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Reckless Frenemy Saudi Arabia Makes World More Dangerous for America

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“Saudi Arabia and Iran continue to turn their national struggle into a religious conflict. The first is dangerous. The second could be catastrophic.  Yet Riyadh, America’s nominal ally, just demonstrated that it is the more reckless of the two states by executing Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr.  There is much bad to say about Tehran’s authoritarian and interventionist Islamic regime. But even worse is Saudi Arabia, considered by Washington to be a valued ally.  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is essentially a totalitarian state. Purported ‘antiterrorism’ legislation allowed the ‘authorities to press terrorism charges against anyone who demands reform, exposes corruption or otherwise engages in dissent.'”

http://www.cato.org/blog/reckless-frenemy-saudi-arabia-makes-world-more-dangerous-america

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The Deceptive Debate Over What Causes Terrorism Against the West

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“By pointing out the causal connection between U.S. violence and the decision to bring violence to the West, one is not denying that the attackers lack agency, nor is one claiming they are ‘forced’ by the West to do this, nor is one ‘infantilizing’ them. To recognize this causation is to do exactly the opposite: to point out that some human beings will decide — using their rational and reasoning faculties and adult decision-making capabilities — that violence is justified and even necessary against those who continually impose violence and aggression on others ”

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/06/the-deceptive-debate-over-what-causes-terrorism-against-the-west/

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Justin Raimondo: What the Oregon Standoff Is Really About

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“While the focus among vaunted ‘civil libertarians’ is the resentencing and mandatory minimums, the fact is that the Hammonds should never have been prosecuted to begin with. Their long agony is a clear case of government persecution motivated by avarice and politics—for this is a warning to anyone who opposes the federal government’s campaign to retain and expand its ownership of huge swathes of Western land. They currently control more than 80 percent of Nevada; approximately half of California, Utah, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico; 42 percent of Wyoming; 36 percent of Colorado; and 30 percent of Washington and Montana.  And they want more.”

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-is-the-oregon-standoff-really-about/

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Drone strikes in Oregon considered acceptable response by many

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“Search Twitter for ‘Oregon’ and ‘drone strike’ and you’ll find tons of people proposing to give the Malheur activists the Abdulrahman Awlaki treatment. TV host Montel Williams tweeted that the authorities should ‘put this down using National Guard with shoot to kill orders.’ ‘I hope they pull a M.O.V.E. on those terrorists in Oregon,’ wrote the author Jess Nevins, alluding to a black militant group whose Philadelphia headquarters were bombed by the police in 1985, killing 11 people and destroying dozens of homes.  Former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem declared on CNN’s website that the occupation in Oregon is terrorism ‘by any definition.’  Really? By ‘any’ definition?”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0106-walker-oregon-malheur-terrorist-20160106-story.html

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Oregon Standoff: Federal Land Grab vs. the Sagebrush Rebellion

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“While the majority of rancher disputes are against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) the US Fish and Wildlife Service has been just as ruthless–in this case expanding the wildlife refuge at the expense of neighboring ranchers. This week I’ll detail the struggle of the Hammond family, and of Ammon Bundy the protest leader. When you read the litany of federal abuse of ranching families, you will better understand why some ranchers are staging an armed resistance.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/14709.cfm

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“This Is Government Land”: The Eternal Refrain of the Federal Occupiers

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“Whatever else one might say about the CCF, the motives animating its occupation are much more commendable than those of the squatters who illegally occupied Harney County in the 1870s. The same Regime that made ‘settlers’ and ‘county fathers’ out of the first occupiers is determined to cage or kill the CCF in the service of the same principle expressed by the execrable Indian Agent William Rinehart: ‘This is government land'”

http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/01/this-is-government-land-eternal-refrain.html

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Jacob Hornberger: Let Puerto Go

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“Isn’t it amazing how America’s turn toward empire in 1898 is a gift that keeps on giving? Today, Puerto Rico, one of the colonies the United States acquired in the Spanish-American War, is defaulting on part of its massive debt. Having failed so far to convince its overseers in Congress to permit the colony to declare bankruptcy, the Puerto Rican government is at a loss as to how it is going to cope with a massive debt that it simply cannot repay. The fact that Puerto Rico’s debt problems are a matter for the United States to resolve just goes to show how America’s turn toward empire and intervention in 1898 continues to reverberate negatively today.”

http://fff.org/2016/01/04/let-puerto-go/

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Never Forget … Your Country Admits to False Flag Terror

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“In the following [56] instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/09/remember-your-country-admits-to-false-flag-terror.html

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US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War

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“A newly released Cold War-era list of nuclear targets shows the US planned to inflict ‘systematic destruction’ on enemy cities and target the ‘population’ of those areas. It is the most comprehensive Cold War nuclear target list to become declassified.  The Strategic Air Command (SAC) Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, was published by the National Security Archive on Tuesday.  Totaling almost 800 pages, the document details targets in over 1,200 cities, including Moscow, Beijing, and Warsaw. The list for each city contains details on targeting the population, along with industrial and infrastructural targets.”

https://www.rt.com/news/326879-cold-war-nuclear-list/

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Last flight for US-funded air war on drugs as Colombia counts health cost

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“For more than two decades crop dusters have buzzed the skies of Colombia showering bright green fields of coca with chemical defoliant as part of a US-funded effort to stem the country’s production of cocaine.  Farmers across the country have long complained that indiscriminate spraying also destroys legal crops, and that the chemical used – glyphosate – has caused everything from skin rashes and respiratory problems to diarrhoea and miscarriages.  Authorities in Colombia and the United States – which has funded the aerial eradication programme with as much as $2bn since 2000 – scoffed at those claims.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/06/colombia-air-war-drugs-last-flight-looms-health-cost

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