World-News

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "We have failed to even investigate torturers, yet we have prosecuted and imprisoned millions for lesser offenses. And we allow mass murderers the benefit of constitutional rights that we deny detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. Until policymakers examine and fix these double standards, they will continue to undermine our foreign policy, as well as our domestic criminal justice system."

http://www.truthout.org/article/double-standards-how-our-lawlessness-strengthens-our-enemies



Fear and Paranoia as Guantanamo Marks Its Eighth Anniversary

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "On the eighth anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo, the fate of the 198 prisoners still held is, in many ways, no clearer than it was a year ago. President Obama has released 42 men since taking office on January 20, 2009, but has already admitted that he will miss his self-imposed deadline for the prison's closure on January 22."

http://www.truthout.org/article/fear-and-paranoia-guant%C3%A1namo-marks-its-eighth-anniversary



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The Argus.co.uk

By Andy Chiles

Campaigners have responded angrily to being told a new mobile phone mast can be installed next to a park without planning permission. ...

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4837957.Row_brews_over_Patcham_phone_mast/

By ROBERT GIBSON

Published at 09:40, Friday, 08 January 2010

A PHONE mast is to be sited just 800 metres north of Hadrian’s Wall, despite objections from parish councillors, who described the idea as “completely unacceptable”.

Telefonica O2 UK will be erecting a 27.5 metre lattice tower and base station at West Heddon Nursery, which lies within the official setting of the World Heritage Site.

Read More...
http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/news_at_a_glance/phone_mast_approval_angers_parish_council_1_658218?referrerPath=home

Wie gefangen die Obama-Regierung in den alten Strukturen ist, zeigt die Entscheidung, Reisende aus Kuba neben solchen aus islamischen Ländern schärferen Kontrollen zu unterziehen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31837/1.html



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FDP: Bambi und Spongebob im Opernhaus

Auf ihrem Dreikönigstreffen in Stuttgart beschwören die Liberalen mit verbalem Gehampel die geistig-politische Wende.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31834/1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/07-5

Human Rights Watch (HRW): US: 1 in 10 Children in Juvenile Facilities Report Sexual Abuse by Staff

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/07-3



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Africom commander says U.S. supports Somali government to retake Mogadishu

A senior U.S. military commander said on Tuesday the United States would support the Somali transitional government to retake the national capital Mogadishu.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/10/c_13204093.htm



Folly in Somalia

We and the rest of the world ought to leave the Somalis to their own devices.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041414-374.stm


From Information Clearing House



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Anti-whalers vow “no surrender” as superboat sinks

Agence France-Presse

01/07/10

Defiant anti-whaling activists on Friday vowed to fight on after their high-tech superboat sank in Antarctic seas following a collision with a Japanese ship. Peter Hammarstedt, first officer of the Sea Shepherd group’s ‘Bob Barker’ ship, said the celebrated ‘Ady Gil’ was abandoned in the Southern Ocean after a tow line snapped. … Footage of the incident showed the ‘Shonan Maru 2′ ploughing across the New Zealand-registered Ady Gil’s bow and firing water cannon while its crew dived for safety...

http://tinyurl.com/yc52jc7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Whale Wars: Sea Shepherd Lodges Piracy Charge Against Japanese Whalers
Dan Murphy, The Christian Science Monitor: "Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society allege piracy following the collision between the antiwhaling ship Ady Gil and Japan's Shonan Maru Number 2 earlier this week."

http://www.truthout.org/109108Whale-wars



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Off-Shore Drilling, Auto Emissions, Mountaintop Mining From Obama Administration
http://act.commondreams.org/go/91?akid=11.124981.uDRIl3&t=28



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By William Blum

You get the picture? Boy wonder, intellectual shining light, distinguished leader of men, outstanding American patriot.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24342.htm



A Portrait of Social Misery

By Tom Eley

The new decade finds the US working class suffering a level of social misery not seen since the Great Depression. Unemployment, poverty, hunger, utility cutoffs, homelessness, foreclosures and bankruptcies have become common experiences for millions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24345.htm



Six million in the US with no income but food stamps

Some six million Americans-one in 50 people in the US-are living on no income other than $100 or $200 a month in food stamps, according to an analysis of state data by the New York Times.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j07.shtml



Severe unemployment worsens in cities

The number of U.S. metropolitan areas with jobless rates above 15% increased in November, according to government figures released Tuesday, despite the biggest one-month drop in the national rate in more than three years.

http://snipurl.com/tzyp7



Obama's C-SPAN Lie?

See Eight Clips of Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations.
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/



Make Us All Citizens of the World

By Paul deLespinasse

We must make it a criminal act to give or sell food to anybody who cannot document that they are a citizen or here with official government approval.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24344.htm



Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families

Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits - a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," in one official's eyes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24710.htm



A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods

Shantana Smith, a single mother who had not paid rent for three months, watched on a recent morning as men from Eagle Moving carried her tattered furniture to the sidewalk.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24801.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The Melting of America: The Story of a Can't-Do Nation
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/07-1

Rhode Island's Jobless Tell Different Story About 'Recovery'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/19-5

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Avatar Obama and the United States of Hype

Angel Luis Lara, La Jornada (Translation: Ryan Croken): "We live in the era of hype. The word, which bounces and bounds throughout the matrices of our information age, refers to a cultural product that has been so juiced up with marketing that its popularity takes off independently and regardless of its quality. It is the wrapping that matters: the advertisement is louder, more important and more real than what is advertised."

http://www.truthout.org/article/avatar-obama-and-united-states-hype

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The 2010 political timebomb is unemployment

The Nation
by John Nichols

01/09/10

American employers eliminated 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and sent unemployment soaring into double digits for the first time in more than a quarter century. Since the fall of last year, the official jobless rate has been over ten percent, while the unofficial rate (taking in the severely underemployed and those who have given up looking) has been over 17 percent. And, despite the ridiculous ‘green-shoots’ speculation of the Obama administration and overblown ‘recovery’ fantasies of the financial media that has blown every major economic story of recent years, the situation is getting worse. Analysts had predicted that December layoffs would number around 8,000. Instead, the figure was more than ten times higher: 85,000. Unemployment held steady at 10 percent — not because the job market is stabilizing, but because tens of thousands of Americans gave up looking for work and are no longer counted among the unemployed...

http://tinyurl.com/ydnfr3k



Shadow of homelessness

Freedom's Phoenix
by Nick Bravo

01/28/10

It’s easy for the masses to make excuses about homelessness, that the people who are homeless are crazy, or criminals, or drug addicts, or in some other way the worthless floatasm of society that should be pushed to the edge and out of the sight of ‘polite society.’ The homeless are scorned, ridiculed, pitied, taken advantage of in many ways and where can the homeless go for help? Not the police, the police more often than not are given free range to abuse and victimize the most disenfranchised members of society. In many ways the homeless are the perfect prey for societal predators who sadistically thirst for the thrill of harming one of their own kind...

http://tinyurl.com/ykjrqs8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Geithner's New York Fed Pushed AIG to Keep Sweetheart Deals Secret
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/07-5

AIG Bonuses: Back at the Trough
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/03-7

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Tip of the Iceberg

Eliot Spitzer, William Black and Frank Partnoy, New Deal 2.0: "In a December New York Times op-ed, we called for the full public release of AIG email messages, internal accounting documents and financial models generated in the last decade. Today, a Bloomberg story revealed that under Timothy Geithner's leadership, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York told AIG to withhold details from the public about its payments to banks during the crisis. This information was discovered when emails between the company and the Fed were requested by representative Darrell Issa, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee."

http://www.truthout.org/article/spitzer-black-and-partnoy-tip-iceberg



AIG-Gate: The World's Greatest Insurance Heist

Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner is on his way out as Treasury Secretary due to his involvement in the AIG scandal that is now unraveling in hearings before the House Oversight and Reform Committee."

http://www.truthout.org/aig-gate-the-worlds-greatest-insurance-heist56809

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Bailout watchdog investigating Fed’s AIG secrecy

Thibodaux Daily Comet

01/25/10

An independent investigator is launching two probes into the government’s rescue of American International Group Inc. and the insurer’s subsequent payments of billions to big banks. Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, says the Fed withheld documents he requested when auditing AIG’s ‘backdoor bailouts’ of banks it did business with, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ...

http://tinyurl.com/ygqbech



Pay czar playing hardball with AIG

ABC News

01/25/10

Ken Feinberg, the Obama administration’s pay czar, is insisting that bailout recipient AIG fulfill pledges from its employees to return portions of their controversial 2009 retention payments, ABC News has learned. When the insurance giant — the recipient of a record $182 billion in taxpayer aid — dished out $168 million last March, there was massive popular backlash...

http://tinyurl.com/yffj5nj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Geithner Told To Quit After E Mails Reveal Involvement In AIG Cover-up

John Mica slams Treasury Secretary's "lame excuses" during fiery hearing

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s denial that he played any role in the AIG cover-up is contradicted by emails which confirm that both Geithner and the New York Federal Reserve were both intimately involved in keeping details about payments to banks including Goldman Sachs from the public.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/geithner-told-to-quit-after-e-mails-reveal-involvement-in-aig-cover-up.html



Bloomberg: Maybe A Secret Banking Cabal Does Run The World After All

AIG cover-up proof that "conspiracy theorists" aren't so crazy, writes columnist

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, January 29, 2010

In another measure of how what the establishment labels “conspiracy theory” is quickly becoming mainstream, Bloomberg News carries a story today acknowledging that those derided as “crazy” for warning that the world is run by a secret banking cabal have largely been proven right in light of the AIG cover-up.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bloomberg-maybe-a-secret-banking-cabal-does-run-the-world-after-all.html

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Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows

By David Reilly

The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week's congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24534.htm



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What If The People Of Afghanistan Could Choose?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/07-8

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'Afghan Insurgency Can Sustain Itself Indefinitely': Top U.S. Intel Officer

The Taliban not only has the "momentum" after the most successful year in its campaign against the United States and the Kabul government. "The Afghan insurgency can sustain itself indefinitely," according to a briefing from Major General Michael Flynn, the top U.S. intelligence officer in the country.

http://snipurl.com/u0mci



Obama wants $14.2 billion more to train Afghan forces

President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for another $14.2 billion to train Afghanistan's army and police over the next two years, a move a key lawmaker welcomed on Monday as part of a long-term U.S. commitment to that country's military.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100126/pl_nm/us_afghanistan_usa_training


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- Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR "OUT" : Mode d'emploi Copropriétaires
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Kampf um das Korn von morgen

In bevölkerungsreichen Ländern werden die Anbauflächen für Nahrungsmittel knapp, zudem soll Biosprit künftig den Treibstoffbedarf der Welt zumindest teilweise decken. Deshalb versuchen manche Staaten, Land in Entwicklungsländern zu kaufen oder zu pachten, um dort die gewünschten Pflanzen für den Eigenverbrauch anbauen zu können.

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Ein weiterer interessanter Artikel zu den Auswirkungen von Agrarenergie in Deutschland:

Ärger um Biogasanlage
Kalter Krieg in Ostfriesland

Ein Bauer in Ostfriesland bringt ein ganzes Dorf gegen sich auf - weil er eine Biogasanlage bauen möchte. Kollegen sorgen sich um die Bodenpreise, Nachbarn fürchten Gestank, Naturschützer warnen vor Umweltschäden. Das Problem: Mit Energiepflanzen lässt sich mehr Geld verdienen als mit Milch.

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/0,1518,664487,00.html


Reinhard Behrend
Rettet den Regenwald e. V.



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- Telefonia mobile e sanguinamento dal naso.
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Batley News

By Adam Wolstenholme

THE trustees of a Batley beauty spot were furious when a mobile phone mast was installed without them having chance to object. ...

http://www.batleynews.co.uk/news/Signal-of-fury-over-Batley.5960540.jp

Published Date: 07 January 2010

AS the four Councillors for Ponteland we are deeply concerned about the possible erection of a phone mast next to the school in Darras Hall and right in the middle of a residential area. We are asking serious questions of Northumberland County Council in this matter. The Council has a duty to explain why a clear decision to refuse this by Councillors has not been implemented and then to take all possible steps to stop this in its tra...

http://www.morpethherald.co.uk/news/Phone-mast-didn39t-get-our.5962056.jp



Phone company flexible over mobile mast site

Morpeth Herald

By ANDREW COULSON

PLANS to put up a controversial mobile phone mast next to a Ponteland school are not yet set in stone. Telefonica O2 announced last month ...

http://www.morpethherald.co.uk/news/Phone-company-flexible-over-mobile.6000503.jp

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Darras Hall O2 mast proposal put on hold

A controversial plan for a mobile phone mast outside a popular Northumberland school has been formally put on hold - as pressure grows from politicians and ...

http://ponteland.journallive.co.uk/2010/01/darras-hall-o2-mast-proposal-p.html

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Renewed talks on phone mast plan

Hexham Courant

By BRIAN TILLEY

HOPES have been raised that the political hot potato that is the mobile phone mast outside Darras Hall First School can be cooled down. ...

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/news-at-a-glance/renewed-talks-on-phone-mast-plan-1.674392?referrerPath=home



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The meaning of ists

Reason
by Jacob Sullum

One of the Bush administration’s most pernicious legacies is the never-ending War on Terrorism, a perpetual state of emergency that supposedly authorizes the president to break the law, abridge civil liberties, and ignore due process, all under a cloak of secrecy. Last week former Vice President Dick Cheney accused the Obama administration of forsaking Bush’s War on Terrorism. If only it were true...

http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/06/the-meaning-of-ists



Is Dick Cheney unpatriotic?

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

01/06/10

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been railing against President Barack Obama for being weak-kneed on terrorism and failing to interdict the BVD bomber’s recent attempt to blow up a plane. Cheney seems to want us to put aside his own administration’s abysmal record on the subject — ignoring warnings and failing to prevent the most deadly foreign attack on U.S. soil in American history, failing to prevent the similar shoe bomber’s attempt to bring down an aircraft, and using 9/11 to launch invasions of Muslim countries that led to an increase in terrorist attacks worldwide — and thus tries to make us believe Republicans are better at countering terrorism than Democrats because, well, they’re Republicans...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2698



That’ll show’em

Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

01/06/10

As Matt Yglesias has argued, every Al Qaeda attack via the civil aviation system — even the failed ones — leads to new security measures that impose additional real costs on air travel and the sectors of the American economy dependent on it. Richard Reid tried to smuggle a bomb in his shoe, and everyone now has to take their shoes off before boarding. Someone was rumored to be planning an attack with liquid explosives, so now everyone’s searched for shampoo bottles. If Al Qaeda were really smart, they’d have somebody smuggle a bomb in their rectum; the resulting TSA policy of rectal searches for everybody would shut down the entire airline industry and throw the U.S. the rest of the way into a Great Depression. Every time the U.S. national security state reacts to another terrorist incident, you can almost hear Bin Laden and his cronies giggling in a cave somewhere: ‘Look! They’re doing it! The stupid schmucks are doing it! Hee hee hee!’...

http://c4ss.org/content/1655



The Weird Factor

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimdondo

01/11/10

The Weird Factor seems to intensify whenever there is some significant event in our ongoing ‘war on terrorism,’ or whatever they’re calling it these days. My longtime readers will be familiar with my theory of how this works. Briefly: on Sept. 11, 2001, the impact of those airliners as they hit the Twin Towers sent us careening into an alternative dimension where up is down, right is left, and torture is the American Way — in short we landed in Bizarro World, where we have been trapped ever since. The post-9/11 cognitive shift that heralded our entry into this alternate dimension is amplified around these incidents, and certainly the most recent — the midair antics of the Undie Bomber — underscores the Weird Factor at its absolute weirdest...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/01/10/the-weird-factor/


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Will the TSA wake Americans up?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers118.html



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In dem korrupten Staat findet bereits ein Bürgerkrieg statt, den Islamisten kommen Mitglieder der erfolgreichen somalischen Shabab-Milizen zu Hilfe.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31823/1.html



"Man braucht Guantanamo nicht, um Attentäter vor Gericht zu stellen"

Roger Willemsen über die Situation der ehemaligen Guantanamo-Häftlinge und die Enttäuschung über Obamas Politik.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31822/1.html



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Legacy of War: Iraq Littered With High Levels of Nuclear and Dioxin Contamination, Study Finds
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/23-2

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Poison Bullets: Depleted Uranium Factor Covered-up?

Video Report By RussiaToday

Poison Bullets follows doctors and experts as they voice their opposing views in the DU controversy and travels to the US, Great Britain, Jordan, Iraq and Spain, where we meet many of those who are victims of both DU-related diseases and the indifference of government officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24349.htm



Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds"

Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites - Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in report.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/iraq-nuclear-contaminated-sites


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Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers: "Dazed and blood-spattered, an Iraqi woman stumbled among the bodies of her relatives Wednesday on a strip of highway south of Baghdad where a US military convoy had struck a passenger van in a deadly accident. Badriya Hussein whispered prayers over the blanket-covered bodies and then looked at the stricken American soldiers standing nearby. 'Why?' she asked. 'Why?'"

http://www.truthout.org/0106094



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Mike Elk, Truthout: "Whatever happened to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)? Is it dead? I remember sitting in a meeting last May with Senate staff who said that after Al Franken was sworn in, EFCA would be an eight-week fight and then a vote in the Senate. It has been nearly eight months and there still has been no vote, not even in committee."

http://www.truthout.org/0106091



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Time is running out for US-led forces in Afghanistan and their Afghan government allies to reverse the Taliban insurgency, the United Nations outgoing envoy to Kabul said on Wednesday.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c0b4f3ee-fafe-11de-94d8-00144feab49a.html



Afghanistan a gold mine for security companies

Private military companies are being criticized for profiteering from the conflict in Afghanistan while the number of deadly attacks keeps rising and the local population remains in an insecure environment.

http://rt.com/Politics/2010-01-06/afghanistan-gold-mine-security.html



Blackwater wants $1 billion to train the new Afghan police force

Blackwater, mercenaries known around the world for their brutality, might get the contract to train the Afghan police? In what world does this seem like a good idea?

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/23043



Afghans Losing Hope After 8 Years of War

According to Bashardost, about 80 percent of the country is without electricity and unemployment is 60 percent. Many families can only afford to eat once a day and corruption is so rampant, "it's practically legal," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/10/world/AP-AS-Afghanistan-Losing-Hope.html


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Retired Army General Predicts 300 to 500 Casualties Per Month in Afghanistan

Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "The US could see as many as 300 to 500 soldiers killed and wounded per month in Afghanistan as 30,000 additional troops are sent to the country to launch a major offensive against insurgents, retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey said in a recent report."

http://www.truthout.org/0107094



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By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans think they have freedom and democracy and live under the protection of the rule of law. The law is lost, and with it American liberty.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24338.htm



The Rule of Law Has Been Lost

By Paul Craig Roberts

What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein's theory of relativity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24444.htm



The Coming Fury Of An Angry America

By Aetius Romulous

A tiny part of a tiny part of the population of the earth will set the terms for the future of all humans. A tiny part that is broken, spent out, and increasingly disillusioned.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24340.htm



Wall Street Poltergeist: The Return of Robert Rubin

By Mike Whitney

Face it; the Obama administration is less interested in engineering a strong recovery than they are with micromanaging a protracted downturn. That's because a long drawn-out mini-Depression puts the Rubin troupe right where they want to be---with one hand choking the life out of the economy while the other steals whatever is left in the national vault.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24341.htm



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By Gareth Porter

New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons programme.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24339.htm



The Mushroom Effect

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

One could be forgiven for thinking that the neoconservatives who nudge us towards war with Iran are under the effect of the magic mushroom. Obsessed with Iran, their trips take on the shape of a 'mushroom cloud'. Christopher Hitchens is one such example.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24367.htm



Nuclear Deceit - The Times And Iran

By kanan48

On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran's nuclear programme that revealed "a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosion". - The Times had no doubts about the authenticity or significance of the document.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24404.htm



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Tyranny and Finance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/chodorov/chodorov18.1.html



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