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- Travis RossThe grandiose name, National Endowment for Democracy, is a subterfuge meant to hide the fact that NED is the public relations arm of the CIA.
- Abayomi AzikiweThere would be no war crimes committed in Gaza absent the direct involvement of the U.S.
- Jon JeterGaza is quite rightly a big news story these days, but events there are just the latest example of the centuries-old settlers' lust for conquest.