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Breaking News Wed, 11 Sep 2013
Noam Chompsky, U.S linguist and political critic, gestures during a talk at the press club in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, July 26, 2013.
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 Democracy Now 
Chomsky: Instead of "Illegal" Threat to Syria, U.S. Should Back Chemical Weapons Ban in All Nations
Wed 11 Sep 2013
In a national address from the White House Tuesday night, President Obama announced he is delaying a plan to strike Syria while pursuing a diplomatic effort from Russia for international monitors to t... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, of the United States, addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations proposing the creation of a new UN atomic energy agency, 8 December, 1953.
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 CounterPunch 
Taking the Profit Out of War
Wed 11 Sep 2013
We now have a huge war machine that dwarfs President Eisenhower’s warning about the undue influence of the military-industrial complex. In an Aug. 29, 2013 editorial for Common Dreams, Bruce Gagnon ... (photo: UN / MB)
 An aerial view, days after the terrorist attacks on American soil, the towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) sit as a pile of rubble in the streets of New York City. The rescue and recovery efforts continue with tons of debris slowly removed from the si  WorldNews.com  Wed 11 Sep 2013
Rethinking John Adams in View of 9-11
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | "Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the... (photo: USAF file/SSgt. Michelle Leonard)
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File - In this Thursday, April 25, 2013 file photo citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the free Syrian Army preparing their weapons, in the neighborhood of al-Amerieh in Aleppo, Syria.  WorldNews.com  Wed 11 Sep 2013
Red Lines Are Bloody and Ambiguous
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | "A line," wrote Euclid over two-thousand years ago, "is breadthless length." For centuries this postulate and several others, or assumptions that somet... (photo: AP / Aleppo Media Center AMC)
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Dobbins doubts complete Afghan withdrawal by 2014 Dawn Tue 10 Sep 2013
Dobbins doubts complete Afghan withdrawal by 2014
WASHINGTON: A US envoy on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that Washington would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan after next year, saying that both countries wanted to p... (photo: USMC / Gabriela Garcia)
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File - In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed Thursday, March 14, 2013, by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a live ammunition firing drill. The Guardian Tue 10 Sep 2013
Use Syria to warn North Korea against WMD, says US official
US defence under-secretary says Kim Jong-un's regime must be deterred from using 'massive chemical weapons arsenal' | US troops in South Korea wearing masks during a dril... (photo: AP / KCNA via KNS)
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, damages due to fighting between government forces and Free Syrian army fighters are seen in Aleppo, Syria. The Irish Times Mon 9 Sep 2013
Assad denies ordering chemical attack and warns of retaliation
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has denied ordering an alleged chemical weapons attack said to have killed hundreds of civilians in the Damascus countryside on August 21... (photo: AP / Aleppo Media Center, AMC)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius discuss Syria during a news conference at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, France on September 7, 2013. The Observer Sun 8 Sep 2013
Kerry shoulders burden of persuading world to back Obama's line on Syria
Kerry speaking in the State department in Washington DC, when he set out America’s position with regard to intervention in Syria. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images | P... (photo: US DoS)
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Russia is holding a lot of the cards in the Syria crisis. We should face that The Guardian Fri 6 Sep 2013
Russia is holding a lot of the cards in the Syria crisis. We should face that
Our leaders are sure of one thing. Syria isn't somewhere else. It isn't Iraq, for example. Neither is it Afghanistan. Yet, no one claims that Syria is eith... (photo: US Navy / Daniel Garas)
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File - Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League of Arab States for Syria, met with Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mikhail Bogdanov, and United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman, to assess the requirements for an international conference to find a political solution to the Syria crisis', 25 June, 2013. Al Jazeera Fri 6 Sep 2013
Brahimi says UN must authorise Syria strikes
Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations-Arab League joint envoy to Syria, has said that no state can "take the law into their own hands" and conduct military action agai... (photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferre)
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The Defence Minister, Shri A. K. Antony addressing the inaugural session of 37th Director's Conference of DRDO, in New Delhi on March 23, 2013. Indian Express Fri 6 Sep 2013
No question of India giving away territory to China, Antony tells Lok Sabha
Union Defence Minister A K Antony on Friday made a statement in Parliament over the alleged incursions by Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The Defen... (photo: PIB of India)
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In this citizen journalism image provided by The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian military tank caught on fire during clashes with Free Syrian army fighters in Joubar a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Asia Times Fri 6 Sep 2013
West's wars of choice target the weak
By Dan Glazebrook | Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. if you are interested in contributing. | The vote by Brit... (photo: AP / The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad)
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Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is interviewed at his office in Washington, on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. CNN Thu 5 Sep 2013
Rumsfeld concedes Iraq War influences Syria debate
Posted by | CNN's Leigh Ann Caldwell | Updated 9/5/13 12:00 p.m. ET | (CNN) – While sharply criticizing President Barack Obama as an ineffective leader on Syria, fo... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin)
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