World-News

Wholesale prices rise in March as food costs jump

Wholesale prices rose more than expected last month as food prices surged by the most in 26 years.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wholesale-prices-rise-in-apf-299827519.html?x=0&.v=4



Financing World Hunger

How the financial markets create hunger and make huge profits.
http://snipurl.com/vpcy0



Rise of the Corporate Court

How the Supreme Court is Putting Businesses First
http://snipurl.com/vpcyj



Feds launch inquiry into Florida GOP credit-card expenses

Federal authorities have begun a probe into Republican Party politicians and officials related to charges totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars on party-issued American Express cards.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/20/1589469/feds-launch-inquiry-into-gop-credit.html



Big Fat Greek Debt: Engdahl on bailout way out

The financially stricken Greek government is beginning talks with the EU and the International Monetary Fund about a possible bailout. Greece has found borrowing from banks too costly recently and is struggling to refinance old debts. Let's get some analysis with economist and author William Engdahl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjx40ObNf3U&feature=player_embedded



Layoff notices sent to thousands of US teachers

Hundreds of thousands of public school teachers across the United States are facing possible layoffs this coming academic year.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/teac-a22.shtml



Food, Inc.

Hungry For Change?

Video Documentary

Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24626.htm



U.S. Food Prices 'Spiraling Out of Control'

U.S. food prices jumped by 2.4 percent in March 2010 in the largest monthly leap in more than 26 years, and the sixth consecutive monthly increase.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7169.5711.0.0



Food-stamp tally nears 40 million, sets record

The Agriculture Department said 39.68 million people, or 1 in 8 Americans, were enrolled for food stamps during February, an increase of 260,000 from January. USDA updated its figures on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6465E220100507



Unemployment rate rises to 9.9%

Some 800,000 workers reentered the job market last month. Many of them did not find jobs, so the unemployment rate increased from 9.7 to 9.9 percent.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2010/05/unemployment_rate_rises_to_99.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=USDA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+market
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greek
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IMF
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suprime+Sourt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=USDA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FDA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=world+hunger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+industry
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+stamp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=layoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Engdahl

In Sangin all you can feel is the intense hatred of people who hate everything you stand for, says photographer David Gill.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/22/afghanistan-british-troops-hatred



Britain faces payout shame as hundreds of detainees claim soldiers abused them

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has already paid millions of pounds to claimants who alleged physical and sexual abuse in detention in southeast Iraq, where British forces were based between 2003 and 2009.

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n218506


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+War+-+Irak+Krieg/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse

By Joe Bageant

I would suggest that in planning for the future, you first spend many days pondering the question: How can I best go about giving up the world as I have known it -- which, after all, is the root of our pain and of our catastrophe -- and serve others every day and in as many ways large and small as possible. In other words, sacrifice. In truth, the sacrifice will not be sacrifice, but liberation, because Americans are buried under so much material s... and petty notions as to entitlement, that shedding such things is a blessing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25295.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=collapse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Bageant

http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber60.1.html

Understanding What the Fed Is Doing to Us
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/pollaro2.1.1.html

--------

Gangster Government becomes a long-running series

National Review
by Michael Barone

04/22/10

Almost a year ago, in a Washington Examiner column on the Chrysler bailout, I reflected on the Obama administration’s decision to force bondholders to accept 33 cents on the dollar on secured debts while giving United Auto Workers retirees 50 cents on the dollar on unsecured debts. This was a clear violation of the ordinary bankruptcy rule that secured creditors are fully paid off before unsecured creditors get anything. The politically connected UAW folk got preference over politically unconnected bondholders. ‘We have just seen an episode of Gangster Government,’ I wrote. ‘It is likely to be a continuing series’...

http://tinyurl.com/34mp8s6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bankrupt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=UAW
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marc+Faber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/faber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/pollaro
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Barone

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lindorff14.1.html

Against Anti-Civilian Sanctions
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul664.html

--------

SANCTIONS ON IRAN IS AN ACT OF WAR
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9549/

--------

Israel Weighs Merits of Solo Attack on Iran

Officials, Seeing Impending Policy Split With U.S., Debate Prospect of a Military Strike Without Washington's Consent.

http://snipurl.com/vpcwu



What will would Iran do with nuclear weapons? Probably nothing

Wouldn't possession of an atomic bomb enable Iran to bully other nations? Nuclear missiles did not do much for the old Soviet Union, even enable it to bully its weak neighbor Afghanistan. Nuclear bombs haven't helped China bully anyone - Beijing still has little credibility in Tibet, despite its fantastic edge in power.

http://blogs.reuters.com/gregg-easterbrook/2010/04/22/what-will-iran-do-with-nuclear-weapons-probably-nothing/



Lies and Wars

By William Pfaff

Once more the threat is a polemical invention, intended to frighten American, Israeli (and European) voters, and prompt a preemptive attack on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25301.htm



Iran a Threat? I Mean, Really?

By Ray McGovern

First, on the chance you missed it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said publicly that Iran "doesn't directly threaten the United States." Her momentary lapse came while answering a question at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, on Feb. 14.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25327.htm



Iran "hardliner" issues Strait of Hormuz warning to U.S.

The head of a hardline Iranian political party warned the United States Tuesday against attacking Iran, saying it could hit back by choking "the West's throat" at a waterway crucial for global oil supplies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042701973.html



What's At Stake in the Issue of Iran

By Noam Chomsky

Iran is perceived as a threat because they did not obey the orders of the United States. Militarily this threat is irrelevant. This country has not behaved aggressively beyond its borders for centuries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25347.htm



Can You Pass The Iran Quiz

By Jeffrey Rudolph

What can possibly justify the relentless U.S. diplomatic (and mainstream media) assault on Iran ?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25358.htm



ElBaradei says sanctions on Iran will fail

In rare interview, former head of UN nuclear agency says sanctions in Iran are likely, but doomed.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/100429/iran-sanctions-mohamed-elbaradei



A Timetable For War

By Philip Giraldi

Relying on a complaisant media that has fully embraced the fabricated narrative of fanatical Mullahs brandishing nuclear weapons shortly before handing them over to al-Qaeda, a majority of Americans now believes that Iran must be dealt with by force and that it already has a nuclear weapon.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25393.htm



John Bolton's North Korea plan: Bomb Iran!

John Bolton, among other neocon psychos, has long been obsessed with the idea that the single biggest mistake the Bush administration ever made was taking North Korea off the "state sponsors of terrorism" list.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/05/25/bolton_iran_north_korea


From Information Clearing House

--------

US Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious possibility if Iran does not bow to the demand that it cease uranium enrichment."

http://www.truthout.org/us-nuclear-option-iran-linked-israeli-attack-threat58840

--------

A realist breakthrough?

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/03/10

When our emissaries return to Washington and report that our support in the region is slipping-to-nonexistent, as the sainted General David Petraeus recently did, the president must act. The US tilt toward Israel is so exaggerated that it is almost a caricature of al-Qaeda’s propaganda, and nowhere is this more glaring than in the realm of nuclear brinkmanship. The US has no leverage, and no standing, to push for the preemptive dismantling of a nonexistent Iranian Manhattan Project, when it follows Israel’s lead in never even referring to their nuclear arsenal. The one Obama administration official who did mention it was viciously attacked, and hasn’t said boo about it since, but — unless you’re under the age of three — pretending something doesn’t exist won’t make it go away...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/05/02/a-realist-breakthrough/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Bolton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ElBaradei
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+North+Korea+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Strait+of+Hormuz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+drum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preemptive+attack
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sanction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/lindorff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Pfaff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chomsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeffrey+Rudolph
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Giraldi

By Joshua Kors

According to figures from the Pentagon and a Harvard University study, the military is saving billions by discharging soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan with personality disorder.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25293.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+War+-+Irak+Krieg/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pentagon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=personality+disorder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Kors

By Prof SHAD SALEEM FARUDI

Blair repeatedly and deliberately deceived the UN, his allies and his own people that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction that could be rained on anyone within 45 minutes. In deceit and conspiracy, he incited passions for an illegal war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25290.htm

--------

Tony Blair, Very Close to being Indicted for War Crimes
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18838


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tony+Blair
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weapons+of+mass+destruction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chossudovsky

Confessions of a Former Oil Industry Consultant

Christine Shearer, Truthout: "Jeremy Leggett has undergone quite a few large career changes, from oil industry consultant to Greenpeace scientist to solar power entrepreneur. A geologist by training, he worked with the oil industry until his studies brought him face-to-face with the growing evidence of climate change. In an industry refusing to change, Leggett went to work for Greenpeace and was part of the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) talks up to the non-binding, international climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol."

http://www.truthout.org/confessions-a-former-oil-industry-consultant58803



From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Change Activist

Paul Rogat Loeb, Truthout: "When we try to engage people politically, we never know who will respond or when someone will shift from reveling in their apathy to taking powerful public stands. With Earth Day coming up, here's a striking example of one such transformation."

http://www.truthout.org/paul-rogat-loeb-soul-of-a-citizen-excerpt-from-drunken-party-girl-to-climate-change-activist5863



The Good News About the Very Bad News (About Climate Change)

Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com: "These days, I see how optimistic and positive disaster and apocalypse movies were. Remember how, when those giant asteroids or alien space ships headed directly for Earth, everyone rallied and acted as one while our leaders led? We're in a movie like that now, except that there's not a lot of rallying or much leading above the grassroots level."

http://www.truthout.org/rebecca-solnit-350-degrees-inseparability-the-good-news-about-very-bad-news-about-climate-change5878



Earth Day Greenwashing From the World's Worst Polluter

Mickey Z, Truthout: "On Earth Day 2010 (April 22), the US Navy is going to stage a demonstration of its F/A-18 Super Hornet (a.k.a. the Green Hornet), powered by a 50/50 biofuel blend (made from the Camelina sativa plant). Before you attempt processing that nugget, I've got something else you may want to factor in: The USS Makin Island, the 'world's first hybrid fuel warship.'"

http://www.truthout.org/earth-day-greenwashing-from-worlds-worst-polluter58778

--------

WPCCC: Mother Earth Needs Seat at Future Climate Talks
http://act.commondreams.org/go/334?akid=32.124981.xGNgoq&t=2

Greenpeace: Industry Lobbyists Succeeding in 'Hijacking' Climate Bill
http://act.commondreams.org/go/335?akid=32.124981.xGNgoq&t=5

Greenpeace Statement on Pending Climate Bill
http://act.commondreams.org/go/350?akid=32.124981.xGNgoq&t=36

A New Climate Movement in Bolivia
http://act.commondreams.org/go/342?akid=32.124981.xGNgoq&t=20

The Open Veins of Climate Change
http://act.commondreams.org/go/344?akid=32.124981.xGNgoq&t=24



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Climate+Change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kyoto+Protocol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbyists
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christine+Shearer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Rogat+Loeb
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rebecca+Solnit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mickey+Z
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Klein

„Seit langem erhebt der DGB einen unerbittlichen Vorwurf gegen den Christlichen Gewerkschaftsbund, dieser sei nicht kampffähig, um ordentliche Tarifverträge abzuschliessen. Dies trifft tatsächlich zu. Sowohl das Arbeitsgericht Berlin als auch das Landesarbeitsgericht Berlin sprachen dem Christlichen Gewerkschaftsbund wegen fehlender Mitglieder und Durchsetzungsstärke die Tariffähigkeit ab. Die DGB Gewerkschaften bezichtigen den Christlichen Gewerkschaftsbund fortwährend Dumpingabschlüsse zum Wohle der Unternehmen zu vereinbaren. Im Februar und März 2010 schlossen sowohl der Christliche Gewerkschaftsbund, als auch die Tarifgemeinschaft des DGB ( IG Metall, ver.di u.a.) für das Zeitarbeitsgewerbe, jeweils mit ihrem Verhandlungspartner einen neuen Tarifvertrag zum 1. Juli 2010 ab. Die unterste Lohngruppe- West beträgt bei beiden Abschlüssen 7,60 Euro brutto. Der „mächtige“ DGB und die in der Zeitarbeit fast mitgliederlosen Christengewerkschaften kommen zu dem gleichen erbärmlichen Niedriglohn, der den Beschäftigten die Gewissheit gibt – aufstockende Hartz IV Leistungen sind möglich. Angesichts der minimalen Unterschiede in den Eingruppierungen dürfte der Vorwurf; Löhne auf Armutsniveau vereinbart zu haben, sowohl auf den Christlichen Gewerkschaftsbund als auch auf den DGB zutreffen…“ Bewertung von Herbert Thomsen (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/psa/bzadgb2010c.pdf


Widerstand gegen Sklavenhandel

28. April - Anti-Leiharbeit

Am 28. April laden kölner Leiharbeitsfirmen und die ARGE Köln zu den “Markttage Zeitarbeit - eine Chance für sie!” in die ARGE Mitte ein. Wo materielles Elend und die Erpressungen durch die ARGE den repressiven Zwang zum Verkauf der Arbeitskraft bestimmen, gilt es die Chancen auf Widerstand zu nutzen und die Leiharbeitsmesse zum Desaster werden zu lassen! 28. April - 8:30 - Eingang ARGE Mitte (Luxemburgerstr 121) – Köln. Siehe den Aufruf http://www.soziale-unruhen.net/index.php?id=15


Stoppt Lohndumping in der Zeitarbeit!

„Wir fordern, gleichen Lohn für gleiche Arbeit, für die in der Zeitarbeit Beschäftigten. die DGB-Gewerkschaften auf, die Initiative für ein Europäisches Bürgerbegehren zu ergreifen.“ Liste zur Unterschriftensammlung gegen Lohndumping in der Zeitarbeit. Mit diesen Unterschriften werden die DGB-Gewerkschaften bewegt, das EU-Bürgerbegehren zu unterstützen, damit Deutschland durch die EU dazu gezwungen wird, die Ungleichbehandlung der Beschäftigten in der Zeitarbeit zu beenden. Eine Initiative des Zeitarbeitstreffs München (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/psa/stopptlohndump.pdf


„Remember the Dead – Fight for the Living!”. Aufruf zum Workers Memorial Day in Berlin am 28. April

„Tode – Verstümmelungen – Krankheiten – Vergiftungen – Burnouts – Psychosen – Suizide… Kapitalismus tötet und zerrüttet jährlich die Existenz von Dutzenden Millionen Menschen. Durch Lohnarbeit werden mehr Menschen getötet und verletzt als in Kriegen. Die Zahlen sprechen eine deutliche Sprache: Alle 15 Sekunden stirbt ein Mensch durch einen Arbeitsunfall (über zwei Millionen im Jahr); über 250 Millionen Menschen erleiden Verletzungen bei der Arbeit; über 150 Millionen entwickeln Berufskrankheiten, fast eine halbe Million wird tödlich vergiftet; die Fälle von Burnout, psychischen Krankheiten und Suiziden aufgrund von Lohnarbeit schießen in die Höhe. Allein in Deutschland sterben drei bis vier Menschen täglich, auf der Arbeit, auf dem Weg dorthin oder an den Spätfolgen von ihr. Täglich ereignen sich hierzulande tausende Arbeitsunfälle…“ Der Aufruf der FAU http://www.fau.org/artikel/art_100417-105724


1. Mai 2010

Gute Arbeit. Gerechte Löhne. Starker Sozialstaat.

„Der Tag der Arbeit 2010 steht immer noch im Zeichen der Krise. Die Beschäftigten bangen um ihren Arbeitsplatz und fürchten sozialen Abstieg. Wir setzen uns für ArbeitnehmerInnen und sozial Schwache ein - für einen starken Sozialstaat…“ DGB-Aufruf zum 1. Mai 2010 http://www.dgb.de/themen/++co++e73d5ace-1afc-11df-7665-00093d10fae2/@@index.html


Aus: LabourNet, 22. April 2010

--------

29. April 2010

Gegen Hungerlöhne und Leiharbeit

Zur Situation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt im Monat April erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Alles andere als "Eitel Sonnenschein" stellt sich die Situation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt im April dar. 3,406 Millionen Menschen waren im vergangenen Monat offiziell ohne Arbeit. Diese Zahl verschleiert beeindruckend die wirkliche Situation. Mit statistischen Taschenspielertricks wird geschönt, was die Mathematik hergibt. DIE LINKE hat auch in diesem Monat nachgerechnet: Die reale Zahl liegt mit 4,618 Millionen deutlich höher, und dahinter verbergen sich Schicksale von Millionen Familien. Niemand darf sich an eine Arbeitslosenzahl von über 3 Millionen gewöhnen. Die Arbeitslosenquote ist mit 12,7 Prozent in den neuen Ländern nach wie vor fast doppelt so hoch wie im Westen des Landes. Das ist inakzeptabel und muss die Politik herausfordern. Es ist ein gesellschaftlicher Skandal, dass die Bundesregierung nichts zu Wege bringt, sich allein in der Hoffnung auf gutes Wetter ergeht und auf saisonale Erholung setzt. Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen – Fehlanzeige. Im Interesse der Menschen brauchen wir dringend existenzsichernde, sozialversicherungspflichtige Arbeitsplätze. Stattdessen entstehen zunehmend mehr prekäre, niedrig bezahlte Beschäftigungsverhältnisse, die vor allem Frauen und jungen Menschen keine Perspektiven Erwerbsleben bieten. DIE LINKE fordert einen flächendeckenden gesetzliche Mindestlohn und öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung, wie in Berlin und Brandenburg. DIE LINKE wird am 1. Mai ihre Positionen auf vielen Veranstaltungen, zusammen mit Sozialverbänden und Gewerkschaften deutlich machen und gegen Hungerlöhne und ausufernde Leiharbeit protestieren.

Link: Tatsächliche Arbeitslosigkeit

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/gegen-hungerloehne-und-leiharbeit/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zeitarbeit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leiharbeit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lohndumping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mindestlohn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Niedriglohn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hungerlohn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armutslohn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armut
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sklavenhandel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kapitalismus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sozialstaat

„Am Donnerstag wird Bundeskanzlerin zum dritten Mal eine Regierungserklärung zum Afghanistaneinsatz abgeben. Wir möchten ihr einige Formulierungshilfen mit auf den Weg geben. Übernahmen erwünscht…“ Artikel von Klaus Naumann in der FR vom 21.04.2010 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2567605_Bundeswehr-in-Afghanistan-Die-Kanzlerin-erklaert-den-Krieg.html


Demokratie "nicht prioritär"

„Angesichts zunehmender Gefechtsverluste in Afghanistan soll Berlin die Verschmelzung von "Entwicklungshilfe" und Aufstandsbekämpfung rasch vorantreiben. Dies empfiehlt eine aktuelle Studie des Sonderforschungsbereichs 700 der Feien Universität Berlin, die vom Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung in Auftrag gegeben wurde. Die Untersuchung schließt an tradierte Modelle der Anti-Guerilla-Kriegführung an, wie sie unter anderem von Frankreich während seines Kampfes gegen die algerische Unabhängigkeitsbewegung entwickelt wurden. Danach sind ausländische Interventionstruppen zur Sicherung ihrer Herrschaft auf die enge Kooperation mit lokalen Eliten und Warlords angewiesen - selbst wenn diese wie in Afghanistan von der einheimischen Bevölkerung als Bedrohung wahrgenommen werden. Das von der westlichen Propaganda zur Legitimation des Afghanistan-Krieges immer wieder angeführte Argument, man strebe eine Demokratisierung der afghanischen Gesellschaft an, wird ausdrücklich suspendiert….“ Redaktioneller Bericht von german-foreign-policy vom 21.04.2010 http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/57790


Georg Schramm über die Situation in Afghanistan

Beitrag von Georg Schramm in "Neues aus der Anstalt" vom 13.04.2010 bei youtube. Zitat: “Ein sterbenswerter Sinn für das, was wir in Afghanistan tun, ist nicht mehr erkennbar” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YUDvAnoM7I


Mädels ins Militär

Der heutige »Girls’ Day« soll jungen Mädchen einen Einblick in Männerberufe ermöglichen. Die Bundeswehr nutzt dies aus zur Nachwuchsrekrutierung. Artikel von Michael Schulze von Glaßer in junge Welt vom 22.04.2010 http://www.jungewelt.de/2010/04-22/004.php


Aus: LabourNet, 22. April 2010

--------

Keine Fahnenflucht im Bundestag

Für die Bundeskanzlerin wird Deutschland weiterhin am Hindukusch verteidigt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32500/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hindukusch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bundeswehr
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Militarisierung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Merkel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/d3d21495b755e7d2?hl=de

Drug Dealers Response Sparked NHS Swine Flu Chaos
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews?hl=de

Study Launched To Find Harmful Effects of Swine Flu Vaccine
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/2ef72eae80200133?hl=de



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H1N1
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccin

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/22/monsanto-under-investigation-by-seven-us-states.aspx



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9547/

--------

The United States and self-fulfilling prophecies

Nolan Chart
by Michael Maier

04/21/10

About ten years ago, I talked with some of my friends and family and predicted that within the next five to ten years this country would have its Second Civil War or Second Revolutionary War. I have, very much thankfully, been wrong so far. I would rather this never happen, but if the American People cannot put a stop to the government that is spending money like its going out of style and that government manages to stop those who are simply speaking their minds, the violence that the media is talking about could actually happen. And this would be very, very bad for the United States. Free, law abiding citizens don’t appreciate having their rights taken away piece by piece...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7636.html



An evil monstrosity: Thoughts on the death state

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

04/20/10

I repeat the fundamental point to make certain there is no misunderstanding as to where I stand on this question: as a political entity, the United States is an endlessly destructive monstrosity. The overwhelming majority of people — including I, regret to say, even many of those who are severely critical of the United States government — fail to understand this point in anything close to the thorough and consistent manner required. This failure is the result of an earlier one: an inability to grasp fully what it means to revere the sacred value of a single human life...

http://tinyurl.com/2ds68u9



The curse of spending

Campaign For Liberty
by Jonathan Bydlak

04/24/10

You know, there’s a Chinese proverb that says that there are three curses, each one worse than the previous. The first of these curses is: ‘May you live in interesting times.’ Well, the times we live in are certainly interesting. We stand here today at a transformative moment in American history — at the front lines of what can only be called a revolution in thought...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=797


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spending+money
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arthur+Silber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Bydlak

The Nation
by Aram Roston

04/21/10

In Napoleon Bonaparte’s day an army may have marched on its belly, as the French emperor famously quipped, but the modern-day American military campaign in Afghanistan needs not just food but also fuel. Diesel for the MRAPs and Humvees, aviation fuel for the planes and helicopters — that’s the fodder for the military surge under way in Afghanistan. Fuel is precious there — they call it liquid gold — and the effort to keep it flowing has created an array of bizarre monopolies, strange alliances and allegations of corruption entangling the US government. This is the story of two interlinked and secretive offshore companies run by a former Army intelligence officer. The firms run a specialized monopoly of massive proportions...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100510/roston


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aram+Roston

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

04/21/10

Commentators are debating whether the Justice Department will be able to prove its civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs. Unfortunately, they’re missing the point. The Justice Department didn’t bring its suit with the aim of proving that the company committed fraud. It brought its suit to get a massive amount of money for the federal government in a pretrial settlement of the case...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-04-21.asp



Goldman PAC hikes lawmaker donations

Bloomberg News

04/22/10

Employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which is facing a fraud suit by the Securities and Exchange Commission, gave more money to congressional candidates last month than in the previous 14 months combined. Goldman’s political action committee contributed $290,500 in March, compared with $209,500 between Jan. 1, 2009, and Feb. 28, 2010, according to Federal Election Commission reports. Donations included $15,000 apiece to Republican House and Senate fund-raising committees, and contributions to lawmakers from both parties and their leadership political action committees. Melissa Daly, a spokeswoman for the New York company, declined to comment...

http://tinyurl.com/2uwzuc4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Goldman's White House Connections Raise Eyebrows
http://act.commondreams.org/go/317?akid=31.124981.droUBq&t=5



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Securities+and+Exchange+Commission
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Goldman+Sachs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Gordon

Longview News-Journal

04/21/10

An Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding an attack that killed four American contractors testified Wednesday at a court-martial of a Navy SEAL that he was beaten by U.S. troops while hooded and tied to a chair. But defense witnesses for Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas on the trial’s opening day cast strong doubt on the testimony by the terror suspect and that of a fellow sailor who claimed he saw the assault...

http://tinyurl.com/26xxw4k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Navy+SEAL
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect

Vor allem auf der Seiten der Rechten und Konservativen nimmt auch der Ärger gegenüber Regierung und Kongress zu und damit eine gefährlich antistaatliche Haltung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32477/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama

Die Klage der SEC gegen Goldman Sachs dürfte eine Welle an Schadenersatzklagen auslösen und könnte dafür sorgen, dass sich der US-Kongress zu harten Regulierungsmaßnahmen durchringt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32487/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Investmentbank
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hedge+Fond
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Goldman+Sachs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Securities+and+Exchange+Commission

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j89.1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Rogers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/rogers-j

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2010/04/22/146-peter-schiff-how-an-economy-grows-and-why-it-crashes/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Schiff

One in 5 Californians is out of work. Over three quarters of a million have lost their homes. Desperately needed social services have been cut to the bone. Yet residents of our state continue to pay for a senseless war in Afghanistan.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=614298613599


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=social+service

In 34 out of the 47 cases that have been decided so far -- over 70 percent -- detainees have won judgments that the United States is subjecting them to indefinite detention as al-Qaida or Taliban enemies without proof and that they must be released.

http://onthehillblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/as-gitmo-detainees-legal-victories.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=indefinite+detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban

By Moshe Adler

Poor people are charged higher interest rates than rich people when they purchase homes, and this is perfectly legal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25288.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interest+rates
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moshe+Adler

Video

From Napoleon to Nagasaki, The Road to Total War charts how the social, economic and technological developments of the last two hundred years have made warfare so efficient that it can now destroy us all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25289.htm



Polanski's Ghost Writer

A film review

By Gilad Atzmon

The film tackles the most devastating chapter in recent history, the transformation of Anglo American liberal democracy into a lethal killing machine, fueled by pathos and righteousness, a chapter British society is not yet mature enough to deal with.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25285.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nagasaki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gilad+Atzmon

American Kleptocracy: How Fears of Socialism and Fascism Hide Naked Theft

William J. Astore, TomDispatch.com: "Kleptocracy - now, there's a word I was taught to associate with corrupt and exploitative governments that steal ruthlessly and relentlessly from the people. It's a word, in fact, that's usually applied to flawed or failed governments in Africa, Latin America or the nether regions of Asia."

http://www.truthout.org/american-kleptocracy-how-fears-socialism-and-fascism-hide-naked-theft58746



Is America Yearning for Fascism

An Interview With Chris Hedges

The similarities between the former Bush Administration and those of a fascist government were overwhelming. And when a recent billboard popped up with a photo of W and the caption Miss Me Yet? it has to make you wonder whether or not Americans actually prefer a fascist form of government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25515.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=socialism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+J.+Astore
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges