World-News

William Fisher, Truthout: "The state board responsible for licensing - and disciplining - psychologists in Louisiana is 'fighting awfully hard to turn a blind eye to serious allegations of abuse' brought against one of its members, who is being accused of complicity in beatings, religious and sexual humiliation, rape threats and painful body positions during his service as a senior adviser on interrogations for the US military in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

http://www.truthout.org/10300910



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http://preventdisease.com/news/09/103009_vaccine_sterility_immunotoxicity_neurotoxicity.shtml

Obama Administration Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15860



Informant: Dorothee Krien



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- Sommeil et antennes relais : "un Curé, deux Curés,...trois Curés = l'évidence"

- Le Progrès "St-Étienne-du-Bois : l'antenne-relais empêche-t-elle les curés de dormir ?"

http://www.next-up.org/pages/EglisesAntennesRelais.php

Journal Live - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

ATELECOMS giant is facing a second rejection of plans to put up a mobile phone mast in the heart of one of the region's most upmarket housing estates ...

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/10/30/phone-mast-plan-set-to-be-rejected-again-61634-25048394/

The Weekly Standard
by Gary Andres

10/29/09

In his book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, historian Rick Perlstein argues the seeds of today’s polarized politics were sown during the 1960s and 1970s. He traces the fault lines of contemporary controversies such as marriage, abortion, the environment, the role of government and even the very terms of our national self-image, back to this earlier period. President Nixon stepped into those stormy times and helped define a language of politics still used today — a ’silent majority’ of middle-class, conservative-leaning, middle-American ‘people of faith,’ versus a more cosmopolitan, secular, and liberal-leaning ‘live and let live’ crowd. Perlstein’s formulation may be oversimplified, but President Barack Obama pledged to end it. He promised ‘change’ and to stop the polarized politics of the past. He asserted America was on the brink of death by division. We needed to come together. But now President Obama stands at the edge of the same abyss. And many believe he has fallen into the same swamp of bitterness and polarization he promised to end...

http://tinyurl.com/yhww7hq



Defining Afghanistan down

Slate
by John Dickerson

10/28/09

What will Afghanistan look like when American troops leave? President Obama will have to answer that question in the coming weeks at the same time he announces whether he’ll be sending new troops into the fight. The answer will help define success for the military — and it’s also key to selling Obama’s new strategy to the public. Obama probably will manage expectations by setting them very low. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said that no one should expect Afghanistan to be a paradise. That’s an understatement of an understatement, given the level of government corruption and widespread instability. The country likely to emerge from U.S. occupation may well look like Bangladesh...

http://www.slate.com/id/2233835/



Only one genuine way to support the troops

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/27/09

A few days ago, New York Times columnists Bob Herbert and David Brooks engaged in an online conversation in which they lamented that the American people are not doing enough to support the troops who are occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. They said that Americans just aren’t taking these ‘wars’ seriously and should be engaging in much more shared sacrifice for the sake of the troops. It would be difficult to find greater imperialistic nonsense than that...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-10-27.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CounterPunch
by David Macaray

Even though Peace Corps volunteers aren’t experts on political policy or international relations, they do know a thing or two about cross-cultural exchanges. If you were to ask any ex-volunteer who they think would be the worst possible choice for an emissary or ambassador to a foreign country — particularly one expected to mingle at the village level — they’d tell you it would be a soldier...

http://counterpunch.org/macaray10292009.html



Can human rights win the war?

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

10/29/09

When Marine Reserve Gen. Douglas Stone addressed New America’s Counterterrorism Conference last week, he almost sounded like a human-rights activist. Calling the Constitution a ‘Human Rights Document,’ Stone declared that the fight against terrorism wasn’t just a physical one but ‘a historic debate about the rule of law and human rights,’ taking place on ‘the battlefield of the mind.’ Stone’s battlefield was once the detention centers of Iraq, where he worked to reform the system after the Abu Ghraib scandal, reducing recidivism and therefore the flow of fighters to the insurgents. The same thing, he said, needs to happen in Afghanistan, where prison conditions and lack of due process are creating favorable conditions for the Taliban and al-Qaeda to radicalize the imprisoned. ‘What if exactly what we’re doing in detention is exactly what the enemy wants?’ Stone asked. ‘Is that not aiding and abetting the enemy?’

http://tinyurl.com/ykrfypb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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10/29/09

Tennessean

A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000. A child-care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the help of stimulus money. Instead, it gave pay raises to its existing employees. Elsewhere in the U.S., some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two, three, four or even more times. The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president’s $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program’s first progress report...

http://tinyurl.com/ygl344j


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Der UN-Sonderbotschafter Alston verlangt Aufklärung über das Programm, das gegen internationales Recht verstoßen könnte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31409/1.html



Keine Unbeteiligten getötet?

Die Untersuchung des von Deutschen angeforderten Luftangriffs auf zwei entführte Tanklastwagen in Afghanistan wirft mehr Fragen als Antworten auf.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146449



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Bill Quigley and Deborah Popowski, Truthout: "The Louisiana board that licenses psychologists is facing a growing legal fight over torture and medical care at the infamous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. In 2003, Louisiana psychologist and retired Col. Larry James watched behind a one-way mirror in a US prison camp while an interrogator and three prison guards wrestled a screaming, near-naked man on the floor."

http://www.truthout.org/1029091



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Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "President Barack Obama signed a Defense Department spending bill into law Wednesday, which includes a provision that will change the way military commissions are structured. Human rights organizations and legal advocacy groups believe these controversial Bush-Era commissions primarily deny defendants the protections that federal courts provide and have responded with disappointment to their inclusion in defense legislation by a president who, during his presidential campaign, was quoted as saying he would 'reject the Military Commissions Act.'

http://www.truthout.org/1029098



Military Commissions Revived: Don't Do It, Mr. President!

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "I was so delighted that the Defense Authorization Act, signed into law by President Obama on Wednesday, included a hard-won concession that the administration can transfer prisoners from Guantanamo to the mainland to face trials (even though the legislation still bears the fingerprints of interfering lawmakers, and still, scandalously, prevents any innocent man from being rehoused in the country that falsely imprisoned him) that I overlooked two other distressing facts."

http://www.truthout.org/1103095



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William Fisher, Truthout: "The long road to the proverbial 'day in court' just got longer for five men who claim they were 'disappeared' and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency."

http://www.truthout.org/10290912



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The new rules have given F.B.I. agents the most power in national security matters that they have had since the post-Watergate era.

http://documents.nytimes.com/the-new-operations-manual-from-the-f-b-i#p=1



Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns

One section lays out a low threshold to start investigating a person or group as a potential security threat. Another allows agents to use ethnicity or religion as a factor - as long as it is not the only one - when selecting subjects for scrutiny.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/us/29manual.html?_r=1


From Information Clearing House

The covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, Raw Story has found.

http://snipurl.com/swrpg


From Information Clearing House



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"The president began the meetings on the assessment with saying we were not leaving Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/swrkg



What's the payoff for staying in Afghanistan?

It's a little frustrating to hear these various voices making their arguments for or against Afghanistan. Each one sounds persuasive, each makes a good case for his or her point of view. But here's the question I have: What is there in Afghanistan for the United States?

http://snipurl.com/swrks



Security Council to hold closed meeting on Afghanistan

The United Nations Security Council is set to hold a crisis meeting on Afghanistan following a Taliban attack on a Kabul guesthouse that killed UN staffers.

http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109953&sectionid=351020403


From Information Clearing House



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By Thomas R. Eddlem

The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people's telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently, including new buildings in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Antonio, Texas.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23838.htm



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By Kim Carlyle

We must look back. And we must hold accountable the men and women who have broken our laws, tarnished our honor, and spit on our ideals.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23845.htm



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Taliban Take Over Afghan Province

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23837.htm



U.S. To Protect 10 Afghan Population Centers

By Thom Shanker, Peter Baker and Helene Cooper

Under the strategy officials described yesterday, the administration now is looking at protecting Kabul, Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kunduz, Herat, Jalalabad and a few other village clusters. The first of any new troops sent to Afghanistan would be assigned to secure Kandahar, the spiritual capital of the Taliban, seen as a center of gravity in pushing back insurgent advances.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23836.htm



U.S. Dependence On Afghan Warlords

By Gareth Porter

U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency forces depend on Afghan warlords for security, according to a recently published report and investigations by Australian and Canadian journalists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23840.htm



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BBC World News: "REFUGEES FROM RADIOWAVES" (video report HD)
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS_Refuge_Zone.php#2

- EUROPEAN SURVEY On the biological and health symptoms experienced by people living close to relay antennas.

In the face of the present unprecedented increase in artificial microwave radiation in the environment, there is a vital need to obtain up to date information as a basis for a comprehensive assessment of the impact of this radiation on people's health. This questionnaire for the general public is easy to fill in and anonymous. For it to be credible and representative it is essential for it to be circulated widely in Europe and worldwide so that we can amass the maximum statistical data. Designed originally in a printed version by Dr Roger Santini, it has been updated so that people who live close to relay antennas can give the full details of their experience. The statistics gathered from this enquiry will be sent anonymously to scientists and health organisations for analysis and publication. Please help circulate this questionnaire.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/sullivan-m1.1.1.html



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Well-Written, Well-Timed: The Dollar Meltdown
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/goyette7.1.1.html



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Another Child Given Swine Flu Vaccine Without Consent

Health authorities flagrantly disregarding refusal of consent in pursuit of mass vaccination mandate

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, October 29, 2009

A boy in Ohio has received the swine flu vaccine despite the fact that his mother clearly refused consent for her child to be inoculated, in another example of how health authorities are blatantly disregarding the wishes of parents in the pursuit of a mass vaccination mandate.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/another-child-given-swine-flu-vaccine-without-consent.html



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ACLU: President Signs Law Giving Defense Department Authority to Exempt Photos From Freedom of Information Act.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/10/29-7



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Haste mal ´ne Billion?
http://www.cbgnetwork.de/downloads/Jahrestagung2009.pdf



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Information Clearinghouse
by Mike Ferner

10/28/09

In a statement directed to the U.S. House of Representatives, President Obama and its membership, Veterans For Peace urged its chapters to demonstrate opposition to the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan …. no one — NO one, but us is going to stop the killing; neither the President nor the Congress. We can beseech them, ask them, demand from them that they stop the killing and bring all the troops home. But until we exert the power of massive resistance to the Empire that only we can exert, it will keep rolling over Afghanis, Iraqis, Pakistanis and whoever else that is in its way...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23828.htm



Guantanamo laureate

National Review
by Victor Davis Hanson

10/28/09

Candidate Obama often sounded as if he had always assumed that Bush first created Guantanamo as a monument to his Constitution-shredding paranoia, and only later filled it with largely innocent prisoners. At one point Obama offered his Senate office to help lawyers sue on behalf of Guantanamo prisoners. But as President Obama has discovered — just as he has dropped his campaign talk of ending renditions, tribunals, wiretaps, and intercepts, and of rapidly withdrawing from Iraq — Guantanamo is a bad choice among a number of worse ones...

http://tinyurl.com/yjs6l2n


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama's Real Death Panels

By Ted Rall

No one man--not even a young, handsome, likeable one--should be able to have anyone he wants whacked. Even in dictatorships, the right of life and death is reserved for judges and juries operating under a system purportedly designed to support impartiality and a search for the truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23835.htm



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

10/28/09

After railing against Senators and Representatives for their cowardly, uninformed, and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from bringing any Guantanamo prisoner to the U.S. mainland for any reason — even for trials — which I wrote about most recently in an article entitled ‘Dick Cheney’s Pawns On Guantanamo,’ I’m delighted to report that, last Tuesday, the Senate finally saw sense, voting, 79 to 19, as part of a $42.8 billion bill for Homeland Security, to accept that the administration can bring prisoners to the U.S. mainland to face trials...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0910i.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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hpd.de

Problematisch werde das in Verbindung mit dem Einsatz sogenannter RFID-Chips. Dabei handelt es sich um winzige Chips, die an die Ware geklebt sind. ...

http://hpd.de/node/8085



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The American Prospect
by Tim Fernholz

10/28/09

Amid last fall’s financial chaos, executives from Wachovia, at the time the fourth-largest commercial bank in the country, had bad news for their regulators: They were broke. Federal officials deliberated and decided Wachovia was so important to the economy that the government had to save it. It was only the latest in a series of financial institutions that regulators had deemed ‘too big to fail.’ In the preceding months, the government had bailed out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Bear Stearns, and Congress had passed the controversial $700 billion bill to fund yet more financial-sector rescues. Some of the institutions, like the insurance company American International Group (AIG), weren’t even banks...

http://tinyurl.com/ylk6cau


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Ivan Eland

10/28/09

Although President Barack Obama has more empathy for the opinions of the Islamic world than his predecessor and seems to vaguely understand that they do affect U.S. security, he doesn’t seem to understand specifically that U.S. meddling in and occupation of Muslim countries inflames Islamic radicals and is the main cause of blowback anti-U.S. Islamist terrorism. In Afghanistan, Obama has already thrown in more troops and will probably be goaded by the military and conservatives into further escalation. This despite a timeline that appears to indicate that the insurgency grows as a reaction to increased foreign presence in the country...

http://tinyurl.com/yglg2pj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

10/28/09

More than seven in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president, according to a new national poll. Seventy-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning believe the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee is not qualified to be president, with 29 percent saying she does have the credentials to serve in the White House. Republicans appear split, with 52 percent saying she’s qualified and 47 percent disagreeing with that view...

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Am Wochenende wurden erneut sieben Banken geschlossen und damit sind schon mehr als viermal so viele wie im gesamten Vorjahr.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146436



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/10/28-2



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/10/28-13



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On Tuesday, the figures showed that shoppers have a grim outlook for the future, The Conference Board said, expecting a worsening business climate, fewer jobs and lower salaries.

http://snipurl.com/svmza



Mortgage applications slide

Mortgage Bankers Association says demand for home loans waned last week, even as 30-year rate eased closer to 5%.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/28/real_estate/mortgage_rates/



Lack of health care led to 17,000 US child deaths

Lack of adequate health care may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 US children over the past two decades, according to a study released by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Lack_of_health_care_led_to_17_000_U_10292009.html



The Auto Bailout Isn't Over: GMAC May Get More Aid

If you hoped the auto bailout had ended when Chrysler and General Motors emerged from bankruptcy, you might want to stop reading.

http://snipurl.com/swrps



Dollar, bonds rise as consumer confidence falls

Consumer confidence in the United States soured as the worst labor market in a quarter century increased concerns over the likely extent of an improvement.

http://snipurl.com/swrpz



New jobless claims climb more than expected

The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September from 9.7 percent, the department said earlier this month, as employers cut 263,000 jobs. The recession has eliminated a net total of 7.2 million jobs.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33427918/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/



New home sales take surprise tumble

Sales of new homes dropped unexpectedly last month as the effects of a temporary tax credit for first-time owners started to wane.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33505013/ns/business-real_estate/


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Atonement

A conscience-stricken member of the House Armed Services Committee is writing a book called "My Daddy's Not Dead Yet" in hopes it will atone for what he now considers his sinful vote to empower former President George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003.

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There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn't led to anything close to victory.

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Schumer: True cost of Afghan stability could be too high for America

"It cost us $6 trillion and 4,500 lives, approximately, to bring stability to Iraq," Schumer told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Just in terms of the loss of life and treasure, do we want to do the same exercise in Afghanistan?"

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Afghan president's brother on CIA payroll for 8 years: report

The CIA pays Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the CIA's direction in and around Kandahar.

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By Bill Van Auken

Under conditions of growing unemployment and deepening social misery for working people throughout the US, President Barack Obama flew into New York City Tuesday to raise millions of dollars in campaign donations from America's financial elite.

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Is Capitalism on the Ropes?

Interview with Michael D. Yates and Fred Magdoff

By Mike Whitney

Corporate America began to wage what turned out to be a one-sided war against working people in the mid-to late-1970s, when it became apparent that the post-World War Two "Golden Age" of U.S. capitalism was over.

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Lieberman Twists the Knife

By Robert Scheer

Is there a more hypocritical figure in American politics than Joe Lieberman? The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any health care reform bill that has a public option-even the version with the "trigger" compromise accepted by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe-because it might cost money.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23832.htm

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TARP-Loving Joe Loves Bailing Out Banks but Not Providing Healthcare
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/28-11

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TARP on Steroids

David Sirota, Truthout: "I recall that September day like it was yesterday - the explosion so stunning, so memorable. It wasn't 9/11/01, it was 9/29/08 - a moment when a rare blast of populist democracy briefly singed the economic terrorists who hold the Capitol hostage. It had been a dark and stormy month of financial collapse, culminating in an attempted power grab. Pushed by his fellow Wall Street Ponzi schemers, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson - a former Goldman Sachs CEO - was threatening Armageddon unless Congress ratified his pamphlet-sized decree for a no-strings-attached bank bailout. The straightforward proposal, backed by President George W. Bush and President-to-be Barack Obama, would have turned Paulson into King Henry - a despot allowed to autonomously dole out $700 billion to any of his business cronies."

http://www.truthout.org/1102094

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Little Joe

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Senator Joe Lieberman managed to shoehorn himself into the center of the national debate over health care reform last week with his announcement that he would filibuster any health care legislation that contained any kind of a so-called 'public option.' Lieberman, the erstwhile Democrat turned Independent from Connecticut, went on 'Face the Nation' on Sunday to reassert his opposition in no uncertain terms."

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By AFP

"You have the really problematic bottom line that the CIA is running a program that is killing significant numbers of people and there is absolutely no accountability in terms of the relevant international laws,' Alston said.

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No One Else Will Stop The Killing

Veterans' Group To Members: Multiply Resistance By Any Peaceful Means Possible

By Mike Ferner

The American Empire is a mighty machine. We will need to make common cause with all those living in the heart of Empire who are also its victims. We know who they are. We see them every day - on the streets, where we work, where we shop, where we pray, where we play.

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Obama's Extra-judicial Killers

By Nat Hentoff

"Many national security experts interviewed for this story agree that it has become so hard for the U.S. to detain people that in many instances, the U.S. government is killing them instead."

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Drone Race to a Known Future
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/11-2



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OBAMA’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY
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How the body Responds to Vaccinations
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