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Ron Paul: People Suffer and Die and then You Wonder Why They Get Mad at Us?
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Consequences of Power
“What we are seeing in Egypt and across the Middle East is the consequence of decades of US hegemony. Supporters of US policy in the region will argue that military aid to Egypt, arming Syrian rebels, drone strikes in Yemen, occupied forces in Afghanistan, etc, serve a national interest and that the ‘Great Peacekeeping Armadas’ of western nation states are doing exactly what they are supposed to: Maintain peace through strength. Is this a terribly misguided philosophy or a bold-faced lie? Does Obama really ‘deplore violence against civilians?’ Do US special interests really ‘support universal rights essential to human dignity?’ Has any administration?”
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Ron Paul: Benghazi was an Arms Deal to Al-Qaeda
“Alex is joined by former US Congressman Dr. Ron Paul on the topics of the deceptions involved with the situation in Syria and the incident in Benghazi, the government control of the media and how we can bring our country back to a state of true freedom.”
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Iraq Kurds reach out to Baghdad to fight surging al Qaeda
“The Shi’ite-led Iraqi government and Kurdish authorities are now looking at examples like the Shirqat attack and considering the once unthinkable – launching joint security operations and sharing intelligence – to combat the common enemy of al Qaeda. Such cooperation has been extremely rare since U.S. troops left at the end of 2011, while the central government and the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region in the north have been locked in an increasingly hostile dispute over land and oil. That the two sides are publicly contemplating working together underlines how worried they are about the insurgency and the threat of Iraq slipping back into all-out sectarian war.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-iraq-violence-alqaeda-insight-idUSBRE97D0LG20130814
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5 Myths Used to Justify Death By Drone and America’s Assassination Policy
“America’s never-ending war on terrorism is almost always depicted in the mainstream media as a military and intelligence agency fight on a global battlefield. But it is also a propaganda war where the public is fed inaccuracies from Washington, especially when it comes to overseas killings by U.S. military drones. Here are five myths perpetuated by the military and its weapons makers that seek to make Americans feel good about drones and the White House’s policy of targeted assassinations.”
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Afghani Hornets Get Pissed After Soldiers Blow Up Their Home
“This video was captured a few years back, but the metaphor remains as stingingly apt as ever. According to the original uploader, a boulder blocking a military route in Afghanistan had to be removed, so an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit was called in to blow it up. In the process of eliminating the fallen rock, a large hornets nest tucked underneath was also decimated, causing its inhabitants to go berserk and attack the military equipment. It’s unclear what happened next, but something tells me it didn’t end well.”
http://gawker.com/afghani-hornets-get-pissed-after-soldiers-blow-up-their-1124654195
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How Goes the Global War on Terror?
“The U.S. military and the CIA are good at deposing dictators and wrecking countries. They are bad at defeating an operation like al Qaeda. Their incompetence is matched only by that of the government that has set the war policies and determined grand strategy. How’s the GWOT going in America? Americans are the losers. The cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $4 trillion. Civil liberties have been curtailed. Police have been militarized. Privacy has deteriorated. A police state apparatus has been installed. Economic progress has vanished.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/michael-s-rozeff/how-goes-the-global-war-on-terror/
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Ron Paul: Why Are We At War In Yemen?
“The US government is clearly at war in Yemen. It is claimed they are fighting al-Qaeda, but the drone strikes are creating as many or more al-Qaeda members as they are eliminating. Resentment over civilian casualties is building up the danger of blowback, which is a legitimate threat to us that is unfortunately largely ignored. Also, the US is sending mixed signals by attacking al-Qaeda in Yemen while supporting al-Qaeda linked rebels fighting in Syria. This cycle of intervention producing problems that require more intervention to ‘solve’ impoverishes us and makes us more, not less, vulnerable. Can anyone claim this old approach is successful?”
http://libertycrier.com/ron-paul-why-are-we-at-war-in-yemen/
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Ted Koppel: ‘Can You Imagine A Day When We’ll Be Without The TSA?’
“‘The terrorists have achieved more with one phone call than we have achieved with all our response,’ Koppel said. ‘Terrorism is imply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong,’ Koppel said. ‘They cause the strong—in this case us—to overreact. We are the ones who went into Iraq and spent about a trillion and a half dollars doing it, losing 4,500 men and women, god knows how many tens of thousands injured. We are the ones who created a bureaucracy. The TSA has what—57,000 people operating within the TSA? Can you imagine a day when we will ever be without that bureaucracy? All imposed upon ourselves.'”
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U.S. Drones Kill More Than 30 in Yemen; School Targeted in One Attack
“‘The drones are killing our people, killing our children, and destroying our homes,’ one man said, as he sat among the sheared rebar and crumbled concrete that was once his village. Another man related that after he picked up his daughter from school to take her to a doctor’s appointment, Hellfire missiles fired from U.S. drones destroyed the clinic. He grabbed his daughter and ran back to the school to take cover. Before he got there, though, the school was obliterated by a second missile. His daughter was struck in the back of the head by debris and she bled to death in his arms. ‘What did my daughter ever do to them?’ he cried. ‘She was eight years old.'”
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