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Feinstein Insists Rice Read ‘Unclassified’ Talking Points But Doesn’t Say Who Finalized Them

Feinstein Insists Rice Read ‘Unclassified’ Talking Points But Doesn’t Say Who Finalized Them | MN News Hound | Scoop.it

(CNSNews.com) – Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice used “unclassified’ talking points “signed off by the intelligence community” when she said the Sept. 11 attack in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi arose from a spontaneous demonstration against a video posted on YouTube video.

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The Council on Foreign Relations and the “Grand Area” of the American Empire

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By: Andrew Gavin Marshall

Chapter Excerpt: The Making of the American Empire

The process of establishing an American Empire during and after World War II was not – as has been postulated (by those who even admit there is such a thing as an ‘American Empire’) – an ‘accident’ of history, something America seemingly stumbled into as a result of its unhindered economic growth and military-political position as arbiter of world peace and prosperity. A vast literature has developed in the academic realm and policy circles – particularly within Political Science and the think tank community, respectively – which postulates a notion of ‘American empire’ or ‘American hegemony’ as accidental, incidental, benevolent, reluctant, and desirable.

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