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Let`s Be Very Careful About Who We Call `Traitor`

The charging of Edward Snowden is intended to intimidate any country that might be considering standing up for his rights.

(WASHINGTON DC) - It has now been a year since I entered this embassy and sought refuge from persecution.

As a result of that decision, I have been able to work in relative safety from a US espionage investigation. But today, Edward Snowden's ordeal is just beginning.

Will Snowden`s Trip to Ecuador be Thwarted by a Secret US Deal?

The whistleblower is seeking political asylum in Ecuador.

(SACRAMENTO / YORK) - Will Edward Snowden be sent back to the US through deceptive tactics and back room international relations?

That is the word according to our Human Rights Ambassador, William Nicholas Gomes in the UK. His Tweet is circulating widely, explaining that Snowden may be returned to the US sooner than expected.

Jews, God and the NSA

"As Jews, the concept of being watched is not new to us. We read in Ethics of our Fathers, "Know what is above you: an eye that sees, an ear that hears, and all your deeds are recorded..."

(HOUSTON) - A friend sent an email they received from a Chabad in Illinois.

The friend was horrified that a Rabbi in Illinois had put out a message to his congregation and newsletter recipients, directly equating God's loving, all-seeing knowledge of everyone and everything, with the NSA's massive illegal surveillance of every person in the country.

Computer Espionage: Our Spies are Spying on Your Spies

We don't want your spies to spy on our spies.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Snowden, Manning and Ellsberg are possibly the best known recent figures who have been seduced into this kind of intelligence dirty work in which they all considered it abhorrent and said so.

Spying as an instrument of government and war strategy has been going on even before we had written words.

The End of Syria as We Know It?

Why Obama is Declaring War on Syria...

(BEIRUT) - The short answer is Iran and Hezbollah according to Congressional sources. “The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories starting with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, as well as its growing influence in the Gulf.”

Other sources are asserting that Obama actually did not want to invoke direct military aid to the rebels...

A Fly on the Wall in Barack Obama`s White House

"Exactly, sir. Without some indication that you are doing everything possible to track terrorists, we know that the Republicans will try to lynch you."

(PATAGONIA) - White House, sometime in late January, 2008... "Well, Mr. President, that about wraps up our national security briefing. Will there be anything else?"

"One thing. The total information awareness program, you didn't say anything about that."

U.S. Backed Syrian Rebels Massacre Christian Village

Government forces had launched an offensive against the city in April this year, in an attempt to hit the main supply lines of the insurgents.

(DAMASCUS (Free Syrian Press) - On Monday (27 May 2013) Free Syrian Army commandos affiliate, the largest armed force of the Syrian resistance against Assad, massacred the entire population of al-Duvair, a Christian village on the outskirts of Homs, not far from the border with Lebanon.

The news was the Syrian news agency Ahlul Bayt, who stressed that the killings did not spare women and children, until the intervention of the Syrian army.

U.S. Policy in Syria is a Disaster for Christians

Backing jihadist radicals in Syria contradicts the American efforts to supposedly rid the world of terrorism.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Originally from Damascus, Syria, Fadida, a California business owner, offers a startling look at how Syrian Christians view the unrelenting U.S. effort to disrupt another secular, Middle East govt.

She says the people of Damascus deserve to live in peace. Instead, the U.S. backed Free Syrian Army mercenary jihadists and their daily heinous crimes against civilians are a constant threat to their safety, and their future.

Can the U.S. Claim Victory in Iraq?

The Iraq war cost U.S. taxpayers $810 billion and counting. Imagine how much health care, social services, education, housing, fire and police this money could have purchased.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Following the withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq in December 2011, can the U.S. claim victory or did the Obama administration adopt the face-saving solution of “Just declare victory and get out,” a position proposed by the late Senator George Akin of Vermont at the end of the Vietnam war?

What does victory mean and why did the U.S. invade and occupy Iraq in the first place?

Osama bin Laden`s Ghost

"As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other human beings as an appreciable act." - bin Laden

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - How many Americans know Osama bin Laden denied being connected to the attacks on the United States, Sept. 11^th 2001?

Is it possible to imagine a terrorist going to that much effort, knowing full well that the one and only result would be an attack on an unprecedented scale against two Middle eastern countries... and failing to claim it?