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U.S. Military Buildup in Colombia

The U.S. State Department has just wrapped up a deal with Colombia's President Uribe that will lead to a massive buildup of U.S. military personnel across seven bases in Colombia.

http://www.workerscompass.org/vorpahl_9-16-2009.html


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Nach einer Umfrage gehen 63 Prozent der US-Bürger davon aus, dass die Medien nicht korrekt berichten, um von fair gar nicht zu reden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/145299

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Jim Davidson

09/14/09

There’s a mistaken idea about history that is persisting. The pursuit of this mistaken idea is ruining many things and destroying many millions of lives. This idea has to be put to rest. The idea is that the Roman empire was a pinnacle of culture. It wasn’t. The Romans did not create new technologies, new forms of art, new ideas. They burned libraries, raped Europe, north Africa, and parts of Asia, slaughtered poets and philosophers, stole entire museums of art, enslaved masses, brutalised souls, debased their currency, and paved parts of three continents. The Roman empire’s fall did not herald a new dark age, it heralded the end of a dark age. Yet for many centuries, the idealisation of Rome and the pursuit of a new empire by Russian, French, British, and now American elitists has been part of the pretext for war and slaughter...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle536-20090913-12.html

 

Homeland Security goes insane

Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

09/16/09

We now know what the whole point of creating the Department of Homeland Security was all about. It’s about creating the biggest baddest bogus boondoggle in the history of American boondoggleism. A CNN article reports that the people who spend their entire adult lives eating, drinking, breathing, and generally suckling at the great national teat of taxation have broken ground on ‘the biggest federal building project in the Washington area since the Pentagon 68 years ago.’ Once completed, the DHS Big Top will take ‘more than 15,000 employees now scattered in 35 offices in the region’ (where their diffusion makes them relatively safe from physical attack) and pack them into a single ‘176-acre campus’ (where, as the old joke goes, one hand grenade can git ‘em all.)...
http://tinyurl.com/oncgfl

 

War without end

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

09/17/09

An assessment by France’s highly regarded Paris Institute of Political Studies last week suggested that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda has likely been reduced to a core group of eight to ten terrorists who are on the run more often than not. The report from Paris should be regarded as good news, enabling Washington to close the book on the ‘global war on terror’ saga that has damaged the United States more than it has any adversary. Unfortunately, things do not quite work that way and Washington is in fact expanding its anti-terrorism Crusade with a military incursion into Somalia even as it continues to be bogged down in a war that it is losing in Afghanistan. The Afghan war is being fought precisely to eliminate bin Laden even though General Stanley McChrystal indicated last week that there is currently no al-Qaeda presence in the country...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/09/16/war-without-end-2/

 

Lobbyists still run Washington

Salon
by Andy Kroll

09/17/09

The new White House stood confident in those early months that it could take on ‘K Street’ — a street in the capital notorious for the density of its lobbying firms as well as Washington shorthand for their growing ranks. Tallied up today, however, the administration’s seven-month scorecard tells a different story. Just as sweeping as the administration’s packed domestic agenda has been the sheer force with which the lobbying industry and its clients have fought back, blocking, maligning or undermining its progress. In a Washington version of Newton’s third law, the president’s actions and those of his allies in Congress have elicited an equal and opposite reaction from opponents — inside the Beltway and beyond it. Spending eye-popping sums of money, deploying armies of lobbyists, dispatching grass-roots foot soldiers as agents of disruption, the special interests have fought fiercely to derail the White House reform agenda. It’s now apparent that Obama and his advisors, including Rahm Emanuel, underestimated their strength...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/17/kroll/

 

Why is Obama still using Blackwater?

The Nation
by Jeremy Scahill

09/16/09

Two years ago on September 16, 2007, on a steamy hot Baghdad day with temperatures reaching 100 degrees, a heavily armed Blackwater convoy entered a congested intersection at Nisour Square in the Mansour district of the Iraqi capital. The once-upscale section of Baghdad was still lined with boutiques, cafes and art galleries dating back to better days. The ominous caravan consisted of four large armored vehicles with machine guns mounted on top. As the Blackwater convoy was entering the square that day, a young Iraqi medical student named Ahmed Hathem Al-Rubaie was driving his mother, Mahasin, in the family’s white sedan. As fate would have it, they found themselves stuck near Nisour Square. The family were devout Muslims and were fasting in observance of the holy month of Ramadan...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090928/scahill3

 

The crisis of confidence

Strike the Root
by Michael Kleen

09/16/09

There is a crisis of confidence in America’s political leadership, from the smallest municipality all the way to Washington DC. At bottom, this crisis means that trust between elected representatives and their constituency has almost completely broken down...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/kleen/kleen3.html

 

Obama and the protectionist war against the poor

Foundation for Economic Education
by William Anderson

09/16/09

After President Barack Obama unilaterally slapped a 35 percent tariff on Chinese-made tires imported to the United States, I checked the Usual Sites to see if there were any objections to this latest government assault against lower-income Americans. I flyspecked the New York Times, and while there were editorials and columns condemning Serena Williams’s outburst at the U.S. Open and a call for lawmakers to criminalize ‘texting’ while driving, the was silent about the tariff...

http://tinyurl.com/lyuhwa

 

The continuing push for globalism

Campaign For Liberty
by Chuck Baldwin

09/16/09

When George W. Bush was President, he greatly advanced the prospect of integrating the United States with a North American Union (NAU). With no thanks to most Christian conservatives or the mainstream news media, hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans rallied against this proposal and–at least temporarily–seriously stymied Bush’s draconian dream. But if you thought President Barack Obama would be content to let the NAU die a natural death, think again...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=220


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The News Media Scam

By Ken Bowers

Do you like the idea of being "manipulated," having someone "pull the wires [to] control the public mind?" Or do you think that they can't manipulate us?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23508.htm

 

Good Billions After Bad

By DONALD L. BARLETT and JAMES B. STEELE

As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system-without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what was needed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23513.htm

 

UK jobless rate hits 13-year high

The number of jobless increased by 210,000 in the three months leading up to July, figures showed on Wednesday, taking the unemployment rate up to 7.9 per cent, Britain's highest since November 1996.

http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/09/200991613329580530.html

 

U.S. credit card defaults up, signal consumer stress

Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc customers defaulted on their credit card debts in August at the highest rates since the onset of the recession, a sign that the banks' consumer lending woes are far from over.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE58E6LH20090915

 

Peter Schiff: Americans must prepare for deepening unemployment, inflation and possible breadlines

Economist Peter Schiff tells RT's Marina Portnaya that Lehman Brothers failure was a success not a failure. He says Americans will face increasing unemployment, inflation, and possible bread-lines if government backed bail-outs continue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhPpzWZDyx0


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By Bill Van Auken

As the Obama administration prepares a major escalation of the so-called AfPak war, reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley, near Afghanistan's eastern border, provide a gruesome indication of the kind of war that the Pentagon and its local allies are waging.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23515.htm

 

Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

By Amy Goodman

On Oct. 7, the U.S. enters its ninth year of occupation of Afghanistan-equal to the time the United States was involved in World War I, World War II and the Korean War combined.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23516.htm

 

US 'needs larger Afghanistan force'

The most senior military officer in the United States has said that more American troops will probably be needed to bring security to Afghanistan, during an address in Washington.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/2009915172044125822.html

 

Obama sets Afghan, Pakistan goals, waits on troops

The White House delivered its long-awaited objectives to lawmakers ahead of an expected request by Army General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, for additional forces to counter a resurgent Taliban insurgency.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58F4EH20090916

 

$75 billion a year: Secretive spending on US intelligence disclosed

Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year, the nation's top intelligence official said on Tuesday, disclosing an overall number long shrouded in secrecy.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15278272.htm


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Video

The common perception is that the economy is recovering, but don’t be fooled by the media.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/17/Oversight-on-US-Federal-Reserve-is-a-Disaster.aspx

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Audit the Fed, Then End It
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul579.html

Ground Hog Ben: Fed Declares Depression Over
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rajiva/rajiva28.1.html

Have You Bought Your Copy of End the Fed?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul580.html

Anti-Fed Activists Fuel Push for Audit
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/anti-fed-activists.html

Fed-ACORN Criminality
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo177.html

Jim Rogers Says Bank Regulators Should be in Jail for Not Allowing Banks to Fail
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j36.1.html

A Concrete Symbol of the Waste of Wealth Caused by Central-Banking Booms
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/dubai-depression.html

 

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ABC News

09/15/09

“The Justice Department has indicated that the Obama administration is in support of renewing a pair of controversial sections of the USA Patriot Act that expire later this year. The provisions that will expire in December include Section 206, that allows ‘roving’ wiretaps so FBI agents can tap multiple phones or computers (with court authorization) that a specific person (target) may use. Another expiring provision, Section 215, is the so-called ‘library provision,’ which allows investigators to obtain business records with approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...

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Analysis: Iraq troops’ PTSD rate up to 35%

Science News

The Veterans’ Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers anticipating that the rate among armed forces will be as high as 35%, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®)�. The article, ‘A Dynamic Model for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among U.S. Troops in Operation Iraqi Freedom.’ is by Michael P. Atkinson of the Naval Postgraduate School and Adam Guetz and Lawrence M. Wein of Stanford University.” (09/15/09)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914151629.htm

 

The paranoid center

Reason
by Jesse Walker

for publication 10/09

We’ve heard ample warnings about extremist paranoia in the months since Barack Obama became president, and we’re sure to hear many more throughout his term. But we’ve heard almost nothing about the paranoia of the political center. When mainstream commentators treat a small group of unconnected crimes as a grand, malevolent movement, they unwittingly echo the very conspiracy theories they denounce. Both brands of connect-the-dots fantasy reflect the tellers’ anxieties much more than any order actually emerging in the world. When such a story is directed at those who oppose the politicians in power, it has an additional effect. The list of dangerous forces that need to be marginalized inevitably expands to include peaceful, legitimate critics...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/135735.html

 

Interventionism, empire, and the Taliban

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

09/15/09

The U.S. government’s primary justification for continuing the occupation of Afghanistan is to prevent the Taliban from regaining power and providing a sanctuary for al-Qaeda. Ironically, however, this is another example of the disastrous consequences of imperialism and interventionism, for it was the U.S. invasion itself that created the problem that now serves as the main justification for the indefinite occupation of the country. Interventionists often delude themselves with respect to why the U.S. government attacked both al-Qaeda and the Taliban after 9/11. They say that the Taliban had provided a ’sanctuary’ for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-09-15.asp

 

America must end its deadly devotion to democracy

Christian Science Monitor
by Gerard DeGroot

09/15/09

Usama Rehda is a photographer who lives in Baghdad. Crossing his city to ply his trade means running a gantlet of bandits, extortionists, and snipers, not to mention suicide bombers. While he once despised Saddam Hussein, he admits that life was easier under the dictator. ‘You know what they say,’ he remarked to a colleague bitterly. ‘Be nice to the Americans or they’ll punish you with democracy.’ America needs to rid itself of the hopelessly naive attitude that all nations are capable of becoming sustainable democracies.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0915/p09s02-coop.html

 

Wall Street’s “days of reckless behavior” not over

Our Future
by Bernie Horn

09/15/09

I appreciate that the President is making the case for a particular solution — an agency to oversee all risky financial products. But in order to get a handle on the excesses of Wall Street, I believe the public needs to hear and understand a larger point. When the government allows — and even encourages — irresponsible corporate and individual behavior, who is most at fault? The corporations and individuals that took advantage of risky opportunities to make windfall profits or the government that allowed and/or created those opportunities? I think it is the government — in this case the Bush Administration and the Federal Reserve — that is mostly to blame. The exotic financial instruments that ultimately collapsed world markets were the result of a willful refusal to regulate. The housing bubble that brought on the current Great Recession was caused by these instruments, artificially low interest rates, and other factors within government control...

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/15-10

ACLU: Obama Administration Seeks To Deny Bagram Prisoners Access To U.S. Courts
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/15-16

Three Things About Obama's Health Care Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/15-0

CREW Releases Fifth Annual Most Corrupt Members of Congress Report
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