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[Iraq News and Information] As these programs which serve the least paid and most over-worked section of working people in the “First World” are cut, the hawks in the Pentagon want even more of Congress’ largess for new ships and missiles and the bloody occupation of Iraq. While defense spending will reach yet another new record, Bush’s massive tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent will in effect become permanent while the level of the payroll tax paid by workers remains at its highest rate.

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[Dissident Voice] Democracy Pow!er: The USCD and the Peoples' Reignbow Coalition ...: “Just go shopping” President Bush told us all as he ordered his mercenaries to invade Iraq. They aren't seen by people who were reared in a very dominating setting and come to know life as being the choice between dominating and being dominated.

[toryleadership] toryleadership: David Cameron rejects surrender in Iraq: The Saudi family is the wealthiest family in America, the Bin Laden family is the second wealthiest, and obviously the Bin Laden family dosen't like the Saudi family. Once Osama Bin Laden found out that Bush had close connections to Saudi Arabia he got out Al Quada(a group of people that got CIA training and $3 Billion of Americas taxpayers money because they were fighting Iran back in 1984 under the Reagan Presidency) and bombed America.

[Salem-News.com] A Test of a True Deficit Hawk - Salem-News.Com: Sold as an economic elixir, the deficit-financed tax cuts have actually proven poisonous to our fiscal health. If Congress allows them to live on, the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy will contribute more to our long-term fiscal difficulties than either the bank bailout or federal recovery measures or, assuming they are phased out, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[The Left Coaster] The Left Coaster: A Clinton Katharsis: This poll confirms Hillary Clinton’s worst fear: while she is doing everything possible not to talk about the war, voters want to talk about the war””and the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, the destruction of a country and the waste of hundreds of billions of dollars””and they overwhelmingly reject her position on the war, and, I believe, on other issues.

[GlobalResearch.ca] Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid ...: On another front in today’s ‘war against the Axis of Evil’: “The only reason Afghanistan matters in the (Bush Administration’s) Long War worldview remains the same one when the Taliban rose to power: as a transit corridor for (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline) TAP from Turkmenistan to Baluchistan and eventually to India…The only way for TAP to be profitable is with India as a final destination—and Delhi knows its best bet for natural gas is from Iran, and the second best from Qatar. Hamad Karzai wants TAP by all means—not TAP itself but the badly needed US$300 million a year he could collect in transit fees.

[The Big Picture] The Big Picture » Blog Archive » Government's Share of Economy ...: I would update Becker to say that in the last decade or so all transfer payments and government subsidies end up benefiting corporations (and thus the upper class), no matter their stated intent, because that’s where the money is. Further slanting an already crooked playing field.

[American Street] American Street » Blog Archive » How Many Must Die Before We're ...: They believe we’re too allied to India and Saudi Arabia and their own corrupt federal government to be on their side, just as the Palestinians distrust us because of our strong alliance with Israel that exists even when blood-spilling hawks come to power there.

[Wide Open: Insight and Analysis from Ohio's Premier Political Bloggers] Look on the Bright Side | Wide Open: Insight and Analysis from ...: Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes. All three locations, along with scores of .

[Paul Krugman] Health care and Iraq - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: And I don’t say that just because, as it happens, I stuck my neck way out in opposing Iraq, and was more or less the only columnist with a spot in a major newspaper to say outright that the Bush administration was misleading us into war.

[World Opinion Roundup] Afghanistan: What's Gone Wrong? - World Opinion Roundup: Former Middle East envoy Dennis Ross addressed a packed AIPAC-sponsored luncheon on the Hill, where, according to one aide present, Ross told the room: "This is all about Syria and Iran...we shouldn't be condemning Israel now." Said Representative Robert Andrews, a Democrat from New Jersey and co-chair of the Iran Working Group, which this week hosted an official from the Israeli embassy: "I concur completely with that approach."

[NewsReal Blog] History Lessons for Chris Matthews and Ron Reagan Jr. | NewsReal Blog: In his position as conservative punching bag, Gaffney responded to Matthews’s question about whether the Afghan people would support continued U.S. military presence in their country. Gaffney replied they would prefer this to returning to the Taliban’s theocracy.

[Rogue Isle Observer] Why We're Fascinated by the Paranormal, Masonic Myths and Secret ...: Kinney mocks those “legions of anti-Masons, most of them superstitious believers in the occult as a demon-infested quagmire,” who “shiver dramatically as they hawk their books and videos. That's what happens in C.S.

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Military Resistance 8C11: "The Kingdom Of The Taliban" - 19 March 2010: March 4, 2010: U.S. Army flight medics directU.S. Marines as they prepare one of two wounded comrades for transport to awaiting medical helicopter, during a medevac mission by the 82nd Airborne’sTask Force Pegasus, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. One of the two woundedMarines died later of his wounds, incurred when his armored vehicle was hit byan improvised explosive device.

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