World-News

By Laura King

The father's eyes reddened with tears as he hefted an English textbook that had belonged to his ninth-grade son, Habibuddin. The boy, along with eight other people, was shot dead this month when American special-operations forces swooped down on the family's remote mud-brick compound in the dead of night.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25531.htm



Grayson's Smart Calculus Makes War Cost Real for Taxpayers

By John Nichols

"What George Orwell wrote about in 1984 has come true. What Eisenhower warned us about concerning the 'military-industrial complex' has come true," the congressman argues. "War is a permanent feature of our societal landscape, so much so that no one notices it anymore."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25539.htm



Ahmed Wali Karzai - From waiter to 'King of Kandahar'

With ties to his brother's government and links to local warlords and drug kingpins, Ahmed Karzai has become patron and a powerbroker on a grand scale.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=3084999


From Information Clearing House

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McChrystal Strategy Shifts to Raids and Wali Karzai
http://act.commondreams.org/go/759?akid=67.124981.ZsknL3&t=7



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Chris Hedges, Truthout: "Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse."

http://www.truthout.org/chris-hedges-the-greeks-get-it59807

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Athens Hosts the Olympiad of Debt
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north851.html



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Der Nobelpreisträger Joseph E. Stiglitz ist für die Einführung einer Finanztransaktionssteuer. Die Spekulation ließe sich mit dieser Steuer eindämmen, sagt er. Ökonom J. E. Stiglitz über Regulierung der Märkte in der taz vom 20.05.2010 http://www.taz.de/1/zukunft/wirtschaft/artikel/1/rating-agenturen-sind-inkompetent/


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Mai 2010



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Restriktiver Euro-Masterplan

„Merkel, Schäuble und Brüderle machen sich für Aushebelung demokratischer Strukturen stark. Während die Debatten über das vermeintliche Euro-Rettungspaket hohe Wellen schlagen, fand ein interner Masterplan der Bundesregierung bislang kaum Beachtung. Mit verschärften Restriktionen und dem Aushebeln demokratischer Strukturen soll die Gemeinschaftswährung zukünftig stabilisiert werden…“ Artikel von Dieter Janke im ND 22.05.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/171507.restriktiver-euro-masterplan.html


Ängste schüren mit dem Euro

Wirtschaftspolitik Nr. 11 vom Mai 2010 vom ver.di Bundesvorstand Bereich Wirtschaftspolitik (pdf) http://www.ak-sozialpolitik.de/dukumente/2010/2010-05-21%20verdi.pdf


Euro-Dämmerung

„Die Gemeinschaftswährung steckt in einer existenziellen Krise. Entweder die deutsche Politik lernt schnell dazu, oder die Tage der Währungsunion sind gezählt…“ Kolumne von Lucas Zeise in der FDT vom 25.05.2010 http://www.ftd.de/politik/europa/:kolumne-lucas-zeise-euro-daemmerung/50118071.html


Der Euro brennt

Positionspapier zum Euro-Rettungspaket von Michael Schlecht (pdf) http://www.michael-schlecht-mdb.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/2010-05-Michael-Schlecht-Der-Euro-brennt.pdf


Wieder drücken die Völker die Daumen: Unser Euro wackelt – Ein Rettungspaket der (starken) Eurostaaten für die (schwachen) Eurostaaten

„Anscheinend hat es unser Wirtschaftssystem so an sich, dass da ab und an akute Krisen „ausbrechen“. Und anscheinend können die sich so gefährlich hochschaukeln, dass die Beteiligten nichts mehr im Griff haben, sondern statt dessen – nach nicht einmal zwei Jahren – schon wieder „in den Abgrund schauen“. Wie an andere Vulkanausbrüche scheinen sich die Bürger aber auch daran regelrecht zu gewöhnen. Sie schauen sich in der Tagesschau an, was ihnen da erneut an Besorgnis erregenden Mitteilungen über den Bildschirm flattert: Der Euro soll in schwerer Gefahr sein, also das Geld, mit dem sie tagtäglich ihr Leben bestreiten und von dem sie (falls vorhanden) etwas auf die Seite gelegt haben für die Risiken, die ein Leben in der Marktwirtschaft „so“ mit sich bringt. Zum Grübeln über das „Lebensmittel“ Geld und seine seltsamen Unarten bringt das die wenigsten. Statt dessen versuchen sie sich auf die neue Lage einzustellen, auch wenn das gar nicht geht. Sie erinnern sich an Hyperinflation und Währungsreform, kaufen Goldmünzen und fragen bei der Sparkasse nach, wie sicher ihr Geld jetzt eigentlich noch ist. Und sie rufen, wie ebenfalls bereits gehabt, danach, dass sich die Politik gefälligst als rettender Engel in die Bresche schmeißen soll…“ Artikel vom 21. Mai 2010 bei „von Marx lernen“ http://www.vonmarxlernen.de/index.php/oekonomie/texte-zur-krise/224-wieder-druecken-die-voelker-die-daumen.html


Workfare in Europa. Zwangszuweisung, Entrechtung, Privatisierung: »Dritter Arbeitsmarkt« im Ländervergleich

„Im Theaterdonner um die Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu den Hartz-IV-Regelsätzen in Deutschland ist eine etwas anderes völlig aus dem Blick geraten: Die schleichende Entwicklung hin zu einem »Workfare«-System, das allen Beschäftigung bieten soll, die auf dem regulären Arbeitsmarkt nicht mehr gebraucht werden. Immer mehr Tätigkeiten werden in weitgehend rechtlose Bereiche abgedrängt, wo vor allem öffentliche oder soziale Dienstleistungen unter Zwangszuweisung und ohne Entlohnung – nur für die minimale Existenzsicherung – geleistet werden müssen…“ Artikel von Helga Spindler aus der jungen Welt vom 11.05.2010 http://www.indymedia-letzebuerg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51265&Itemid=27


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Mai 2010

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9. Juni 2010

Brüderle gefährdet mit seiner ideologischen Blockadepolitik tausende Arbeitsplätze bei Opel

"Wenn Herr Brüderle nicht endlich von seinem ideologischen Turm herabsteigt, zerstört er die Grundlage tausender Opel-Familien in Deutschland", kritisiert der Parteivorsitzende der LINKEN, Klaus Ernst die Blockadehaltung von Wirtschaftsminister Brüderle für die Opelbürgschaft. Ernst erinnert daran, dass die Beschäftigten für die Opel-Rettung schon genug bluten mussten. Jetzt sei die Bundesregierung in der Pflicht. Ernst erklärt:

Die ablehnende Haltung Brüderles ist unverantwortlich und zeigt, dass er seiner Verantwortung als Wirtschaftsminister nicht gerecht wird. Er stellt sich mit seinem ideologischen Dogmatismus nicht nur gegen die Opel-Belegschaft, sondern stellt zugleich das Versprechen von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, die sich für eine Bürgschaft stark gemacht hat, in Frage. Es stellt sich die Frage, wer eigentlich in der Bundesregierung das Sagen hat. Jetzt ist keine Zeit für taktische Spielchen. Ich fordere Frau Merkel deshalb unmissverständlich auf, von ihrer Richtlinienkompetenz Gebrauch zu machen und ihren Wirtschaftsminister in die Schranken zu weisen. Zugleich müssen die Bundesländer mit Opelstandorten unverzüglich ins Boot geholt werden. Im Gegenzug für die staatliche Bürgschaft muss General Motors zum Verzicht auf Stellenabbau, Lohnkürzungen und Standortschließungen verpflichtet werden. Wir wollen, dass künftig Staatshilfen in Belegschaftsbeteiligungen umgewandelt werden, damit die Arbeitnehmer echten Einfluss auf Unternehmensentscheidungen erhalten.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/bruederle-gefaehrdet-mit-seiner-ideologischen-blockadepolitik-tausende-arbeitsplaetze-bei-opel/



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National Review
by Michael Barone

05/24/10

In the past, rebellions against fiscal policy have concentrated on taxes rather than spending. This time is different...

http://tinyurl.com/2dal5d8



Line item veto

Fox Business News
by John Stossel

05/25/10

President Obama wants Congress to give him the line-item veto — that is, the power to veto specific parts of Congressional bills, rather than the whole thing. That way, supposedly, the president can just cut out the waste. … On its face, it seems like a good idea. It may cut down on useless pork like bridges to nowhere. But the suggestion that it will help control spending is laughable. … It would be nice to eliminate pork, but it’s chump change compared to the big picture. Even now, Congress and the president are pushing for $200 Billion in new spending...

http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/05/25/line-item-veto



Does malinvestment matter?

Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson

05/26/10

Two years into the Obama administration we have seen an unprecedented rise in government spending and unprecedented federal budget deficits, all in the name of ’stimulating’ the economy. Nor is Barack Obama the only president to engage in economic ’stimulus;’ his predecessor George W. Bush also spent recklessly for the same reason. Yet with literally trillions of dollars spent, the rate of unemployment hovers around 10 percent, many banks remain in a precarious state, and a meaningful economic recovery is as elusive as ever...

http://tinyurl.com/2vrrh5r


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Stopping Orwell's Nightmare
http://act.commondreams.org/go/801?akid=69.124981.EP03W9&t=18

 

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CounterPunch
by Bill Quigley

05/24/10

Our nation does not respect our soldiers by engaging in permanent war. War is grinding up our children. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost over 5000 US lives and tens of thousands more lives of people in those countries. Over 20% of those in our military who served in these two wars, 320,000 people, have war-related traumatic brain injuries. Suicide rates are up by 26 percent among 18 to 29 year old male veterans in the latest Veterans Administration study. Mental health hospitalizations are now the leading cause of hospital admissions for the military, higher than injuries. On any given night, over 100,000 veterans are homeless and living on our nation’s streets...

http://counterpunch.org/quigley05242010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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Disaster Must Be Catalyst for Change, Says Jean-Michel Cousteau
http://act.commondreams.org/go/761?akid=67.124981.ZsknL3&t=12

Oily Apocalypse or Green Wave?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/05/25-15

BP's 'Top Kill' Plan Set But Could Worsen Leak
http://act.commondreams.org/go/776?akid=68.124981.lopMUT&t=2

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'Top Kill' Hype Collides With Reality

All day yesterday, people across America were really, really excited about the latest and greatest method that BP was using to finally stop the gush of undersea oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the so-called Top Kill. "Woo, Top Kill," tweeted America.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/28/top-kill-hype-collides-wi_n_593371.html


From Information Clearing House

 

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President Obama can and must halt Shell's exploratory drilling plans
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/608/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3895

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It's Time to Pause Arctic Oil Drilling
http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/arcticshell_0510

 

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Obamas Katrina, die US-Regierung scheint wieder einmal handlungsunfähig zu sein.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147680



Top Kill und nie wieder gutzumachende Schäden

Ölpest: BPs orwellhafte Konzern-Politik
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147688



BP verordnet Blackout

Das Video-Feed vom Bohrloch wird BP während des "Top-Kill"-Versuchs abschalten - das verursacht erneut Misstrauen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147692



Top Kill erst einmal nicht erfolgreich

BP hat weiterhin Schwierigkeiten, das Bohrloch im Golf von Mexiko zu schließen, aus dem wesentlich mehr Öl austritt, als der Konzern bislang gesagt hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147713



Kein "Top Kill": Ölkonzern BP und US-Regierung hilflos

Die Welt beobachtet die kläglichen Bemühungen von Konzern und US-Regierung, das Ölbohrloch zu schließen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147723



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Nullifying Tyranny
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo187.html

Yo, John: 'ABOLISH' Is the Word You’re Hunting
http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers127.html

The Census Takers: A Government Against the People
http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead12.1.html

The Absence of Debate Over War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald65.html



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San Jose Mercury News

05/24/10

The top U.S. commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents. The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David Petraeus, authorizes the sending of U.S. special operations troops to both friendly and hostile nations in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa to gather intelligence and build ties with local forces...


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/25military.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US 'to Expand Covert Operations'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/762?akid=67.124981.ZsknL3&t=14

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Baulking The Enemy's Plans

by Dr. Edwin Vieira, Ph.D., JD

I believe that an united America, operating according to her Constitution and uncompromisingly asserting her national sovereignty under the Declaration of Independence, could successfully fend off the New World Order—although, perhaps, it might be a long-drawn-out and close-run thing. I believe that the globalists think so, too, and are doubtlessly sore disturbed by that distinct possibility. But what lone State.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin228.htm

 

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Alyce Santoro, Truthout: "Forty-one years ago, Buckminster Fuller published his 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth: A Bold Blueprint for Survival that Diagnoses the Causes of the Environmental Crisis.' In it, he claimed humanity would not survive the 21st century if it continued to build an economy based on mass consumption, inequitable trade relations, short-sighted allocation of fossil based resources and lack of consideration for holistic systems."

http://www.truthout.org/spaceship-earth-navigators-wanted59735



When the Leaders Lead, the People Have Sorrow

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "Many are familiar with the adage, 'When the people lead, the leaders will follow.' But what happens when people enable leaders to follow the dictates of the powerful? These days, the answers are arriving in the form of a news drumbeat that's apt to seem like a dirge."

http://www.truthout.org/when-leaders-lead-people-have-sorrow59795



How to Shrink Corporate Tumors With Immunogentility

W. David Kubiak, Truthout: "War budgets booming, drills and nukes reviving, health insurers hooting, agro-biz bloating, privacy invasions through the roof - any progressives or patriots out there not ulcerating yet?"

http://www.truthout.org/how-shrink-corporate-tumors-with-immunogentility59695



The War Is Making You Poor Act

Video

Watch Rep. Alan Grayson introduce "The War Is Making You Poor Act."
http://www.truthout.org/rep-alan-grayson-introduces-war-is-making-you-poor-act59802



LOVE for the Environment

Dan Brook, Truthout: "All we need is LOVE. There are many things and we can (and should) do to preserve and protect our environment if we want to preserve and protect life on Earth. Reducing consumption of resources, reusing products and materials, and recycling what can no longer be reused are all critical to being more sustainable. However, the most important personal thing we can each do for the environment is to fall in LOVE: Local, Organic, Vegetarian/Vegan Eating."

http://www.truthout.org/love-environment59878



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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Who could be opposed to closing a tax loophole that allows hedge-fund and private equity managers to treat their earnings as capital gains - and pay a rate of only 15 percent rather than the 35 percent applied to ordinary income?"

http://www.truthout.org/robert-reich-the-challenge-closing-tax-loopholes-for-billionaires59783



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The Fight is On: Real People vs. Corporate "People"
http://act.commondreams.org/go/887?akid=74.124981.LBdvuZ&t=2



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Hillary Clinton: The mouth that roars

Liberty & Power
by CJ Maloney

05/22/10

As if America’s military wasn’t battered enough, it seems US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is angling to involve it in yet another conflict, this one on the Korean Peninsula. Considering that the American military has already lost a war on that very same piece of ground (and the fact that her chosen adversary, North Korea, most likely is nuclear armed) you’d imagine she’d be a bit more reluctant to throw our hat (and soldiers) into the ring. That, though, would require a sense of restraint and diplomacy, something Mrs. Clinton has never been known for...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/126959.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Leave the Koreas to the Koreans
http://www.lewrockwell.com/snyder-joshua/snyder-joshua23.1.html

US Out of Korea
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis190.html

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Analysts Question Korea Torpedo Incident

By Jeff Stein

How is it that a submarine of a fifth-rate power was able to penetrate a U.S.-South Korean naval exercise and sink a ship that was designed for anti-submarine warfare?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25568.htm



North Korea says South faked sinking of warship

North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission accused South Korea today of faking the sinking of a warship for which Pyongyang has been blamed and warned that the Korean peninsula was heading to "the brink of war."

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100528/BREAKING/100528006?source=rss_breaking



War on Korean Peninsula: High Tension Prompts Scenarios

How might a shooting war start? Defense analysts and military sources in Seoul and Washington agree that an outright, all-out attack by either side is unlikely.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100526/wl_time/08599199192800



Russia wants '100% proof' N.Korea sunk ship

Russia will not support efforts to punish North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship until it is fully convinced Pyongyang was behind the incident, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100527/wl_afp/skoreankoreamilitaryrussia



Did an American Mine Sink South Korean Ship?

In the recent U.S.-China strategic talks in Shanghai and Beijing, the Chinese side dismissed the official scenario presented by the Americans and their South Korean allies as not credible.

http://tinyurl.com/36k8qaf



US Professors Raise Doubts About Report on South Korean Ship Sinking

By Akiko Fujita

Researchers J.J. Suh and Seung-Hun Lee say the South Korean Joint Investigation Group made a weak case when it concluded that North Korea was responsible for sinking the Cheonan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25909.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The sinking of the Cheonan: Another Gulf of Tonkin incident
http://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-another-gulf-of-tonkin-incident/

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The whole story of the South Korean government as a false account?

Blogs and other online media challenge the claims that North Korea is responsible for the sinking of the Cheonan.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32728/1.html



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by James Bovard

05/21/10

In his commencement address at the University of Michigan on May 1, President Obama warned that public ignorance subverts self-government. Obama declared: ‘When we don’t pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day … that’s when democracy breaks down. That’s when power is abused.’ Unfortunately, most Americans have little or no idea how government works or who is holding the reins on their lives...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1005g.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US-Ökonom meint, die Spekulanten könnten sich den USA zuwenden, wo die Höhe der ungedeckten Zahlungsverpflichtungen im Bezug zum BIP fast schon der Griechenlands gleicht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147677



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Chemical Dispersant Cover-Up

Despite the fact that nobody is sure exactly how toxic the stuff is, or how being deployed on such a large scale will effect ecosystems, it will have at least one effect: it will delay public outrage by masking the apparent extent of the spill's damage.

http://tinyurl.com/2aqnaje



How Much Oil's Spilling? It's Not Rocket Science

Basically, the method for determining oil spillage boils down to common sense and high school (or even middle school) geometry, specifically the formula for the volume of a cylinder.

http://tinyurl.com/2exvzv8



Interior Probe Finds Fraternizing, Porn and Drugs at MMS Office in La.

By NOELLE STRAUB

Federal officials who oversaw drilling in the Gulf of Mexico accepted gifts from oil companies, viewed pornography at work and even considered themselves part of industry, the Interior Department inspector general says in a new report.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25540.htm



U.S. oil drilling regulator ignored experts' red flags on environmental risks

The federal agency responsible for regulating U.S. offshore oil drilling repeatedly ignored warnings from government scientists about environmental risks in its push to approve energy exploration activities quickly, according to numerous documents and interviews.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/24/AR2010052401974.html



Why Is BP Controlling Louisiana's Cops?

Mother Jones reporter Mac McClelland spent two days recently trying to get out to the Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge, "stymied at every turn" by law enforcement officials who claim they're getting their marching orders from BP.

http://washingtonindependent.com/85648/why-is-bp-controlling-louisianas-cops



Satellite Image Of Oil Spill
http://tinyurl.com/37lv8ao


From Information Clearing House

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How Bad Is Gulf Oil Spill? A Global Q&A on Offshore Oil Spills

Kristen Chick, The Christian Science Monitor: "The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has put a spotlight on the dangerous world of offshore oil drilling. With a well spewing thousands of barrels of crude (estimates range from 5,000 to 100,000 barrels) a day into the Gulf of Mexico, many are wondering if the industry has been too lightly regulated."

http://www.truthout.org/how-bad-is-gulf-oil-spill-a-global-qa-offshore-oil-spills59805



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Senior British officials, including new Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in Afghanistan Saturday with a warning that Britain wants to withdraw its troops as soon as possible.

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From Information Clearing House



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Defense Spending the Top Priority, Critics Fear

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "As the United States retains its place as the world's largest defense spender for another year, and the Cost of War counter inches toward the $1 trillion mark, community activists bemoan the priorities of the Obama administration."

http://www.truthout.org/defense-spending-top-priority-critics-fear59967



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Public Anger Is Growing Fast
http://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo45.1.html

Expatriation and Survival
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/todays-expat-tomorrows-refugee.html

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Where did all the money go?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/883.html



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