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Wall Street's New Halloween Trick
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Casino Capitalism as Usual
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Hal Bernton, McClatchy Newspapers: "The men of Bravo Company have a bitter description for the irrigated swath of land along the Arghandab River where 10 members of their battalion have been killed and 30 have been wounded since the beginning of August. 'Like Vietnam without the napalm,' said Spc. Nicholas Gojekian, 21, of Katy, Texas."

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Congressional Grumbling Won't Stop the War!

Carolyn Eisenberg, Truthout: "With General McChrystal requesting up to 45,000 more troops for the floundering military effort in Afghanistan, Democratic members of Congress are understandably agitated. Almost everyday, some new senator or representative goes before the television cameras to express grave concern about the apparent 'quagmire' that is emerging there. While such sentiments are to be welcomed, they are no substitute for effective action."

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APF scrambles to delete web page admitting it runs Blackwater-controlled U.S. Training Center, proving that the two organizations are one and the same

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, October 1, 2009

American Police Force, the paramilitary unit patrolling a small town in Montana, has been exposed as being a front group for the disgraced private military contractor Blackwater, now called “Xe”.

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Mother Jones
by Andy Kroll

09/30/09

When a haggard-looking Hank Paulson, Jr., then Secretary of the Treasury, assured the American people last fall that the government’s multibillion-dollar Troubled Asset Relief Program wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime, he sounded confident. ‘This is an investment, not an expenditure, and there is no reason to expect this program will cost taxpayers anything,’ he said at the time. Well, that was then. Last week Neil Barofsky, one of the leading TARP watchdogs on Capitol Hill (and a dead ringer for a young Richard Nixon), offered a far less rosy assessment of the largest bailout of its kind in American history. ‘It is extremely unlikely that the taxpayer will see a full return on its TARP investment,’ Barofsky testified to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Barofsky’s thorny review comes as little surprise. As the bailout’s one-year anniversary looms, no one on Capitol Hill has put more pressure on the Treasury to beef up its oversight of the labyrinthine, taxpayer-funded TARP and ensure that taxpayer dollars went to good use...

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Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille

09/30/09

Who is a terrorist? Just as important: How do we differentiate terrorists from freedom-fighters, mere criminals, outspoken political dissidents and soldiers, and keep the ‘war against terror’ from poisoning everyday life? A recent report from a watchdog group suggests that federal agencies can’t agree on just what defines a terrorist — and that their confusion endangers civil liberties...

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Freedom in our Time
by William Grigg

09/29/09

If you build it, they will come.That would appear to be the business plan of an enigmatic California company called American Police Force (APF), which appears to be effectively taking over the town of Hardin, Montana. … What appears to be happening here — and until relevant details are pried out of the prehensile grip of the people running things, we can’t know for sure — is nothing less than a corporatist-style military coup: the takeover of a small town in Montana by a politically connected, federally subsidized paramilitary organization...

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By William Blum

NATO (aka the United States) can take satisfaction in the fact that the Germans have put their silly pacifism aside and acted like real men, trained military killers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23598.htm



Exorcising America's Diplomatic Demons

By Robert Scheer

According to the demonology that has long driven U.S. foreign policy, no country has ever cast a larger shadow as evil incarnate than Communist China. All communists in the Cold War era, like all Islamic radicals today, were assumed to be part of a unified internationalist movement bent on world conquest.

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