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- France 3 : "Face au constat d'échec du Grenelle des antennes relais CARRA
pense qu'il n'y a plus d'autres choix que la voie d'actions judiciaires". (vidéo)

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Resource Boom in Peru's Amazon Threatens Indigenous Peoples' Livelihoods and Their Rainforest Homes

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal with Rainforest Rescue http://www.rainforestportal.org/ & http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/ May 27, 2009

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=peru_amazon

Support tens of thousands of indigenous people bravely protesting Peru government's give-away of their rainforest homes to oil, mining and logging industry without their approval; insist peaceful protests are not met with violence by President Alan Garcia's government, and that the focus for Amazonian development be upon benefiting from standing trees and intact rainforest ecosystems.

BRIEF BACKGROUND: Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are protesting investment laws passed under a free-trade pact with the United States and against concessions granted to foreign energy companies. Some 30,000 indigenous people have blockaded roads, rivers and railways to demand repeal of new laws that allow oil, mining and logging companies to enter indigenous territories without seeking consent or even any consultation. Indigenous communities complain that some 70% of Peruvian Amazon territory is now leased for oil and gas exploration, putting at risk their own lives and the biodiversity of the Amazon.

Please add your voice in solidarity with the tens of thousands of indigenous people and their international supporters mobilizing to protect the Peruvian Amazon. Send a letter today to the Garcia Administration demanding respect for the constitutionally guaranteed rights of indigenous peoples, and Amazon development based upon standing forests.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=peru_amazon

DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2009/05/alert_resource_boom_in_perus_a.asp

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Amazonian Indigenous Protest Provokes Peruvian Government Reprisals
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/27-5

Oil Firms and Loggers 'Push Indigenous People to Brink of Extinction'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/28-2

Peru Protesters: 'Police are Throwing Bodies in the River'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/09-0

Trade Agreement Kills Amazon Indians
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/19-10

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Up to 34 Reported Killed in Amazon Land Protest

Franklin Briceno and Frank Bajak, The Associated Press: "Indians protesting oil and gas exploration on their lands battled police in Peru's remote Amazon Friday, with authorities and Indian leaders separately reporting nine police and 25 protester deaths."

http://www.truthout.org/060609D



Nine More Police Killed in Amazon Protests in Peru

Carla Salazar, Tamy Higa and Frank Bajak, The Associated Press: "President Alan Garcia labored Saturday to contain Peru's worst political violence in years, as nine more police officers were killed in a bloody standoff with Amazon Indians fighting his efforts to exploit oil and gas on their native lands."

http://www.truthout.org/060709G



US-Peru FTA Sparks Indigenous Massacre

Tom Loudon, Truthout: "During the last week, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, confrontations between nonviolent indigenous protesters and police have left up to 100 people dead. The vast majority of the casualties are civilians, who have been conducting peaceful demonstrations in defense of the Amazon rain forest."

http://www.truthout.org/061109B



Images Reveal Full Horror of "Amazon's Tiananmen"

Guy Adams, The Independent UK: "The events of Friday, 5 June, when armed police went to clear 2,000 Aguaruna and Wampi Indians from a secluded highway near the town of Bagua Grande, are the subject of a heated political debate. They have sparked international condemnation and thrown Peru's government into crisis. Yet until today, details were shrouded in mystery."

http://www.truthout.org/061909K

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60 Killed in Peru Rainforest Protest

Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22797.htm



'Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,' Say Native Protesters

Foreign activists on the scene in the town of Bagua, in the northern province of Amazonas, report that the police opened fire early in the morning on the unarmed protesters, some of whom were still sleeping, and deliberately mowed them down as they held up their arms or attempted to flee.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47142



Cover-up claim after Peru clashes

Human rights lawyers have accused Peru's government of a cover-up, after clashes between police and indigenous protesters killed at least 50 people. The lawyers say hundreds more may be missing, amid rumours that the police have hidden bodies. But they say rights groups cannot get in to investigate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092453.stm



Peru: Battle lines drawn over the Amazon

After a joint police-military operation aimed at stopping an Indigenous protest had gone awry, leaving many dead on both sides, Garcia declared the Indigenous elements to be standing in the way of progress, in the path of national development, wrenches in the gears of modernity, and part of an international conspiracy to keep Peru down.

http://snipurl.com/jusyj



Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon

By James Petras

When egregious violations of human rights are committed in Latin America by a US backed client-President following Washington's formula of 'free trade', deregulation of environmental protections and hostility toward anti-imperialist countries (Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador), Obama favors complicity over condemnation.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22813.htm



Oil and Indians Don't Mix

By Greg Palast

No oil company would dream of digging on the Bush family properties in Midland, Texas, without paying a royalty. Or drilling near Malibu without the latest in environmental protections. But when Natives are on top of Exxon's or BP's glory hole, suddenly, the great defenders of private property rights turn quite Bolshevik: lands can be seized for The Public's Need for Oil.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22816.htm



Blood at the Blockade: Peru's Indigenous Uprising

On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil's Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors - many wearing feathered crowns and carrying spears.

https://nacla.org/node/5879



Death In The Amazon

Indigenous Peoples' Global Fight with Big Business

By John Vidal

As mining and oil firms race for dwindling resources, indigenous peoples battle to protect their land, and often pay the ultimate price.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22837.htm



Indians clash with armed police in Peru

Video report

Up to 100 people have been killed this week alone in clashes between the Indians and armed police.

http://snipurl.com/k6n4x



Inside the Peruvian Amazon

Video report

"Warning - Video contains images that some readers may find disturbing
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22837.htm



Massacre in the Amazon: The U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement Sparks a Battle Over Land and Resources

By Raúl Zibechi

On June 5, World Environment Day, Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands-a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22861.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Peru: Save the Amazon

The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.

These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth -- Let's stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.


http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence

More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs. Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits to local people and preserving the environment in developing countries - which is why indigenous groups are asking for internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.

For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the Amazon the "lungs of the planet" - breathing in the carbon emissions that cause global warming and producing oxygen).

The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we can't afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from all parties.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence

In solidarity,

Luis, Paula, Alice, Ricken, Graziela, Ben, Brett, Iain, Pascal, Raj, Taren and the entire Avaaz team.

Sources:

# Civilians and police killed: Human rights lawyers accuse the government of a cover-up, BBC, 10 June:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092453.stm

# Civil Society Condemns Massacre of Indigenous People in Peru, 8 June:
http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/765/en/global_witness_condems_violence_in_peru

# On Peru's rift over economic policy and the controversial free trade agreement with the US , Reuters, 9 June:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09374943

# Research Article: Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples, M. Finer et al:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002932

# Oil companies ‘should withdraw’ as Peru ‘faces its Tiananmen’, Survival International, 8 June:
http://www.survival-international.org/news/4640

# Peru's Amazon oil deals denounced, BBC News, 3 February:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6326741.stm

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As Peruvian Indigenous Leader Seeks Asylum, Indigenous Voices Must Be Heard
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/10-0

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'We are fighting for our lives and our dignity'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/13/forests-environment-oil-companies

Informant: Teresa Binstock

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Tell the United States government to condemn killings in the Peruvian Amazon

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/676/t/580/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1120&track=EWalert



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Once on the brink of extinction, California’s sea otters have been slowly recovering over the last seventy years. But recently, sea otter populations have stagnated, prompting concern among conservationists and scientists.

Biologists need to be able to study causes of sea otter deaths in order to help save these beloved animals -- and the Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act will provide vital funding to do just that.

Please ask your Representative to help sea otter recovery by cosponsoring the Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act (H.R. 556).

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ISIS Report 27/05/09

Science in Society #42 Summer 2009
SiS 42 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/isisnews/sis42.php

Letters to the Editor

Fight back against the ownership of life

Mr Percy should be called or addressed as Brave Heart (Who Owns Life, Not Monsanto? SiS 42). I have been a party to the first launch of Monsanto cotton in the year 2000.My question to them was “How would your cotton behave in 48/49 degrees centigrade & without water, because cotton is sown in water deficient areas?” This remains unanswered to date. We at our organic farms control insects and pests up to 80 percent with light traps only. We are ready to share our experience for free to the non commercial organizations, farmers or those scientists who promise to share the knowledge with the needy farmers for free.

Harpal Singh Grewal, India

(one of 17 comments on this article, http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whoOwnsLifeNotMonsanto.php)

I read with great interest the litigation between the Schmeiser family in Canada and Monsanto in Who Owns Life, Not Monsanto? (SiS 42). As a personal injury trial lawyer practicing in Dallas, I regularly represent injured persons in lawsuits against big corporations. I am wondering if there is any need by any of your members in the United States who are being harmed or threatened by Monsanto. If there is a support group or forum where members communicate, I would like to have an opportunity to talk with them. Though your article does not really discuss the point, these farmers who have experienced GMO contamination have been effectively put out of business, and, consequently, have lost their future earnings. This is a legally cognizable element of damage. I envision a common law action by a landowner against Monsanto for trespass and tortuous interference with an ongoing business. In such actions, lost damages are normally recoverable, along with other compensatory damages.

I would be very interested in helping anyone who has been harmed by Monsanto. All of our work is done on a contingency fee basis, and the farmers pay no money up front. I am networked with environmental groups and other personal injury attorneys. That is why if legal precedents were to be set against Monsanto, the U.S. legal system would be a good place to sue.

David Line, Attorney, Dallas, Texas USA, Lawyer.DavidLine@gmail.com

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho replies

I hope farmers reading this will contact you. You may be interested to know that California passed the first bill (AB541) to protect farmers against Monsanto lawsuit on 31 August 2008. http://current.com/items/89264825/california_legislature_passes_bill_protecting_farmers_against_monsanto_lawsuits.htm

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May 27 2009

by John Siddle, Midweek Visiter

THE ban on mobile phone masts being installed on council land could soon be a thing of the past.

Sefton Council is set to lift its moratorium prohibiting telecommunications equipment – meaning masts could be erected on cemeteries, parks and even the end of the pier.

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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

[T]he arrogance of the U.S. Congress is unbelievable. It expects foreign countries to bail the United States out from its self-made civil liberties quagmire. The U.S. preventively detained people indefinitely without legal due process, proposed to try them in kangaroo military tribunals, and tortured them. Now the United States wants other nations to take released Guantanamo prisoners or ones who need to remain incarcerated. Instead, let me suggest a ‘radical’ solution to the entire civil liberties quagmire...

http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2506


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Spectator
by Jeremy Lott

05/26/09

‘We are out of money,’ Obama said, apparently of his own free will. He also said that the government has had to spend ‘a lot of money’ to ’salvage our financial system,’ and to ‘deal with the auto companies.’ He admitted that that the U.S. is in the midst of a ‘huge recession,’ which ‘drains tax revenue’ from federal and state coffers and puts ‘more pressure on governments’ to provide vital services with fewer resources. The president might write these off, collectively, as a ’short-term problem,’ but it’s pretty hard to admit all these things and then convince Americans they should double down...

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/26/we-are-out-of-money


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

05/26/09

In the summer of 2002, as Jane Mayer described it in her book The Dark Side, ‘The CIA, concerned by the paucity of valuable information emanating from [Guantanamo], dispatched a senior intelligence analyst, who was fluent in Arabic and expert on Islamic extremism, to find out what the problem was.’ After interviewing a random sample of two dozen or so Arabic-speaking prisoners, the analyst ‘concluded that an estimated one-third of the prison camp’s population of more than 600 captives at the time, meaning more than 200 individuals, had no connection to terrorism whatsoever’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christian Science Monitor
by Jacob Bronsther

05/26/09

In President Obama’s vision for Washington, ‘pragmatism’ will reign, ‘ideology’ will wane, and an era of civility, reason and bipartisanship will emerge. An analysis of what pragmatism really means explains why Mr. Obama’s plan has not (and cannot) work. It also reveals the emptiness of pragmatism as national principle. Pragmatism refers to one philosophical movement and two political ideas. Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey founded the philosophical movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century America. Philosophical pragmatists are anti-intellectual philosophers. They shiver at the thought of Descartes poking his fire, wondering if life is all a dream. They believe there are no answers to purely theoretical questions (such as whether we have free will), because there exists no pure realm of reason...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0526/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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ABC News

05/26/09

The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, said the world remains dangerous and unpredictable, and the Pentagon must plan for extended U.S. combat and stability operations in two wars. ‘Global trends are pushing in the wrong direction,’ Casey said...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7681649


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Der starke Kursaufschwung seit März kam den großen US-Banken und der Regierung derart gelegen, weswegen viele nicht glauben wollen, dass das ohne Manipulationen abgegangen ist. Verdächtigt werden - allen voran Goldman Sachs - die großen Ex-Investmentbanken, sowie das "Plunge Protection Team" der US-Regierung.

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Eine Analyse des US-Think Tanks Rand Cooperation erkennt signifikante Begrenzungen der militärischen Kapazitäten Irans und seiner Einflussmöglichkeiten auf irakische Schiiten-Gruppierungen, Hisbullah und Hamas.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30396/1.html



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"I saw many more pictures than were ever published in the press, including, I believe, many-if not most-of the photos that president would now prefer that you don't see," he writes. He can see them, but we can't.

http://www.progressive.org/wx052409.html


From Information Clearing House



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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said the momentum in Afghanistan is with the Taliban, who are inflicting heavy U.S. casualties and hold de facto control of swaths of the country.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=215299



Refusing to go to Afghanistan

Agosto enlisted in August 2005 after two years of study at Miami Dade College. "I joined for the usual reasons," explained Agosto in an interview. "All the things they tell you about America when you're growing up. But mostly, I was tired of sitting in classrooms. I wanted to do something. I wanted to see the world."

http://www.military-world.net/Afghanistan/1454.html


From Information Clearing House



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The Next Leg Down

By Mike Whitney

Collapsing home prices and credit markets continue to put downward pressure on consumer spending, forcing the Federal Reserve to take even more radical action to revive the economy. Last week, Fed chief Ben Bernanke raised the prospect of further monetizing the debt by purchasing more than the $1.75 trillion of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) already committed.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22714.htm



Home prices fall at record pace in first quarter

The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller National Home Price index reported home prices tumbled by 19.1 percent in the first quarter compared to the first quarter last year, the largest drop in its 21-year history. Home prices have fallen 32.2 percent since peaking in the second quarter of 2006.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30940713


From Information Clearing House



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By Chalmers Johnson

There has been no public discussion by the Obama administration over starting to liquidate our overseas bases or beginning to scale back our imperialist presence in the rest of the world.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22712.htm



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By Cindy Sheehan

I have spoken to men who were still in their teens who were sodomized
with broom handles in Guantanamo. I have seen the horrific photos of
the US's inhumanity to man and cannot forgive my country for the
terror it has unleashed on the world. I can't stand the fact that our
government operates with such craven cowardice and has harmed so many
people while Americans revel in blissful ignorance.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22711.htm



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Daniel Howden, The Independent UK: "Royal Dutch Shell will revisit one of the darkest periods of its history tomorrow as a potentially groundbreaking court case opens in New York. The oil giant stands accused of complicity in the 1995 execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian environmental activist."

http://www.truthout.org/052609T

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Shell on Trial: Landmark Trial Set to Begin Over Shell's Role in 1995 Execution of Nigerian Human Rights Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/05/27

Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/27-0



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American taxpayers have the right to know where the trillions of dollars being pledged in their name are going
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The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes
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Annie Lobé Journaliste scientifique
http://next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/LampeFluocompacte.php

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Procès de SFR contre Annie Lobé: "Les gens meurent sous les antennes"
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3532823/

Lawsuit of SFR against Annie Lobé journalist of investigation - Procès de SFR contre Annie Lobé journaliste d'investigation
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2770102/

WiFi, DECT, MOBILES, Sans fil, mais pas sans risques
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1870963/



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Stain

Francois Sergent, Liberation: "Guantanamo is a stain on America. The images of wraiths in orange jumpsuits, caged in the American prison, just like the Abu Ghraib photos, have forever tainted the depiction of the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/052609F



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Carrie Johnson, The Washington Post: "President Obama vowed last week to rein in the use of a legal privilege that allows the administration to discard lawsuits that involve 'state secrets,' promising that a new policy is in the works that will quell criticism by civil libertarians. But hours after Obama's speech laid out a 'delicate balance' on national security, his Justice Department was criticized by a federal judge in California overseeing a case that has delved deeper than any other into one of the government's most highly classified data-gathering programs."

http://www.truthout.org/052609B



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3:30pm Tuesday 26th May 2009

By Helen Orrell

NEW procedures are in place to prevent a repeat of a Colchester Council bungle over a planning application for a mobile phone mast.

The application for an O2 mast on the corner of Norman Way and Lexden Road was approved by default, because the authority missed a deadline to reject the plans.

Read More...
http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4394734.More_checks_in_place_after_planning_bungle/

Gespräch mit André Shepherd. Über seinen Asylantrag als GI in der Bundesrepublik, die Grundsätze der Nürnberger Prozesse, die US-Kriege im Irak und Afghanistan und Präsident Barack Obama. Ein Interview, das Elsa Rasbach mit Shepherd für die "junge Welt" geführt hat, dokumentiert beim Friedenspolitischen Ratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Irak/us-soldaten6.html


Aus: LabourNet, 26. Mai 2009



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„Nach einem neuen Bericht nähern sich totalitäre und demokratische Staaten gleichermaßen einer neuen Dimension des Polizeistaats an. In einem ersten Versuch, die Dimensionen des "Elektronischen Polizeistaats" auszumachen und 52 Länder entsprechend in einem Ranking zu bewerten, verwundert nicht, dass an erster Stelle China und Nordkorea, gefolgt von Weißrussland und Russland stehen. Dann aber wird bereits Großbritannien aufgelistet, gefolgt von den USA, Singapur, Israel, Frankreich und, an zehnter Stelle, Deutschland…“ Artikel von Florian Rötzer in telepolis vom 12.05.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30298/1.html


Streitfrage: Das Grundgesetz - Grundlage für eine emanzipatorische Gesellschaft? Es debattieren: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fisahn, Halina Wawzyniak und Dr. Marcus Hawel

Anlässlich des 60. Jahrestages der Verabschiedung des Grundgesetzes der Bundesrepublik Deutschland veröffentlichte die Tageszeitung "Neues Deutschland" drei Beiträge, die sich aus unterschiedlichen Blickrichtungen mit der deutschen Verfassung auseinandersetzen. Der Friedenspolitische Ratschlag dokumentiert die Beiträge http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Deutschland/gg-60.html


EU - Militärpolitik

Die Versicherheitlichung des Klimawandels. Wie Brüssel die Erderwärmung für die Militarisierung der Europäischen Union instrumentalisiert.

Artikel von Jürgen Wagner als IMI-Analyse 2009/024 vom 19.5.2009 http://www.imi-online.de/2009.php3?id=1969


Aus: LabourNet, 26. Mai 2009



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Campaign for Liberty
by Rand Paul

05/22/09

For too long Washington has told us that we can live at the expense of future generations — that we merely ‘owe it to ourselves.’ But if the current crisis has taught us anything it is that our decisions have long-term implications and we cannot continue to ignore economic reality. Yes, we owe it to ourselves. But we also owe it to our children. We owe it to them to begin restoring some fiscal sense to Washington so that they are not burdened with our massive debt. Balancing the budget is no longer an academic question but an economic imperative. We are drowning in a sea of debt and the repercussions will come sooner rather than later...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=86



Wanted: A culture of change

Adam Smith Institute
by Andrew Hutson

05/22/09

The world of British politics is a unique, complex confusing place. Parliament is confused in its approach to change; it seems unable to decide whether it is a progressive flexible body looking to the future or an established conservative organisation building upon history. The past months events have highlighted not only the failures of many individuals within parliament, but also the system itself...

http://tinyurl.com/plfar2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

He’s not closing Guantanamo, he’s continuing the ‘preventive detention’ policy of the Bush administration under a new rubric (’prolonged detention’), he’s on board with military commissions (’reformed,’ of course) and the denial of habeas corpus — and last, but certainly not least, his supporters in Congress have launched a campaign to give him and his cabinet officials the power to close down the Internet in the name of ‘national security.’ … At least the Bush crowd had enough remnants of a moral sense to sneak around and try to hide their crimes against liberty and the rule of law. Although they tried to rationalize their actions with after-the-fact legal arguments, the effort seems to me rather halfhearted: they weren’t really all that concerned with legalizing their power grab. They just went ahead and did it, and damn the torpedoes. The Obamaites, on the other hand, have a different style — but the substance is essentially the same, with the addition of a few minor tweaks and rhetorical flourishes. They want to bureaucratize and institutionalize the horrors of the past eight years and make what used to be unthinkable routine...

http://tinyurl.com/pfwpr8



Blowing smoke on Gitmo

AntiWar.Com
by Ivan Eland

05/23/09

Despite all of the hubbub about the possibility of bringing Guantanamo prisoners to the United States, most scary are Obama’s recent musings about changing laws to allow preventive detention. When a president can yank people off the streets merely because he alleges that they are ‘dangerous,’ throw them in jail, and hold them indefinitely without charge, we are on the road to dictatorship. Although Bush violated such habeas corpus rights, which have been one of the cornerstones of the rule of law in both Britain and the United States for centuries, Obama is talking about enshrining the violations into permanency. All of this shows that Obama is not restoring the republic, but has adopted a policy of Bush Lite, which retains some of the unneeded and un-American Bush policies. (I do not accuse people of ‘un-American’ activities lightly, but this erosion of unique American freedoms does seem to fit the bill.)...

http://original.antiwar.com/eland/2009/05/22/blowing-smoke-on-gitmo/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Indefinite detention
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/630.html



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Campaign For Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/25/09

An increasing number of articles are pointing to evidence that U.S. officials tortured detainees to force them to disclose a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. The evidence includes an allegation by Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for then Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has alleged that the enhanced interrogation program’s ‘principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at preempting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al Qaeda...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=87


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Impossible Rehab of Colin Powell

By Ray McGovern

Powell's well-documented disregard for those who have borne the brunt of the battle places him in the company of the priest and the Levite - in the Good Samaritan parable - who, seeing the man attacked by robbers on the side of the road, walked right on by.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22736.htm



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/22/09

After President Obama announced he would fight the release of photographs showing American soldiers abusing ‘war on terror’ detainees, Richard Haass, president of the quintessentially mainstream Council on Foreign Relations, said that Obama had learned the difference between campaigning and governing. He wasn’t being ironic...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0905k.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Our Future
by Isaiah J. Poole

05/22/09

President Obama’s signing of a financial fraud crackdown bill this week has been largely overshadowed by the erroneous and irresponsible rantings of Vice President Dick Cheney and his right-wing fear-monger allies, and that’s unfortunate for two important reasons. One, it’s a significant victory progressives should celebrate. In addition to giving the federal government new tools to detect and punish the kind of law-breaking and deception that is at the root of the economic crisis, it creates a ‘Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’ charged with examining ‘the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States.’ This commission is charged with playing the same role that the Senate commission led by Ferdinand Pecora in the 1930s did in exposing the wrongdoing and ethical breaches that precipitated the Great Depression...

http://tinyurl.com/odbxw8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Boston Globe
by James Carroll

05/25/09

That Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld supplied President Bush with Bible-laced Pentagon intelligence briefings might only seem like more Bush-era loopiness, but wait a minute. The deeper, and still current, question is: What in heaven (or, what the hell) is going on inside the US military? A Robert Draper article in Gentleman’s Quarterly revealed that some of the top-secret ‘World Wide Intelligence Briefings’ that Rumsfeld provided to Bush were covered with photographs of Americans at war, and captions taken from Scripture. In one, above a huddle of GIs apparently at prayer, is the question famously put by God, Whom shall I send and who will go for Us? Over the soldiers is the answer from Isaiah: Here I am, Lord. Send me. Above a trooper hunched over a machine gun is this promise from Proverbs: Commit to the Lord, whatever you do, and your plans will succeed...

http://tinyurl.com/rynhp7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dean Baker, Truthout: "The boys running the show at Blue Cross in North Carolina are running scared. They're worried that President Obama is going to treat them like autoworkers and make them actually compete in the market. The Blue Cross boys think that they belong in the same league as the Wall Street bankers and should just be allowed to collect their multi-million-dollar salaries without being forced to worry about things like competition."

http://www.truthout.org/052509Y



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Lee Drutman, Miller-McCune Magazine: "In the 2008 election, lower-income Americans voted at significantly lower rates than higher-income Americans. This was not, in itself, news. Just as in 2004, more than 60 percent of voters came from families above the median household income of $50,000. That family income is a significant predictor of individual voting is a long-standing and oft-lamented fact of American political life."

http://www.truthout.org/052509D?n



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The US Treasury is facing an ordeal by fire this week as it tries to sell $100bn (£62bn) of bonds to a deeply sceptical market amid growing fears of a sovereign bond crisis in the Anglo-Saxon world.

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China stuck in 'dollar trap'

China's official foreign exchange manager is still buying record amounts of US government bonds, in spite of Beijing's increasingly vocal fear of a dollar collapse, according to officials and analysts.

http://snipurl.com/irkol


From Information Clearing House



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"If we do no take measures, there is a risk of a serious human and social crisis with very serious political implications," Robert Zoellick said.

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From Information Clearing House



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Disapproval ratings for military efforts in Afghanistan are rapidly rising. In a March USA Today/Gallup poll, 42 percent of respondents said the United States made a mistake in sending military forces to Afghanistan, up from 30 percent in February.

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From Information Clearing House



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Some 20-25 percent of Iraq's estimated 27 million population lives below the country's poverty line, a government survey released on 21 May has found.

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From Information Clearing House

By Phillip Bannowsky

When you consider that virtually no newspaper, broadcaster, well-funded think tank, teacher, or anybody's boss or commander ever said something nice about socialism, it's remarkable that only 53 percent of us still favor rule by the moneyed class. Perhaps folks are learning how capitalism sacrifices happiness for individual gain.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22702.htm

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Socialism, US-style

Hawaii Reporter
by James A. Dorn

06/02/09

Near the end of his term in office US president George W. Bush said: ‘I’m abandoning free-market principles to save the free-market system.’ But he had already significantly increased the size and scope of the federal government. His last act was to bail out General Motors and Chrysler. That trend is continuing in spades under President Barack Obama and the democratic majority in Congress. Federal spending in fiscal 2009 will approach 28 per cent of gross domestic product, and the US budget deficit is expected to be nearly US$2 trillion, or about 13 per cent of GDP...

http://tinyurl.com/p3quox


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Joshua Blakeney

How Those Who Kill Can Enter Canada While Those Who Save Lives Are Barred.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22703.htm



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By Cindy Sheehan

If you watch any one of the cable news networks this weekend between doing holiday weekend things, you will be subjected to images of row upon row of white headstones of dead US military lined up in perfect formation in the afterlife as they were in life. Patriotic music will swell and we will be reminded in script font to "Remember our heroes," or some such BS as that.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22701.htm

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Memorial Day: Let Us Not Overlook Those Wounded in Spirit

The Washington Post: "Today the country is supposed to honor the fallen of all its wars. But 'fallen' is a word for inscriptions and oratory - it doesn't really convey what happens to those caught up in the ghastly business of warfare and subject to all the horrors inflicted by flying metal, high explosives and machines made for destruction. Nor does it quite encompass what happened to many of those who served day after day in constant danger and surrounded by death. They lost something in the country's wars - but not a limb or eyesight or the ability to walk or any essential physical capability. What was lost was a view of life as having meaning, order, security, purpose."

http://www.truthout.org/052509B?n

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Memorial Day in the land of the weak and wussy

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

05/25/09

Whatever we were, we have degenerated into a nation that finds glory in deploying the most advanced high-tech, high-explosive weaponry against some of the world’s poorest people, that justifies killing women and children, even by the dozens, even if by doing so it manages to kill one alleged ‘enemy’ fighter. A nation that exalts remote-controlled robot drone aircraft that can attack targets in order to avoid risking soldiers’ lives, even though by doing so, it is predictable that many, many innocent people will be killed. A nation that is proud to have developed weapons of mass slaughter, from shells laden with phosphorus that burns to death, indiscriminately, those who are contacted by the splattered chemical to elaborately baroque anti-personnel fragmentation bombs that spread cute little colored objects designed to look like everything from toys to food packages, but which upon contact explode, releasing whirling metal or plastic fleschettes which shred human flesh on contact...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff05252009.html



Memorial Day 2009: How about a new meaning?

The Lbertarian Enterprise
by Russell D. Longcore

05/24/09

Memorial Day is meant to honor the men and women who died in military service to the United States of America. Formerly known as ‘Decoration Day,’ it was first established in 1868 to decorate the graves of the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression) dead. … This weekend, there will be memorial services and parades across America in town squares, churches and at cemeteries. Flowers will be strewn and American flags will be in grand display. Politicians will walk the route, and veterans will don old uniforms and walk with them. Twenty-one gun salutes and taps will echo among the headstones. Impassioned speeches will be delivered to patriotic crowds on the goodness of America and the honor and bravery of the fallen soldiers and sailors. And Americans will be remembering all the wrong things. How about a reality check?

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle520-20090524-03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Which way America?
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul530.html

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If Obama Cedes Ground on Torture to Cheney, We'll All Pay a Heavy Price

By Gary Younge

By acknowledging recent crimes while refusing to pursue the criminals, the president has made his position untenable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22704.htm

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Torture debate at times glosses over facts

Tennessean
by Saritha Prabhu

05/22/09

I wasn’t going to write about torture but a recent column on it pushed me to do so. On this page, Thomas Sowell, a syndicated columnist, recently argued vociferously in support of torture. Reading that column and listening to Dick Cheney leaves one with this thought: It is one thing to defend torture but quite another to do it with such relish, that the reader/viewer is left thinking that some torture-defenders would like nothing better than to travel to Guantanamo and personally torture some detainees to satisfy their sadistic impulses. You find that the defenders of torture sometimes conveniently gloss over some facts. Fact No. 1 is that 108 detainees have died in U.S. custody since 2002, according to Human Rights First. According to the U.S. military’s own classification, 34 of these were suspected or confirmed homicides. Human Rights First has further identified 11 detainees who died of physical abuse, and eight who were tortured to death...

http://tinyurl.com/prgxfh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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