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Erdogan: We won’t be silent if Israel attacks Lebanon, Gaza In Beirut, Turkish PM says Israel cannot “enter Lebanon with the most modern aircraft and tanks to kill women and children”; Armenians clash with troops in protest of visit. (jpost.com) Turkey will not stay silent in the event of an Israeli attack on Lebanon or the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister …

  Authoritarianism in the United States: Is that really where we are headed? By Jill Noble December 01, 2010 "EWI" —  Socionomist Alan Hall’s research shows that an authoritarian/anti-authoritarian battle is brewing around the world, and that participants are choosing sides. Eventually, he says, the conflict will turn incendiary.   In the U.S.: WikiLeaks posted a quarter of a million sensitive …

You cannot be completely happy with all these wounds—both in your body and in your mind.”  —15 year-old child soldier     -The phenomenon of child soldiers, like genocide, slavery and torture, seems like one of those crimes that no nation could legitimately defend. Yet the Obama administration just decided to leave countless kids stranded on some of the world’s bloodiest battlegrounds. …

You Can't Make Stuff Like This Up! "Step two, "shock and awe" for Iran followed by a full scale invasion that, according to military experts directly responsible for drawing up our war plans, requires the fall of Pakistan, its "Balkanization and the military occupation of Baluchistan as a staging area." AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don't exactly …

Interrogators at secret jail dubbed 'UK's Abu Ghraib' referred to chief military prosecutor   A number of British military interrogators may face war crimes charges after members of their unit filmed themselves while threatening and abusing Iraqi detainees at a secret prison near Basra, the high court heard today. The men have been referred to the Director of Service Prosecutions …

US-born preacher's arrest sought after he and a relative fail to appear for a second time before a terrorism court. A Yemeni judge has issued an order that the US-born Muslim preacher Anwar al-Awlaki has to be caught dead or alive, for alleged links to al-Qaeda and involvement in the killing of foreigners. Mohsen Alwan, in a ruling on Saturday, …