World-News

In a report issued on Tuesday, the New American Foundation said that the US military has launched 114 airstrikes in Pakistan since 2004 and stated that one third of the people who have been killed were Pakistani civilians.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119903&sectionid=351020401



Former Pakistani Officer Embodies a Policy Puzzle

By CARLOTTA GALL

"The Taliban cannot be forced out, you cannot subjugate them," he said. "But they can tire the Americans. In another three to four years, the Americans will be tired."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24914.htm



U.S. Attack Kills 5 People In Pakistan

A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at least five people and wounding four others, officials said Monday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35764481/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/



US kills 12 people in Pakistan

Two suspected US drone attacks on Wednesday in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border killed at least 12 people, intelligence officials said.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/12-killed-in-US-drone-strikes-in-Pak/H1-Article1-517631.aspx



US kills up to 16 in Pakistan

Two successive bombing raids by unmanned spy planes hit a building and vehicles late Wednesday in North Waziristan, a bastion of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/urzzd



Extrajudicial Killing: US kills 11 people in Pakistan

US drones fired at least four missiles at two rebel hideouts in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency, killing 11 suspected militants and injuring two others, TV news channels reported.

http://snipurl.com/uvipy



US Attack Kills Nine People In Pakistan

The first strike, made up of five missiles, targeted a (suspected) militant compound and a vehicle in Mazoni village, about 10 km west of North Waziristan's main town of Miranshah. Two missiles were fired into Datta Kheil area, 40 km west of Miranshah, in the second attack.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0317/pakistan.html



US kills 10 people in Pakistan attacks

Ten more militants were killed and two others sustained injuries in two separate US drone attacks on Hamzoni and Mezar villages in North Waziristan on Wednesday.

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?225651



Pakistan: US missiles kill four

MSNBC

03/21/10

Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles Sunday at a house and car in a militant-dominated tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four people, officials said. The attack occurred in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, two intelligence officials said. The drones fired three missiles, they added, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media...

http://tinyurl.com/y9cschs



US Kills Another 8 People In Pakistan

At least eight people were killed and four injured in two suspected US drone strikes in Pakistan's northwestern tribal district of North Waziristan Sunday, security officials said.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/614733/cs/1/



Pakistan: Two killed in yet another target killing incident

Two people were killed in an incident of target killing in Panjgoor town of Balochistan on Tuesday.

http://snipurl.com/v0tw6



US Kills 4 People In Pakistan

"We have confirmation of four deaths, so far. The death toll could be more," an intelligence official in the area said.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20100323223209542C903985



CIA may face prosecution for drone's raids in Pakistan

The US government's refusal to offer legal grounds for CIA's drones bombing raids in Pakistan may result in CIA officers facing prosecution for war crimes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121594&sectionid=351020401


From Information Clearing House

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As drones multiply in Iraq and Afghanistan, so do their uses
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100303/ts_csm/284491

CIA drone attacks produce America's own unlawful combatants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103653_pf.html


Informant: Kev Hall

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One in Three Killed by US Drones in Pakistan Is a Civilian
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/04-1


Informant: Ashley Smith

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Pakistan: Five killed in US drone attack

MSNBC

03/08/10

A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at least five people and wounding four others, officials said Monday. The house was located in Miram Shah in North Waziristan. There was no information on who was targeted in the attack, although the U.S., in recent months, has stepped up drone strikes on alleged Taliban and al-Qaida suspects in the region...

http://tinyurl.com/yhcgzx3



Pakistan: North Waziristan drone kills 10

Daily Times [Pakistan]

03/17/10

US drones fired four missiles at a house in North Waziristan on Tuesday, 40 kilometres west of the agency headquarters near the Pak-Afghan border, [allegedly] killing 10 Taliban. The airstrike occurred around 12:45pm in Manzarkhel village located in Dattakhel tehsil. … it was not clear who was targeted in the strike in the Dattakhel region, two officials said on condition of anonymity. An unknown number of people were injured...

http://tinyurl.com/yc9n43n



Pakistan: US missiles kill three

USA Today
03/23/10

A suspected U.S. missile struck a house in northwest Pakistan close to the Afghan border Tuesday, killing three people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The identities of the victims in Miran Shah in North Waziristan were not known, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media...

http://tinyurl.com/yfgboox


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Drones Obama’s weapon of choice for killing militants in tribal areas
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9462/



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The former White House political adviser blames himself for not pushing back against claims that President George W. Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses, calling it one of the worst mistakes he made during the Bush presidency.

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Money for Wars and Weapons, While More Americans Face Joblessness and Hunger

By Jo Comerford

The latest federal budget opens the American public to yet more pain, while shielding the military and the rest of the national security establishment from the same.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24907.htm



Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way

By Matthew Jaffe

Even as many Americans still struggle to recover from the country's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, another crisis -- one that will be even worse than the current one -- is looming, according to a new report from a group of leading economists, financiers, and former federal regulators.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24903.htm



Mass Layoffs Increase in January

Employers laid-off 182,261 workers, seasonally adjusted, in 1,761 mass layoff events last month, the Labor Department said Tuesday. A mass layoff is when a single employer terminates at least 50 people.

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Postal Service to shed another 30,000 jobs

The U.S. Postal Service said on Tuesday that it would reduce its workforce by another 30,000 positions and slash overtime this year in an effort to reduce costs.

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15,000 S.F. workers face layoffs, shorter weeks

More than 15,000 San Francisco city workers across all departments will receive layoff notices Friday, and most of them will have the option of being rehired to work a shorter week, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/02/BA471C9UVR.DTL&tsp=1



More consumers file for bankruptcy protection

The economic recovery effort has not slowed consumer bankruptcy filings. They surged 14% in February compared with a year earlier, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2010-03-03-bankruptcy03_ST_N.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Paul Craig Roberts

A desperate government, which has wasted $3 trillion invading countries that pose no danger to the U.S. and wasted more trillions of dollars combatting a crisis brought on by the government's failure to regulate the financial sector, is likely to steal people's pensions as well as to gut Social Security and Medicare.

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Video

Congressman Ron Paul speaks on the floor about assassinations of Americans by their own government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24911.htm



Obama Authorizes Murder of US Citizen

Muslim cleric Aulaqi is 1st U.S. citizen on list of those CIA is allowed to kill

By Greg Miller

Because he is a U.S. citizen, adding Aulaqi to the CIA list required special approval from the White House, officials said. The move means that Aulaqi would be considered a legitimate target not only for a military strike carried out by U.S. and Yemeni forces, but also for lethal CIA operations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25155.htm



Does the Flag Condone Murder?

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

If the killers were not waving US flags, they would be called murderers. Terrorists. Terrorizing civilians to achieve political change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25159.htm



U.S.-born cleric added to CIA "kill list"

This makes al-Awlaki only the second U.S. citizen since 2001 whom CIA agents have authorisation to kill or capture.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article390979.ece


From Information Clearing House

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Deep background

The American Conservative
by Philip Giraldi

Even in World War II, the United States did not attempt to assassinate U.S. citizens who went over to the enemy, but that has now changed with President Obama’s overseas contingency operations. On Feb. 3, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that the United States government has developed procedures for killing American citizens abroad who are ‘involved’ with groups threatening to carry out terrorist acts directed against other Americans. Three U.S. citizens have already been approved by the White House for summary execution as soon as actionable intelligence is developed to enable a pilotless drone’s hellfire missiles to do the killing... (for publication 04/01/10)

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/apr/01/00021/



Does the US government understand the terrorist threat?

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

03/31/10

Most Americans just assume that the U.S. government’s actions to protect them from terrorism, if not perfect, are rational, based on sound information and analysis, and undertaken with the intention to protect the most people possible. But the government’s response here to the tragic bombings on the Russian subway should raise questions about such assumptions...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2758



Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of US citizen

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

04/07/10

No due process is accorded. No charges or trials are necessary. No evidence is offered, nor any opportunity for him to deny these accusations (which he has done vehemently through his family). None of that. Instead, in Barack Obama’s America, the way guilt is determined for American citizens — and a death penalty imposed — is that the President, like the King he thinks he is, secretly decrees someone’s guilt as a Terrorist. He then dispatches his aides to run to America’s newspapers — cowardly hiding behind the shield of anonymity which they’re granted — to proclaim that the Guilty One shall be killed on sight because the Leader has decreed him to be a Terrorist...

http://tinyurl.com/ykrnegz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Targets US Citizen for 'Kill or Capture'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/137?akid=17.124981.0dNHOc&t=2

Should Obama Have Authorized the Killing of a Muslim Cleric?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/162?akid=18.124981.AuEovH&t=16

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Obama Administration Authorizes CIA to Kill US Citizen

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a US citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year."

http://www.truthout.org/obama-administration-authorizes-cia-kill-us-citizen58358



Assassination of US Muslim Cleric Is Illegal, Immoral and Unwise

Bill Quigley, Truthout: "Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue, this is illegal, immoral and unwise."

http://www.truthout.org/assassination-us-muslim-cleric-is-illegal-immoral-and-unwise59363



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„Das Grundrecht auf Gewährleistung eines „menschenwürdigen Existenzminimums“ (…) sichert jedem (…) diejenigen materiellen Voraussetzungen zu, die für seine physische Existenz und für ein Mindestmaß an Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen, kulturellen und politischen Leben unerlässlich sind.“ Es „hat (…) absolut wirkenden Anspruch (…). Es ist (…) unverfügbar und muss eingelöst werden.“ „Auf Deutsch,“ so Vallenthin, „Da gibt’s nichts dran zu rütteln!“

Vollständiger Artikel unter:

http://www.sozialticker.com/hartz4-plattform-fordert-justizministerin-leutheuser-schnarrenberger-auf-die-freiheit-des-rechts-auf-leben-zu-schuetzen_20100303.html



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ZEIT ONLINE

Hannover (dpa) - Ob am heimischen PC oder bei Gespräch übers Handy, beim Einkauf mit der Kreditkarte oder der Fahrt in der S-Bahn: Der moderne Mensch ...

http://www.zeit.de/newsticker/2010/3/2/iptc-bdt-20100302-586-24088788xml

Eine Metastudie sieht die Frage, ob Computerspiele Gewalt fördern, als beantwortet an, jetzt gehe es darum, wie man mit dem Risikofaktor gesellschaftlich umgehen soll.

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Der Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband greift mit der Feststellung, dass "wer arbeitet, auch am Monatsende immer mehr Geld zur Verfügung als jemand, der erwerbslos ist" in die Hartz IV-Debatte ein.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147178



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Brüssel sagt ja zur BASF-Kartoffel
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147181



BASF-Kartoffel ist manchem Stärkehersteller zu heiß

Industrievertreter äußern Zweifel, weil Kunden für die "Grüne Gentechnik" nicht offen seien.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147184

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Genkartoffel Amflora: Warum man die Grüne Gentechnik hassen darf

STERN.DE

Eine Verunreinigung von 0,9 Prozent in Lebensmitteln ist daher freigegeben - dieser Grenzwert gilt auch für andere gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen. ...

http://www.stern.de/wissen/natur/genkartoffel-amflora-warum-man-die-gruene-gentechnik-hassen-darf-1548279.html

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EU erlaubt Anbau der Gen-Kartoffel Amflora

Gentechnik kommt durch die Hintertür.
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Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS): Scientists to Congress: Don't Force the EPA to Ignore the Science, Global Warming Does Threaten Public Health

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Stephen Rohde, The Daily Journal: "On February 19, the Department of Justice released the long-awaited 261-page Report of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which concluded, among other things, that in his legal memos on torture and presidential power, John Yoo had 'committed intentional professional misconduct when he violated his duty to exercise independent legal judgment and render thorough, objective, and candid legal advice.' A senior Justice Department official, acknowledging that he had not reviewed all the documents available to the OPR, found that Yoo exercised 'poor judgment' and that Yoo's memos were 'flawed,' 'one-sided and conclusory' and 'wrong,' in various respects, but nevertheless declined to accept the report or refer Yoo for disciplinary action, leaving this decision to the state bars. Given what we now know, here is the memo John Yoo should have submitted to President George W. Bush."

http://www.truthout.org/the-torture-memo-john-yoo-should-have-written57317

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How John Yoo and His Young Apprentice Tortured Health Care

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Last Sunday, Nancy Pelosi vowed to wrangle up the votes needed to pass a health care bill even if it meant some Democratic lawmakers would be voted out of office in November's midterm elections. 'The point is we have a responsibility here ... ' Pelosi said later on CNN's 'State of the Union,' explaining the urgency in passing legislation. If only Pelosi and other Democrats applied the same aggressive attitude toward holding Bush administration officials accountable for implementing a policy of torture against 'war on terror detainees' after 9/11."

http://www.truthout.org/how-john-yoo-and-his-young-apprentice-tortured-health-care57334

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CREW Sends FOIA to DOJ Seeking Copies of Torture Memo Author John Yoo's Emails
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/03-12

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John Yoo’s email fail

Mother Jones
by Nick Baumann

03/10/10

Government investigators can’t find the Bush lawyer’s emails. His explanation makes about as much sense as his legal rationale for torture...

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/john-yoo-email-fail


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By James A. Lucas

The U.S. was the main force that created the conditions that allowed the Mujahideen and the Taliban to come to power because of the support it gave 20 to 30 years ago to the most violent and anti-democratic forces within Afghanistan who ruled ruthlessly.

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This Is Getting Good

By Joe Klein

Senate Republican, Jon Kyl of Arizona, makes clear, the Republicans are turning toward a form of reactionary radicalism that is well to the right not only of traditional conservatism, but also of post-Victorian concepts of government and--not to put too fine a point on it--of common decency as well.

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By Michael Savage

An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken - with Foreign Office mandarins warning that an invasion would be illegal, that it would claim "considerable casualties" and could lead to the breakdown of Iraq, The Independent can reveal.

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Special Relationship? Why Britain's Affair With the U.S. Is Over

By CATHERINE MAYER

If anyone still doubts that George Bush and Tony Blair were the closest of allies, the text of a July 2002 note from the U.K. premier to the U.S. President, revealed in a new book, should dispel any lingering skepticism. "You know, George, whatever you decide to do [about Iraq], I'm with you," Blair assured his friend.

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Jeder zehnte Hartz-IV-Aufstocker arbeitet im öffentlichen Dienst. Nicht Lidl und Co., sondern der Staat ist der größte Lohndrücker im Lande. Artikel von Jens Berger auf Telepolis vom 02.03.2010 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32175/1.html

Aus dem Text: „Die Tarifverhandlungen im Öffentlichen Dienst sind am Wochenende ohne ein wirklich befriedigendes Ergebnis für die Beschäftigten beendet worden. 1,15% Lohnsteigerung pro Jahr entsprechen noch nicht einmal dem Inflationsausgleich und sind de facto eine Reallohnkürzung. Doch viele Beschäftigte im öffentlichen Sektor wären bereits zufrieden, wenn sie überhaupt im Rahmen eines der Tarifverträge beschäftigt werden, die sich an den Löhnen im Öffentlichen Dienst orientieren...“


Aus: LabourNet, 2. März 2010

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Vorwurf der Ausbeutung: Juristen reichen Hungerlohn-Klage gegen Lidl ein

„Lidl gerät erneut in die Kritik. Das Unternehmen wirbt offensiv mit guten Arbeitsbedingungen und fairen Löhnen bei Zulieferern in der Dritten Welt. Doch diese Botschaft entspricht möglicherweise nicht der Wahrheit. Verbraucherschützer und Bürgerrechtler verklagen jetzt den Discounter…“ Artikel von Hannes Koch auf Spiegel-Online vom 08.04.2010 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/0,1518,687643,00.html

Siehe dazu:

Die Schönfärberei der Discounter - Klage gegen Lidl’s irreführende Werbung

Die Studie von der Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung, verlinkt bei der Initiative des European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
(pdf) http://www.ecchr.org/index.php?file=tl_files/Dokumente/Wirtschaft%20und%20Menschenrechte/Studie%20Klage%20gegen%20Lidl.pdf


Lidl lohnt sich - nicht für die Arbeiter_innen

Das etwas andere Faltblatt will verwirren, aufmerksam machen, informieren und zum aktiv werden anregen. Verbreitung tut gut. Denn mit fair ist es bei Lidl nicht weit her. Download als PDF-Datei beim INKOTA-netzwerk e.V. http://www.saubere-kleidung.de/ccc-50_materialien/ccc-51_aktionsmaterial.html#lidladbusting


Wie steht's um Fair statt prekär?

Berliner GEW verlängert Kampagne in Jugend- und Sozialarbeitsbranche. Interview von Peter Nowak mit Andreas Kraft, Betriebsrat und Fachgruppenleiter für Kinder, Jugend und Sozialarbeit in der Bildungsgewerkschaft (GEW) Berlin, im Neues Deutschland vom 3.04.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/168396.wie-steht-s-um-fair-statt-prekaer.html


Aus: LabourNet, 9. April 2010



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Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

03/02/10

America glorifies conflicts and the righteousness of waging them, packaged as liberating ones for democracy, freedom, justice, and the best of all possible worlds. Obama is just the latest in a long line of warrior leaders promising peace by waging war, justifying them by bogus threats, and calling pacifism unpatriotic to further an imperial agenda for greater wealth, power, and unchallengeable global dominance...

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War is peace: Robert Gates edition

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

03/01/10

For Orwellian Government Statement of the Month, allow me to nominate this gem from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who warned that ‘the demilitarization of Europe — where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it [is] … an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st.’ So according to our Secretary of Defense — itself an Orwellian title at this point — the greatest danger to peace (not to mention America’s ability to rule the world through mass invasions and occupations) is a desire on the part of Europeans to avoid war...

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Who Poses the Greater Threat?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams24.html



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

03/01/10

When it comes to dealing with the thorny question of how to close Guantanamo, the remaining prisoners have been caught between two competing systems since President Obama took office last January, and the result, to put it mildly, has been confusing. Under President Bush, prisoners were cleared for release by military-review boards, established to review the supposed evidence against them, and to determine whether they constituted an ongoing threat to the United States...

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Independent Institute
by Charles Pena

A recent NATO airstrike in the province of Uruzgan — against what was thought to be a convoy of Taliban insurgents on their way to attack Afghan and foreign military forces — killed at least 27 Afghan civilians, including four women and a child. In February, more than 50 Afghan civilians are believed to have been killed in more than half a dozen U.S. and NATO military operations. The good news is that ‘collateral’ civilian casualties have dropped since Gen. Stanley McChrystal took over as the commanding general in Afghanistan, and he has apologized publicly for the casualties on Afghan national television. The bad news, however, is that — although they are fewer than before — civilian casualties are counterproductive to counterinsurgency. Although there is a military component to successful counterinsurgency, it is largely about winning hearts and minds. Killing innocent civilians — even unintentionally — is a prescription for defeat...

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Counterinsurgency isn’t “progressive”

Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

04/30/10

That it should even be necessary to point out that counterinsurgency is not a kindler and gentler form of warfare utterly astounds me. The U.S. operation in South Vietnam — Operation Phoenix, strategic hamlets, free fire zones, and all the rest of it — was a counterinsurgency. Ditto the Soviet operation in Afghanistan, the Brits in the Boer republics, the Spanish in Cuba, the American suppression of the Moros in the Philippines, the Japanese counterinsurgency in Manchuria, the Belgians in the Congo, and all the rest of it. All these operations aimed at the same general objective: preventing an occupied population from supporting an insurgency it sympathized with. And they all followed the same rulebook: herd the civilian population into glorified prison camps where they could be controlled, shooting everything that moved outside, and if necessary resorting to terror when support for the insurgency continued...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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McChrystal's Support for Raids Belies New Image
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/31-6



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Empire, Oligarchy and Democracy
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American oligarchy

The Weekly Standard
by Christopher Caldwell

[E]very time the president accuses Republicans of trying to ‘block progress’ or of defying ‘common sense,’ as he did that night, he is executing a dangerous tightrope walk. His party’s electoral fortunes depend on his making forceful calls for reform of our banking laws. His party’s fundraising fortunes depend on his ensuring that no serious reform — of the kind that endangers the big banks’ size and power — ever happens. That may be why the Democrats’ strategy of painting the Republicans as obstructionists on finance reform has gained little traction. By the same token, if Republicans ever did get serious about reforming the banks — and even about breaking up an industry that has turned into a Democratic war chest — they would put Democrats in mortal peril. There seems no chance of this. Obama’s taunts show a confidence, verging on certitude, that Republicans’ hypocrisy is as deep as his own... (for publication 05/10/10)

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Telepolis

Ein RFID-Chip unter die Haut scheint also vielen gar nicht mehr so schlimm zu erscheinen. Das sollte aber erschrecken, weil tatsächlich das alltägliche ...

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Nachricht aus dem Grab per RFID

tomshardware.com

Die Firma Objecs hat RFID-Sender im Portfolio, die am Grabstein angebracht werden und über kurze Strecken kurze Nachrichten an die Handys der ...

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Köter mit Chips

Spiegel Online

Per RFID-Chip könnte man Herrchen und Hund auch aus leichter Distanz identifizieren Englands Regierung will Hunden RFID-Chips einspritzen lassen. ...

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Could Obama be their downfall?

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Rob Sandwell

02/28/10

Something got people to believe. Not just fall for it. Not just vote enthusiastically, all the while knowing in their hearts that nothing of substance would be done. This time, people really believed. And now, two years in, there is no change, and people are losing hope. And I think, at least for some, this is finally it. They’ve hit bottom, and like any other addict, they may finally be ready for real change. We know Obama isn’t changing anything. He’s continued the same tax policy as Bush. He’s continued the same invasion of privacy. Same foreign adventurism. Same terrorism policies with regards to detainees and tribunals. Same corporate welfare programs. H..., he even overturned the ban on federal funding of stem cell research only to sign it back into law two days later. Of course, I don’t support state funding of science, I’m simply pointing out what an obvious fraud he is...

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