World-News

Robert Borosage, The Campaign For America's Future: "President Obama traveled to Wall Street on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers that triggered the worst financial debacle since the Great Depression. His purpose was to challenge Wall Street's barons, telling them: 'We will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess ... where too many were motivated only by the appetite for quick kills and bloated bonuses.' Those days are over, the president said. It's time for comprehensive legislation. Taxpayers won't cover your bets or your bonuses. And we know once more the threat that financial holdings can pose to the nation."

http://www.truthout.org/091509T?n

 

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Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports: "On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications Titan unit, which are being sued by Iraqi civilians for their alleged role in the torture and abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison. The companies provided interrogators at the prison at the height of the abuses there. The suit alleges that employees of the companies conspired with US. Army reservist Charles Graner, who was convicted of prisoner abuse on January 14, 2005 and is currently serving 10 years at Fort Leavenworth, and others to torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Several of the plaintiffs are Iraqis whose torture was depicted in graphic photos revealed over the past several years."

http://www.truthout.org/091509S?n

 

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By Tony Romm

"We have reached a seminal moment in our struggle against violent Islamist extremism, and we must commit the 'decisive force' that Gen. [Stanley] McChrystal tells us carries the least risk of failure."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23495.htm

 

"You Have to Learn Lessons from History"

By Cindy Sheehan

Somehow, Obama believes, he's going to stain his hands darker with blood, but he's not going to pay any political consequences.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23506.htm

 

Why Propaganda Trumps Truth

By Paul Craig Roberts

Democracy is based on the assumption that people are rational beings who factually examine arguments and are not easily manipulated. Studies are not finding this to be the case.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23498.htm

 

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Health-Care Reform and the Constitution
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/napolitano8.1.1.html

Handshake Equality
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/armstrong3.1.1.html

'Constitutional Republic'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w109.html

Saying No to the O-ministration
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/nullification-nuclear-option.html

 

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Ron Paul: Fed Threatens Depression, $100 Bills Worthless
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul578.html

Recovery? It's a Cover-Up
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/recover-coverup.html

The Fed Owns Most Monetary Economists
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north757.html

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Did Bernanke and Paulson Blackmail Congress?

By Mike Whitney

Lehman Bros. didn't die of natural causes; it was drawn-and-quartered by high-ranking officials at the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Most of the rubbish presently appearing in the media, ignores this glaring fact. Lehman was a planned demolition (most likely) concocted by ex-Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson, who wanted to create a financial 9-11 to scare Congress into complying with his demands for $700 billion in emergency funding (TARP) for underwater US banking behemoths.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23500.htm

 

For All Obama's Talk of Overhaul, the US Has Failed to Wind in Wall Street

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

With a blank cheque from taxpayers and no real reform the perverse incentives for risk-taking are bigger than ever.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23504.htm

 

Dems Feel Michael Moore's Wrath

By Alec MacGillis

In building his indictment against the ill-fated marriage of Wall Street and Washington, Moore zeroes in less on Phil Gramm or other GOP string-pullers than he does on White House economic adviser Larry Summers, Robert Rubin and Sen. Chris Dodd. Especially Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23505.htm

 

UK: TUC fears risk of riots as jobless total rises:

Public spending cuts could plunge Britain into a double-dip recession, driving unemployment above 4m and threatening to provoke riots on the streets, the country's most senior union leader has said.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b3fd11c-a097-11de-b9ef-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

 

Ron Paul: Federal government 'one giant toxic asset'

The US economy has not really recovered from last year's financial crisis, and the policies of the Federal Reserve, the US's central bank, are ensuring that the suffering will continue much longer than necessary, US House Rep. Ron Paul.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/14/ron-paul-no-recovery/

 

Need a laugh?

Bernanke: US recession "very likely" over

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that the worst US recession in seven decades has 'very likely' come to an end, but warned the country's economy will remain weak for some time.

http://snipurl.com/rvwev

 

US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate prompting fears of double-dip recession

Both bank credit and the M3 money supply in the United States have been contracting at rates comparable to the onset of the Great Depression since early summer, raising fears of a double-dip recession in 2010 and a slide into debt-deflation.

http://snipurl.com/rvwfg

 

How Sacramento Treats The Homeless

The City of Sacramento has sent a cruel message to the world: They would rather criminalize their community's homeless than sanction a designated area where they can safely and peacefully live.

http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/more_arrests_at_sacramentos_safe_ground


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Corporate corruption killing America

Nolan Chart
by Joel S. Hirschhorn

09/14/09

[T]he health insurance industry and others have successfully corrupted Congress and brainwashed much of the population to fear true reforms. Sure, Congress will pass some legislation that Obama will sign and they all will claim victory. But the nation will not get true reforms and health care spending will continue to rise and bankrupt the nation. And now we also are learning slowly that the financial sector that tanked our economy by pursuing enormously risky but profitable business practices and then was bailed out by the government has not learned any lessons. Banks and all kinds of financial companies are still pursuing risky businesses, still overpaying their top executives and still screwing consumers. Congress is unlikely to pass really tough regulations to put a halt to all the awful practices by financial companies. Why? Because Congress has been corrupted by money from this financial sector. Make no mistake: Corporate corruption is a true bipartisan effort, perhaps the most bipartisan enterprise...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article6877.html

 

Obama brings Guantanamo to Bagram

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

09/14/09

Following briefings by Obama administration officials (who declined to be identified), both the New York Times and the Washington Post reported yesterday that the government is planning to introduce a new review system for the 600 or so prisoners held at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, which will, for the first time, allow them to call witnesses in their defense. On paper, this appears to be an improvement on existing conditions at the prison, but a close inspection of the officials’ statement reveals that the proposed plans actually do very little to tackle the Bush administration’s wayward innovations regarding the detention of prisoners in wartime, and the officials also provided the shocking news that prisoners are currently being rendered to Bagram from other countries...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0909c.asp

 

One year after Wall Street meltdown, Obama targets Main Street

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Christine Hall

09/14/09

One year after the Wall Street meltdown, President Obama is touting new regulations he says are urgent for preventing a crisis like this from ever happening again. He is receiving much coverage today for his speech on Wall Street on the eve of the anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse. But a closer look at new rules Obama is proposing shows that the bulk of them do not go after the Wall Street culprits, but Main Street entrepreneurs that had nothing to do with the crisis...

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Obama then and now: Deficit edition

Deceiver.com
by Brittney Smears

09/14/09

Obama doublespeak continues to abound. This week Congress and the Prez return to Washington to continue ‘addressing’ our nation’s woes. Up next: the deficit. � Obviously President Obama and his team are being vocal about the necessity of this so that the President can keep spending like a maniac. The administration and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner are pushing for the debt ceiling to be increased ASAP. � The Senate had to consider raising the debt ceiling in 2006 and Senator Obama took the opportunity to make a floor speech: ‘Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.’ He obviously voted against raising the debt level...

http://deceiver.com/2009/09/09/obama-then-and-now-deficit-edition/

 

Transforming America: The Bush-Obama stimulus programs

Independent Institute
by Randall G. Holcombe

09/10/09

George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s ’stimulus’ programs will permanently transform the American economy. The market-based system that has produced unprecedented prosperity relies on profit and loss, which rewards individuals and firms that add value to the economy and penalizes those that detract value. The various stimulus programs undermine that system...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2601

 

How the Federal Reserve bought the economics profession

AlterNet
by Ryan Grim

09/14/09

The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found. This dominance helps explain how, even after the Fed failed to foresee the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression, the central bank has largely escaped criticism from academic economists. In the Fed’s thrall, the economists missed it, too...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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The Continuing Disaster of Wall Street, One Year Later

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "As he attempted to do with health care reform last week, the President is trying to breathe new life into financial reform. He's using the anniversary of the death of Lehman Brothers and the near-death experience of the rest of the Street, culminating with a $600 billion taxpayer financed bailout, to summon the political will for change. Yet the prospects seem dubious. As with health care reform, he has stood on the sidelines for months and allowed vested interests to frame the debate."

http://www.truthout.org/091409K?n

 

Reforming the United States

Francois Brousseau, Le Devoir: "With his timid and oh-so-cautious plan for the reform of health care insurance, Barack Obama, very much in spite of himself, unleashed the move in for a kill by an American extreme right that is in the minority, but is also influential and running riot."

http://www.truthout.org/091409Y?n

 

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A Retired General Wants to Know What's Wrong with Our Country
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/14-5

Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/14-7

Afghanistan: 'Necessary' War for Empire
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/14-4

Riding The Economic Roller-Coaster: The Big Plunge Is Just Up Ahead
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/14-10

Elizabeth Warren on Getting to the Root of the Financial Collapse
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/14-0

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Behind the Poverty Numbers
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/14-8

Common Cause: Financial Industry Spends Big As Obama Pushes for Regulatory Reform
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/14-12

Norman Solomon on Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/14

 

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One day after House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi softened her stance on a public health option, a lobbyist for one of the country's most prominent private health insurers announced a fundraiser for the California Democrat, a news report says.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/lobbyist-fundraiser-pelosi/

 

Poll: News media's credibility plunges to new low

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. That marks the highest level of skepticism recorded since 1985, when this study of public perceptions of the media was first done.

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Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYdgQkXu9eBg#

 

Majority of Canadian employees living paycheque to paycheque, survey shows

The survey, released Monday, said 59 per cent of Canadians would have trouble making ends meet if they missed a paycheque.

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Kucinich's Health Reform Dissents Merit Consideration
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/09-13

Worse Than Sand: Progressive Congressman Kucinich says 'You're Building on a Foundation of Private Insurance'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/03/09

 

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By Chris Hedges

If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists. The goons will inherit power not because they are astute, but because we are weak and inept.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23492.htm

 

Health Care Deceit

By Paul Craig Roberts

It is absurd to mandate that people purchase what they cannot afford and to fine them for failing to do so. A person who cannot pay a health insurance premium cannot pay the fine.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23491.htm

 

Sick and Wrong

By Matt Taibbi

Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment - a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23494.htm

 

Why Capitalism Fails

By Stephen Mihm

The man who saw the meltdown coming had another troubling insight: it will happen again.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23493.htm

 

Obama blamed for Taliban impasse

Peace talks with the Taliban were severely undermined by the US president Barack Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, an official involved in the discussions has warned

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'I told the US to talk to the Taliban. They jailed me'

The West must start negotiating with Afghanistan's Islamists, the former foreign minister tells Kim Sengupta.

http://snipurl.com/ru7s2

 

Extrajudicial Killing

US Attack Kills 4 In Pakistan

The attack targeted a vehicle believed to be carrying Taliban fighters in the North Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border. "Four militants" were killed and at least five others were wounded, a local intelligence official said on condition of anonymity.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/25088/four-killed-us-missile-strike.html

 

Ex-Intel officer discloses US plans for Pakistan:

The US seeks to establish new military bases in Pakistan to keep the country destabilized and control its nuclear weapons, says a former head of Pakistan's intelligence service.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106141&sectionid=351020401

 

Prosecutors in Iraq Case See Pattern by US Mercenaries

Private security guards who worked for Blackwater repeatedly shot wildly into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians long before they were involved in a 2007 shooting episode that left at least 14 Iraqis dead, federal prosecutors charge in a new court document.

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