World-News

His interrogators at the notorious camp have used snarling dogs against him. He was also placed in "stress positions," upended and used as a human mop to clean the floor. The U.S. forces were convinced he had thrown a grenade that killed an American soldier.

http://tinyurl.com/9p6bhs


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo

President Bush's senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

http://tinyurl.com/7l7kmj



India's double standards

While India blames Pakistan for inaction after Mumbai's terror attacks, it turns a blind eye to a dangerous terror organisation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/28/india-mumbai-terror-attacks


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tribal+areas
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mumbai

By Shamus Cooke

When capitalism does enter crisis, the political parties subservient to corporate interests evolve accordingly. This is why both the Democrats and Republicans have been veering to the right for decades; it represents the deterioration of American capitalism's global position, which is related to the inability of US corporations to maintain their past rates of profit.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21555.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+interests
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shamus+Cooke

By Stephen Lendman

It worried Thomas Jefferson enough to call banking institutions "more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies" at a much simpler time in our history. The right to create and control money belongs to the people through their elected representatives. For the past 95 years, powerful bankers accountable to no one have had it. They effectively run the country (and own it), and unless We the People change things, we'll continue to be victimized by economic tyranny and the eventual political kind that's coming.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21556.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

America Needs Period of Pain

By ERIC MARGOLIS

Wall Street's big money con men, hedge fund Houdinis, and casino capitalists made a staggering $33.3 US billion in bonuses in 2007 alone by shady financial engineering and hawking fraudulent securities. Yet they have so far escaped prosecution. They get to keep their swag and $30-million South Hampton beach houses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21557.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hedge+fund
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Margolis

Adrianne Appel, Inter Press Service: "Despite hundreds of billions of dollars thrown at banks large and small, the U.S. economy is in a free fall, just weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, analysts say."

http://www.truthout.org/122808C



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=U.S.+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adrianne+Appel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1bjnkOqT8k


Informant: Dorothee Krien

Die Jahrhundertherausforderung Klimawandel und die Wirtschaftskrise können den überfälligen ökologischen Strukturwandel antreiben. DUH-Bilanz zur Jahreswende 2008/2009.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741685059ms134



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wirtschaftskrise

Lieber Horst Köhler: Mut und Zuversicht wozu? Bundespräsident Köhler hat an Weihnachten trotz der Wirtschaftskrise zu „Mut und Zuversicht“ für 2009 aufgerufen. Ist dieser Aufruf berechtigt und begründet?

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741685040ms134



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Horst+Köhler