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U.S. Cost for War – so far

U.S. costs of Iraq, Afghan wars top $900 billion: report

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. military operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, have cost $904 billion since 2001 and could top $1.7 trillion by 2018, even with big cuts in overseas troop deployments, a report said on Monday.

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Ron Paul on One World Currency

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Cheney the Torturer

Cheney admits authorizing detainee’s torture

by David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster

  Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison should stay open until end of terror war, but has no idea when that might be.

Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast.

When asked by ABC [...]

The Gun that won’t kill?

Sold as ‘non-lethal,’ Tasers killed 400 since 2001

by Andrew McLemore

They are marketed as non-lethal weapons that allow police to capture suspects or criminals without causing any permanent harm.

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and businessman Bernard Kerik made millions selling the idea to police departments across the country.

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Obama Change? C’mon

By Victor Thorn

(American Free Press) FOR TWO YEARS, Americans have heard an unrelenting mantra of change emanating from the campaign trail. But now that President-elect Barack Obama has begun forming his cabinet, we’re seeing a cadre of more deeply entrenched insiders than any administration that has preceded it.

In regard to key foreign [...]