World-News

Daan de Wit, Deep Journal: "Under President Obama, Iran continues to dominate the world agenda. Iran is being presented as a crucial problem that must be solved. The Iran Problem is one with several layers. The uppermost layer is that Iran is a potential threat to world peace. What are the facts and the fiction that make up this first layer?"

http://www.truthout.org/obama-continues-bushs-iran-policy57853



Obama Continues Bush's Iran Policy

Daan de Wit, DeepJournal: "The battle against Iran has already begun. War is only one phase of this process - just as it was with Iraq. The preparation is the most important part of the battle. Whoever thought that the preparation for war ended when Barack Obama took office is advised to take note of the views of critical thinker Noam Chomsky in the previous installment of this DeepJournal series. He says that Obama's policy on Iran is a continuation of the policy of his predecessor, President Bush."

http://www.truthout.org/part-ii-obama-continues-bushs-iran-policy58013



Collateral Damages of Smart Sanctions

Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Truthout: "In contradistinction to war, sanctions are widely portrayed as necessary, almost a healthy medicine to bring about change in the opponent’s policies. However, as the history of the West–Iran conflict proves, sanctions have kept the crisis alive rather than contribute to its resolution. Nonetheless, Western governments do not seem to have lost their dubious fascination for them."

http://www.truthout.org/collateral-damages-smart-sanctions57913

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Springtime for Obama

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

On the non-Marxist left, the triumph of the Obama cult is complete. Only the old-fashioned Leninists, such as the main organizers of the ANSWER rallies, have come out in visible opposition to Obama’s wars. Even the Marxist left, however, is not immune to Obama-mania: the other major antiwar coalition, United for Peace and Justice, led by veterans of the old Communist Party, USA, issued a euphoric statement upon Obama’s election and has been essentially moribund as an active antiwar organization ever since. It was in this kind of political atmosphere, then — one of near complete political isolation — that rally attendees heard Cindy Sheehan wonder whether ‘the honeymoon was over with that war criminal in the White House.’ Sheehan’s remark was met, according to AP, with merely ‘moderate applause’...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/03/21/springtime-for-obama/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cindy Sheehan Arrested At War Protest In D.C.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n5g_3ntktw&feature=player_embedded#



Scott Horton Interviews Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan discusses the start of the Peace of the Action civil resistance against war and empire in Washington, DC, the scarcity of both peace activists who are willing to challenge a Democratic president and pro-war hecklers who demand obedience to "Commander in Chief" Obama.

http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/03/19/cindy-sheehan-4/



Whose Streets?

(Our Streets between 1pm and 4pm With a Permit)

By Cindy Sheehan

It seems like we march past empty buildings and shake our fists at them and promise that if those empty buildings don't change their ways, we will be back next year to do the same thing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25064.htm



March 2010 Iraq War Protests

Video

There was a protest or demonstration in over 150 cities the week of March 20th. This video shows video and photos of maybe twenty events across the country combining interviews, speeches, and demonstration observations.

http://pjep.org/resources/detail.php?rid=2396


From Information Clearing House



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We go to Baghdad to speak with Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq. "Privatization, no security for the working class, much investment for multinational companies".

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/19/seven_years_of_war_on_anniversary



In 8 years of war, ranks of amputees have risen steadily

After the blast, something didn't feel right, so 1st Lt. Joe Guyton looked down. Through the swirling dust, he glimpsed the white of his left shinbone. His right leg was gone, instantly vaporized, his uniform abruptly ending at the knee.

http://snipurl.com/uymgg



Medicating the US military

At least one in six US service members is on some form of psychiatric drug.
http://snipurl.com/uyenu



Thousands in U.S. protest against war; seek troop withdrawal

On the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, thousands of people from across the United States today converged on Lafayette Square, opposite the White House in Washington DC. The rally then marched through downtown DC, halting en route at the premises of military contractor Halliburton, the Mortgage Bankers Association and The Washington Post offices.

http://politifi.com/news/Thousands-in-US-protest-against-war-seek-troop-withdrawal-307573.html


From Information Clearing House



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Hohe Opferzahl aufgrund der Beben in Haiti, Chile und Türkei.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688400ms199



Welt ohne Wasser

Geschichte und Zukunft eines knappen Gutes. Wasser ist die Grundlage allen Lebens. Eine Welt ohne Wasser wäre eine Welt ohne Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688380ms199



Singapurs Kampf um Reis und Wasser

Experte: Nicht nachhaltiger Wasserverbrauch führt zu Hungersnot. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688389ms199



Entwicklungsländern droht neue Hungerkrise
Experten fordern rasche Maßnahmen für Fortschritte der Agrarindustrie.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688591ms203

Der Verlust der Lebensräume und der Klimawandel haben ernste Auswirkungen auf die Schmetterlinge, Käfer und Libellen in Europa.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688377ms199



Eisige Zeiten für den Eisbären

EU blockiert besseren Schutz der weißen Riesen.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688392ms199



Artenschutzkonferenz: So viele Schutzanträge bei wie noch nie

Vor einer Aufweichung des Artenschutzes warnt die Tierschutzorganisation ProWildlife. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688397ms199



Unsere Erde - PRO7 | 26.03.10 | 20:15

Mit den ersten Strahlen der Frühlingssonne erwacht in der Arktis eine Eisbärenfamilie: Wird es ihr gelingen, Nahrung zu finden, bevor das lebensnotwendige Eis schmelzen wird? Am anderen Ende der Welt, in der Kalahari-Wüste, versuchen eine Elefantenkuh und ihr Junges, nach einer gefährlichen Wanderung das lebensrettende Wasserloch zu erreichen. Eine Buckelwalmutter muss es schaffen, ihr Jungtier sicher vom Äquator bis zur Arktis zu bringen - eine Distanz von 6000 Kilometern.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688382ms199



Versuchstier des Jahres 2010: Das Schwein

Für dieses Jahr hat die Jury des Bundesverbandes das Schwein zum "Versuchstier des Jahres" gewählt. Tausende Schweine landen jedes Jahr in Deutschland im Tierversuch.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688381ms199



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/19-3



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John Omaha, Truthout: "Can a nation have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)? Can a diagnosis created to understand the dysregulated behavior of individuals be applied to an entire nation? I argue yes on both counts. If a diagnosis can help us understand and treat aberrant behavior, then it doesn't matter if the aberrantly behaving thing is an individual or a nation of 350 million people."

http://www.truthout.org/ptsd-nation57797



PTSD Claims Rise Among Veterans Treated at VA, New Research to Study PTSD and TBI

Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "New statistics show that the number of Iraq and Afghanistan veteran patients being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and who have had PTSD claims approved increased. Also, new research projects are in the works to treat PTSD and traumatic brain injuries (TBI)."

http://www.truthout.org/ptsd-claims-rise-among-veterans-treated-va-new-research-study-ptsd-and-tbi57909



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Mortgage analysts at Barclays Capital in New York estimated that banks and mortgage investors held a total of 645,800 foreclosed homes in January, up 4.6% from 617,286 a month earlier.

http://snipurl.com/uy09t


From Information Clearing House



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Tony Blair's secret links to Gulf oil giants were revealed today as fresh details emerged of his "carte blanche" support for George Bush's Iraq war.

http://snipurl.com/uy06l



Profit From War: Blair's Fight to Keep his Oil Cash Secret

By Jason Groves

Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25037.htm



World will do "whatever it takes" to stop Iran nuke: Blair

"Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons capability. Iran must know that we will do whatever it takes to stop them getting it," Blair told the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, adding it was a matter of global security.

http://snipurl.com/v1e2j



Tony-gate: Blair Strikes Oil in Iraq

By Jayne Lyn Stahl

Mr. Blair isn't the only prominent politician on UI's payroll. Others reportedly include former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke, as well as politicians like Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci, former ambassador to Egypt, Nicholas A. Belites, and U.S. Commander for the Middle East General John P. Abizaid.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25086.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The crisis that wasn’t

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

03/25/10

It might have seemed a no-brainer that the vital security interests of the United States would eventually trump the demands of a small client state that lately has not been much given to rational behavior. But in the latest showdown between the friends of Israel and the Obama Administration the President of the United States blinked first, demonstrating once and for all that no one in the US has the power to say no to Israel. And the truly amazing part was that the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was so confident of the outcome that it didn’t even bother to hide very much of what it was doing, hardly deigning to engage in its usual clandestine arm twisting and slipped under the door ‘position papers’...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/03/24/the-crisis-that-wasnt/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Paul Craig Roberts

The U.S. is on a path to becoming a Third World economy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25027.htm



Greenspan is Back

By Mike Whitney

See? It wasn't Greenspan's fault, after all. It was "the savings glut" or the "undercapitalised banks" or some other such nonsense. The bottom line is that everyone else was to blame for everything that went wrong. Everyone except the Teflon Fed chief, that is.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25034.htm



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"I Encourage Everyone to Join Us on March 20"

A Call To Action - Only the People Can Stop the Wars!

By Ron Kovic

"We can no longer remain silent. Too many have died already. How many more senseless wars, flag draped caskets, grieving mothers, paraplegics, amputees, stressed out sons and daughters, innocent civilians slaughtered, before we finally begin to break the silence of this shameful night?

http://snipurl.com/uy04b


From Information Clearing House

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Antiwar Protesters: "Bombs Don't Bring Democracy"

Yana Kunichoff and Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "Two days before the seventh anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, more than a thousand antiwar protesters marched Thursday in downtown Chicago to chants of 'Obama, don't lie to me. Bombs don't bring democracy!' and 'Money for jobs and education, not for wars and occupation!' The rally is one of many antiwar events being held across the country in places ranging from New York to Utah to Georgia to protest the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

http://www.truthout.org/antiwar-protesters-bombs-dont-bring-democracy57804



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http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/50875


From ufpj-news

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It’s not me, it’s Yoo

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

03/19/10

John Yoo wants you to hate him. That’s kind of his whole point. When he writes op-eds like this one — suggesting President Obama should thank him for enhancing executive power in wartime — what he really wants to do is make you grind your molars into powder. When he tells a room full of undergrads today that for some prisoners locked up at Guantanamo Bay ‘it’s the first time these people have had medical or dental care in their lives,’ — perhaps so that they can have pretty teeth before you hurl them into a wall — he’s doing it to be provoking. It’s an old trick. Focus attention on the witch and the witch hunt, and away from the facts. Unfortunately for everyone, Yoo has been so terrific at making himself the witch in this hunt, he’s made himself the issue. The same screaming masses he says are out to get him won’t let him get a word in edgewise...

http://www.slate.com/id/2248282/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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- Dossier: Bahia la Vérité Crash Airbus Yemenia Airways, BEA le Scandale?
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Airbus.php#1

Opposition spricht bereits vom möglichen Rücktritt des Ministers.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147282



Die untergeschobenen Zivilisten von Kundus

Der Kundus-Untersuchungsausschuss zeigt noch einmal deutlich, warum der ehemalige Verteidigungsminister Jung gehen musste.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32341/1.html

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20. März 2010

Zu Guttenberg muss sich umgehend öffentlich erklären

Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Linken, Klaus Ernst reagiert empört auf die Ankündigung von Verteidigungsminister zu Guttenberg, erst am 22.April zu seiner Rolle in der Kundus-Affäre Stellung zu nehmen. Guttenberg müsse sich umgehend öffentlich erklären, wenn er nicht den Verdacht der Vertuschung verstärken wolle.Andernfalls müsse er vom Parlament zu einer Debatte gezwungen werden. Ernst erklärt:

Der Verteidigungsminister kann nicht ernsthaft glauben, dass er die Öffentlichkeit noch einen ganzen Monat hinhalten kann. Zu Guttenberg muss sehr schnell vor der Öffentlichkeit Stellung nehmen und seinen Beitrag zur Aufklärung der Kundus-Affäre leisten. Er irrt, wenn er denkt, dass er diese Sache aussitzen kann. Die Vorwürfe, die im Raum stehen, sind schwerwiegend. Alles sieht danach aus, als ob er hochrangige Berater für die Vertuschung seiner eigenen Fehleinschätzung geopfert hat. Wenn das so stimmt, dann hat er öffentlich die Unwahrheit gesagt. Diese Vorwürfe muss er entkräften. Das Land kann nicht einen ganzen Monat lang mit einem Verteidigungsminister da stehen, an dem der Verdacht der Lüge klebt. Ich erwarte, dass zu Guttenberg in der nächsten Woche der Öffentlichkeit Rede und Antwort steht. Sonst muss das Parlament handeln und zu Guttenberg zu einer Debatte zwingen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/zu-guttenberg-muss-sich-umgehend-oeffentlich-erklaeren/



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Es ist die Rede von einem Strategiewechsel und einer kleinen Steuersenkung, Dementi inklusive.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32291/1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j82.1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance198.html

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Iraq: Thousands Dead, $747.3 Billion Spent And Not Any Safer



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnnRAf1Yio&feature=digest

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An Iraqi Holocaust: 7th Anniversary Of Invasion Of Iraq

By Dr Gideon Polya

It is the 7th anniversary of the illegal and war criminal invasion of Iraq by US, UK and Australian forces on 20 March 2003. What has been the human cost?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25032.htm



Seeking a 'real' end to Iraq War

On the eve of the the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, American anti-war activists are still calling for a real end to a conflict that has now lasted longer than both world wars and the American Civil War.

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/03/201031993452512230.html



Iraq War Triumphalism Ignores a Key Matter: Dead Civilians

By David Corn

It's rather easy to be a freedom fighter with somebody else's blood.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25041.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Vanity of Vanities: The Iraq War Seven Years Later

Truthout Staff Editorial

In a staff editorial marking the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, the editors of Truthout write: "We are still shocked. We were never awed. We have not adjusted. The senseless waste of our blood and treasure, our honor and our reputation continue. Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom - the latter unleashed seven years ago today - have morphed into a single Operation Enduring Occupation, set to bankrupt this country financially as well as morally, to destroy our own security as it has that of the over 31 million people who populate Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/vanity-vanities-the-iraq-war-seven-years-later57824



Cultural Cleansing in Iraq

Lieven De Cauter, Truthout: "With the anniversary of the war waged on Iraq, I think of what I wrote seven years ago: that this illegal invasion had nothing to do with the war on terror, but was planned well in advance, and was not about democracy but about the destruction of Iraq. I was openly taunted for it. At best, I was considered endearing or pathetic in my anger, but not on the level when it came to world politics."

http://www.truthout.org/cultural-cleansing-iraq57834



Groups Discuss Soldiers' Conscience Issues

Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "On Sunday, more than 80 national religious, academic, advocacy and veterans' leaders will lead a discussion titled, Truth Commission on Conscience in War. The discussion, centering on issues of conscience facing service members in war, will launch the commission's eight-month campaign to bring national attention to decisions of moral and religious conscience facing American service members.

http://www.truthout.org/groups-discuss-soldiers-conscience-issues57831



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Is 'Capitalism' Politically Incorrect?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block153.html

'Capitalism' Yesterday, 'Capitalism' Today, 'Capitalism' Tomorrow, 'Capitalism' Forever
http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block154.html

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Capitalism Is Experiencing An Existential Crisis

Antoine Mercier, Marianne2: Marianne2, with France Culture, has presented a series of interviews by Antoine Mercier with various intellectuals on the subject of the economic crisis. To close the series, economist and epistemologist Christian Arnsperger evokes the existential crisis of capitalism.

http://www.truthout.org/capitalism-is-experiencing-an-existential-crisis58598

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An economy of liars

Cato Institute
by Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr.

04/20/10

Free markets depend on truth telling. Prices must reflect the valuations of consumers; interest rates must be reliable guides to entrepreneurs allocating capital across time; and a firm’s accounts must reflect the true value of the business. Rather than truth telling, we are becoming an economy of liars. The cause is straightforward: crony capitalism...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11706


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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