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StephanKinsella.Com
by Stephan Kinsella

01/20/10

The rules of international law, being based on ‘the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations’ (as well as on international custom and treaties), and far less corrupted by legislation than municipal legal systems have become, are far more civilized and libertarian. A return to international law, just like a return to constitutional limits, would move any modern state in the direction of liberty. So the neocons just hate international law. They hate the idea of the state being limited by anything — a constitution, international law, whatever...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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USA stocken ihre Truppen von 60 auf rund 10.000 Mann auf. Wachsende Kritik von Hilfsorganisationen und aus Lateinamerika. Gibt es eine verdeckte Agenda?

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31938/1.html



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While it appears unlikely or even impossible for a state to hide out from creditors in Bankruptcy Court, Illinois appears to meet classic definitions of insolvency.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?articleId=32910&seenIt=1



US housing starts unexpectedly fall in Dec

New U.S. housing starts unexpectedly fell in December, pulled down by a drop in construction activity for single-family dwellings, a government report showed on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1922552820100120



U.S. Housing Starts Down 39% in 2009

For the full year, housing starts were down 38% to an estimated 553,800 housing units versus the 2008 figure of 905,500.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/us-housing-starts-down-39-in-2009.html


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The Terrorism Conundrum

By Philip Giraldi

Americans should no longer talk of terrorism or fear it because it is largely an empty threat. One is more likely to be eaten by a shark than killed in a terrorist attack.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24463.htm



The Surveillance Society: Trading Freedom For The Illusion Of Safety

By Giordano Bruno

One of the more startling consequences of a Surveillance Society is the treatment of people as not only the enemy, but also as property. Citizens become units of consumption and production, preferably producing more than they consume.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24462.htm



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My Children Were Tortured, This Trial is a Sham

By Press TV

Pakistani citizen Aafia Siddiqui has told jurors at her trial that she was held in a secret prison in Afghanistan, her children were tortured, and the case against her is a sham.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24454.htm



US Frame-up of Aafia Siddiqui Begins to Unravel

Pakistani victim of rendition and torture

By Ali Ismail

Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui went on trial in a federal courtroom in New York City on January 19, charged with the attempted murder of US personnel in Afghanistan's Ghazni Province in 2008. The case against Dr. Siddiqui, 37, is rapidly unraveling due to lack of evidence and discordant testimony from witnesses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24547.htm



"Shock, Horror, Drama" That You Won't Read In The New York Times

By Yvonne Ridley in New York

Possibly the most wronged woman in the entire War on Terror had just revealed how she was held in secret prisons, with no legal representation, cut off from the outside world since 2003 where brutal interrogation techniques were used to break her down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24566.htm



The Truth About US Justice

By Yvonne Ridley

Many of us are still in a state of shock over the guilty verdict returned on Dr Aafia Siddiqui.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24605.htm



The Terror-Industrial Complex

By Chris Hedges

The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security does not come from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, kidnappers, killers and torturers our government employs around the globe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24611.htm



Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Justice in the Service of Empire

By Zahir Ebrahim

The masses are well aware that the Pakistani elite, the ever patriotic praetorian guards, and their coterie of miserable sycophants have already learnt that while one's abject service to empire can sometimes be hazardous to one's existential wellness, it also routinely calls for new faces in many a chief's seat and presents the fabulous opportunity to loot and plunder anew in the name of patriotism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24691.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/20

Mass. Voters Protested Against Weak Wall Street, Health Care Policies
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/20-9

Open Letter to Obama: One Year later, Progressives Losing Hope
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/20-6

The Massachusetts Lesson: Go Populist Now
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/20

Time to Stop Letting Corporations Write the Health Care Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/20-15

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Obama, Remember Who Your Friends Are

Truthout, Editorial: "In the wake of a crushing Democratic defeat in the Massachusetts Senate race, we find ourselves faced with the one-year anniversary of a spirit-changing day in the history of the United States, the inauguration of President Barack Obama. This odd confluence of events provides an opening for a very timely warning: It is time to remember who your friends are, Mr. President."

http://www.truthout.org/president-obama-remember-who-your-friends-are56226



Building Hope in the Time of Obama

Joseph Nevins, Truthout: "The mayor of my town just north of New York City lives one street away. He was - until last month - a visibly proud supporter of Barack Obama: more than a year after the presidential election, his front porch displayed a couple of Obama campaign posters with words like 'hope' and 'change' on them, along with an American flag with a peace sign in place of the fifty stars. For unknown reasons, the posters and the flag are no longer there."

http://www.truthout.org/building-hope-time-obama56282

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The meaning of Massachusetts

Adam Smith Institute
by Tom Clougherty

01/20/10

Regular readers will know that I have no love for the US Republican Party, especially in its big government, Bush-era guise. Given the incompetent, spendthrift way Bush and his colleagues in Congress governed, they deserved to lose in 2008. But still, I couldn’t be more delighted that Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat has fallen to the Republicans: it is precisely the one-year anniversary present that Barack Obama deserves...

http://tinyurl.com/yhovdlj



Does he feel your pain?

The New Republic
by John B. Judis

01/20/10

Forget Massachusetts. Obama’s problem is nationwide...
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/he-doesnt-feel-your-pain


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Kucinich Shreds Democrats for Betraying the Promise of Change

By Sahil Kapur

"Every area of the economy is still about taking wealth from the great mass of people and putting it into the hands of a few. If you don't have a economic democracy, you don't have a political democracy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24461.htm



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