Link: http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/engaging-non-state-armed-groups-4569/

The US State Department wants to open channels to non-state actors, but its policy at the practical level is still muddled.
Limiting US foreign relations to state-to-state diplomacy flies in the face of recent global developments. Since 2008, conflicts between a state and one or more non-state armed groups (NSAGs) have vastly outnumbered inter-state conflicts, according to the Human Security Report 2009/2010.
One problem that impedes engaging with NSAGs is that they are often classified as terrorist organizations. The term ‘terrorist’ is however sometimes used as a politically-motivated weapon against a target NSAG.
"While all terrorist groups are by definition NSAGs, not all NSAGs are terrorist groups," Knopf acknowledged. "But the State Department has shied away from engagement with many NSAGs."

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/wage-d31.shtml

The lead article in Friday’s New York Times business section, penned by Louis Uchitelle, praises the role of the US trade unions, in alliance with corporate management and the Obama administration, in implementing an historically unprecedented attack on the wages of US manufacturing workers.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/pers-d31.shtml

The Obama administration’s bellicose stance towards Iran is setting the stage for a dangerous slide towards war in the Persian Gulf. Having provoked Tehran with legislation for what amounts to an oil embargo, the US is threatening Iran with military action if it retaliates by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.

Link: http://www.politicususa.com/en/republican-party-humiliated-america

It is beneficial, and often distressing, to look back over the past year and attempt to rationalize the conduct of politicians elected to serve the American people to predict where the country is headed. The biggest news of 2011 is not the various Republican assaults on job creation, or holding the debt ceiling hostage nearly sending America into a credit default, or their extremist presidential candidates, but their sustained assault on the poor, women, children, and senior citizens. There is a famous quote that says; “The measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members”

Link: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m84412&hd=&size=1&l=e

While the unconcealed hypocrisy that led to the emergence of a new Libya fades from the public consciousness, the governments of the West are beginning to reap the profits of their investments. Under a mandate to protect civilians, these allied forces armed radical factions of Islamist fighters and showered white phosphorus tipped ordnanceonto densely populated residential areas.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/u-3-5-billion-arms-sale-uae-amid-154211697.html%3B_ylt%3DAouBfDy5OU2f5AjBX5hynDGs0NUE%3B_ylu%3DX3oDMTNsYTQxZjRhBG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBGUARwa2cDYzk2MjgwZWYtY2YxMy0zOGUxLWE0NWUtMmQ3MmMxN2Q5NWVlBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN0b3Bfc3RvcnkEdmVyA2IwNDNmMzkwLT

The United States has signed a $3.5 billion sale of an advanced antimissile interception system to the United Arab Emirates, part of an accelerating military buildup of its friends and allies near Iran.

Link: http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/its-a-trick-we-always-use-it-calling-people-anti-semitic.html

(calling people "anti-Semitic")

Link: http://www.rense.com/general95/dessy.htm

There is an old adage that puts forth a simple truth: Money talks, bullshit walks. In the case of the United States of America it can be rephrased to state 'money talks, liar warmongers die and lose'. Senator Joe Lieberman has proposed a bill that would terminate your citizenship if you stand up to the government. Well, frankly it is not theirs to give or take away for a natural born citizen. It is a birthright, not ordained by the asinine shitforbrains in Washington, DC. They are that desperate to cover up their lies, war crimes, human rights abuses and failures in Washington DC.