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Obama administration authorizes $1.83-billion arms sale to Taiwan

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“The Obama administration formally notified Congress on Wednesday of a $1.83-billion arms sale package for Taiwan, including two frigates, anti-tank missiles, amphibious assault vehicles and other equipment, drawing an angry response from China.  The authorization, which Reuters on Monday reported was imminent, came a year after Congress passed legislation approving the sale. It is the first such major arms sale to Taiwan in more than four years.  The White House said there was no change in the longstanding U.S. ‘one China’ policy.  Past U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan have attracted strong condemnation in China, which considers Taiwan a renegade province.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms-idUSKBN0TZ2C520151217

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Hillary Emails Reveal Propaganda, Executions, Coveting Libyan Oil and Gold

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“Historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.”

http://levantreport.com/2016/01/04/new-hillary-emails-reveal-propaganda-executions-coveting-libyan-oil-and-gold/

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When Foreign Liberals Are Generous with American Lives and Money

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“A number of foreign liberals—Lithuanian, Russian, Slovakian, Swedish, for instance—have criticized American libertarians for advocating a non-interventionist foreign policy. They’ve instead argued that a ‘compelling’ argument can be made for a ‘globalist’ strategy.  Actually, that’s true only so long as one isn’t paying the cost of the foreign policy. As foreigners typically do not for American intervention, unless it is directed at them.  Nothing in liberal philosophy requires residents of the globe’s most powerful ‘liberal’ nation to bankrupt themselves, sacrifice their liberty, and court national destruction to try to remake the earth.”

http://www.cato.org/blog/when-foreign-liberals-are-generous-american-lives-money-0

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The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History

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“Unique among the countries on earth, the US government insists that its laws and dictates take precedence over the sovereignty of nations. Washington asserts the power of US courts over foreign nationals and claims extra-territorial jurisdiction of US courts over foreign activities of which Washington or American interest groups disapprove. Perhaps the worst results of Washington’s disregard for the sovereignty of countries is the power Washington has exercised over foreign nationals solely on the basis of terrorism charges devoid of any evidence.”

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/09/the-proof-is-in-the-us-government-is-the-most-complete-criminal-organization-in-human-history-paul-craig-roberts/

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Chris Hedges, The American Empire: Murder Inc.

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“‘In Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, it’s reached the point of political and social breakdown,’ Nairn said. ‘There’s no stopping it. It’s out of control. There are not two sides. It [has fractured into] many sides. It’s analogous to what happened in Cambodia, with the massive U.S. bombing of Cambodia, which paved the way for the rise of the Khmer Rouge. [It has destroyed] any semblance of normal politics or even society. In that kind of environment the most evil, the most violent, have a better chance to rise and prevail.’  Ceaseless war and indiscriminant killing define the U.S. imperial power. But this policy, he said, has backfired.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/the_american_empire_murder_inc_20160103

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The National Security State’s Incestuous Relationship with the Islamic State

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“Islamic terrorism remains at the bottom of the barrel in the company of other frightening but rare events like shark attacks. Yet the American national security state has essentially been built and funded to protect you from that danger alone.  Put another way, the officials of that security state have bet the farm on the preeminence of the terrorist ‘threat,’ which has, not so surprisingly, left them eerily reliant on the Islamic State and other such organizations for the perpetuation of their way of life, their career opportunities, their growing powers, and their relative freedom to infringe on basic rights, as well as for that comfortably all-embracing blanket of secrecy that envelops their activities.”

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176071/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_national_security_state’s_incestuous_relationship_with_the_islamic_state/

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Noninterventionism Is the Only Cure for America’s Foreign Policy Woes

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“After the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, interventionists maintained that U.S. troops are over there killing the terrorists before they can come over here and kill us. That notion obviously hasn’t worked out extremely well.  Today Americans are more scared of the terrorists than ever before.  The war on terrorism racket is so ingenious that regardless of what happens, the U.S. national-security state benefits from it. That is, if there were no more terrorist attacks, interventionists would say, ‘We’ve got to stay the course because it’s working.’ But if there were more terrorist attacks, interventionists would say, ‘The danger is bigger than ever. We’ve got to stay the course until we kill them all.'”

http://fff.org/2015/12/15/noninterventionism-cure-americas-foreign-policy-woes/

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67 Countries the U.S. Is Obliged to Go to War For

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“The United States has entered a lot of treaties over the years, especially after the complicated network put in place after World War II. The Myth of Entangling Alliances by Michael Beckley sought to figure out a hard number for just how many countries the United States has agreed to defend in war. Thanks to NATO, ANZUS, OAS, and bilateral agreements, the U.S. has promised 67 countries protection. Here’s a look at the list included in Beckley’s paper.”

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65816/67-countries-us-obliged-go-war

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Desert Storm Anniversary Reminds Us That Even Victorious Wars Are Problematic

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“Even tumultuous military victories can lead to unfortunate unplanned future disasters. Even after one of the most one-sided victories in American history, Desert Storm demonstrated this effect. The impetus for bin Laden to begin his war on the United States, which later became a catastrophic threat to the American homeland on September 11, 2001, was his anger at the U.S. military presence on soil of Saudi Arabia—the Muslim holy land—before, during, and after Desert Storm in the 1990s. One of the U.S. government’s primary reasons for being is to protect its citizens and territory from external attack; on 9/11, it failed to do so from a threat that it helped create and motivate.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=8645

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A Special Relationship: The U.S. is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

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“The Saudis, of course, had been an integral part of the anti-Soviet campaign from the beginning. According to one former CIA official closely involved in the Afghanistan operation, Saudi Arabia supplied 40 percent of the budget for the rebels.  Al Qaeda, employing a largely Saudi suicide squad, destroyed the World Trade Center. In a sane world, this disaster might have permanently ended Washington’s long-standing taste for mixing Islam with politics. But old habits die hard.”

http://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/a-special-relationship/?single=1

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