World-News

World Health Organisation ‘Mr Swine Flu’ Under Investigation For Gross Conflict Of Interest
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/f65cf62180e6d499?hl=de

Pharma Inside The WHO
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/5327cd28778dc0cb?hl=de

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WHO Denies Link Between Swine Flu Vaccine and Illnesses, Deaths

New evidence of vaccine side effects, and growing reluctance of the public to accept this vaccine, is resulting in many of them not being used.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/12/WHO-Denies-LiInk-Between-Swine-Flu-Vaccine-and-Illnesses-Deaths.aspx



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- Arte: "Victimes des ondes Les réfugiés de la technocratie" (vidéo Haute Définition 16/9)
http://www.next-up.org/France/EHS.php#1

Ende November genehmigte die EU-Kommission den Genmais MIR604 des Agrochemiekonzerns Syngenta für den Import in die EU, nachdem vorher bereits drei Genmais-Sorten von Monsanto und Pioneer zugelassen wurden. Die Zulassungen dienen dazu, die Einfuhr gentechnisch verunreinigter Futtermittel in die europäische Union zu legalisieren und damit die bisherige europäische Nulltoleranzpolitik auszuhebeln. „Die Zulassung neuer Genmais-Sorten ist eine Verbeugung vor dem amerikanischen Gen-Imperialismus," kritisiert Harald Nestler, Vorstand beim Umweltinstitut München.

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FreedomWorks
by Matthew Clemente

12/08/09

This morning, President Obama held a press conference to outline his second multibillion dollar stimulus proposal. Unlike the administration’s $787 billion ’stimulus’ bill which has fallen short of its goal to ’save or create’ millions of jobs, this proposal aims to really ’save or create’ jobs. And, as is to be expected from the Obama White House, the plan to solve the problem that $787 billion in spending could not fix is to throw even more taxpayer money at it...

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Moody’s tells US: Put your financial house in order

Main Street Radical
by James

12/08/09

On the eve of Obama’s trip to Denmark, in which he may announce new spending plans for developing countries, Moody’s is poised to send a warning that America’s triple-A credit rating is at risk. For generations the country has relied on deficit spending and the strongest credit rating to manage the country’s finances. This new chink in our fiscal armor is a direct result of the fact that our government faces a trillion dollar deficit for the next 10 years, and sends a clear message that Congress, the President and the American people must rein in deficit spending. A reduction in America’s credit rating can only lead to higher interest rates as the Treasury will have to make our debt more attractive to lenders...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Nation
by William Greider

12/08/09

The sales pitch for financial-reform legislation pending in the House claims it would put an stop to ‘too big to fail’ bailouts for the leading banks. The reality is the opposite. The federal government would instead be granted unlimited authority to spend whatever it takes to prop up the big boys when they get in trouble. Only in the next crisis, Congress won’t have to be asked for the money. The financial rescues will be funded by the secretive Federal Reserve, not the Treasury, with money the Fed itself creates. And the emergency lending could be pumped into any financial institution in trouble. … This sounds nutty and it is. A permanent security blanket for big boys of finance will further inflame public opinion. Only the public isn’t likely to know...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/greider


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Independent Institute
by Randall Holcombe

12/08/09

President Bush provided the initial bailout for GM and Chrysler in December 2008, so it’s reasonable to look back a year later and ask: Was the bailout necessary? Did it work? In hindsight it is readily apparent that the answers are: No, and No...

http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=4357


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bloomberg

12/09/09

U.S. homeowners have lost about $5.9 trillion in value since the housing market peak in March 2006 as mounting foreclosures and the recession weighed on prices, according to Zillow.com. Almost half a billion dollars was wiped out this year through Nov. 30, as the market headed for a third straight annual decline. New foreclosures and higher mortgage rates in 2010 may hinder a rebound, the property data service said today in a statement...

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CDU- und FPD-Politiker wollen den Leiter des Instituts für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen durch einen pharmaindustriefreundlicheren Kontrolleur ersetzen.

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Die Behauptung, Saddam Hussein könne binnen 45 Minuten mit Massenvernichtungswaffen Unheil über die halbe Welt verbreiten, stammte laut Angaben eines britischen Parlamentariers wesentlich von einem Personen transportierenden Kleinunternehmer.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146701

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/08-0

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It’s about the horrible policies, stupid

Delaware Libertarian
by Tyler Nixon

12/08/09

Obama is now convincingly a minority president. No, I don’t mean racially. I mean Obama now joins George W. Bush not only in the continuation of neocon foreign policies and big government profligacy, but (inevitably) that this is leading him to now consistently poll below 50% approval … and falling. The public’s fast-growing disapproval of Obama’s arrogant power-mongering should come as no surprise, except perhaps for the most oblivious and purely-partisan hopechangers now hunkering down in the bunker...

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The antiwar right: Our time is near

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/09/09

Neocons like Reihan Salam are worried that Republicans will soon ‘begin to abandon the president en masse over Afghanistan.’ As well they might be: Salam, a self-described advocate of ‘a Pax Americana foreign policy,’ and a fellow at the New America Foundation — a corporate-funded let’s-promote-’new’-but-safely-conventional-ideas, formerly headed up by James Fallows — knows his enemies, and is preparing to meet them, albeit not head on. Before the battle is joined, however, he wants to define the enemy — in his own terms, of course...

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So much for the peace presidency

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

12/08/09

This Thursday, Barack Obama will swing by Oslo to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize — just over a week after he announced that he’d escalate the war in Afghanistan. Awkward. When Obama won the prize in October, you had to wonder whether the self-esteem movement, where every kid gets a trophy, had made its way from little league to the Nobel Committee. Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr. — and a guy running two wars, who’d been president for two weeks when nominations closed?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11034



My friend the president

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

12/08/09

Over the past couple of days, Andrew Sullivan has linked to and published protests from various individuals who are quite angry that people ‘on the left’ are being so mean to President Obama, and several of them are so upset that they have decided they are ‘leaving the left,’ whatever that might mean. What’s most striking about these valiant defenses of Obama is how utterly devoid they are of any substantive points and how, instead, suffuse with weird, even inappropriate, emotional attachments they are. These objections are grounded almost exclusively in (a) a deep-seated conviction that President Obama is a good and just man who means well; (b) their own rather intense upset at seeing him criticized; and (c) a spitting ad hominem fury of the type long directed by Bush followers at any critics of their leader, and generally typical of authoritarian attacks on out-groups critics...

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The spending wars

The American Prospect
by Paul Waldman

12/08/09

When Rep. David Obey, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, recently proposed a surtax that would pay for the Afghanistan War, the collective response from most of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle was, ‘Are you nuts?’ Nancy Pelosi quickly put the kibosh on Obey’s ‘Share the Sacrifice Act,’ and all talk of funding the war has been banished. Meanwhile, Democrats have spent untold hours debating how to finance health-care reform, all while Republicans carp about how doing so is just too darn expensive, what with our ever-climbing deficit. We’ve become used to this contradiction in Washington. Wars just need to be fought; the defense budget just needs to keep growing; and we don’t really care what it costs...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_spending_wars



Prop up the GOP by scaring Americans?

Fox News Forum
by Ellen Ratner

12/07/09

How is it that coverage of the healthcare reform debate has now moved off the front pages of two of our country’s major newspapers and has been reduced to nothing more than a brief summation in today’s editions of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times? With healthcare accounting for somewhere between one sixth and one seventh of our total economy, a weekend of Senators debating reform and the topic front and center as one of the major concerns cited by voters, it is amazing that the story is not at the top of the headlines. It is, however, one of the hot topics on talk radio debate and with the American public...

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Supporting “acts of government” makes you guilty

Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner
by Kent McManigal

12/07/09

Face it; those who cheer the executioner are no different than those who cheer or defend the police, the military, or any government agency. Support of government can’t be justified...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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We've Ignored King on War

By Rusty Nelson

Dr. King's Nobel lecture is filled with memorable lines. It's incomprehensible to me that Obama could ignore or contradict so many great quotes in his own speech, although we're accustomed to lip service to King's memory from apologists for war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24418.htm



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Will Ron Paul Vote Against His Own Bill to Audit the Federal Reserve?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul616.html

Statement Introducing the Free Competition in Currency Act
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul619.html

Ron Paul’s Fed-Bashing Wins Over Lawmakers Wary of Bank’s Power
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul618.html

Ron Paul's Hour of Power
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan122.html

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Blame Bernanke
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/08-6

For the Feds, Some Wall Street Firms Are Too Big to Punish
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/09-3

Bernanke Must Go
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US General: Afghan Violence to Rise
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/09-10

Afghanistan's 'Bravest Woman' Pins Hopes on USA, Not Obama
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/09-7



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Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "A former Guantanamo prosecutor was wrongfully fired by a government agency for writing critical op-eds about military commissions, according to the ACLU. The civil rights organization alleges that the firing violated the ex-prosecutor's First Amendment and due process rights."

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The government has been accused of misleading parliament over the rendition of two alleged militants captured in Iraq and then turned over to the Americans to be secretly sent to Bagram in Afghanistan. One of the men has allegedly gone mad and is being treated for mental problems, according to the legal charity, Reprieve.

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Study faults Guantanamo death probe

Minimum standards 'not met' in investigation into alleged suicides of three detainees.
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From Information Clearing House



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U.S. President Barack Obama will not shirk from mentioning Afghanistan and his decision to send more troops to the war zone when he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize this week, the White House said on Monday.

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By Ron Paul

One has to ask, if the people who elected these leaders so obviously do not want these wars, who does? Eisenhower warned of the increasing power and influence of the military industrial complex and it seems his worst fears have come true.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24133.htm



Going South

By Ximena Ortiz

Disproportionate military spending threatens economic wellbeing. Industry has its hand so deep in the government's purse that private enterprise is becoming public property. The currency falters, the infrastructure crumbles. And a supine media, once a watchdog of the powerful, happily licks the strongman's hand.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24132.htm



The United States, its abandonment of law and worse

By Christopher King

We have entered a period of government lawlessness, led by the United States, with inevitably serious consequences for everyone. Nuclear war is a possibility.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24139.htm



Larry Summers is Steering the Economy Towards "Structural Adjustment"

By Mike Whitney

There's no fixed number of greenbacks in a vault at the Treasury which limit how much the federal government can spend. Since the US pays its debts in its own currency--it can print as many dollars as it pleases.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24136.htm



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By John Byrne

A British parliamentarian claimed in an report published Tuesday that an Iraqi cab driver was the source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

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Am Briefkasten, nachts, um halb vier ... Kurzfristig eingeschobene Kündigungen

„Eine bemerkenswert rustikale Strategie verfolgte ein kurzentschlossener Arbeitgeber, der mit dem Betriebsrat vor Gericht in einem Vergleich ausgehandelt hatte, dass vor Weihnachten keine Kündigungen ausgesprochen und Verhandlungen über Kurzarbeit aufgenommen würden. Der Gerichtsvergleich war widerruflich geschlossen worden, so dass dieser erst am Folgetag um 12.00 Uhr wirksam würde. (..) Da dem Arbeitgeber der geschlossene Vergleich bis auf die Sache mit den Kündigungen zusagte, widerrief er nicht, sondern ließ noch in der Nacht allen 198 Beschäftigten noch vor der Frühschicht kündigen - teilweise durch Einwurf nachts um vier in den Briefkasten…“ Artikel von Markus Kompa in telepolis news vom 07.12.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146695


Stress im Job: Beschäftigte im Dauerstress

„In vier von fünf Betrieben arbeiten Beschäftigte dauerhaft unter hohem Druck. Das zeigen Auswertungen einer aktuellen Betriebsrätebefragung. Häufigste Ursache für den Dauerstress ist zu wenig Personal…“ Pressemitteilung der IG Metall vom 01.12.2009 http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A456501-AF02B262/internet/style.xsl/view_2715.htm

Siehe dazu: Arbeitsbedingungen: Leistungspolitik stresst Belegschaft

„In Deutschlands Unternehmen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren eine neue Leistungspolitik ausgebreitet - und mit ihr Zeitdruck und seelische Belastungen. Hektik, Überlastung und die Angst vor dem Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes - solche Stressmomente sind in Unternehmen inzwischen weiter verbreitet als körperliche Belastungen. Selbst in Firmen mit einem hohen Anteil gewerblich Beschäftigter machen den Belegschaften vor allem psychische Probleme zu schaffen, berichtet Elke Ahlers. Die Arbeitswissenschaftlerin hat eine WSI-PARGEMA-Befragung von über 1.700 Betriebsräten zu Gesundheitsproblemen am Arbeitsplatz und den Ursachen ausgewertet. Dauerhafter Arbeitsdruck sei nicht mehr nur eine Angelegenheit der Führungskräfte. Er habe inzwischen den Kern der Belegschaft erreicht und erfasse vor allem mittlere Angestellte mit Fachausbildung. So arbeiten in 84 Prozent der Betriebe manche Beschäftigte ständig unter hohem Zeit- und Leistungsdruck; in 43 Prozent gilt das sogar für große Teile der Belegschaft. Von starken körperlichen Belastungen berichtet dagegen nur jeder fünfte Arbeitnehmervertreter. Laut ihrer Studie erklärten 79 Prozent der Betriebsräte, dass die seelischen Belastungen in den vergangenen drei Jahren zugenommen haben…“ Böckler Impuls 19/2009 http://www.boeckler.de/32014_102179.html


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Dezember 2009

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What do most of the British know that all those receiving the swine flu vaccine don’t?

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Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

12/07/09

As America’s founding fathers clearly understood war is a serious business and should only be engaged in when there is a threat to vital national interests. The US Constitution stipulates that there must be a declaration of war from congress, a safeguard inserted in the document to prevent presidents from going to war without a clear national consensus behind them. Nevertheless, even though the federal government has fought many wars in the past hundred years only two were preceded by an actual declaration by Congress, World War I and World War II. Every other war has been both illegal and unconstitutional, including the current involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on various fronts in the so-called global war on terror...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=419


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Während die Arbeitslosigkeit gesunken sein soll, wurden erneut sechs Regionalbanken geschlossen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146690



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Rainforest Action Network (RAN): Hundreds Rally at W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/07-10



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Obama Administration OKs Oil Drilling in Arctic off Alaska
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/07-13

Obama Offshore Oil Plan a Disaster for Wildlife and Climate
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The real reason for drilling

Fox Business News
by John Stossel

03/31/10

Today, the President is set to announce his new energy plan which includes allowing oil drilling off Virginia’s shoreline – a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling: White House officials pitched the changes as ways to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and create jobs — both politically popular ideas — but the president’s decisions also could help secure support for a climate change bill languishing in Congress. I applaud the President’s willingness to finally allow some drilling off America’s coasts but, let’s be honest: this is not going to make a dent in our ‘reliance’ on foreign oil. We consume 20 million barrels per day, and produce only 5. We could drill everywhere that we’re not allowed and we’d probably only goose production up to 6 million...

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Dean Baker, Truthout: "The United States has more than 15 million people unemployed. This is not their fault. It is the fault of really bad policy decisions by people who get paid more than almost all of the unemployed ever did or ever will. The failure of economic policymakers to recognize and attack an $8 trillion housing bubble led to the downturn. The continuing failure of economic policymakers to think creatively is why 15 million people remain unemployed."

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Is US Prepared to Care for More Casualties From Troop Buildup?

David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: "As the Obama administration ramps up the war in Afghanistan, veterans advocates say the government must develop a better plan to handle the wounded when they come home. Eight years of war have overtaxed the health care systems that treat service members and veterans, several said, and President Barack Obama's decision to deploy 30,000 to 35,000 more troops in Afghanistan will compound the stress."

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Veterans Group Calls On Soldiers to Refuse Orders to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "In response to President Barack Obama's announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization March Forward!, with comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called on all soldiers to refuse their orders to deploy. 'March Forward! calls on all service members to refuse orders to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq,' reads a press release from the group from December 3. 'We offer our unconditional support and solidarity. Join us in the fight to ensure that no more soldiers or civilians lose their lives in these criminal wars.'"

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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers in testimony before Congress that a long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for the Bush administration on torture will be released at the end of the November."

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White House wants suit against Yoo dismissed

The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of a terrorism suspect, saying federal law does not allow damage claims against lawyers who advise the president on national security issues.

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David Margolis: Hatchet Man for Holder/Obama on OPR Torture Memos Report Firedoglake (blog) ... a form of mind control. The phenomenon of "CP" was first observed in the post-traumatic reactions of Korean War military and civilian POWs. ...

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Neue Klima-, Handels- und Agrarpolitik gefragt

Biolandwirte, Wissenschaftler und Umweltschützer fordern eine Agrarwende.
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Surging Into Disaster
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The Shame and Folly of Obama's Afghan War
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The Bush-Obama War

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Now it's Barack Obama's war. After campaigning against "George Bush's War" in the Middle East, Obama has escalated that war. By transferring thousands of America's forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, and by sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, the liberal Democrat has demonstrated that his administration is not so different from that of his "conservative" Republican predecessor. While I was crisscrossing America during the campaign season last year, I repeatedly........

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Meanwhile...

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Ever since President Obama's speech last Tuesday, all media, political and public attention has been focused exclusively on the war in Afghanistan. The president mentioned Iraq a few times in the speech, mostly to blame that situation for the situation in Afghanistan. At one point, however, he seemed to be making the shocking claim that the war in Iraq has been a success. 'We have given Iraqis a chance to shape their future, and we are successfully leaving Iraq to its people,' he said. Hm."

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White House Chorus: We Will Occupy South Asia for 'Long Time'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/07

Escalating Afghan War Mocks Hopes of Peace, Good Will
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/07-9

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Best performance in a farce

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

12/08/09

Within the last 11 months, while 500 coalition soldiers have perished and thousands have been wounded on the battlefields of Afghanistan, the Obama administration has treated the rest of us to an elaborate, Oscar-worthy performance of how to act in charge from the back seat of a car. In other words, instead of approving the tens of thousands more in reinforcements military leaders said they needed to win right away, the president spent most of 2009 trying to look deliberative and in charge — and pleasing no one. Turns out the escalation was hardwired from the beginning. He’ll do what the military wanted all along. It makes one wonder which is worse — the escalation itself, or leaving the operation foundering in virtual limbo for a year while this kabuki theater ran its course...

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The march of folly

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

12/07/09

It will be a long and unnecessary war. President Obama is sending 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to prove that the US can impose its will on the country and crush by military means what is still a relatively small scale insurrection. The real reasons for escalating the conflict are very different from those declared by Mr Obama...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick12072009.html


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