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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Obama administration will likely drop its Supreme Court petition challenging the release of photographs showing US soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan now that lawmakers are set to pass legislation authorizing the government to continue to keep the images under wraps."

http://www.truthout.org/101709A



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David Swanson, TomDispatch.com: "Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president. That expansion, which hit the highway after World War II, got a turbo boost during the co-presidency of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney."

http://www.truthout.org/1016091



What's Obama's Score on Mideast Peace?

Ira Chernus, Truthout: "Barack Obama: a. Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for pointing the world toward peace b. Hardly deserves the Prize, since he has no concrete achievements yet to merit it. The right answer? Take your pick."

http://www.truthout.org/1016093


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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Fouad al-Rabiah was a humanitarian aid worker caught up in the chaos of Afghanistan following the US-led invasion in October 2001, and his own protestations of innocence came to an end when he was subjected to some of the notorious 'enhanced interrogation techniques' used in Guantanamo. These were torture techniques reverse engineered from those taught in US military schools to train US personnel to resist interrogation if captured, and were modeled on techniques used on captured US pilots during the Korean War to produce false confessions."

http://www.truthout.org/1016095



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Ignorance Is Bliss
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff52.1.html

Is the Real Economy Growing, Expanding, and Making Money?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner422.html



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Obama's Bad Influence
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/16

The Nobel Prize with an Asterisk
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/16-1



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US bank Goldman Sachs has posted third-quarter profits that are more than three times the earnings it made at the same time last year.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/10/20091015164452667523.html



Goldman Sachs: Your tax dollars, their big bonuses

Goldman Sachs is having a banner year, and is getting a big boost from government programs.

http://snipurl.com/sk360



Recession Will Be 'Full-Blown Depression': Strategist

This global recession will turn into a "full-blown depression," Nicu Harajchi, CEO of N1 Asset Management, said Friday, adding that global stimulus hasn't come down to Main Street.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/33341496



Dollar May Drop 20% More, Harvard's Ferguson Says

The dollar will extend its drop versus the euro over the next two to five years, falling as much as 20 percent to an all-time low under a widening U.S. budget deficit, Harvard University's Professor Niall Ferguson said.

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZYblKZy9jTs



Britain is in danger of going bust, warns EU

Britian's economy was consigned to a list of those at 'high risk' yesterday because of the spiralling national debt.

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The British Government must publish US intelligence material about the torture allegedly suffered by Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, the High Court has ruled.

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Torture Saved Lives: MI5 chief

The head of MI5 has issued a vigorous defence of the organisation's co-operation with intelligence agencies known to use torture, saying that it thwarted many terrorist attacks after 9/11 and saved British lives.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/16/mi5-chief-torture-al-qaida



MI5 Can't Keep Turning a Blind Eye to Torture

Torturing people doesn't keep us safe. MI5 should stop making policy by anecdote and condemn those who abuse prisoners.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/oct/16/mi5-torture


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UK Judges Order Release of Details About the Torture of Binyam Mohamed by US Agents

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "In August 2008, while British resident Binyam Mohamed still languished in a prison cell in Guantanamo, two British High Court judges attempted to inform the public about what, in May 2002, the CIA had told their British counterparts about how they had treated him while he was being held in Pakistani custody, shortly before a British agent interrogated him."

http://www.truthout.org/1019096



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