World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/08/5702/



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/08/5701/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/08/5698/



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

Lawyers for a terrorism suspect from suburban Baltimore who's imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba claim they have evidence that their client "was subjected to a program of state-sanctioned torture" while he was in CIA custody.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/395685.html



Congress Wants Probe of Torture Tape Destruction

McCain, a presidential candidate, said while campaigning in New Hampshire on Friday that he would not side with Democrats' calls for an investigation because he believed the CIA's actions were legal.

http://snipurl.com/1v07d



Some in Congress knew of CIA torture methods

The bipartisan group, which included future-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004061384_tapes09.html



Pelosi did not object to waterboarding in 2002

"Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill," the Post added. "But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said."

http://snipurl.com/1v07e


From Information Clearing House

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Democratic Complicity in Bush's Torture Regimen
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/09/5720

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Man Held by CIA Says He Was Tortured

William Glaberson, The New York Times, says, "The first of the so-called high-value Guantánamo detainees to have seen a lawyer claims he was subjected to 'state-sanctioned torture' while in secret CIA prisons, and he has asked for a court order barring the government from destroying evidence of his treatment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120907C.shtml

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Pelosi and Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/10/5738/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prisons
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Major crude producer Iran has completely stopped carrying out its oil transactions in dollars, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday, labelling the greenback an "unreliable" currency.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGC7KSKjsKYUTGAF1oR04-yOpBgg



Bolton says US intel report on Iran was political

Bolton described the NIE, released Monday, as a "quasi-putsch" by the agencies, Der Spiegel said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22161437/


From Information Clearing House



Now Is The Time For Serious Diplomacy On Iran

The consequences of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities which has been advocated by many are too hazardous to even contemplate seriously.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18855.htm



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

U.S. House of Representatives Democratic leaders are contemplating legislation that would give President George W. Bush $70 billion in new funds for war but without any timetables for withdrawing troops from Iraq.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08354832.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Peter Chamberlin

We risk blowing the world apart, to avoid watching America slowly choke on its own excesses. - The government has known for decades that America is on a countdown to self-destruction. Among the elite it is common knowledge that our "global economy" must one day collapse from its own dead weight.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18857.htm

By Ed Ciaccio

"Every 10 minutes an Iraqi civilian is injured or killed in a war that George Bush says will not end until he leaves office. Every 10 hours an American soldier is killed in a war that George Bush says will not end until he leaves office. Every 10 days $2 billion is removed from the U.S. Treasury and placed in the accounts of Halliburton, Blackwater and all other war profiteers that are getting rich off the misery of Iraqis and Americans"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18856.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Halliburton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+profiteers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ed+Ciaccio

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/09/water.climatechange


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/228.html

Sebastian Abbot, writing for The Associated Press, reports: "Gulf Arab countries challenged Defense Secretary Robert Gates on American policies toward Iran and Israel Saturday, after he urged them to force Tehran to stop uranium enrichment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120907Z.shtml



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http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2007/30.htm

impf-report Archiv
http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/index.php

Zum heutigen weltweiten Klima-Aktionstag werden sicherlich viele Menschen um 20 Uhr für fünf Minuten das Licht ausschalten wie es Greenpeace und andere Umweltverbände vorschlagen. Die Aktion ist sicher gut gemeint. Aber sie allein bringt nur wenig. Symbolik reicht nicht für effektiven Klimaschutz.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682694ms77



Was jede und jeder tun kann!

Wenn viele Bundesbürger mitmachen, kann die Bundesregierung ihr Klimaschutzziel erreichen und bis zum Jahr 2020 –gemessen an 1990 – 40% Treibhausgase einsparen. Sich daran zu beteiligen, macht Lust auf Zukunft. Unsere Enkel werden uns einmal fragen, warum wir so wenig getan haben, obwohl wir doch soviel wussten.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682700ms77



Klimaerwärmung: Tropen weiten sich aus

Die tropischen Regionen weiten sich jüngsten Studien zufolge immer weiter aus. Nahrungsmittelsicherheit nicht gewährleistet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682709ms77



Klimaschutz: Mogelpackung der Bundesregierung

"Das Klimapaket der Bundesregierung war ursprünglich gut gemeint, wird aber seinem Anspruch nicht gerecht."

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682718ms77



Klimawandel: 600 Millionen Menschen von Unterernährung bedroht

600 Millionen Menschen sind durch den Klimawandel von Unterernährung bedroht. So heißt es in einer neuen Studie der UN-Entwicklungsorganisation UNDP, welche die Folgen des Klimawandels untersucht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682728ms77



„Der Spiegel“ verbreitet Legenden vom harmlosen Atom

Mit der Veröffentlichung des Artikels „Legenden vom bösen Atom“ von Matthias Schulz in „Der Spiegel“ vom 19. November 2007 betätigt sich das in Hamburg produzierte Nachrichtenmagazin unkommentiert als Verbreiter von Legenden vom angeblich harmlosen Atom. Kommentar von Dr. Sebastian Pflugbeil, Präsident der Gesellschaft für Strahlenschutz e.V..

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682695ms77



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

Wer soll diesem Präsidenten noch vertrauen? Zuerst hat George W. Bush die ganze Welt belogen, um im Irak seinen Krieg um Öl führen zu können. Heute wissen alle, dass kein einziger US-Soldat im Irak wäre, wenn dort nur Bananen wachsen würden. Doch der Krieg um Öl hat bisher mehr als 200.000 Menschen das Leben gekostet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682693ms77

Jonathan Weisman and Paul Kane of The Washington Post report: "House Democratic leaders could complete work as soon as Monday on a half-trillion-dollar spending package that will include billions of dollars for the war effort in Iraq without the timelines for the withdrawal of combat forces that President Bush has refused to accept, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said yesterday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120807A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal
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Der weltgrößte Treibhausgasemittent bewegt sich einfach nicht von der Stelle.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26788/1.html

Wolfgang Kaleck über das Völkerrecht, die Legitimierung der Folter und die Möglichkeit, Menschenrechtsverletzer zur Verantwortung zu ziehen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26782/1.html



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Leslie Eaton, The New York Times, "At least 46,600 children along the Gulf Coast are still struggling with mental health problems and other serious aftereffects of 2005 hurricanes, according to a new study by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the Children's Health Fund."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120707HB.shtml

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/219.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

The Age, AU: "Vast tracts of tropical rainforests will be protected under a declaration signed last night by the governor of Brazil's Amazonas state and his counterparts from the Indonesian provinces of Aceh, Papua and West Papua."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120707EB.shtml



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

Daniel Howden, The Independent UK, "Foreign policy makers are waking up to the impact of climate change on conflict zones worldwide, and will add their voice to those calling on governments at the UN conference in Bali to act urgently."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120707EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Howden

"Legislation such as this demands heavy-handed governmental action against American citizens where no crime has been committed. It is yet another attack on our Constitutionally-protected civil liberties. It is my sincere hope that we will reject such approaches to security, which will fail at their stated goal at a great cost to our way of life."

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2007/cr120507h.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homegrown+terrorism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed a call by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for further U.N. sanctions on Iran concerning its ambitious nuclear program.

http://snipurl.com/1uxt1


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sanctions+Iran
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lavrov
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Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital commercial waterway, are the greatest concern for Naval security in the region, a senior U.S. Naval said Friday.

http://tinyurl.com/2kz77v


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hormuz

"Are you telling me a president who's briefed every single morning, who's fixated on Iran, is not told back in August that the tentative conclusion of 16 intelligence agencies in the United States government said they had abandoned their effort for a nuclear weapon in '03?" asked Senator Joseph Biden.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usirannuclearpolitics



White House Quietly Admits Bush Lied About When He Learned That Iran Had Suspended Its Nuclear Program

Admission Was Reported by ABC News But Has Largely Been Ignored by Corporate Media.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5409


From Information Clearing House



When Is Bush Going to Come Clean?

By Paul Craig Roberts

Members of the right-wing Israeli government have denounced the NIE finding as contrary to Israel's interests. Former Bush regime official John Bolton accused America's intelligence agencies with conspiring to discredit President Bush with politicized intelligence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18854.htm



NIEs: Waste of Time?

By Cindy Sheehan

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims that BushCo has known at the highest levels about this intelligence for over a year, but they have all been beating their evil drums of war against Iran, nevertheless.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18858.htm

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Final Disgrace for Bush & Co.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/09/5722/



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U.S. State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, under scrutiny for his brother's link to the Blackwater security firm, has decided to resign, U.S. officials said on Friday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07324527.htm



War Is A Racket

Major General. Smedley Butler served his country for 34 years, yet he spoke against American armed intervention into the affairs of sovereign nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Democrats controlling Congress sent the most explicit signals yet on Thursday that they are resigned to providing additional funding for the war in Iraq before Congress adjourns for the year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22146002/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+funding

A video that describes what the situation is really like in Iraq.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18852.htm

By Mike Whitney

A nation's economy is a reflection pool. The face that looks back from the water; is the face of the culture and the prevailing ethos. It's no different with America. The stewards of the US economic system-Paulson and Bernanke-are inextricably linked to a political/military establishment which has been thoroughly marinated in a culture of violence and corruption.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18850.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine and UN weapons inspector, discusses the new Iran NIE, his admiration for Ron Paul and the need of the American people to destroy the careers of their warmonger representatives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18851.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warmonger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter
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http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1207-07.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/07/5692/

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Piano Wire Puppeteers

By Sean Penn

Didn't Senator Clinton just vote in essence to give President Bush the power to bomb Iran? If he had done it last week, would that have made her right? I mean, if she knew then what she knows now? Or am I getting that backward?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18848.htm



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dennis+Kucinich
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sean+Penn

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/07/5697/

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War with Iran may be unavoidable: Israeli ambassador

"At the current rate of progress Iran will reach the technical threshold for producing fissile material by 2009," he told the British newspaper. "This is a global threat and it requires a global response. It should be made clear that if Iran does not co-operate then military confrontation is inevitable. It is either co-operation or confrontation."

http://snipurl.com/1v2j6



US, Israel collude against Iran

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen met his Israeli counterpart Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi and War Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv on Monday, Israeli sources said.

http://snipurl.com/1v2j7


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

by Deanna Spingola

Much has been written about America's war in Viet Nam, another small, distant, non-threatening, resource-rich third world country. Despite devised government justifications, war is always about power and resources. Contrived circumstances provoke popular support; history is super sanitized in government-school text books. America's Middle East quagmire is not about terminating terrorism and the Viet Nam war was not about checking communism....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna81.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=power+elite
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=The+Power+Elite+Playbook
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Spingola

December 5, 2007

(Bayville, N.Y) – In the wake of one village’s decision to protect its residents from the threat of cancer caused by cell towers, residents of the Village of Bayville want to know why their government insists on keeping them under this grave threat.

Read More...
http://www.newsli.com/2007/12/05/long-island-residents-cell-towers-act-like-other-villages/


Informant: Martin Weatherall

http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=115777
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18847.htm

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Keith Olbermann: "Neocon Job"

Keith Olbermann on MSNBC Countdown comments about the president's "cataclysmic deception about Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120807Z.shtml



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