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Archeology and the Bible by Juan Cole
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37566.htm

Typhoon Haiyan:  Disaster Worsened by Greed by Sonali Kolhatkar
FULL ARTICLE

Israel:  The Psychosis of Permanent War by Chris Hedges  FULL ARTICLE

No Mystery in Arafat's Death by Alan Hart  FULL ARTICLE

France Wrecks Deal with Iran by Finian Cunningham  FULL ARTICLE

How Arafat Died by Professor David Barclay  FULL ARTICLE

Who gained from Arafat's Death? by Jonathan Cook  FULL ARTICLE

The Bra is a Security Threat by Anonymous  FULL ARTICLE

China in Africa is Obama's Obsession by John Pilger  FULL ARTICLE

The Desert of Israeli Democracy by Max Blumenthal FULL ARTICLE

Crush of Syrian Refugees is Overwhelming by Hannah Allam  
FULL ARTICLE

SuperMassive Black Hole Last Erupted Two Million Years Ago And Will
Again by Andrew Fazekas FULL ARTICLE

Fake Footage of Chemical Victims by Finian Cunningham FULL ARTICLE

'Why do they hate us?' by Mohsin Hamid  FULL ARTICLE

Puerto Rico:  115 Years of Colonialism/Imperialism by Professor Francis
A Boyle  FULL ARTICLE

Obama: Crowding Out America by Ralph Nader  FULL ARTICLE

From Hiroshima to Syria by John Pilger  FULL ARTICLE

Witnesses Blame Rebels for Gas Attack by Dale Gavlak and Yahya
Ababneh FULL ARTICLE

Stopping Barry O'Bomber's Rush to War by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE

The Prince by Robert Scheer FULL ARTICLE

George Galloway shreds Prime Minister Cameron in Parliament FULL
ARTICLE

Poor Obama by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE

The Language of Corruption -- from a cup of coffee to stinking fish
heads to a Nokia box!  FULL ARTICLE

The Taliban Torches NATO Lifeline by Ashfaq Yusufzai  FULL ARTICLE

Corporatization by Ralph Nader  FULL ARTICLE

When the Gods Laugh by Uri Avnery (check index on the right for article)
FULL ARTICLE

Bradley Manning's Court Statement  FULL ARTICLE
SOURCE ARTICLE

Shadow Lives by Victoria Brittain  FULL ARTICLE

Anything that Moves -- Book Review by Chris Hedges FULL ARTICLE

Drone Reality by Tom McNamara  FULL ARTICLE

Israel Demands Apology for Cartoon by Raphael Ahren  FULL ARTICLE

The Suffering in Syria by James Abourezk  FULL ARTICLE

Capitalism's Structural Crisis and Imponderables by Immanuel
Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE

Mali and the Scramble for Africa by Ben Schreiner FULL ARTICLE

The Gravest Threat to World Peace by Noam Chomsky FULL ARTICLE

The U.S. as Orwellian State -- Oliver Stone Interview FULL ARTICLE

The Torture Chronicle by Philip Giraldi  FULL ARTICLE

The Matrix-like Reality of U.S. Media by Jonathan Cook  FULL ARTICLE

Crony Capitalism's Power Couple by Robert Scheer  FULL ARTICLE

The Torture Chronicle by Philip Giraldi  FULL ARTICLE

Vote for the B- by Robert Scheer  FULL ARTICLE

Why I Am Voting Green by Chris Hedges FULL ARTICLE

Drones: The Luxury of Fighting Wars from Offices by Said Temsamani
FULL ARTICLE

Burmese Monks Target Rohingya Muslims by Hanna Hindstrom
FULL ARTICLE

A Failed Formula for World-wide War by Nick Turse  FULL ARTICLE

In Amerika there will never be a real debate by Paul Craig Roberts  
FULL ARTICLE

Rigged Presidential "Debates"  by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE

The American Dream Becomes a Myth interview with Joseph Stiglitz
FULL ARTICLE

Africa's Friend?  by Patrick Bond  FULL ARTICLE

We Can't Remake the World by Ron Paul FULL ARTICLE

When Is a Terrorist not a Terrorist?  by Danny Schecter FULL ARTICLE

Trappist Monastery Vandalized Near Jerusalem by Isabel Kershner
FULL ARTICLE

Daraya Massacre by Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE

Temples and Mosques by Falguni Sheth FULL ARTICLE

Islamophobic Violence by Glenn Greenwald FULL ARTICLE

Bailout Investigator's Troubles FULL ARTICLE

The Science of Genocide by Chris Hedges FULL ARTICLE

Welcome to Nazareth by Jonathan Cook FULL ARTICLE

Syria -- What's really Happening by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE

The Drone and the Bomb by Ed Kinane FULL ARTICLE

Israel Obstructs Peace and Gets Rewarded by Jonathan Cook FULL
ARTICLE

Banks Gamble on Food Prices and the Poor Lose by Grace Livingstone
FULL ARTICLE

The Fine Art of Political Backstabbing -- Obama and Wisconsin Recall by
Clancy Sigal FULL ARTICLE

Pompous Prevaricators of Power -- The Perversity, Futility or Jeopardy
Thesis by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE

In Camus' Image -- Rebel, Live Out the Absurd, Die Happy by Thomas
Naylor FULL ARTICLE

Making the U.S. a Police State by Jennifer Abel FULL ARTICLE

Counterrevolution -- the Next Deadly Chapter by Robert Fisk FULL
ARTICLE

Limping Out of Afghanistan by Immanuel Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE

Snarling Banker by Jim Hightower FULL ARTICLE

Open Letter to President Obama on Jobs Act by Ralph Nader FULL
ARTICLE

The Theater of the Absurd -- U.S. / Israeli Relations by Thomas H. Naylor
FULL ARTICLE

Palling About With Terrorists by James Abourezk FULL ARTICLE

Higher Education Under Attack by Immanuel Wallerstein  FULL ARTICLE

Averting All-Out Civil War in Syria by Franco Galdini FULL ARTICLE

The War on Democracy  by John Pilger  FULL ARTICLE

The Wrong of Detention without Trial by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE

Deciphering the Qatar Enigma by Patrick Seale  FULL ARTICLE

Intervention vs. Non-Interference in States' Internal Affairs by Global
Policy Forum  FULL ARTICLE

LTC Daniel L Davies Tells the Truth about Afghanistan  FULL ARTICLE

The Afghan War’s Nine Lives by Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan  
FULL ARTICLE

Can Democrats Landslide Republicans? By Ralph Nader  FULL ARTICLE

The Campaign Against Whistleblowers in Washington by Peter Van Buren
FULL ARTICLE

Reclaiming the Republic --  David Johnson's Interview with Lawrence
Lessig FULL ARTICLE

New Global Land Rush Trampling Farmers Rights by Dan Klotz
FULL ARTICLE

Truth and Fiction in the News Business by Alexander Cockburn
FULL ARTICLE

The Busted Economy by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE

Bankers Bacchanal by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship FULL ARTICLE

Hurrah for Egypt by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE

The White House's Revolving Bankers by Bill Moyers and Michael
Winship  FULL ARTICLE

Israel's Voting Blocks by Uri Avnery  FULL ARTICLE

How Libertarian Dogmatists Are Sabotaging Ron Paul's Campaign by
Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE

Doomsday Clock Moved Closer to Doom  FULL ARTICLE

The Stolen War by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE

Pakistan Speeds up Iranian Gas Pipeline by Tom Hussain FULL ARTICLE

The Politics of Lowered Expectations by Ralph Nader  FULL ARTICLE

Diet Can Stop Brain from Shrinking By Helen Briggs FULL ARTICLE

In the land of facades, mark the first signs of an Indian spring
FULL ARTICLE

Future Power Struggles in Iraq FULL ARTICLE

Industrial Breast Transplants By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown FULL ARTICLE

US Somalis Can’t Support Families During Famine, Thanks to Anti-Terror
Laws By Channing Kennedy FULL ARTICLE

Finland Sets Bar High for Teachers By Erin Richards FULL ARTICLE

Bankers Are the Dictators of the West By Robert Fisk  FULL ARTICLE

Not Made in America By Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE

The Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis Back Again by Immanuel Wallerstein
FULL ARTICLE

Obama's China Syndrome by Michael Klare  FULL ARTICLE

Is public debt really a bogeyman?  By Jomo Kwame Sundaram  FULL
ARTICLE

How China Might Defeat America  By Yan Xuetong  FULL ARTICLE

Exposed: US press 'freedom' By Pepe Escobar   FULL ARTICLE

Libya was always a civil war, and the victors are not merciful
By Patrick Cockburn  FULL ARTICLE

A Framework for International Solvency -- A Jubilee Australia Policy
Paper  FULL ARTICLE

Terror and Revenge Engulf Libya By Franklin Lamb FULL ARTICLE

Mahler’s Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic By David Yearsley  FULL
ARTICLE

Just Fed Up By Uri Avnery  FULL ARTICLE

Office of Foreign Assets Control -- A Misadventure By Ann Jones  
FULL ARTICLE

Pointless Civilian Killings in an Unwinnable War By Gareth Porter
FULL ARTICLE

The Road to Twenty One Presidential Debates By Ralph Nader
FULL ARTICLE

The Great American Shakedown By Lawrence Weschler  FULL ARTICLE

The Spirit of the Age by Tariq Ali  FULL ARTICLE

Citigroup settles for $285 million; no Wall Street exec jailed yet
By Kevin G. Hall and Greg Gordon  FULL ARTICLE

America’s New African Empire by Paul Craig Roberts  FULL ARTICLE

US health care falls farther behind peers, report finds
by Noam N. Levey  FULL ARTICLE

Qaddafi, From Beginning to End by Vijay Prashad   FULL ARTICLE

The Arab World's Unknown Son By Fouad Ajami  FULL ARTICLE

"Occupy" Movement Grows to Portland By Shamus Cooke  FULL ARTICLE

The Middle Class?  What Happened ... By Andy Kroll  FULL ARTICLE

Ten years of meltdown in Pakistan By Ahmed Rashid  FULL ARTICLE

The ‘getting’ of Assange By John Pilger FULL ARTICLE

"Occupy" Movement Grows to Portland  By Shamus Cooke  
FULL ARTICLE

The Middle Class?  What Happened ...  By Andy Kroll  FULL ARTICLE

Ten years of meltdown in Pakistan  By Ahmed Rashid  FULL ARTICLE

The dead begin to speak up in India  By Arundhati Roy  FULL ARTICLE

Thoughts on the Current Art Market
http://www.gseart.com

The Middle East's New Geopolitical Map by Patrick Seale  FULL ARTICLE

We Meant Well Author Interrogated / WikiLeaked
By Peter Van Buren  FULL ARTICLE

Fiascos of American Foreign Policy by Patrick Seale  FULL ARTICLE

Did the Rabbani hit really kill peace talks?  By Gareth Porter  
FULL ARTICLE

The Responsibility of Intellectuals  By Noam Chomsky FULL ARTICLE

As the Drone Flies By Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE

The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment
Peter Beinart  FULL ARTICLE

Prayers, Taunts and Weary Resignation in Jerusalem By Robert Fisk  
FULL ARTICLE

The Humiliation of Barack Obama By Robert Grenier  FULL ARTICLE

Why the Middle East will never be the same again
By Robert Fisk  FULL ARTICLE

Obama Receives a Nigerian Scam Letter
By Tom Engelhardt  FULL ARTICLE

The Middle East’s New Geopolitical Map
By Patrick Seale  FULL ARTICLE

The Social-Democratic Illusion by Immanuel Wallerstein  FULL ARTICLE

Cheney’s Unintended Admissions by Robert Parry  FULL ARTICLE

National health scheme brings 'smart' insurance to India's poor
by Anke Rasper  FULL ARTICLE

Of Kabul and Tet and Generals by Conn Hallinan  FULL ARTICLE

Shooting Ourselves in the Foot at the UN by M J Rosenberg  
FULL ARTICLE

What the Future Will Remember About America’s Decline and Fall
by Mike Davis  FULL ARTICLE

The U.S. at War Post 9/11  By Phyllis Bennis  FULL ARTICLE

Pakistani forces capture senior al Qaida commander
By Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay  FULL ARTICLE

Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later
By Noam Chomsky  FULL ARTICLE

10 painful lessons of 9/11 By Ralph Nader  FULL ARTICLE

Spending a Year in Pakistan By Bryan Farris  FULL ARTICLE

Miracle or mirage – what's the truth about Rick Perry's Texas? By Paul
Harris  FULL ARTICLE

Israeli protests: 430,000 take to streets to demand social justice By
Harriet Sherwood  FULL ARTICLE

The Islamophobia Network -- A Report from the Center for American
Progress  FULL ARTICLE

Veto Over the Drones by Gareth Porter  FULL ARTICLE

Reading From Wall Street’s Script by Mike Whitney  FULL ARTICLE

The Melting Middle Class By Bernie Sanders  FULL ARTICLE

History repeats itself, with mistakes of Iraq rehearsed afresh
by Robert Fisk  FULL ARTICLE

Deep in the Heart of Fantasyland by Richard Reeves  FULL ARTICLE

Tripoli on the Cusp by Franklin Lamb  FULL ARTICLE

How Washington Could Create Jobs Right Now
By Michael Winship,  FULL ARTICLE

Future Religion? By Adam Lee  FULL ARTICLE

Americans Have the Clock, But the Taliban Have the Time by Franklin C.
Spinney FULL ARTICLE

Burning Britain by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed  FULL ARTICLE

Retreat, Surrender, Can He At Least Plead? By Ralph Nader  FULL
ARTICLE

Carnal Confusion -- The Strauss-Kahn Handlers Crank Out the Lawsuits
by Pam Martens  FULL ARTICLE

Primary Lessons -- Obama and the 2012 Elections by Vijay Prashad  
FULL ARTICLE

Lowering America’s War Ceiling?  by Tom Engelhardt   FULL ARTICLE

Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security
by Robert Scheer  FULL ARTICLE

War is a Racket by Amy Goodman FULL ARTICLE

Muslim “Terrorists,” White “Lone Wolves,” and the Lessons of Oslo
by Michelle Chen  FULL ARTICLE

Crash Club -- Sputtering Economies by Mike Davis  FULL ARTICLE

Murdoch's Messengers by Alexander Cockburn FULL ARTICLE

Class War Without Mercy by Gregory Elich  FULL ARTICLE

Explaining Obama by Steve Breyman FULL ARTICLE

Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone?  by Tom
Engelhardt  FULL ARTICLE

A World Overwhelmed by Western Hypocrisy by Paul Craig Roberts
FULL ARTICLE

Open Letter to President Obama from E.coli 0104:H4 by Ralph Nader  
FULL ARTICLE

Leaving Elizabeth Warren Out in the Cold by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE

A Brilliant and Courageous Statement by Fidel Castro  FULL ARTICLE

Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soar by Gareth Porter FULL ARTICLE

The dark side of Dubai by Johann Hari FULL ARTICLE

Palestine's Last Village Faces Bulldozers by Jonathan Cook
FULL ARTICLE

Sacred Mantras by Uri Avnery  FULL ARTICLE

A World Overwhelmed by Western Hypocrisy -- In America, Lawlessness
is Now Complete by Paul Craig Roberts  FULL ARTICLE

The Undoing of Libya by Vijay Prashad  FULL ARTICLE

Brainwashing the polite and professional way by John Pilger  
FULL ARTICLE

The Coming Israeli Tsunami? by Immanuel Wallerstein  FULL ARTICLE

Deny! Deny! by Uri Avnery  FULL ARTICLE

Waging Another Unconstitutional War by Ralph Nader  FULL ARTICLE

Blurring the Civilian and Military Roles in Endless War By William Astore  
FULL ARTICLE

Two Jobs Obama Could Do Well By Andrew Levine  FULL ARTICLE

Peace Movement -- Rising above Politicians By Medea Benjamin and
Charles Davis  FULL ARTICLE

Wisconsin Fight Continues by Mike Elk  FULL ARTICLE

US Wars Have Served Al-Qaeda by Gareth Porter  FULL ARTICLE

Grandson of an Army Cook Addresses British Parliament by Simon Carr  
FULL ARTICLE

Bibi and the Yo-Yos by Uri Avnery  FULL ARTICLE

Obama Strikes-Out on Global Warming by Bill McKibben  FULL ARTICLE

Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? by Robert Fisk  FULL
ARTICLE

The IMF itself should be on trial by Johann Hari  FULL ARTICLE

Le Rapist is a Socialist? Non! by Sherry Wolf  FULL ARTICLE

Bottoms Up -- Ass-Backwards in the Middle East  FULL ARTICLE

Why AIPAC is Dangerous for Jews By Alice Rothchild  FULL ARTICLE

Netanyahu's Win Is Israel's Loss By Carlo Strenger  FULL ARTICLE

Israel at a Strategic Dead End by Jonathan Cook  FULL ARTICLE

Weep Not for Strauss-Kahn by Diana Johnstone  FULL ARTICLE

Anti-Shia Pogroms Sweep Bahrain by Patrick Cockburn  FULL ARTICLE

Rubber Man by Uri Avnery  FULL ARTICLE

The West is Trapped in its Own Propaganda by Paul Craig Roberts
FULL ARTICLE

Assassinating Bin Laden by Marjorie Cohn  FULL ARTICLE

Final Thoughts on the Death of OBL by Michael Moore  FULL ARTICLE

Bin Laden: Exposing Pakistan's Paradoxes by  Asad Hashim  
FULL ARTICLE

Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants?  by Robert Fisk  
FULL ARTICLE

Parallels:  The First World War and Now  FULL ARTICLE

Palestinian Accord By Uri Avnery  FULL ARTICLE

The New York Times's tortured line on torture  FULL ARTICLE

2016: When China Overtakes the U.S. by Mark Weisbrot  FULL ARTICLE

Divine Dispatches by Riazat Butt  FULL ARTICLE

Gulf is still a mess one year after oil spill by Carl Hiaasen  FULL ARTICLE

Don’t Betray Us, Barack — End the Empire
by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick  FULL ARTICLE

Waiting for the Spark by Ralph Nader   FULL ARTICLE

Britain's Private Militias by George Monbiot   FULL ARTICLE

The Global Order:  How the World Works by Noam Chomsky  
FULL ARTICLE

The Middle East: Allies in Disarray by Immanuel Wallerstein  
FULL ARTICLE

Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System by Chris
Hedges  FULL ARTICLE

Pakistan Tells U.S. It Must Sharply Cut C.I.A. Activities by Jane Perlez
and Ismail Khan  FULL ARTICLE

How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation (A response to
George Monbiot below) by Helen Caldicott  FULL ARTICLE

Evidence Meltdown -- Effects of Radiation by George Monbiot  
FULL ARTICLE

War-mongering liberals  by Victor Hanson  FULL ARTICLE

Why no Libya policy is the best policy  by Dennis Jett  FULL ARTICLE

Syria's British-born first lady divides the women of Damascus
By Esther Addley FULL ARTICLE

Deconstructing Nuclear "Experts" -- Why Fukushima is Deadly by Chris
Busby  FULL ARTICLE

What price an Afghan life? by Peter Singer  FULL ARTICLE

America's Libyans -- All Libyans Lose by Vijay Prashad  FULL ARTICLE

Raymond Davis Release -- The Secret Deal by Shaukat Qadir
FULL ARTICLE

Intervening in Libya by Vijay Prashad  FULL ARTICLE

How Catastrophe Heralds a New Japan by Kojin Karatani  FULL ARTICLE

Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush? by David Swanson FULL ARTICLE

Meltdown at Fukushima by Robert Alvarez  FULL ARTICLE

The Japanese Disasters by Gary Leupp  FULL ARTICLE

Imperial Anxieties by Vijay Prashad  FULL ARTICLE

Wrong Side By Uri Avnery  FULL ARTICLE

America's secret plan to aid rebels -- Obama asks Saudis to airlift
weapons into Benghazi by Robert Fisk  FULL ARTICLE

Father Speaks for Son Killed on Humanitarian Aid Ship FULL ARTICLE

All-American Decline by Tom Engelhardt  FULL ARTICLE

The CIA's Killing Spree in Lahore -- The U.S. and the Taliban by Mike
Whitney  FULL ARTICLE

Conscience and Secretary Clinton by Ray McGovern  FULL ARTICLE

Diplomatic Immunity is Not Absolute by Yasmeen Ali
FULL ARTICLE

What was Raymond Davis Shooting for in Lahore?
By Dave Lindorff  FULL ARTICLE
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