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“Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.” –P. J. O’Rourke
International Newsworthy
Israel and Syria on Verge of Military Clash – UN Official
Jordan Wargames: Patriot Batteries, F-16s & 4,500 US Troops Near Syrian Border
US Speeds Up Arming Syria Rebels
Syrian Rebels Urge Global Military Action
Syrian Rebels ‘Execute Teenager’ in Aleppo
Syria: Opposition in Retreat – Analysis
Syrian Rebels Clash with Kurdish Militias
Large Car Bombs Increasing in Syria
Foreign Islamists Head to Syria to Face Hezbollah
Russia Enlists Syrian Kurds for Geneva II
For Hezbollah, What is Victory in Syria?
Jordan Jittery as Assad Troops Advance
Subsidies Cut or Removal Poses Great Concern for Most Syrians
Senator John McCain Meets Leaders of Terror Brigade in Syria. The NGOs that Made it Happen
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Is Turkey Heading Toward Civil War?
Turkey: The Rise of a New Citizen
Turkey’s Protests and the Potential for Foreign Involvement – Analysis
In Turkey, Rival Soccer Fans Unite in Protest
Turkish Protesters Control Gezi Park
Turkey: Erdogan Again Calls Demonstrators ‘Looters’
U.S. Embassy in Ankara Deletes Tweets Disputing Erdogan’s Comment
Turkish PM Changes Park Plans, Istanbul Protests Likely to Continue
Turkish PM Calls for Pro-Government Rallies
Turkey Opposition Calls for Snap Vote
Turkey Rules Out Early Polls, Thousands Defy Call to End Protest
Erdogan Warns Govt’s Patience could ‘End’ as Police Teargas Protesters in Ankara
Erdogan’s Mishandling of Protests Has Exposed the Myth of a Stable Turkey
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US Tests Iran Nuclear ‘Bunker Buster’
Iran Announces Security-Oriented ‘Space Tracking Center’
Iran Embassy Rejects Beirut Clash Report
Iraq Looks to Foreign Investment To Boost Oil Capacity
Iran to Load Heavy Water Reactor with “Virtual Fuel”: Nuclear Chief
Iran Ups Cyber-Attacks on Israeli Computers: “Says” Netanyahu
Iran Rejects Russia’s S-300 Substitute Offer
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Taliban Strikes Kabul Airport with Multiple Blasts, 7 Dead
Insider Attack Kills Three NATO Troops in Afghanistan
Afghanistan Demands British Forces Transfer Prisoners within Weeks
US Drone Strike Draws Angry Pakistan Protest
Pakistan Summons Top U.S. Diplomat over Drone Strikes
This Is Pakistan’s Answer to US Drone Defiance
Militants Attack NATO Containers in Khyber; Six Killed
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Iraqi Kurdish Parties Agree on Controversial Information Law
Sadr Calls on Government to Curb Armed Group
US Gulf Allies Crack Down on Internet Freedoms
10 Zaidis Dead in Yemen Police Clash
US Anti-Drone Activists to visit Yemen
Israel’s Military Exports Jump by 20% in 2012: Report
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Egypt Braces for Judicial Showdown
Will Egypt Have Its Second Revolution on June 30?
‘No Nile, No Egypt,’ Cairo Warns Over Ethiopia Dam
US Quietly OKs Egypt Military Aid Despite Rights Concerns
Kerry Secretly Approved Huge Arms Shipments to Egypt
Major Military Exercises under Way in Jordan
Libyan Army Chief Quits after Deadly Clashes
Sudan Orders Halt of South Sudan Oil Flow
Mali: HRW Sees New Abuses by Tuareg Rebels, Soldiers
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The New Great Game Round-Up, June 10
China to Revive ‘Southern Silk Road’
Putin Orders Crackdown on Islamists, Police Detain 300 People
Russia’s New Middle Eastern Role
Moscow Trial Sends Warning to Rank-and-File Putin Foes
Gazprom’s Demise Could Topple Putin?
Decision Time for BP-Led Group on Route of Caspian Gas Pipeline
Dubai Eyes ‘Promising’ CIS States
Azerbaijan to Demonstrate Drones Purchased from Israel in Parade for First Time
Tajikistan Getting Helicopters from India; Kyrgyzstan Air Defense from China
Alleged Hizb Ut-Tahrir Members Arrested in Kyrgyzstan
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UK Mosques Urged to Install Panic Alarms and Safe Rooms
Report: UK Government Getting US Spy Agency’s Data
Prism: Ministers Challenged Over British Access to Covert US Operation
US Nuclear Bombs Stored in Netherlands
Swiss Minister Pushes for More & Fair Asylum Reforms
National Newsworthy
Bush NSA Chief: Obama ‘Expanded’ Surveillance
NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Reveals Himself
Whistleblower’s NSA Warning: ‘Just the Tip of the Iceberg’
Edward Snowden, the Washington Post & Whistleblowers
NSA Whistleblower: The Ultimate Insider Attack
DOJ Launches Criminal Probe of NSA Leaker
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What Is the NSA’s Prism Program?
How the NSA and FBI Lie with Numbers
Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret
What We Don’t Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know
Why Government Access to Metadata Is More Than a ‘Modest Encroachment’ on Privacy
Sources: NSA Sucks in Data from 50 Companies
Graphics, Grids & 4 More Secret Years of PRISM: What Anonymous Knows
Despite Obama’s Claim, FISA Court Rarely Much of a Check
Verizon Security Chief Used to be High Level Official at FBI
The Motherboard Guide to Avoiding the NSA
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Obama Orders Global Cyber-Attacks Target List
Obama Homeland Security Says Reasonable Suspicion not Needed for Laptop and Cellphone Searches…Hunches Good Enough
NY Times Quietly Changes Published Editorial to Make It Less Damning of Obama
The A-List Conspiracy: Did Hollywood Tell Obama to Take Down Internet Entrepreneur?
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Pentagon Has No Idea What 108,000 Contractors Are Doing
Defense Contractors Turn to Border Control for New Profits
Appeals Court Reverses Order to Declassify Foreign Trade Documents
Report: Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Faster than Public School Enrollment
Fracking Companies Buy Silence of Families with Contaminated Water
US Spends $80 Billion Year on Secret Information Gathering
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Fed’s ‘Flow of Funds’
U.S. Mired in Employment Rut after Jobless Numbers Rise: Economists
American Households on Foodstamps Climb to New Record
Noteworthy Editorials
Sibel Edmonds: America- A Deteriorating Nation of Denial & Apathy
Ron Paul: Government Spying: Should We Be Shocked?
John Stanton: President Obama’s Data Harvesting Program: NSA as Pollster, PRISM as MISO
Glenn Greenwald: US Wants to Destroy Privacy Worldwide
NSA Spying on Americans Is an Outrage
Douglas Valentine: Dirty Wars and Self-Indulgence
Phil Giraldi: Paul Wolfowitz’s Iran Connection
Pat Buchanan: Government Paid Agitators
Andrew Gavin Marshall: Turkey’s Urban Uprising
Eric Margolis: Why the Turn on Turkey?
Turkey: Erdogan, a Sultan in Winter?
BFP Select Videos & Podcast
Video 1: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
Video 2: RT-NSA: Everyone’s a Terrorist | Brainwash Update
Video 3: Ron Paul Daily-Ron Paul on Computer Surveillance in 1984
BFP Podcast Show- Pepe Escobar on Police State USA, Apathy America, Uprising in Turkey & More!
Podcast 1: Traces of Reality- How Perpetual War Abroad Leads to the Police State at Home
Podcast 2: Lew Rockwell Show-The State Seeks To Split the Opposition
Podcast 3: Rick Rozoff-NATO is Antithetical to the Spirit of the United Nations
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