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ACLU: First Unconstitutional Military Commission Trial Ends in Conviction
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0806-01.htm

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Guantanamo Detainee Files First Petition Against U.S. Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0806-15.htm

The Hamdan War Crimes Trial: An Illusion of Justice
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/07/10850/

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Doubt cast on U.S. version of terror suspect's arrest

As U.S. authorities took a purported al Qaida operative to court on attempted murder and assault charges Tuesday in New York, her family, the Afghan police and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan cast doubts on the accuracy of the American story.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/46535.html


From Information Clearing House

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US Military Jury Finds Hamdan Guilty on One Terrorism Charge

Agence France-Presse: "Military jurors found Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, not guilty Wednesday on terrorist conspiracy charges, but convicted him on the lesser charge of providing material support to terrorism. The split verdict marked a dramatic conclusion of the first trial before the special tribunals created by President George W. Bush to try suspects in the 'war on terror.'"


http://www.truthout.org/article/us-military-jury-finds-hamdan-guilty-one-terrorism-charge

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Verdict is in on Bush style justice

Toronto Star [Canada]
by Haroon Siddiqui

08/07/08

Osama bin Laden’s driver Salim Hamdan was convicted at Guantanamo Bay yesterday — in his second trial at the hands of the Bush administration. Had his first in 2004 not been interrupted by a successful appeal to the Supreme Court, he would have been acquitted. For what he has been found guilty of — providing material support to terrorism — was not then under the jurisdiction of the military tribunal that has sentenced him. Such is justice under George W. Bush. Such is the justice that awaits Omar Khadr and 80 others to be tried by the special military tribunals at Guantanamo. More than the detainees, though, it is the Bush administration that’s on trial. Thus the United States is on trial. There, the verdict is already in: Guilty. Guilty of torturing detainees. Guilty of obtaining evidence from torture. Guilty of introducing hearsay evidence in trials. Guilty of hiding evidence from the detainees...

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/473532



“Justice” in the Hamdan case

Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille

08/07/08

Whatever the justice of the verdict in the case against Osama bin Laden driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan — and the split decision seems at least defensible — the process by which that verdict was reached was fundamentally flawed. It’s impossible to place much faith in the result of a legal proceeding which stacked the deck in favor of the prosecution, violated fundamental American rules of due process, and in which the outcome was essentially preordained. One problem is that the sentence came first, with the trial to follow. Early on, the Bush administration labeled Hamdan an ‘enemy combatant’ and ordered him held indefinitely. So even a total acquittal would have been nothing more than a conversational topic for Hamdan to toss around during the course of an arbitrary sentence that could extend for the duration of his life...

http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/08/justice-in-hamdan-case.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Human Rights First Calls for the US Government to Respect the Limits of the Hamdan Sentence
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0807-18.htm



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Alexandra Spieldoch, Foreign Policy In Focus: "In July, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy organized a mini-Ministerial to complete the Doha Development Round, and couched it as a necessary means to address the food crisis. Not surprisingly, negotiations collapsed over ongoing disagreements about whether WTO members have the right to protect their food security and 'livelihoods' (jobs) from import surges. The failed talks signal a growing understanding that trade liberalization has destabilized local food systems and hurt farmers, contributing to both the long-term and short-causes of today’s food crisis. This marks a shift from the earlier globalization debates and deserves our attention."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-food-crisis-and-global-institutions



America Out of Economic Ammunition

Writing for France's premier business newspaper, Les Echos, Jean-Marc Vittori paints a bleak picture of the lack of economic policy options that will be available to the next US president.

http://www.truthout.org/article/america-out-economic-ammunition



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Greg Gordon, for McClatchy Newspapers: "Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman. Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling."

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ISIS Press Release 06/08/08

Pro-GM brigade at large in the food and fuel crisis

The pro-GM brigade has been losing no time in exploiting the current global food and fuel crisis and the high price of animal feed to promote GM as the solution in the mainstream media. An offensive was launched on the European Union (EU) to relax its policy on GM imports and cultivation. At present only one GM crop, a GM maize, is approved for cultivation in Europe. The European Commission department of agriculture has joined forces with the biotech industry and the animal feed industry in claiming that it is the EU’s GM policy that is harming Europe’s livestock industry.

Leading the charge of the pro-GM brigade in Europe is Britain, in its role as chief ally of the largest GM exporter the United States. The UK Independent reported that [1], “Ministers are preparing to open the way for genetically modified crops to be grown in Britain on the grounds that they could help combat the global food crisis.” The main source quoted in the article is environment minister Phil Woolas. The night before promoting the GM agenda, the article said, Woolas held talks with the Agricultural Biotechnology Council, a biotech industry PR group representing Monsanto, Bayer, BASF, Dow, Pioneer (DuPont), and Syngenta. This industry lobby group is run by Lexington Communications, a PR agency intimately connected to the New Labour government [2]. The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has fallen in line, calling on the EU to relax its rules on importing GM animal feed in order to cut spiralling food prices [3]. In addition, a new report by the UK Cabinet Office on the food and feed crises focuses almost exclusively on the role of the EU's GMO regulations in creating delays for GM feed crop approvals [4].

Critics say that such scaremongering is a cynical attempt to force the EU to drop its “zero tolerance” approach to GM and GM-contaminated imports. Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said at UK's National Farmers Union (NFU) conference [5], "I think the debate about higher prices and being able to meet the demand of people in the world for food is a perfect opportunity to make the case [for GMO crops]... We may have a window of opportunity here and I would encourage you to exploit that."

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Agence France-Presse reports: "The mayor of Hiroshima on Wednesday urged the next US president to work to abolish atomic weapons as the city marked the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack. Some 45,000 people, including Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, gathered at a memorial to the dead within sight of the A-bomb dome, a former exhibition hall burned to a skeleton by the bomb's incinerating heat. They stood up and offered silent prayers at 8:15 am, the exact moment in 1945 when a single US bomb instantly killed more than 140,000 people and fatally injured tens of thousands of others with radiation or horrific burns. Delivering a speech at the memorial, Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba noted the United States was one of only three countries which oppose a UN resolution submitted by Japan calling for the abolition of nuclear arms."

http://www.truthout.org/article/hiroshima-marks-bomb-anniversary-with-hope-us-change

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Hiroshima: a wake-up call to our neglected conscience

63 years ago, for the first time in the history of mankind, US military dropped a nuclear bomb. Its target on August 6th at 8.15 am was the city of Hiroshima in South Japan. Only three days later, the second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and 73,000 a short time later in Nagasaki.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684129ms113

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The Lies of Hiroshima Live On, Props in the War Crimes of the 20th Century
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/06/10835/

Hiroshima, Ninevah, and Los Alamos
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/06/10829/

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Targeting civilians: The Path to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

CounterPunch
by Kevin Young

08/10/08

How did the sort of logic that condoned the targeting of civilian populations prevail over the countervailing moral norms codified in international law in previous decades? As historians have pointed out, the development of the military tactic of ‘area bombing’ early in the war was a crucial stepping stone to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Area bombing refers to the aerial use of explosive and/or incendiary bombs against entire geographic areas, usually cities, rather than against conventional military targets. The logic of area bombing expands the definition of ‘military’ to include industries, residential areas, and even the working population of laborers involved in economic production...

http://counterpunch.org/young08092008.html


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How the surge has energized McCain.
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By Nigel Baudains

A TEMPORARY mobile phone mast in a field opposite Fort Grey is not needed, according to people living nearby.

The Airtel-Vodafone equipment was delivered to the site on Monday and installation work began yesterday.

Bella Farrell said the mast was unnecessary, unsightly and possibly unhealthy. She said she represented the many mothers who enjoyed the beach with their children.

Read More...
http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2008/08/06/mast-ugly-and-unnecessary/

Seit der Einführung der Hartz IV Arbeitsmarktreform im Jahre 2005 sind ununterbrochen sieben Millionen Bundesbürger von Hartz IV Sozialleistungen abhängig. Im Mai 2006 gab es einen Höchstand von ca. 7,4 Millionen Menschen, die das Arbeitslosengeld II oder Sozialgeld erhielten. Viele der Betroffenen verweilen in sogenannten Ein-Euro-Jobs und haben keinerlei positive Perspektiven.

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Eine Studie der Denkfabrik RAND weist nach: militärische Gewalt ist das am wenigsten geeignete Mittel, um dem Terrorismus den Garaus zu machen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28459/1.html

Obama Pardons Bush
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=716&Itemid=1

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Obama and McCain: Pawns of the global elite

by Patrick Wood

Both are rigidly backed by important members of the Trilateral Commission who hijacked the Executive Branch of the U.S. government starting in 1976 with the election of Jimmy Carter......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick32.htm



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The United States is in the second inning of a recession that will last for at least 18 months and help kill off hundreds of banks, influential economist and New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini told Barron's in Sunday's edition.

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According to a survey of 252 U.S. chief marketing officers, nearly one in five "say their organizations have bought advertising in return for a news story.

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From Information Clearing House

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20435.htm



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Jia-Rui Chong, The Los Angeles Times: "By the time the sun began to rise one recent Friday over his Mira Mesa neighborhood, Mitch Hood had been up for about 18 hours. Hood, 25, spent two tours with the Marines in Iraq. Now, like many other veterans, he faces a new enemy: sleep."

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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Since the PATRIOT Act's passage almost seven years ago, many of its adverse effects on activist organizations and peace groups have become plain.... But according to a new report, the worst effects on nonprofit organizations have garnered little attention."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-patriot-acts-war-charity



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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0804-18.htm

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For The New York Times, Paul Krugman writes: "A year ago, as the outlines of the current financial crisis were just becoming clear, I suggested that this crisis, unlike a superficially similar crisis in 1998, wouldn't end quickly. It hasn't. The good news, I guess, is that we've been experiencing a sort of slow-motion meltdown, lacking in dramatic Black Fridays and such. The gradual way the crisis has unfolded has led to an angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin debate among economists about whether what we're suffering really deserves to be called a recession. Yet even a slo-mo crisis can do a lot of damage if it goes on for a year and counting."

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-slow-mo-meltdown

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The perfect storm leading to a global recession

Recent developments suggest that all G7 economies are already in recession or close to tipping into one. Other advanced economies or emerging markets (the rest of the eurozone; New Zealand, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, and some Southeast European economies) are also nearing a recessionary hard landing. When they reach it, there will be a sharp slowdown in the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and other emerging markets.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080818/opinion/the-perfect-storm-leading-to-a-global-recession



Morgan Stanley Says Financial Crisis Will Last: Report

"We will likely see more insolvencies among small U.S. regional banks that have focused on mortgage business".

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26252398



Lehman Brothers in talks over sale of $40bn real estate assets

Lehman Brothers, the Wall Street investment bank, is understood to be in talks to sell its entire $40 billion (£21.5 billion) real estate portfolio in a move to stem losses incurred during one of the worst property slumps since the Great Depression.

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Thomas Frank writes for TomDispatch.com: "Washington is the city where the scandals happen. Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are a thing of the past, that the golden age of misgovernment-for-profit ended with the cavalry charge and the robber barons, at about the same time presidents stopped wearing beards. I moved to Washington in 2003, just in time for the comeback, for the hundred-year flood. At first it was only a trickle in the basement, a little stream released accidentally by the president's friends at Enron. Before long, though, the levees were failing all over town, and the city was inundated with a muddy torrent of graft. How are we to dissect a deluge like this one? We might begin by categorizing the earmarks handed out by Congress, sorting the foolish earmarks from the costly earmarks from the earmarks made strictly on a cash basis."

http://www.truthout.org/article/follow-this-dime

For The Washington Independent, Daphne Eviatar writes: "In January of 2008, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, 24, was electrocuted while showering in his Baghdad barracks. His death prompted last week's congressional report concluding that defense contractor KBR, (until a year ago a subsidiary of the oil services giant Halliburton) was well aware that the electrical system in Maseth's complex was faulty. An accident like this, the report found, was bound to happen. But this report also now raises a larger and thornier question about military defense contractors: can they be held legally liable for their actions - or inactions? Will anyone be held responsible for Maseth's death?"

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Book Says White House Ordered Iraq-WMD Forgery

Mike Allen reports for Politico.com: "A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in 'The Way of the World,' to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery - adamantly denied by the White House - was designed to portray a false link between Hussein's regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war. The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official 'that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.'"

http://www.truthout.org/article/book-says-white-house-ordered-iraq-wmd-forgery



Suskind Stands by White House WMD Forgery Claim

According to MSNBC.com: "Despite adamant denials by both the White House and the CIA, journalist Ron Suskind Wednesday stood by his allegation that the Bush administration concocted a fake letter purporting to show a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida as a justification for the Iraq war. 'It's all on the record,' Suskind told Meredith Vieira on TODAY. Two former CIA officers denied that they or the spy agency faked an Iraqi intelligence document, as they are quoted as saying in Suskind's book 'The Way of the World,' published Tuesday. 'I never received direction from George Tenet (CIA director at the time) or anyone else in my chain of command to fabricate a document as outlined in Mr. Suskind's book,' said Robert Richer, the CIA's former deputy director of clandestine operations."

http://www.truthout.org/article/suskind-stands-by-white-house-wmd-forgery-claim

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New Book Claims Bush White House Used Forged Documents In Case For Iraq War

By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent

According to the book, the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations was responsible for fabricating the documents. The book goes on to say that the British intelligence agency MI6 recruited Saddam Hussein's intelligence chief, Tahir Abd al-Jalil al-Tikriti, and questioned him in Amman two months before the war, and then handed him over to the CIA.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20433.htm



Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act

By Steve Watson

Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20440.htm



The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?

By Ron Suskind

A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20456.htm



Suskind releasing transcript of 'forgery' source

Author Ron Suskind, whose new book charges that the Bush administration ordered the CIA to forge a letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence linking Iraq to al Qaeda, will now be releasing a transcript of the interview with one of his primary sources to defend himself against charges of inaccuracy.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suskind_to_release_transcripts_of_intel_0808.html


From Information Clearing House

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'Way Of The World,' Fabricating A Case For War
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/dcca8fcd8fcb6137?hl=en

RON SUSKIND: THE LIE
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/9b18aea467131eed?hl=en

HARDBALL: RON SUSKIND INTERVIEW
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/8832ecce119d286e?hl=en

The Forged Iraqi Letter What Just Happened?
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/4d9ca25208abd2db?hl=en

How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/10/10920/

Congress Dennis Kucinich Applauds Investigation of Claims by Suskind
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0813-07.htm



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Das Pentagon hat dieses Jahr bereits 10.000 Häftlinge entlassen, nachdem sie oft nur auf vagen Verdacht festgenommen und ohne Anklage und Rechtsbeistand festgehalten wurden.

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Verdi, Transnet und der Lufthansa-Tarifabschluss.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28457/1.html

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Vergütungen: Was Gewerkschafts-Chefs wirklich verdienen

„Die Chefs der großen Gewerkschaften verraten inzwischen, was sie in ihrem Hauptberuf verdienen. Bei ihren Nebeneinkünften ist ihre Informationsfreude unterschiedlich. Klar ist eins: Arbeitnehmer-Vertreter im Aufsichtsrat müssen einen Großteil ihrer Tantiemen an die gemeinnützige Hans-Böckler-Stiftung abführen. Dies gilt für jeden, der Mitglied einer DGB-Gewerkschaft ist…“ Artikel von Eva Roth in der FR-online vom 04.08.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/1380645_Was-Gewerkschafts-Chefs-wirklich-verdienen.html

Wir fassen zusammen (nur die Gewerkschafts-Jahresgehälter): Verdi-Chef Frank Bsirske: 175.500 Euro
IG-Metall-Boss Berthold Huber: 218.000 Euro
Hubertus Schmoldt, Chef der IG BCE: 128.000 Euro
IG-Bau-Chef Klaus Wiesehügel: 127.500 Euro


Ein Stundenlohn von 5 Euro für Arbeitskräfte, die als Auspackhilfen in Supermärkten tätig sind, ist sittenwidrig niedrig.

„Die Klägerin war seit 2006 als sog. Auspackhilfe bei der Beklagten beschäftigt. Die Beklagte ist als Auftragnehmerin für den Einzelhandel tätig und ihre Arbeitnehmer führen für Einzelhandelsunternehmen in deren Räumen Auspack-, Einräum- und Kontrollarbeiten (z.B. Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum) aus. Der Arbeitsvertrag war als geringfügiges Beschäftigungsverhältnis ausgestaltet; es war eine Vergütung von 5 Euro pro Stunde vereinbart. Das Arbeitsverhältnis ist zwischenzeitlich beendet. Der Gehalts- und Lohntarifvertrag für den Einzelhandel Bremen und Bremerhaven sieht für gewerblich beschäftigte Arbeitnehmer/innen eine Mindestvergütung von zuletzt 9,70 Euro brutto vor…“ PM des LAG Bremen Nr. 8/08 v. 17.06.2008 zum Urteil LAG Bremen, Urt. v. 17.06.2008 - 1 Sa 29/08 bei arbeitsrecht.de http://www.arbeitsrecht.de/arbeitsrecht/RechtKompakt/Rechtsprechung/2008/2008_06_23_5_euro_stundenlohn_ist_sittenwidrig.php?navid=1


Aus: LabourNet, 5. August 2008

RFK Center Releases Documents Outlining US Actions to Block Life-saving Funds to Haiti

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0804-07.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10798/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10786/

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Defense Department Balks in Sexual Assault Hearings

Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check: "Heartbreaking stories of sexual assault perpetrated against female soldiers and military contractors, including those of Maria Lauterbach, Jamie Leigh Jones and Lavena Johnson, have shown that women in the military face risk harassment, rape and even murder."

http://www.truthout.org/article/defense-department-balks-sexual-assault-hearings



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10795/



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Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post: "Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health "credit report" drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans."

http://www.truthout.org/article/prescription-data-used-assess-consumers



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Elizabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times: "From Spain to New York, to Australia, Japan and Hawaii, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread, and they are showing up in places where they have rarely been seen before, scientists say. The explosion of jellyfish populations, scientists say, reflects a combination of severe overfishing of natural predators, like tuna, sharks, and swordfish; rising sea temperatures caused in part by global warming; and pollution that has depleted oxygen levels in coastal shallows."

http://www.truthout.org/article/stinging-tentacles-offer-hint-oceans-decline



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Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor: "The Democratic-led Congress appears intent on using its oversight powers to investigate the Bush administration until the day the latter packs up and walks out of the White House. Oversight hearings and reports have been as common as lobbyists on Capitol Hill since the Democrats swept the 2006 elections. In July alone, hearings covered a range of subjects including allegations of faulty wiring installed by US contractors in Iraq, possibly misleading testimony from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen Johnson, and charges that politics guided hiring of career workers in the Justice Department."

http://www.truthout.org/article/democrats-unrelenting-oversight-bush-administration



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Dean Baker for Truthout: "Senator McCain and the Republicans in Congress are calling Senator Obama and the Democrats environmental wimps for refusing to allow the oil industry to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, environmentally sensitive offshore areas and anywhere else they please. The Republicans are claiming that the Democrats don't care about Joe Sixpack, who now has to pay $4 a gallon for his gas. Nor do they care that most of this oil is now imported."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-compromise-drill-anywhere-plan



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The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is building with alarming speed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20426.htm



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Iran's non-answer highlights that Bush has run out of time to see through either deal and another with nuclear-armed India. That means the next U.S. president will have to pick up the pieces, and possibly change the terms of any deals.

http://tinyurl.com/5orqzm


From Information Clearing House



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The United States and Israel have likely engaged in 'psychological warfare' rather than war preparations, commented Friedman, who also heads the US private intelligence corporation Stratfor.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65597&sectionid=351020101


From Information Clearing House

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A War of Self-Destruction
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10790/



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Video - Inside USA

This week Inside USA heads south for a Latin American take on the influence of the US in the region. We travel to Venzuela, Colombia and Argentina to look at the power dynamics, which have changed dramatically over the last decade. Today, in most Latin American countries - pledging allegiance to Washington DC and its institutions would be political suicide.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20431.htm

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK

"They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East," the retired senior FBI official told The News.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20419.htm

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FBI Used Aggressive Tactics in Anthrax Probe

Pete Yost, of The Associated Press, reports: "Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him out and tried to turn his hospitalized daughter against him with photographs of dead anthrax victims. The pressure on Ivins was extreme, a high-risk strategy that has failed the FBI before. The government was determined to find the villain in the 2001 anthrax attacks; it was too many years without a solution to the case that shocked and terrified a post-9/11 nation. The last thing the FBI needed was another embarrassment."

http://www.truthout.org/article/fbi-used-aggressive-tactics-anthrax-probe



Identifying the Anthrax Killer

The New York Times writes: "The F.B.I. seems convinced that it has finally solved the long-festering case of who mailed the anthrax letters that killed five people in 2001. Yet its description of the evidence pointing to a mentally disturbed Army bioweapons expert as the sole culprit leaves us uncertain about whether investigators have pulled off a brilliant coup after a bumbling start, or are prematurely declaring victory, despite a lack of hard, incontrovertible proof."

http://www.truthout.org/article/identifying-anthrax-killer

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Anthrax mystery: the FBI/media narrative is laughable and sinister
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13262


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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Anthrax, anthrax vaccine, biological warfare
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/cd52943b61f83639?hl=en



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The News

President George W Bush confronted Yusuf Raza Gilani in Washington last week with evidence of involvement by the ISI in a deadly attack on the Afghan capital and warned of retaliation if it continues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20421.htm



US accused of backing terrorism in Pakistan

Quoting "impeccable official sources", The News reported on Tuesday that "strong evidence and circumstantial evidence of American acquiescence to terrorism inside Pakistan" was outlined by President Pervez Musharraf, army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj in separate meetings with two senior US officials in Islamabad on July 12.

http://tinyurl.com/65rspv


From Information Clearing House



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By Press TV

The top American military officer has warned Israel against orchestrating 'USS Liberty Part II' to provoke a US-led war against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20427.htm



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By Mark Benjamin

In a confidential memo, a company tells investors consultant Randy Scheunemann can help it win Iraqi oil contracts -- because he was a "key player" in getting the U.S. to invade.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20432.htm



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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20428.htm



Home Truths You'll Never Read in the Press

Who's Really Running Iraq?

By PATRICK COCKBURN

The success of 'the Surge' is becoming almost received wisdom in the US. This is strange since, if the US strategy did win such an important victory, why do America generals need more soldiers, currently 147,000 of them, in Iraq than they did before 'the Surge' started?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20423.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/quinn5.html



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