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Graveyard of Empires | LewRockwell.com

As a result of its occupation of the Middle East, the U.S. is destined the same fate as Rome, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union says Eric Margolis.

The New Colonialism | Counterpunch

Libya is the new outpost of the American empire says Paul Craig Roberts.

How Will the Empire End? | Future of Freedom Foundation

Like most of the ones that preceded it, America's will end unpleasantly for its citizens says Anthony Gregory.

Buy Two Wars, Get Another for Half Price | The Beacon

President Obama's logic for intervention in Libya has a low-brow quality to it says Ivan Eland.

George Santayana with swagger

Gerald Celente, president of Kingston, N.Y-based Trends Research Institute, and a 1969 U.C. graduate, makes reference to his 1995 book "Trends 2000" about events he predicted then that are unfolding today during a candid, yet lively lecture this evening at the Emma Byrd Gallery on political and economic trends. The Bronx native said "the first great war of the 21st century has begun" by drawing parallels between the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, international price and trade wars that culminated with World War II to the Finanical Collapse of 2008, the current recession and U.S. military intervention, and occupation in the Middle East. Aside from taking stock in the "Three G's" - gold, guns and a getaway plan - the self-described "political atheist" said things won't change "until we regain our morality" by focusing on values, such as quality, that once made America great.

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Peter King’s Radical Ignorance | The American Conservative

Is not bliss given how the New York Republican's McCarthyite hearings on home-grown Islamic terrorism are a result of the U.S. Global War on Terror says Jack Hunter.

The solution in Afghanistan: Get out | The Washington Post

Now! say Reps. James P. McGovern (D-Mass.) and Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.).

How to Help Those Suffering Under Dictatorship | The Future of Freedom Foundation

For starters, Jacob Hornberger suggests the withdrawl all American troops from overseas, and the elimination of all foreign aid.

Russell Means: Welcome To The Reservation | PrisonPlanet.tv

The Pentagon's Planet of Bases | TomDispatch.com

Nick Turse finds the U.S Department of Defense can't keep count of the "installations" it has around the globe.

The US of A breaks the Soviet record | Salon.com

Glenn Greenwald takes note that tomorrow, the American occupation of Afghanistan will have lasted longer than the suicidal Soviet one.

Friends? Enemies? Both? Our Foreign Policy Riddle | Boiling Frogs Post

The American occupation of Afghanistan is the perfect example of the disasterous consequences of using "My-enemy's-enemy-is-my-friend" logic says Sibel Edmonds.

They hate us for our occupations | Salon.com

Glenn Greenwald discusses a new report by a University of Chicago professor that revels the obvious about the cause of terrorism.

The Long War: Year 10 | The American Conservative

Operation Enduring Freedom has lived up to its name - and not in a good way - says Andrew Bacevich.

Who’s Threatening Whom? | The Beacon

Bob Higgs showcases the reason for saber rattling in Iran.