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Obama: End CIA-Directed Drone Strikes Now

Obama must stop these extrajudicial targeted assassinations.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director intensified the opposition to CIA-directed drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

Drones, by the way, are unmanned aerial vehicles either controlled from the ground or increasingly, autonomously following a pre-programmed mission.

The American Manifest Destiny

Ultimate moral abandonment does not separate a man or woman mentally, emotionally, from unlawful acts when they, obeying orders, kill.

(LONDON) - Americans and their European poodles coiffeured red white and blue in American power salons are unlawfully targeting, and killing from afar, suspected militants innocent bystanders, and helpers, labelled “collateral damage,” whilst avoiding more politically toxic body bags containing returning American “heroes” to military bases and more lachrymose wailing from American politicians.

Today, this day, men and women with “games console mentality” can kill your brothers and sisters and mine, by pressing a button caressed by their dutiful hands in America, for a drone strike against suspected militants and thereby international law...

Osama Where Art Thou?

Evidence should convince skeptics that bin Laden was indeed killed by Navy SEALS on May 2, 2011.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Under the prevailing narrative, Osama bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALS at bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, at zero dark thirty, spy-jargon for "half past midnight," the time of bin Laden's death.

According to this narrative, the raid was videotaped and photographs were taken. The body was then taken to the supercarrier USS Carl Vinson where traditional procedures for an Islamic burial were followed. The body was then placed in a weighted bag and slid into the sea.

Suicide Bomb Blast in Hangu Pakistan Kills Over Two Dozen

Pools of blood and pieces of human flesh littered the street after the attack.

(JHUMRA CITY, Pakistan) - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside two Hangu, part of Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan.

ABC News At Least 2 Dead in Likely Suicide Attack Outside US Embassy in Turkish Capital

TV footage showed the embassy door blown off its hinges.

(ANKARA) - A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive Friday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, killing himself and a guard at the entrance gate, officials said.

U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardione told reporters that a Turkish citizen was also wounded in the 1:15 p.m. blast in the Turkish capital.

Leaked Video Shows Cruise Missile Hitting Pentagon on 911 [VIDEO]

Released in December, the video shows something hitting the building that is clearly not a 757 airplane...

(WASHINGTON DC) - Suppressed video released 10 years after 9/11 attacks in the United States clearly shows the Pentagon attack was a Cruise type missile

It is either a Tomahawk or Russian / Soviet Granit as described by a former Soviet nuclear intelligence officer Dimitri Khalezov.

Three Syrian Peace Initiatives...and what you can do to help

We have no illusions. The task is not an easy one and there are many obstacles.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Later today, I will board a flight to Geneva to attend the Syrian International Conference for a Democratic Syria and a Civil State.

Obama, Osama, 911 and Jap Oranges...
The Great Dershowitz/Chomsky Debate

Give a man a spade and he'll plant a seed. Give him a plow and a horse and he'll plant a crop. Give him a tractor and he'll drive to the nearest liquor store.
- Ancient Peace Corps rubric

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - This has been the decade of the great divide.

Since September 11, 2001, two diametrically opposite opinions have been expressed to the world incessantly, both concerning a simple set of unassailable facts...

Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes Calls for Justice in Syria

I understand that there may be questions about how justice could affect prospects for a peace settlement in Syria.

(SALEM) - William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com had extensively shared his concern regarding widespread violations by Syrian government security forces and officials.

Gomes has concluded that government forces have committed crimes against humanity.

Algeria: Confusion Over Military Raid to End Hostage Crisis

A government spokesman confirmed some hostages were killed in the operation but said troops had been forced to act to free them after talks with their captors failed.

(PARIS) - Even as Algeria announced the end of its military operation to regain control of its desert gas refinery last night, there were conflicting reports as to what took place earlier in the country’s remote southern desert to end the hostage crisis.

French president François Hollande, said events had taken a “dramatic turn” – a reference to an apparent assault carried out by the Algerian military in the afternoon.