Senators: US must take “more decisive” action toward new Middle East fiasco

June 19, 2013
CBS News    

"A bipartisan trio of key senators is demanding that President Obama take 'more decisive' action to stem the military advance by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.; and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wrote in a joint letter to Mr. Obama Tuesday that Syrian government forces are advancing so dramatically that they're urging the president to authorize 'robust lethal assistance' to the Syrian rebels." (06/18/13)

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US, Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war

June 19, 2013
Biloxi Sun Herald    

"The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the international coalition formally handed over control of the country's security to the Afghan army and police. The Taliban met a key U.S. demand by pledging not to use Afghanistan as a base to threaten other countries, although the Americans said they must also denounce al-Qaida." (06/18/13)

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A pattern of totalitarianism emerges

June 19, 2013
Campaign for Liberty
by Luke Marrazzo   Campaign For Liberty

"Over the past few months the American people have witnessed numerous examples of an administration which has no concept of individual liberty. President Obama has been working, often in the open, to strip a complacent public of their (supposedly guaranteed) constitutional rights. While this pattern of myopic power-lust did not begin with the current regime, the alarming acceleration of these occurrences is new. With these new attacks come new ways to rein in Big Government and halt this thinking that our rights are mutable." (06/18/13)

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Brazil: Lawmakers OK bill for “treatment” of homosexuality

June 19, 2013
ABC News    

"A Brazilian congressional human rights committee on Thursday approved legislation that would allow psychologists to treat homosexuality as a disorder or pathology. The commission is led by evangelical pastor Marco Feliciano of the Social Christian Party, who has been accused of homophobia and enraged activists by calling AIDS a 'gay cancer' in a tweet." (06/19/13)

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Lock’em up: Throw away the key

June 19, 2013
Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor   Timothy J. Taylor

"The United States government’s War on Terror has been ongoing now since September 11, 2001, and for the last 11 1/2 years 779 of the so-called 'terrorist' prisoners have been held indefinitely without due process of law at the infamous War on Terror prison, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since it opened in January 2002. Now the U.S. military sheepishly admits for the first time that only about 2.5% of those 779 prisoners will ever be tried in a court of law for any alleged crimes. Only 20 of them will be prosecuted." (06/19/13)

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Whose folly? Whose goodies?

June 19, 2013
Foundation for Economic Education
by Doug Bandow   Doug Bandow

"Washington is a place renowned for folly. But insiders and outsiders define 'folly' differently. For denizens of D.C., folly means cutting the federal  budget. In his column, 'Alzheimer Research Cuts Show Folly of Sequestration,'  Bloomberg’s Al Hunt recently opined on folly in the capital: 'With the  sequestration-enforced cuts at the National Institutes of Health,' he argues, 'research to find a cure or better treatment is slowing.'" (06/18/13)

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Snowden leaks prove spying isn’t about “security,” it’s about power

June 19, 2013
Libertarian News Examiner
by Garry Reed   Garry Reed

"Maybe Edward Snowden provided a greater service to the world than even libertarians first realized when he disclosed the massive National Security Agency spying crime wave." (06/18/13)

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