I really don't know what to say anymore, about a country in which proposing a new and better version of corporate-plunder masquerading as national healthcare gets you burned in effigy for being a socialist stooge by gun-toting angry mobs.

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Like today, Vietnam had its Neocons and Zionist war criminals, Nixon and Kissinger, when Bush and his Zionist imperial thugs also lied us into an illegal war in Iraq, or today, Obama and Rham Emanuel, as liberal warmongers, and Zionist war cheerleaders who continue their fascist …

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In politics as in physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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The great U.S. tradition of dehumanizing entire countries of people calling them Hodgie (for Hajji), Gook, or Kraut is hitting the technological wall here. We're getting too many images of real Iranian people.

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And, as Glen Greenwald has noted, Lynch mob leader Jonathan Chait [of the New Republic and author of a recent Washington Post op-ed on the subject], who spent the last week denying that Israel was the driving force behind the attacks on Freeman, now concedes the obvious.

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Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a report by top US political figures and experts released Wednesday.

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The consequences of the alleged AIPAC espionage now on its way to trial could have been far worse. We now know that Israel solicited American approval to attack Iran over its civilian nuclear program and sought both overflight rights and advanced munitions from the United States.

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After the way they goaded us into an epic military disaster, why do media warmongers still have jobs?

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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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They searched and found signs in Obama: The promising appointment of the Israeli ex-patriots' son, whose father belonged to the Irgun, and maybe also Dennis Ross and Dan Kurtzer and Martin Indyk, who may, God willing, be included in the new administration.

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If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America's wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama's choice of foreign and economic policy advisors? Indeed, Obama's selection of Rahm …

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Joe Biden, speaking yesterday at a rally in Ohio (h/t Jonathan Schwarz):

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So here we have, yet again, our glorious Foreign Policy Community threatening another country --(Iran) one which hasn't attacked us and can't attack us -- with war, threatening to bomb them with "devastating strikes"

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Well spoken,Mr. Floyd.My sentiments exactly.

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is bush still planning on attacking iran? october surprise? perhaps they will force president Obama into war with iran.. then what will the elections in 2012 be like?

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I should have filed this one under 'world news'. Just months to go and people are still quaking in their boots wondering if the United States is going to war again.

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Then, if they are indeed preparing—Israel is really preparing for an attack on Iran—and this is where it gets extremely scary—we, as Americans, need to understand that that has major and very, very catastrophic consequences for us, because there is no way that any kind of a …

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Until recently, the power struggle within the Bush administration over whether to attack Iran seemed to be going badly for the hawks. But now it appears congressional Democrats may be riding to the rescue of those pushing for war.

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With less than a year to go in office, the Bush administration may feel powerless as it attempts to deal with rogue states that support terrorists and proliferate weapons of mass destruction.

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From the IHT: World War II, we know on good authority, was unnecessary, the authority being none other than Winston Churchill. By unnecessary Churchill meant that if the Allies' appeasement of Hitler hadn't taken place earlier, the war wouldn't have to have been to fought later.

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Israel and Syria announced Wednesday that they were engaged in negotiations for a comprehensive peace treaty through Turkish mediators, the first time in eight years that such talks had taken place.

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"War Made Easy" Dissects the Sacrifice of Truth to Dogs of War; book review

The book "War Made Easy" by Norman Solomon is really all too much to digest in one sitting. I needed to limit my doses of too much truth; you might need to keep some antacids on hand.

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Last time it was scary speed-boats, this time it's a bogus link to a bombing in Argentina -- one by one, Iran hawks' lies keep unraveling.

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Since yesterday, I caught snippets of interviews by two well-known Fox News conservatives — Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. The interviews showed once again what strange and unusual creatures conservatives are.

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Quoted From article: "By a vote 76-22, the Senate passed the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, which threatens to "combat, contain and [stop]" Iran via "military instruments." Sen.

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