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The judge will be acting on complaints lodged by a number of associations, focussing on one prisoner, Ahmed Abderraman Hamed, who has Spanish nationality, the source added, confirming a report published in daily El Pais.

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/spanish-judge-probe-guantanamo-torture-claims/


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"We Can Make Him Disappear"

By Andrew Joad

Legal professionals struggling to assist these people found captives chained together. They are continuously rotated between the below-ground parking ramp detention pen and locals jails, to which they are transported in unlabeled and windowless vans.

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By Mark Weisbrot

When I write about US foreign policy in places such as Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these countries to try and control or topple their governments.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24551.htm



Muscling Latin America

In recent years, Washington has experienced a fast erosion of its influence in South America, driven by the rise of Brazil, the region's left turn, the growing influence of China and Venezuela's use of oil revenue to promote a multipolar diplomacy.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100208/grandin



U.S. Plunges Central America Back To Era Of Coups And Death Squads

By Rick Rozoff

The 2002 coup in Venezuela and the 2009 coup in Honduras are not the last that Washington will support given the opportunity. Latin American vigilance and unity are required more than ever before.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25092.htm



U.S. covering up reality in Honduras

State Department campaign denies the systemic repression that continues, nine months after coup.

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By Tom Burghardt

Despite overwhelming evidence of lawbreaking by the secret state and their corporate partners, on January 21 U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker tossed out the EFF's lawsuit, Jewell v. NSA, filed on behalf of AT&T customers fighting the National Security Agency's illegal operations that target millions of citizens' phone calls, emails and web searches.

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By Chris Hedges

The symbiotic relationship between the press and the power elite worked for nearly a century. It worked as long as our power elite, no matter how ruthless or insensitive, was competent. But once our power elite became incompetent and morally bankrupt, the press, along with the power elite, lost its final vestige of credibility. The press became, as seen in the Iraq war and the aftermath of the financial upheavals, a class of courtiers.

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War Spending Surges in Obama's Budget

By DAVID ROGERS

In 2011 alone, the revised numbers are triple what the president included in his spending plan a year ago.

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Afghanistan War Shapes Engorged Defense Budget While Domestic Programs Freeze

War spending is exempt from the president's proposed spending freeze, despite President Obama's statement at West Point that, "we can't simply afford to ignore the price of these wars."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24558.htm



Obama seeks record $708 billion in defense budget

President Barack Obama on Monday asked Congress to approve a record $708 billion in defense spending for fiscal year 2011, including a 3.4 percent increase in the Pentagon's base budget and $159 billion to fund U.S. military missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6103C520100201?type=politicsNews


From Information Clearing House

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US budget 'draws picture of nation that simply cannot get above water'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9376/

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'Peace Prize' President Submits Largest War Budget Ever
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/01-9

Don't Call It a 'Defense' Budget
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/02



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By Prof Peter Dale Scott

The war on terror and the war on drugs have this in common: both are ideological attempts to justify the needless killings of thousands - including both American troops and foreign civilians -- in another needless war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24544.htm



The 9/11 Hijackers are Alive?

Video Interview With Dr. David Ray Griffin

According to the chief of Japans Democratic Party who says that the 9/11 hijackers are alive and that 9/11 was a complete hoax. Dr. David Ray Griffin is a professor and author who wrote The New Pearl Harbor Revisited and he says that he agrees; the World Trade Center was a hoax.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24960.htm

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Hijacking Democracy to Spy on Americans

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "Nearly a decade ago, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) stood alone as the Senate's constitutional conscience. Casting the only dissenting vote against passage of the Patriot Act in 2001, he was powerless to stop an opportunistic power grab by neoconservatives who had long sought, well before the tragedy of 9/11, to expand our government's reach into the lives of law-abiding Americans."

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Review: "Rounded Up: Artificial Terrorists and Muslim Entrapment After 9/11"

Katherine Hughes, Truthout: "In a time and place where Muslims have learned it's prudent to be silent, we should be especially grateful to Shamshad Ahmad for having the courage to write his book, 'Rounded Up.' The book opens with a quote from the Prophet Muhammad, 'The highest form of jihad is to speak the truth in the face of an unjust ruler,' and Ahmad's book is the embodiment of this quote. Understated and powerful, with respect for fact, each page is testament to his belief that the truth can indeed set us free."

http://www.truthout.org/review-rounded-up-artificial-terrorists-and-muslim-entrapment-after-91157415

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ACLU Sues for Records About Government's Use of Unconstitutional Spying Powers
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By Daniel Tencer

A Detroit-area imam who died in a shootout with the FBI in October was shot 21 times -- at least once in the back -- and found by police lying down with his wrists in handcuffs behind him, says a local Detroit news report.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24556.htm



I Call It Murder

By Cynthia McKinney

They shot this Black man in his genitals and in his back. It sounds like a hate crime to me. How else could one describe it?

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The Freeman
by Sheldon Richman

01/29/10

If we don’t get the analysis right, we won’t get the response right. Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. The threat is not from socialism in the sense of State ownership of the means of production, much less a proletarian uprising. Rather, he’s pushing good old American progressive-corporate elitism, or corporatism. (Some would simply call it capitalism.) It is anti-free market, but not anti-business...

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/union-state-business/



The inalienable right to secede

LewRockwell.Com
by Scott Lazarowitz

02/01/10

During the time of President Obama’s State of the Union address, it was noted that HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan was Obama’s ‘Designated Survivor.’ This is a perfect example of how a government-monopolized defense system is actually a threat to the security of all Americans. If a catastrophe occurs in Washington, panic and vulnerability would spread across America, a result of an entire population compelled by force to be dependent on a centralized authority for their protection. Another catastrophe is the economic one that Americans have been suffering, due to the federal government’s monopoly in the production and distribution of money, thanks to President Abraham Lincoln and his War on Independence...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz2.1.1.html



Obama 2.0: The ultimate insider

Orange County Register
by Alan Bock

01/29/10

Beyond the feisty and sometimes almost conversational tone and the interesting impulse to keep on pushing for some version of Obamacare even though it appears to be mathematically impossible to get it done this year, several things about President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address seem worthy of note. The first is related to the decision to keep pushing significant steps likely to lead toward a more comprehensive government takeover of health care despite the obvious fact that the political climate on the issue has changed drastically against it...

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-231739--.html



By the way, free markets are free

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by George F. Smith

01/29/10

Having failed to learn what causes depressions and how to treat them when they arrive, our nation’s leaders are steering us straight into a monetary catastrophe. Predictably, the major media voices are clinging to the assurances of Keynesians, who see new wads of debt and paper money and conclude that the good times are ready to roll again; don’t pay any heed to the millions still looking for work. The free-lunch Keynesians even tell us how we got into the crisis and what saved us. Paul Krugman speaks for many when he blames market deregulation for the meltdown and hails the Fed’s printing press as our savior...

http://mises.org/daily/4036



Tax-tax-tax, spend-spend-spend

TCS Daily
by Larry Kudlow

01/29/10

The day after President Obama’s State of the Union, Congress went ahead and passed a $1.9 trillion — that’s right, $1.9 trillion — increase in the federal government’s debt limit. Let me tell you why this bothers me. First, in order to avoid bankruptcy, it means future tax rates are going to have to go up. Second, Mr. Bernanke bought a lot of our debt in 2009. That brought down the dollar and hiked the gold price. So, has Washington set us up for major inflation in the years ahead?

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=013010B



Constitutional oaths and a plea to President Obama

Last Free Voice
by Rhys M. Blavier

At this point you are probably wondering why I have spent almost a thousand words just to tell you want the different United States federal oaths are. It is very simple. OATHS MATTER! Whether we pay attention to them or not, our Constitution requires them and many people take them, which means MANY people are BOUND by them. Now, as you read through them, you might have noticed that there is only one thing which they ALL have in common (aside from all being very short). I’ll give you a minute to look back through them in case you haven’t noticed it yet...

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We the corporations? I don’t think so

Huffington Post
by Barbra Streisand

01/28/10

Our country’s Founding Fathers never intended for monarchs or the business establishment to rule our nation. No, the Founders of our country began the Constitution with the words, We the People of the United States … That sentiment was again expressed when President Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address said it simply but powerfully, that our government was of the people, by the people and for the people. Corporations are not people nor are they individual citizens...

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Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/31/10

From indefinite detention and renditions to denial of habeas rights, from military commissions and secrecy obsessions to state secrets abuses, many of the defining Bush/Cheney policies continue unabated under its successor administration. Despite all that, there is substantial political pressure from all directions for Obama to reverse the very few decisions where he actually deviated from Bush/Cheney radicalism in these areas...

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Crisis of the government party

Human Events
by Patrick J. Buchanan

01/29/10

Obama’s dilemma, evident in his State of the Union, is that the progressives, who were indispensable to his victories over Hillary, now feel betrayed, especially with apparent abandonment of health insurance reform, while conservative Democrats and independents, who were indispensable in giving Obama his November victory, are angry and alienated and disposed to vote Republican to stop what they see as America’s plunge into socialism. The non-negotiable demands of these two essential elements of Obama’s coalition are in irreconcilable conflict...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35391


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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America, Inc. Is Here. Get With The Program!

Let's abolish elections and instead, select our politicians by auction.

By Ernest Partridge

So let's get real! Let's simply acknowledge the obvious facts: that public offices serve private corporate interests, and that legislators' votes are bought and sold by bidders, politely referred to as "contributors." If this is the way things are let's bring the practice out into the open.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24587.htm



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