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Syrian security forces backed by tanks advance into the restive city of Deraa killing five, activists say, with shooting also reported in Damascus.

The US is deploying armed Predator drones to Libya, but Col Gaddafi’s government says these will cause more civilian casualties. – BBC

CBS leaves out Obama’s war on oil as a part of the cause of rising gas prices.

Nato refuses to apologise for an air strike that hit anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya, saying it had not been aware rebels had tanks.

President Obama’s “kinetic military action”, swiftly passed off to NATO (which is another way of spelling USA), and currently a mess waiting for someone to kill Muammar Gadhafi (how’s that for a plan?) has simply confirmed what everyone suspected. So far as the Middle East is concerned, he has no foreign policy.

Reporting from Baghdad, Iraq yesterday, NBC’s Tom Brokaw said the Saudi Arabian monarchy is “so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak of Egypt” that it has sent senior officials to the Peoples’ Republic of China and Russia to seek expanded business opportunities with those countries.

The UN report on Israel by the anti Semitic UN Human Rights Council known as The Goldstone Report has been renounced as fraudulent by one of its namesake. Charles Krauthammer weighs in.

From the 1860’s, Democrats have been a party ideologically averse to war, and yet the party most likely to get into a war without really knowing what they’re doing.

What’s the shape of our Transformed America? Looking at the government-induced government-sustained Great Recession, the unsustainable debt that grows every day, and the increasing over-extension of our military obligations the now repudiated doctrine of Too-Big-to-Fail may be our last best hope.

“This is beyond foolish” – Bachmann on Obama’s war. This is a 15 minute video of CNSNews interview with Michele Bachmann.