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Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

08/29/09

If anyone ever tells you that they don’t understand what is meant by ’stenography journalism’ — or ever insists that America is plagued by a Liberal Media — you can show them this article from today’s Washington Post and, by itself, it should clear up everything. The article’s headline is ‘How a Detainee Became An Asset — Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding’ — though an equally appropriate headline would be: ‘The Joys and Virtues of Torture — how Dick Cheney Kept Us Safe.’ I defy anyone to identify a single way the article would be different if The Post had let Dick Cheney write it himself. The next time someone laments the economic collapse of the modern American newspaper, one might point out that an industry which pays three separate reporters (Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate) and numerous editors to churn out mindless, inane tripe like this has brought about its own demise...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/29/post/index.html

 

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north751.html

Ron Paul’s 'End the Fed' Movement Gaining Steam
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul571.html

 

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Jeremy Scahill, The Nation: "Blackwater, the private mercenary company owned by Erik Prince, has been thrust back into the spotlight by a series of stunning revelations about its role in covert US programs. Since at least 2002, Blackwater has worked for the CIA in Afghanistan and Pakistan on 'black' contracts. On August 19, The New York Times revealed that the company was, in fact, a central part of a secret CIA assassination program that Dick Cheney allegedly ordered concealed from Congress."

http://www.truthout.org/083009B?n



Blackwater Tapped Foreigners on Secret CIA Program

Adam Goldman and Pamela Hess, The Associated Press: "When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA."

http://www.truthout.org/083009S?n

 

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Spekulationen über im Vorhinein abgeschlossenen Kuhhandel zwischen dem Weißen Haus und der Gesundheitsindustrie gewinnen an Plausibilität.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31028/1.html

Auch unter Obama wird versucht, den Einsatz in Afghanistan im positiven Licht erscheinen zu lassen, indem Medienvertreter durchleuchtet und gezielt manipuliert werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31023/1.html

 

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Stephen Roach, der langjährige Chefökonom und heutige Asien-Chef der Investmentbank Morgan Stanley hat schwere Bedenken angesichts der gerade erfolgten Verlängerung der Amtszeit von Fed-Chef Ben Bernanke.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31021/1.html

 

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CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee in late 2007, keeping him awake for six straight days with permission from government lawyers.

http://snipurl.com/rgvad

 

Taxpayers will foot bill to defend CIA interrogators:

Who's paying to defend CIA employees alleged to have tortured detainees abroad? You are.

http://snipurl.com/rgvar

 

An Interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

Col. Wilkerson, provided some startling new insights into the conduct of the "war on terror."

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0908m.asp

 

Change.... What Change? Bush's Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept

The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082704065.html


From Information Clearing House

 

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By Joby Warrick, Peter Finn and Julie Tate

As the session begins, the detainee stands naked, except for a hood covering his head. Guards shackle his arms and legs, then slip a small collar around his neck. The collar will be used later; according to CIA guidelines for interrogations, it will serve as a handle for slamming the detainee's head against a wall.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23387.htm

 

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Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland

By JOHN V. WALSH

Obama is an enormous gift to the Empire. Just as he has silenced most of the single-payer movement, an effort characterized by its superb scholarship exceeded only by its timidity, Obama has shut down the antiwar movement, completely in thrall as it is to the Democrat Party and Identity Politics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23379.htm

 

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