World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/05/21-4

Amnesty International Responds to President Obama's Major Address on National Security
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/05/21-0

Obama's Civil Liberties Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/21-16

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Tell the truth about torture through an independent commission
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=nvL6LeMOLjKZLlI&s=7qLLJWOvF9JJL0PCLmF&m=olI1KdNQJeL5G



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Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian UK: "The battle over intellectual property rights is likely to be one of the most important of this century. It has enormous economic, social and political implications in a wide range of areas, from medicine to the arts and culture - anything where the public interest in the widespread dissemination of knowledge runs up against those whose income derives from monopolising it."

http://www.truthout.org/052109N?n



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Ari Shapiro, National Public Radio: "It is clear that increasingly abusive interrogation techniques were used on Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee, in the months between his capture and the first Justice Department memo authorizing harsh interrogations. But the legal guidance that authorized those early interrogations remains shrouded in secrecy."

http://www.truthout.org/052109C?n



Diaries Recounting Zubaydah's Torture Should Be Given to Defense Attorneys, Judge Rules

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah is expected to finally gain access to diaries he wrote during the years while he was being tortured by CIA interrogators. A federal court judge has ordered the government to turn over unredacted volumes of the diaries and other 'specified' writings to defense attorneys representing Zubaydah. Zubaydah was the first high-value detainee captured after 9/11. He was repeatedly waterboarded and subjected to brutal torture techniques by CIA interrogators at secret black-site prisons. Although the order issued by US District Court Judge Richard Roberts on September 30 was filed under seal, Zubaydah's attorney, Brent Mickum, said in a Truthout interview that while he could not discuss the substance of the ruling, it was his opinion that the order 'should have been made public from the get-go' because 'there's nothing in [the order] that should be considered classified.'"

http://www.truthout.org/1021091



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Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: "Oil and gasoline prices are rising fast as Memorial Day weekend approaches, but not because supplies are tight or demand is high."

http://www.truthout.org/052109D?n



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Norman Solomon, Truthout: "To understand what's up with President Obama as he escalates the war in Afghanistan, there may be no better place to look than a book published 25 years ago. 'The March of Folly,' by historian Barbara Tuchman, is a chilling assessment of how very smart people in power can do very stupid things - how a war effort, ordered from on high, goes from tic to repetition compulsion to obsession - and how we, with undue deference and lethal restraint, pay our respects to the dominant moral torpor to such an extent that mass slaughter becomes normalized in our names."

http://www.truthout.org/052109A?n



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By Danny Schechter

Its clear that, like on the war, government officials did mislead us. From original deregulators in the Carter-Reagan years to the financial "modernizers of the Clinton-Bush 2 era with their refusal to accept responsibility for the consequences of their free market fantasies, the gutting of rules and regulations, and their embrace of a phony "ownership society."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22676.htm



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By Alexander Cockburn

It didn't take long for President Barack Obama to swing behind targeted assassinations and bombing raids.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22670.htm



Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney

By Paul Craig Roberts

America has lost her soul, and so has her president.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22671.htm



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By David Edwards and Muriel Kane

"They started this monthly treatment where they would come in with a scalpel or a razor type of instrument and they would slash his genitals, just with small cuts."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22672.htm



U.S. Officials Admitted that Boys Were Sodomized In Iraq Prison

By Washington's Blog

In the Washington Post report, one detainee, Kasim Hilas, describes the rape of an Iraqi boy by a man in uniform, whose name has been blacked out of the statement, but who appears to be a translator working for the army.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22675.htm



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York residents object to Vodafone mast on the corner of Boroughbridge Road and Plantation Drive

9:09am Thursday 21st May 2009

By Gavin Aitchison

PLANNING chiefs have been won over by people power in the battle over controversial plans for a mobile phone mast in York.

More than 100 residents objected to proposals by Vodafone to put a 14.2-metre (47 foot) mast on the corner of Boroughbridge Road and Plantation Drive.

Councillors had been advised by officials to approve the planning application but, following widespread complaints by locals, they objected to it.

City of York Council’s west and city centre area planning sub-committee said the mast was in an inappropriate location, but national policies mean the matter may not yet be settled.

Read More...
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Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith, The Nation: "The Army's behavior toward Watada has been disgraceful from the start. The entire controversy could have been forestalled if the Army had not refused his initial request to resign. The Army charged Watada not only with 'missing movement' but with 'conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman' for speaking critically of government policy and President George W. Bush in ways that the military's own courts had repeatedly established to be constitutionally protected. In an effort to intimidate Watada's supporters, Army prosecutors subpoenaed journalists and organizers of public meetings."

http://www.truthout.org/052009D?n



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Agence France-Presse: "Western air strikes sparked fresh controversy in Afghanistan on Wednesday as NATO said a bombing killed eight civilians and the US military estimated that up to 30 villagers died in an attack this month."

http://www.truthout.org/052009S?n



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Warum viele Vermittlungsgespräche in Arbeitsagenturen ergebnislos bleiben.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30351/1.html



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In a 22-page decision issued Tuesday evening, U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ruled that members in Al Qaeda or the Taliban could be detained, but that mere support for Al Qaeda activities is not a sufficient basis for the government to hold prisoners at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere.

http://snipurl.com/ig3yh



Shame on them: Democrats Defending Pelosi

Top Democrats said they believe that the CIA misled her in a September 2002 briefing about controversial techniques used during interrogations of alleged al-Qaeda operatives.

http://snipurl.com/ig3zk


From Information Clearing House



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By Mike Whitney

Do people realize that the reason their home equity is vanishing, their 401ks have been slashed in half and their jobs are at risk is because Wall Street was gaming the system with leverage and financial innovation? The current downturn is not really a recession at all; it's more like a self-inflicted wound perpetrated by avaricious speculators who put a gun to the economy's head and blew its brains out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22667.htm



The Toll Booth Economy

By Michael Hudson

China's central bank is now the largest holder of U.S. government and other dollar securities, it has become the main subsidizer of the U.S. payments deficit - and also the domestic U.S. federal budget deficit. Half of the federal budget's discretionary spending is military in character. This places China in the uncomfortable position of being the largest financier of U.S. military adventurism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22668.htm



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By Yvonne Ridley

While some Republican red necks would probably just scoff at pictures of olive skinned men being brutalised, I'm not so sure they would shrug off so easily pictures of women and young children being tortured.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22663.htm



The Road To Guantanamo

Video

Three young British Muslims tell the story of how they came to be in US custody at Guantánamo for over two years, and discuss the Kafkaesque horrors that awaited them there, until finally they were released without charge or apology.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15880.htm



Drugged and Dangerous

U.S. Military: Heavily Armed and Medicated

By Melody Petersen

Prescription pill dependency among American troops is on the rise.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22664.htm



Obama defends withholding abuse photos

In his speech Thursday at the National Archives, Obama said he has an obligation to protect Americans who are serving in harm's way, and that the release of the photos would endanger them by inflaming anti-American opinion.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6434967.html



Senate OKs war funding, blocks release of detainee pictures

The Senate late Thursday easily passed a $91 billion spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After stripping it of funds to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and placing restrictions on the transfer of its detainees, the bill was adopted 86 to 3. The Senate included an amendment to prevent the public release of photographs that reportedly document the mistreatment of post-Sept. 11 detainees in U.S. custody.

http://snipurl.com/ikzms


From Information Clearing House

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Media Ignores Real Controversy Behind Torture Photos; They Show Prison Guards Raping Children

Former Governor Jesse Ventura: Let Me Judge Torture Photos On Behalf Of The American People

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, May 21, 2009

The real reason behind Obama’s reversal of a decision to release the torture photos has been almost completely ignored by the corporate media - the fact that the photos show both US and Iraqi soldiers raping teenage boys in front of their mothers.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-ignores-real-controversy-behind-torture-photos-they-show-prison-guards-raping-children.html



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By Michael Scheuer

In just over 100 days, President Obama is on the verge of ensuring that militant Islam's war on America will be waged for decades to come and its forces will never suffer manpower or money shortages. How did he accomplish so much in some little time? He simply behaved as all U.S. political leaders behave; that is, as an ignorant and arrogant interventionist.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22665.htm

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UK: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims

Independent [UK]

05/21/09

Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas. They have made official complaints to the police, to the body which oversees the work of the Security Service and to their local MP Frank Dobson. Now they have decided to speak publicly about their experiences in the hope that publicity will stop similar tactics being used in the future...

http://tinyurl.com/qq2gvj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Peter Lee

Washington, apparently believing that it doesn't have enough on its plate with al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistan Taliban, is suddenly awash with dramatic plans to add a self-created problem to the mix: a quixotic effort to wrest Pakistan's nuclear weapons out of the hands of the Army if the situation deteriorates.

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United for Peace & Justice
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/05/20-22



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From ufpj-news



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Tax, Tax, Tax, Tax, Tax
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/tax-tax-tax.html



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The Housing Boom and Bust

Reason
by Brian Doherty

05/20/09

Interview with Thomas Sowell, author of The Housing Boom and Bust. Sowell: “There are those who borrowed to buy a place to live and speculators who borrowed to speculate, and did enormously well for a number of years. Then there were people who simply don’t understand complex mortgages, particularly people who never owned a home before and whose educations were limited. But the people I would blame the most in the sense that without their interference other problems would have been within manageable means are the politicians — people in Congress and the president and regulators — who pushed the lenders and the banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into lending and buying mortgages based on people who didn’t meet standards that evolved in the marketplace and which had worked...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/133593.html



Ford, Goldman Sachs, the SEC, and the “new” Wall Street

LewRockwell.Com
by Eric Englund

05/21/09

Wall Street wants to regain your trust. Mutual fund managers, stockbrokers, Wall Street executives, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) want Americans to keep the faith that buying and holding stocks, for the long term, is a key to building personal wealth. This is a tough sell considering Americans have watched their 401(k)s become 201(k)s. Not to worry says the laughable SEC, they’ve got your back covered. Here is what is stated in the SEC’s 2008 Annual Report: ‘Today, as more and more investors turn to the markets to help secure their futures, pay for homes, and send children to college, our investor protection mission is more important than ever. And as the nation’s securities exchanges mature into global for-profit competitors, there is even greater need for sound market regulation.’ Of course, this is nothing but hot air from a worthless bureaucracy. If the SEC was going to help Wall Street turn over a new leaf, it would immediately investigate why Goldman Sachs recently issued a ‘buy’ recommendation regarding Ford Motor Company’s common stock. I promise this investigation will not transpire as the Wall Street banksters are in control and will continue to rip off anybody foolish enough to trust them...

http://lewrockwell.com/englund/englund53.html



Going after the perps of the housing bubble

The American Prospect
by Tim Fernholz

05/20/09

Talk to almost anyone about the financial crisis — or at least anyone who doesn’t work in the financial sector — and sooner or later you’ll hear it: ‘How come nobody’s in jail for this stuff yet?’ It’s not an absurd question. Most people recall the criminal charges associated with the Enron and WorldCom frauds a decade ago. Already, investigators of our current crisis have been able to determine that fraud was rampant in the sub-prime mortgage bubble that catalyzed the current recession. But we still haven’t seen major charges of white-collar crime...

http://tinyurl.com/qvpak8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Die normale, billige und umweltfreundliche Glühlampe war in Neuseeland verboten worden, aber am Mittwoch, 17.12.2008 teilte die neuseeländische Regierung das Ende des Verbotes mit.

http://www.buergerwelle-schweiz.org/Lampen.505.0.html#6919


Peter Schlegel, Dipl. Ing. ETH/SIA
Güeterstalstrasse 19
CH-8133 Esslingen
Tel. ++41 +44 9840039
Fax ++41 +44 9841936
info@buergerwelle-schweiz.org
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Neuseeland hebt das Glühlampenverbot wieder auf


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- EHS USA : Mary Jodi Rell, gouverneur de l'État du Connecticut:
- "Le mois de la prise de conscience de l'Électro Hyper Sensibilité (EHS)"
.."... ATTENDU QUE, les symptômes de l'EHS incluent des changements dermatologiques, des engourdissements aigus et des picotements, des dermatites, des rougeurs, des maux de tête, des arythmies,
des faiblesses musculaires, des acouphènes, des malaises (vertiges), des problèmes gastriques, des nausées, des perturbations visuelles, des problèmes sévères neurologiques, respiratoires, des problèmes d'élocution et de nombreux autres symptômes physiologiques".

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS.php#1

LES LEOPOLD

alternet.org — We're at the moment Wall Street has been waiting for: The time where we begin to forget who brought the economy down.

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JOHN DUNBAR AND DAVID DONALD

The Bad Guys of Subprime Lending Are Raking in Bailout Billions

alternet.org — The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or bankrolled by banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges.

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ADRIANNE APPEL

Banks in Recovery as Home Foreclosures Hit Record

ipsnews.net — The banks are selling stock and debt, and racking up excellent returns on mortgages, loans, high credit card rates and refinancings. Meanwhile, home foreclosures in April were 342,000 — the highest level yet — and average national unemployment rose to 8.9 percent, the highest level since 1983. Some communities are just barely hanging on.

http://ga3.org/ct/3720pgF1RYGV/



ART LEVINE

Corporations Widely Using Wal-Mart Tactics

huffingtonpost.com — A definitive new look at the scope of employer ant-union campaigns by a noted Cornell University labor scholar finds that corporations have ramped up a wide-range of tactics designed to punish and intimidate workers for seeking to form a union.

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JOHN KAY

Bail-out Kings and Backbench Barons Beware

ft.com — We need to reassert the notion that roles of authority are positions of responsibility rather than declarations of personal merit and routes to personal enrichment. That notion goes with old-fashioned concepts of social obligation and public service. An insistence that power is a duty, not a prize, is probably the most important reason why some countries in the world are rich and others poor. The point needs to be brought home in equal measure to legislators, chief executives and bankers.

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AlterNet
by Marie Cocco

05/19/09

The partisan firefight over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s incendiary allegation that the CIA lied to Congress about its use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ — torture — is a blessing. It turns the compelling case for a public inquiry into the Bush administration’s policies toward terrorism detainees into an urgent necessity. Americans must finally own up to what was done, at whose order, with whose acquiescence, and why. The United States government must at last hold accountable the architects of this calamity — not only the underlings like Lynndie England and Charles Graner and Janet Karpinski, those frontline military personnel who paid the price for bit roles in the scandal after the first stomach-turning photos of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison came to light...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/140108/time_for_a_truth_commission/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

05/19/09

Dick Cheney’s ‘Shut Up and Listen’ tour continued last week on CBS’s Face the Nation. There, the former veep reiterated his favorite theme: Obama is putting America at risk by ‘taking down a lot of those policies we put in place that kept the nation safe.’ What in the world is Cheney talking about? Granted, Obama’s anti-terror policies are clouded by rhetorical ‘Hope’ and euphemism, and the new administration is less given to chest-thumping than its predecessor. Otherwise, Obama’s approach to terrorism is virtually identical to Bush/Cheney’s...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10217


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cheney's Speech Ignored Some Inconvenient Truths
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/22



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CounterPunch
by Andy Worthington

05/20/09

As the Obama administration prepares to relaunch Dick Cheney and David Addington’s reviled Military Commissions (with claims that they will be used for less than 20 of the 241 prisoners still held), senior officials have been largely silent about the eventual fate of the rest of the prisoners, with the exception of a few recent remarks indicating that they are also thinking of pressing for a form of “preventive detention” for 50 to 100 of the prisoners.The irony — that all the prisoners have been enduring a form of “preventive detention” for over seven years — is apparently lost on the government, which has also maintained a resolute silence in response to a handful of habeas corpus cases (in which the prisoners are seeking to have their cases dismissed by the courts, as mandated by the Supreme Court last June) that have resulted in judges pouring scorn on the government’s supposed evidence...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Jane Arraf, The Christian Science Monitor: "On a map of Baghdad, the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon is clearly within city limits. Except that Iraqi and American military officials have decided it's not. As the June 30 deadline for US soldiers to be out of Iraqi cities approaches, there are no plans to relocate the roughly 3,000 American troops who help maintain security in south Baghdad along what were the fault lines in the sectarian war."

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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "US Army soldiers in Afghanistan took dozens of pictures of their colleagues pointing assault rifles and pistols at the heads and backs of hooded and bound detainees and another photograph showed two male soldiers and one female soldier pointing a broom to one detainee 'as if I was sticking the end of a broom stick into [his] rectum,' according to the female soldier's account as told to an Army criminal investigator."

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Charlottetown, The Guardian - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

“Federal guidelines for allowable human exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell towers are hopelessly outdated,” said Peter Bevan-Baker, ...

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Every Household on the Hook for $109,887
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Housing construction, permits hit record lows

The Commerce Department said construction of new homes and apartments fell 12.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 458,000 units -- the lowest pace on records going back a half-century.

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Present Economy worse than Depression

Video

Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of "The Black Swan" and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics. Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.

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From Information Clearing House



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The Illinois Senate has jumped into the deep water of foreign policy by passing a resolution that criticizes President Barack Obama's plan to step up military efforts in Afghanistan.

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Terming drone attacks as a serious blow to Pakistan's sovergnity, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday made it clear that US must review its policy.

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By Glen Ford

Saving the finance capital oligarchy has emerged as President Obama's central mission - the guiding focus of his young administration. Obama has found new and myriad ways to go where no American president has ever gone before, in funneling somewhere around $13 trillion of national treasure to the parasitical class that goes by the shorthand, Wall Street.

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By Cindy Sheehan

To those of you who don't support me, sorry to tell you, I am not, or never will give up. If I survived burying my oldest son for lies, I can survive any crap you or the Robber Class throws at me. The system seriously underestimates the love and commitment of a mother wronged. There are two illegal occupations raging, still, and more than enough work to do to wrest our country out of the hands of militarists/corporatists.

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By Jeff Sparrow
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22654.htm



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By Robert Dreyfuss

Everyone knows 17,000 more troops can't win the war in Afghanistan. So what's the exit strategy?

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Terrorism Breeds Terrorism

By Paul Balles
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Anti-American?

Ads You Won't See In The US Or Online

By Nicholas Carlson

History is written by the winners.
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A Call to Disarm

By William A. Cohn

In our fervor to fight, we are facilitating the most likely scenario for nuclear devastation.
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Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "'Shock Doctrine' author Naomi Klein and Al Jazeera host Avi Lewis discuss the workers who are taking over their factories and plants rather than lose their jobs, some to owners who owe money to bailed-out banks. They also address the latest news in the nation's global economic collapse amidst the White House and Democratic-led Congress's rejection of single-payer health care."

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Robert Draper, GQ: "Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics - his administration peers - are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they're saying? It isn't pretty."

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Media Matters for America
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/05/19-11



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Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/19-7

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Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com: "The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was a torture chamber. Why else send prisoners where they would be beyond the reach of the law - a place, incidentally, that Washington is using in violation of a treaty forced on Cuba at the point of a gun? Security reasons were, of course, alleged, but they remain hard to take seriously."

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