BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February 6, 2012

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“GLORY, n. An exalted state achieved through participation in military operations, often by having one’s guts blown out and dying in agony amidst the stench of one’s own entrails.” – Chaz Bufe, the Devil’s Dictionaries  

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Iran: US-Made Bomb Killed Iran Expert-Report

Iran’s Warships Arrive in Saudi Arabia

Israeli Attack on Iran will Prompt Pakistani Response

Obama: US has “Very Good” Intelligence on Iran

Iran Calls for Dialogue to Resolve Issues with EU

Turkey: Attack on Iran “Would Be Disaster”

Afghanistan: U.S. to Expand Special Operations Forces’ Role in Afghanistan

Lt. Col. Davis’ Afghanistan Report: Truth, Lies & Afghanistan

Pakistan: PM Gilani in Qatar to Discuss Taliban ‘Peace Talks’

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Syria: US Closes Embassy-UK Recalls Ambassador

Syria: EU to Push New Syria Sanctions

US-Funded Tunisian President Prepares to Withdraw Recognition of Syrian Government

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Podcast Show #75

The Boiling Frogs Presents Philip Giraldi

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This is Part III of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. You can listen to previous segments here.

Philip Giraldi joins us to discuss the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act-NDAA, the claim by the White House that it will only use this new power carefully and with due process, and contrasts that to the well-established trend of law enforcement and security agencies, which is to expand on powers granted, not to rein them in or limit them. He provides us with his assessment of the recent case of former CIA operative John Kiriakou, and discusses President Obama’s horrendous track record on civil liberties- broadening its definition of war powers, silencing critics and government whistleblowers through the repeated exploitation of the state-secrets privilege, abuses of National Security Letters, continuation of Guantanamo Prison, supporting numerous dubious terrorism prosecutions.

GiraldiPhilip Giraldi is a former CIA and DIA counter-terrorism officer, member of the American Conservative Defense Alliance, and contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine. He has a regular column, Smoke & Mirrors, at Antiwar.com.

 

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February 3, 2012

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“You can’t say civilization don’t advance…in every war they kill you in a new way.” –Will Rogers

International Newsworthy

Israel: We Can Hit All of Iran’s Nuclear Sites

US Push to Arm Israel

Panetta: ‘Israel to Strike Iran in April, May, or June’

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February 2, 2012

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“There is one modern political writer who saw very clearly that military centralization is helpful in undermining a federal republic. His name was Adolf Hitler. Chapter 10 of Volume II of Mein Kampf, which is devoted to an indictment of German Federalism as an obstacle to the triumph of national socialism, is well worthy of current attention by those who do not realize that a concentration of power can be used for evil as well as for good — and is perhaps much more likely to be used for evil than for good.” –Felix Morley

International Newsworthy

Nobel Peace Prize Jury under Investigation

Israel Sets Up Assassination Unit in Iran

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 31, 2012

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“Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical and anti-social class of men. They never sacrifice themselves for their country. They make all wars, but very few of them ever die in one. If it is the duty of a young man to serve his country under all circumstances then it is equally the duty of an enemy young man to serve his. Thus we come to a moral contradiction and absurdity so obvious that even clergymen and editorial writers sometimes notice it.” – H.L. Mencken  

International Newsworthy

War on Iran Propaganda: U.S. Officials See Increasing Threat of Domestic Attack from Iran

Iran: White House Recruits Southern Caucasus Allies for Attack on Iran

Persian Guile Drives Israel “Crazy”

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 30, 2012

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“War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.”  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Chief: Sanctions to Hit EU Buyback Firms

Iran Well Prepared for the Worst

Pentagon Seeks New Bomb against Iran

Pakistan: Drone Attacks Feed Insurgency

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 27, 2012

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“Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest right of personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it?” – Daniel Webster 


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Iran Set to Turn Off Oil Supply to Europe

Iran Sanctions Backlash-Oil Buyers Ditch Dollar

Growing Elite Opposition to Strike on Iran

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