Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.
Louis Lecoin - French pacifist leader

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FOCUS | Clinton, Menendez Move to Block US Port Sales

Democratic Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey have introduced legislation to prohibit companies owned or controlled by foreign governments from buying US port operations.

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“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise” :
Adolf Hitler - German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party

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Suicide Attacks on NATO Escalating in Afganistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The campaign appears to be aimed at eroding public support for the alliance's expanded role.

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“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—” : George W. Bush - 43rd US President

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Scandal? D.C.'s Got Nothing On Mexico
MEXICO CITY - Illegal eavesdropping. Fake news stories. It's getting harder these days to figure out which side of the border you're on.

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I have become my enemy. All that training to fight the Soviet Threat in the 60s, 70s, 80s, just so that we could become just like that which they told us they were.
BostonJoe

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The Shame of the Prisons
This week, the world got two chilling reminders of why Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prison must be closed.
Who needs sophomoric cartoons to inflame the Muslim world when you've got the Bush administration's prison system?

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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.":
Aldous Huxley -(1894-1963) Author

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John Edwards and John Wilhelm | Making America Work for the Working Poor
A sign of hope for labor: In recent years, new union members have won recognition by circumventing the process of elections run by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). When unions persuade employers to remain neutral and agree simply to check union cards for majority support (a process known as "card check"), unions typically win recognition about four-fifths of the time.

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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.:
Sir Winston Churchill

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Abu Ghraib leaked report reveals full extent of abuse
· 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse
· 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse
· 660 images of adult pornography
· 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees
· 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts
By Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Nearly two years after the first pictures of naked and humiliated Iraqi detainees emerged from Abu Ghraib prison, the full extent of the abuse became known for the first time yesterday with a leaked report from the US army's internal investigation into the scandal.

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"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." --
Robert F. Kennedy

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The History of CIA
Interrogation From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Democracy Now! Audio Interview Professor Alfred McCoy talks about his book “A Question of Torture”, a startling expose of the CIA development of psychological torture from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib. CIA mercenaries attempted to assassinate McCoy more than 30 years ago. Click here to listen

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Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle
Our leader über alles
By Paul Craig Roberts
Last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference signaled the transformation of American conservatism into brownshirtism. A former Justice Department official named Viet Dinh got a standing ovation when he told the CPAC audience that the rule of law mustn't get in the way of President Bush protecting Americans from Osama bin Laden.

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How Will We Know When We Have Lost, America?
By N K. A
We will know we have lost when we do what we have done in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, Bagram and the other entirely secret and not so secret CIA and military detention centers round the world. We will know we have lost when the first target in the massacre of a village or city is its hospital.