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If we could avoid a war with Syria through accidental diplomacy, imagine what we could do if we tried!

Dennis Kucinich (in an email)

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According to two polls reported this weekend by the Jerusalem Post, Israelis by 7-1 do not want Israel to go to war with Syria. But two-thirds of Israelis favor the United States going to war with Syria.

Pat Buchanan

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Syria is not about poison gas or human rights: it’s about a proxy war against Iran, the only nation now challenging total US and Israel military domination of the Mideast.

Eric Margolis

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Congress must vote down the war [on Syria] and make it clear to obama [sic] that if he defies the constitutional power of Congress he will be impeached.

Paul Craig Roberts

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If the US Congress is too corrupt or incompetent to do its duty, the rest of the world must join the UN General Secretary and the President of Russia and declare that unilateral military aggression by the US government is a war crime, and that the war criminal US government will be isolated in the international community. Any of its members caught traveling abroad will be arrested and turned over to the Hague for trial.

Paul Craig Roberts

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We talk to them (the Americans) and we assume they are decent people, but he [Secretary of State John Kerry] is lying and he knows that he is lying [about Al Qaeda's influence weakening among the Syrian "rebels"]. This is sad.

Vladimir Putin, Russian president

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Most people above room temperature are now beginning to see quite clearly that the United States and some of its allies are, in fact, war criminals.

Karl Schwarz (in 2008)

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I think that [no backing the U.S. on Syria by the U.K.] is one of the motivations that introduced what I call palpable fear and one of the reasons why he [President Obama] is seeking political cover [by going to Congress for approval on attacking Syria] himself.

Retired 4-Star General Jack Keane

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Netanyahu is concerned that Israeli statements in favor of a strike in Syria will be seen as an Israeli attempt to push the United States into war. Many elements in the United States now accuse Israel and the pro-Israeli lobby AIPAC in Washington of pushing the United Sates into war with Iraq. Netanyahu himself is perceived in Washington as coaxing the United States to go to war against Iran.

Barak Ravid (Israeli reporter)

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The journalists I have worked with have, at my request, been judicious and careful in ensuring that the only things disclosed are what the public should know but that does not place any person in danger.

Edward Snowden

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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont over GMO Labeling

Submitted by HPI on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 00:08

Monsanto GMO Seed Corn, Kunia, Oahu

What does Monsanto in Vermont have to do with Hawaii? Plenty. Hawaii is the GMO capital of the world, and Monsanto is king of the GMO companies. The Hawaii legislature is and has been in Monsanto's back pocket, with politicians actually acting like they believe Monsanto's fairy tale press releases of saving the world from starvation through GMO, or the safety of GMO. If our politicians ever start acting like they have a brain, some morals and some backbone, they can expect to face an unfriendly and destructive Monsanto. The company is amoral and ruthless. It and fellow traveler GMO companies have Hawaii by the throat and it's not going to let go if it can possibly help it.

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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislators Pass a Bill Requiring GMO Food to Be Labeled

AlterNet.org / by Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins

What it really comes down to this: Elected officials are abandoning the public interest and public will in the face of corporate intimidation.

The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont.

Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill. Why? Because Monsanto has threatened to sue the state if the bill passes.

The popular legislative bill requiring mandatory labels on genetically engineered food (H-722) is languishing in the Vermont House Agriculture Committee, with only four weeks left until the legislature adjourns for the year. Despite thousands of emails and calls from constituents who overwhelmingly support mandatory labeling, despite the fact that a majority (6 to 5) of Agriculture Committee members support passage of the measure, Vermont legislators are holding up the labeling bill and refusing to take a vote.

Instead, they’re calling for more public hearings on April 12, in the apparent hope that they can run out the clock until the legislative session ends in early May.

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F, Sep 20-Th, Sep 26, late evenings & nights. Blackfish. Documentary about captive killer whales who turn on humans, though they have never been known to attack them in the wild. Their capture and living conditions are investigated. At Koko Marina 8 (Honolulu). Review. Trailer.

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