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Iran warns it could ‘easily’ close oil route

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued an apparent warning that the country could easily cut off a key Persian Gulf shipping route.

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McCain: U.S. Neighborhoods Need Iraq-style “Surge”

Coming soon to your neighborhood if McCain has his way — soldiers under orders to “clamp down” and “make sure that the known criminals are kept under control.”

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Cheney, Neocons Considered Killing Americans in Pretext to Attack Iran

Hersh admits not writing an article on this obvious act of treason because the neocons didn’t actually see their demented plan through.

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Top Advisor to U.S. Military Confirms The War on Terror Is a Hoax: “There is No Battlefield Solution to Terrorism”

A RAND Corp. report confirms what we have been saying for years: the war on terror is a hoax which is actually weakening national security.

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VeriChip Corp. Takes Downturn in Wake of RFID Caner-Link

The VeriChip Corporation, manufactures of the VeriChip — the microchip made to be implanted in humans — has taken a considerable downturn after evidence has emerged showing the chip could cause cancer.

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Army lures recruits with video games

The Virtual Army Experience — a traveling exhibit of the U.S. Army — has been touring the country but critics don’t like the idea of the military using giant videogames as a recruiting tool.

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Army recruiter threatened teen with jail for not enlisting

An army recruiter in Houston has been lying to high school students about their obligations under a non-binding military “delayed entry program” and even threatening them with jail if they don’t follow through and enlist.

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Barak to Gates: Keep military option on table with Iran

Defense Secretary Gates, who opposes US action against Iran, urged to tighten sanction against Tehran while keeping all options open

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US-created terrorism documentary introduced at Gitmo tribunal as ‘evidence’

The video is entitled “The Al Qaeda Plan,” an echo of “The Nazi Plan” made by Oscar-winning director George Stevens as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials of German leaders after World War II.

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Deb Price: Congress Reconsiders Ban on Gays in the Military

The hearing was an important first step in repealing an un-American law that hurts the military by pushing away talented gays and lesbians.

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Congress Reconsiders Ban on Gays in the Military

The hearing was an important first step in repealing an un-American law that hurts the military by pushing away talented gays and lesbians.

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Military Women Get Ready to Rock the Boat

Female service members often remain silent about the dangers they face. Now is the time to break the culture of fear that keeps them quiet.

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Air Force Brass Get Luxury In-Flight Seats on Taxpayer’s Dime

A new report finds the Air Force is spending counterterrorism funds on very fancy seating for military and civilian leaders.

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Watchdog: Leaked photos show troops fly in squalor

A government watchdog has uncovered pictures that suggest US troops on their way to battlefields in Afghanistan travel in squalor while top military and government officials are cocooned in “comfort capsules.”

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Robertson Advocates Israel Striking Iran Before The 2008 Election

Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson sharply criticized the “moderate tone” the Bush administration has allegedly taken toward Iran and its nuclear weapons program.

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Navy prosecutor In gitmo case: fourth plane shot down

Some interesting information emerged from the Guantanamo Bay naval base yesterday in the form of a direct admission from a US prosecutor that the fourth plane was “shot down”.

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Kucinich vs. The Establishment: Impeachment Hearing On Friday

Congressman, supported by majority of American people, bravely out to ensure Bush goes down in history as liar and war criminal as Democrats rally to his defense

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Mark Weisbrot: Anti-War Movement Successfully Pushes Back Against Military Confrontation With Iran

For something that’s not supposed to exist, the anti-war movement sure was effective in fighting a recent resolution to blockade Iran.

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Synthetic Pot as a Military Weapon? Meet the Man Who Ran the Secret Program

Dr. James Ketchum tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon in the ’60s. Now he’s telling the tale.

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As Obama Heads to Middle East and Europe, Let’s Talk About U.S. Imperialism

As Obama prepares for his world tour, we must prepare to ask him the tough questions about imperialism and the U.S. global military machine.

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Presidential candidate wants domestic “security force” as powerful as U.S. military, columnist compares proposal to Hitler Youth

Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has called for a “civilian national security force” as powerful as the U.S. military, comments that were compared by one journalist to the Nazi Hitler Youth.

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US Air Force ‘wants luxury rooms in planes’ for top officials

The US Air Force sought money from counter-terrorism funds to install luxurious rooms on military aircraft for travelling top brass and officials.

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Americans die in Iraq from ‘electrocution’; Shocks reported by troops ‘almost daily’

Among the seemingly innumerable Iraq scandals is one largely ignored: shoddy electrical work by U.S. contractors at military bases leading to numerous electrical fires, troops receiving painful shocks, and even death by electrocution.

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Bush to Speed Iraq Troop Withdrawal in to Help McCain

Can the president synonymous with a military disaster put a positive spin on McCain’s Iraq plan?

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Federal court: Bush can indefinitely detain civilians

A federal court has issued two rulings: One favoring President Bush’s indefinite detentions of “enemy combatants,” and another granting one of said “enemy combatants” the opportunity to challenge his detention in court.

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Wolfowitz: U.S. Future Hinges on Another ‘Crisis’

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense argues that America’s leadership role in the post-Bush world may depend upon ‘how threatening the world appears’

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New War Powers Plan Skirts the Constitution’s Clear Wording

Two former secretaries of state spent the past year concocting a new plan to give the president a role in war-making that the Constitution does not allow.

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WTC 7 Emergency Head Was Building Collapse Specialist

The former NYC chief emergency manager Jerome Hauer, whose office was on the 23d floor of WTC 7, was also a building collapse specialist, according to a recently uncovered New York Times article.

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Ex-NYT correspondent: FISA update is ‘giant step toward fascism’

Hedges is one of many plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the US government brought by the ACLU that seeks to scuttle an update to the FISA signed by President Bush Thursday

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Robert Scheer: China and Taiwan Declare Peace

America’s military hawks will have to find a new reason to blow money on weapons we don’t need.

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