World-News

http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan271.html

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Who s Advising Mitt Romney on Foreign Policy?

By Chris Good and Shushannah Walshe

Romney keeps a large group of foreign-policy advisers, eight of whom participated in the early neoconservative group Project for a New American Century.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32712.htm



The Liar s Master Class

By Lawrence Davidson

Romney s lying is so pervasive, so ever-present, that one starts to wonder if it is pathological.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32719.htm



Obama s Been Dumped by the Money Men

By Dave Lindorff

Romney is awash in Wall Street money, and his donations are even bigger than the donations Obama received from the industry back in 2008.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32724.htm



Memo to Joe, Re: Debate

By Robert Reich

Paul Ryan is a rightwing zealot. And nothing he says or believes is reasonable, neither logical nor reflecting the values of the great majority of Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32714.htm



Syria, Turkey, Israel and a Greater Middle East Energy War

By F. William Engdahl

Why would Israel want to get rid of the ''enemy she knows,'' Bashar al-Assad, for a regime controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32742.htm

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Will Paul Ryan raise a bloody al Qaeda flag?

The Nation Blog
by Robert Dreyfuss

10/11/12

It s ironic, and perhaps a sign of desperation on the part of the Republican party, that eleven years after 9/11 it is still trying to scare Americans with the specter of Al Qaeda. Let s see, tonight, in the vice presidential debate, whether foreign policy know-nothing Paul Ryan tries it. By and large, in 2012, US voters have no appetite at all for foreign military entanglements and wars. President Obama, who yesterday named yet another new commander for the failed war in Afghanistan, did so after saying (in a Monday campaign speech that was blasted by the reliably pro-war Wall Street Journal in an editorial) that 'al Qaeda is on its heels and Osama bin Laden is no more'...

http://tinyurl.com/96k2ujv



Biden and Ryan: The foreign policy gap

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

10/12/12

Last night, Vice President Joe Biden managed, on Afghanistan at least, to sound like a peacenik. Not so, Ryan. ... Of course, neither Biden nor Ryan dealt with the complexity of the war, with the likelihood that the insurgency will continue past 2014, with Pakistan s infernal meddling, or with the vast, unfathomable corruption of the government of President Karzai. But give Biden credit for stating unequivocally that in 2014, we are gone. Ryan, on the other hand, was all over the place...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/170537/biden-and-ryan-foreign-policy-gap


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Big Joe and the Joyful Noise

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: The ultimate impact and import of what went down during Thursday s vice presidential debate won t be immediately known, but the simple fact is beyond dispute: Joe Biden owned the night, and owned Paul Ryan, in a way rarely seen in modern debate history.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12075-big-joe-and-the-joyful-noise



At the Vice Presidential Debate: Ryan Told 24 Myths in 40 Minutes

Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress: Just as Romney did during the presidential debate, Paul Ryan told his own ''facts'' during the vice presidential debate against Joe Biden. He stretched the truth on everything from health care to taxes to Iranian nuclear ambitions.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12076-at-the-vice-presidential-debate-ryan-told-24-myths-in-40-minutes



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Mark Karlin, Truthout: For many Americans, drones seem like a distant concern. However, their potential for blowback as their technology becomes available to other nations, and likely terrorist groups, may have a profound impact on making the planet less secure in the coming years.

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/12050-will-blow-back-from-drone-warfare-end-up-killing-americans



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/11

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The elements of empire

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

10/15/12

The commitments of the U.N. are widely considered to be products of careful and measured deliberation, to account for the complexities and interrelationships of regional and global security. The process, it is thought, gives legitimacy to sweeping actions like, for instance, military intervention and regime change. But the process is a mere simulation from the start, enthralled to the overriding interests of the American Empire and its satellites, lacking in all legitimacy...

http://c4ss.org/content/13457


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Why Peace?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski290.html



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Casey Research
by Dan Steinhart
10/09/12

Cash, of course, is a buffer against uncertainty, the uncertainty that business slows for any reason. Management wants a healthy cash reserve with which to pay the bills and remain liquid should anything unexpected happen. I think we can all agree that this is prudent, and a good business practice. But $1.4 trillion? That tells me that businesses are not just a little jittery about the future. The 're prepared for an apocalypse...

http://tinyurl.com/9fkrtkt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The US Department of Homeland Security is asking the makers of small unmanned aerial vehicles to submit their crafts for consideration as the agency ramps up the construction of a full-fledged surveillance state across America.

https://rt.com/usa/news/dhs-us-public-safety-019/


From Information Clearing House



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By Dennis Kucinich

How can we avoid future wars if we don t understand how consent was manufactured for a war against Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32706.htm



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By Luke Gittos

It is time to disband this archaic, flailing institution of Western intervention.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32710.htm

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NATO edges closer to war on Syria

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

10/11/12

If NATO didn t want war, its key countries would be supporting peace. Death squad armies wouldn t have been recruited. Training, funding, arming, and directing them wouldn t have been ongoing since conflict erupted in March 2011. Nor would terrorists be given safe haven in Turkey on Syria s border...

http://tinyurl.com/9qtfxoe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A New Jolly Little War We Can t Find on a Map
http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis313.html



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P.L. Thomas, The Daily Censored: The partisan public who is bickering in this faux-battle are the ones who have lost the presidential debate.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12003-delusion-and-negligence-the-two-party-system-in-the-us



Glenn Greenwald: Presidential Debates Highlight ''Faux Objectivity'' of Mainstream Journalists

Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy NOW!: Moderators are hand-picked by the Commission on Presidential Debates, and their questions are based on assumptions, that Iran is the biggest threat to national security, for example, or that Medicare and Social Security are ''bankrupt'', which the candidates leave unchallenged.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12137-glenn-greenwald-presidential-debates-highlight-faux-objectivity-of-mainstream-journalists

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Ignore Romney and Obama
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/10/09/312-ignore-romney-and-obama/

47%? How Ron Paul Can Get More
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/kelly-a1.1.1.html

America s Moral Degeneracy
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts372.html

28 Good Questions That the Mainstream Media Should Be Asking
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/questions-media-should-ask.html

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Americans putting noose around their own necks

Freedom s Phoenix
by Chuck Baldwin

10/08/12

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the American people do not truly understand the danger they are in. The national news media is mostly about NOT reporting what s going on. The conspiracy of silence by the three major network news shows and the cable news shows is so overwhelmingly successful, the average American citizen truly doesn t realize how dangerously close our country is to utter destruction, either by an economic collapse or by a nuclear war, or both. And all the two major parties can do is cast all the blame on each other, while the truth of the matter is BOTH major parties in Washington, D.C., are equally culpable for the jeopardous condition in which America now finds herself...

http://tinyurl.com/9cebefa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The New Math of American Elections
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/election-fraud-in-the-usa/uncounted-the-new-math-of-american-elections-full-length.html

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How the Hype Became Bigger Than the Presidential Election
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/10-3

Will New Voter ID Laws Affect US 2012 Result?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/10/11

Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions You Won t Hear Debated
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/11-4

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28 Questions That The Mainstream Media Should Be Asking

By Michael Snyder

The mainstream media has an agenda, and more Americans than ever are beginning to recognize this.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32703.htm



The Lesser of Two Evils

By Ellen Finnigan

America s civic religion promotes the idea of voting for ''the lesser of two evils.'' Christians who take their beliefs seriously should do neither.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32704.htm



The Predictable Consequence of Lesser Evilism

On Wasting Your Vote

By M.G. Piety

A disturbing number of Americans are going to end up wasting their votes in this next election.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32760.htm



Freedom in Chains: Democracy as Pseudo-Savior

By James Bovard

Rather than ''government by the people,'' we now have Attention Deficit Democracy. Less than half the voters show up at the polls; less than half of the voters who do show up understand the issues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32705.htm



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Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, Truthout: Obama may have failed to nail him for calling nearly half the nation parasites, and Romney may have beaten a hasty retreat from the beans he spilled in a private moment among rich friends, but Americans should heed the core truth it revealed.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12012-romneys-47-percent-blunder-reveals-the-hidden-heart-of-his-agenda



They Have It So Good

Frank Joyce, AlterNet: By portraying us as lazy moochers dependent on ''government,'' they deflect attention from the reality that we are utterly dependent on them ... but the super-rich know that capitalism has never met the needs of all the people all the time. It never will.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12026-why-the-obscenely-wealthy-whine-when-they-have-it-so-good



Romney s $2-Trillion Defense Increase Won t Buy More Defense, Just More Waste

Dina Rasor, Truthout: Mitt Romney hopes to raise the defense budget by $2 trillion in order to purchase more Cold War-style weapons that have no relevance to our modern security threats.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12042-romneys-$2-trillion-defense-increase-wont-buy-more-defense-just-more-waste

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Romney s pretty little war speech

Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

10/09/12

Romney is fond of invoking Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman and now George Marshall as though their 20th century foreign policy legacies could lend his own cobbled-together worldview some indomitable burnish. But he seems loath to even utter the name of the American President his views are most like, George W. Bush. But that is exactly the president who came to mind Monday when Romney gave what was billed as a major foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI)...

http://tinyurl.com/8keqp9f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Crony Capitalism American Style
http://www.realecontv.com/page/20822.html



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