a homemade bomb of good news to wipe away all the bad.

The 2011 Taliban Spring Offensive: Obama’s Obligation to Protect Afghan Civilians Under International Humanitarian Law

by Kathleen Kirwin, Esq.
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
May 4, 2011

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On Saturday, March 30^th, the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under its nom de guerre, The Taliban, declared the launch of this year’s spring military operations (the “Spring Offensive”) against the “invading Americans”, their foreign allies, internal supporters, high ranking officials of the Karzai government, including cabinet members and lawmakers, as well as heads of foreign and local companies who work with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). In response to, and in anticipation of, the Taliban’s announcement, NATO officials in Brussels have advised that international forces in Afghanistan have tightened security, security services employed by “westerners” working in Afghanistan have issued lockdowns and travel restrictions, the Afghan government has tightened security across the country and security has been increased at military bases.

In Order to Form a More Perfect Union by Philip A. Farruggio

by Philip A. Farruggio
Featured Writer
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May 4, 2011

photo by mattietk

Key # 1 – End the Empire – We need to close our (approximately 800) military installations in over 100 different countries, and bring the equipment and personnel home. We need to stop occupying  Iraq & Afghanistan, cease our aerial bombings of Pakistan & Libya, and end covert operations in that whole region… ASAP. {As far as the killing of Osama Bin Laden, he could have been ‘taken out ‘in 2001 at Tora Bora.

Palestine Celebrates Unity

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1worldcitizen on May 4, 2011

Celebrations in Gaza as the Fatah & Hamas sign a deal to end the division and hold elections within a year. Palestine celebrates and Israel weeps.

The Imperial Mindset by William Bowles

by William Bowles
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williambowles.info
4 May, 2011

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I know I keep hammering on about this but it still hasn’t sunk in with those who profess to be on the left, bemused, or perhaps it’s bewitched, as they are by the concept of ‘humanitarian intervention’. Take the latest bleat from down under:

“I firmly believe the left and progressive forces have made a serious error in viewing and equating Libya with the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Libya is not the same situation; there has been a popular peoples uprising.”— ‘Libya: The left should not oppose call for military intervention‘, Steven Katsineris, Greenleft

Chris Hedges: Injustices are Everywhere, So Resist!

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
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May 4, 2011

Updated: May 10, 2011 added link to the transcript of the Q&A.

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Transcripts: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us, by Chris Hedges

[…] Civilizations rise, decay and die. Time, as the ancient Greeks argued, for individuals and for states is cyclical. As societies become more complex they become inevitably more precarious. They become increasingly vulnerable. And as they begin to break down there is a strange retreat by a terrified and confused population from reality, an inability to acknowledge the self-evident fragility and impending collapse. The elites at the end speak in phrases and jargon that do not correlate to reality. They retreat into isolated compounds, whether at the court at Versailles, the Forbidden City or modern palatial estates. […]