Offshore Everywhere
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/06-2
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The Holy Fire of Patriotism
Video
... help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30450.htm
From Washington this looks like Syria s 'Benghazi moment'
By Robert Fisk
The West has been so deluged with stories and lectures and think-tank nonsense about the ghastly Iran and the unfaithful Iraq and the vicious Syria and the frightened Lebanon that it is almost impossible to snap off these delusional pictures and realise that Assad is not alone.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30466.htm
Anniversaries From 'Unhistory'
By Noam Chomsky
The events we fail to commemorate say as much about our national narrative as those we acknowledge.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30460.htm
America and its Drone Strikes
By Saida Fazal
It is illegal and unethical on the part of the government to allow such murderous assaults on its own people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30486.htm
Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy
By Glenn Greenwald
Obama has used drones to kill Muslim children and innocent adults by the hundreds. He has refused to disclose his legal arguments for why he can do this or to justify the attacks in any way.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30488.htm
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FAA told to make room for drones in US skies
USA Today
02/06/12
Within a few years, that flying object overhead might not be a bird or a plane, but an unmanned drone. Drones, perhaps best known for their combat missions in Afghanistan, are increasingly looking to share room in U.S. skies with passenger planes. And that s prompting safety concerns. Right now, remote-controlled drones are mostly used in the U.S. by the military and the federal Customs and Border Patrol in restricted airspace...
http://tinyurl.com/7k222bw
Pakistan: US drone attack kills 10
Orlando Sentinel
02/07/12
A U.S. drone aircraft killed 10 suspected militants in Pakistan s North Waziristan region near the Afghanistan border Wednesday, security officials and residents said, the fifth such strike this year. The unacknowledged Central Intelligence Agency drone program, a key element in U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, was apparently halted after a November NATO air attack from across the Afghan border killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, enraging Pakistan...
http://tinyurl.com/7tyghfn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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US drones deliberately killing civilian rescuers, NGO reports
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10864/
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Remotely Piloted War: How Drone War Became the American Way of Life
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: ''In the American mind, if Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be drones, those remotely piloted planes getting such great press here. They have generally been greeted as if they were the sleekest of iPhones armed with missiles.''
http://www.truth-out.org/remotely-piloted-war-how-drone-war-became-american-way-life/1330008531
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=the+American+Way+of+Life
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocri
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=sovereignty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=patriotism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=counterterror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=NATO
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=North+Waziristan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assad
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lebanon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=special+forces
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=suspect+militant
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Saida+Fazal
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
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