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Protesters gather in DC to demand no strike against Syria

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Protesters gather in DC to demand no strike against Syria

“As Congress prepares to consider a proposal for airstrikes in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, public sentiment is tilted against the idea. Protesters gathered to make their objections felt in the nation’s capital this weekend, calling into question President Barack Obama’s case that action is necessary to maintain international law, deter other ‘bad actors’ and protect American credibility.”

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The “Blowback” That Neocons Do Understand

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The “Blowback” That Neocons Do Understand

“Neocons still don’t utter peep about blowback from U.S. foreign entanglements. They will never write or speak one word about it. However, with the current smackdown that the American public is delivering to Obama on his drive to war in Syria, at least one Neocon fears ‘blowback’ of a domestic sort.  Wehner isn’t speaking about ‘blowback’ from foreigners (He wouldn’t dare.) He’s referring to the non-interventionist voices in the U.S. that have grown by leaps and bounds since Ron Paul’s campaign. The American public waking up, and not remaining in a woozy stupor as the war machine tramples on, is the type of ‘blowback’ that Neocons do understand.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/09/the-blowback-that-neocons-do-understand.html

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What Do Americans Know That Their Government Doesn’t Know?

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“Since morality and social order cannot be imposed by foreign attacks and aggressive wars to alter governments and entire societies, what these American intrusions have caused is death and destruction in one country after another, plus hatred and revenge visited upon the invaders. What Americans now recognize, if only by gut instinct, is that the war policy has backfired. The global war on terror has backfired. Interventionism has backfired. America has done wrong, morally and pragmatically. Americans are coming to recognize this while their leaders are still caught up in their false notions that power and their power in particular can remake the world for the better.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/what-do-americans-know-that-its-government-doesnt-know/

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A few questions about Syria

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“The government of the United States, the one elected to that office by a majority of the electorate, used weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, poisons, against it ‘own people’ in Waco, Texas. It murdered dozens of helpless, defenseless women and children. And innocent men too. How would the average American feel if the government of Syria (or China, or Russia, or Monaco, or Lichtenstein or Uruguay or Australia or Nigeria) drew a red line in the sand against such U.S. barbarism, and said that a penalty must be imposed somewhere between the Rio Grande and the Canadian border by use of tomahawk missiles. It would only be a limited surgical strike.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/a-few-questions-about-syria/

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Video Shows Rocket Attack on Suez Canal Ship, Group Says

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Video Shows Rocket Attack on Suez Canal Ship, Group Says

“The attack was hailed as a success by the al-Furqan Brigades, the group that went online to take responsibility for the assault, saying it targeted the Suez Canal because of its importance as a trade route and because it ‘has become the safe way for the Crusader aircraft carriers to cross in to assault Muslims.’ In mid-August the Navy announced the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group – which includes the aircraft carrier the USS Harry S. Truman – ‘executed a safe and professional transit through the Suez Canal’ on its way from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/video-purports-show-rocket-attack-suez-canal-ship/story?id=20177635&singlePage=true

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We Must Not Be the World’s Policeman

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“No one appointed the United States the world’s policeman. The government’s founding document, the Constitution, does not and could not do so. Obama and Kerry have tried hard to invoke ‘national security’ as grounds for bombing Syria, but no one believes Assad threatens Americans. He has made no such statements and taken no threatening actions. He is engulfed in a sectarian civil war. Inexcusably, Obama has taken sides in that civil war — the same side as the Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate — but still Assad poses no danger to Americans. Bombing would make him more — not less — of a threat.”

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/worlds-policeman/

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Jacob Hornberger: Who’s Really Getting Punished?

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“It’s not just the Syrian troops and ‘collateral-damage civilians’ who will bear the cost of Obama’s punishment of Assad. Also paying the price will be us — the American people — who will continue to suffer the consequences of military empire, a national-security state apparatus, and an interventionist foreign policy. Our punishment will come in the form of continued destruction of our freedom, inner peace, harmony, and economic well-being at the hands of our own government.”

http://fff.org/2013/09/04/whos-really-getting-punished/

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Secret U.S. documents reveal Al-Qaeda has anti-drone operation

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“Al-Qaeda’s leaders have set up cells of engineers to try to shoot down, disable or hijack US drones, The Washington Post reported late Tuesday citing top-secret US intelligence documents.  The Al-Qaeda leadership is ‘hoping to exploit the technological vulnerabilities of a weapons system that has inflicted huge losses against the terrorist network,’ the Post said online.  The Al-Qaeda commanders are keen to achieve ‘a technological breakthrough (that) could curb the US drone campaign, which has killed an estimated 3,000 people over the past decade,’ the Post reported.  [Drone strikes] have taken a toll among civilians in those countries, something that has fueled anti-US sentiment.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/04/secret-u-s-documents-reveal-al-qaeda-has-anti-drone-operation-washington-post/

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Global War on Terror (GWOT) Was a Hopeless Blunder from the Get-Go

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“The American public needs to turn against the GWOT. The press and intellectuals need to do far more homework. They need to dig out and read criticisms like these. They need to be more critical of government failures to alter its policies. Many brains were put in cold storage because of the emotional impact of 9/11. They need to be resuscitated. The time for emotion is over. The GWOT was a hasty, ill-conceived response to 9/11. The press and public need a strong dose of honesty about past blunders. The press and public need to stop paying attention to the fanatic warmongers, hatemongers and partisans of Israel and militarism.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/global-war-on-terror-gwot-was-a-hopeless-blunder-from-the-get-go/

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Protester crashes Syria hearing: ‘The American people do not want this’

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“CODEPINK co-founder and anti-war activist Medea Benjamin interrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the possibility of a U.S. military strike in Syria on Tuesday. Video posted by Talking Points Memo shows Benjamin ‘We don’t want another war,’ before being grabbed by security and led out of the hearing. In 2012, Benjamin protested a speech by another Obama administration official, counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan, saying the White House’s use of unmanned attack drones was ‘making us less safe by killing so many innocent people around the world.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/codepink-protester-crashes-senate-hearing-on-syria-the-american-people-do-not-want-this/

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