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By Peter Beaumont

The CIA report into prisoner abuse reveals a new, ugly reality: America's torturers weren't simply following orders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23369.htm

 

Thomas Paine v. the Right's Torture Defenders

What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report

By Glenn Greenwald

"It's bs... It's disgraceful. You wonder which side they're on. [It's' a] declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense. . .

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23364.htm



Only Two Weeks' Training For CIA Interrogators

One officer expressed concern that one day officers would wind up on a 'wanted list' to appear before a war crimes court due to [their] activities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23367.htm

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Torture: No pardons, no excuses for the real terrorists

Center for a Stateless Society
by Alex R. Knight III

08/26/09

Look, it’s all well and fine, given the inherent nature of government, to cherry-pick big time and slap the wrists of a few sadistic individuals who work for one of the American government’s numerous spy agencies because a few select people were treated badly by them. It’s another, in the stark light of reality, to excuse the mass atrocities of the middle-eastern wars and those who authorized them; the vicious foreign policy stances that enabled them; and the money taken from Americans by the IRS and other taxing agents at gunpoint which pays for them. In short, no one should be making excuses for what government is and what it does — the evidence itself puts paid to that. Nor should anyone be formulating lame excuses in order to keep the institution of government in operation...

http://c4ss.org/content/977


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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By Laura Flanders

A US drone firing missiles into a village in northern Pakistan killed at least 19 people over the weekend. The targets were militants said the US military. The victims included six dead children said a local tribal elder.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23368.htm

 

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Informant: jensenmk

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Favilla, Les Echos: "Bonuses are one of the summer's ongoing soap operas. They contain all the elements: money intoxication, the mysterious image of those invisible people who are traders and news fed by some banks' sensational declarations about the continuation of their precrisis practices and by governments' martial communiques promising the end of those practices. All the tumult gives rise to a certain confusion."

http://www.truthout.org/082609E?n



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/08/25

Holder and Obama Must Focus on Torture Accountability
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/25-7

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: US Playing a New Rendition of an Old Song-Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/25-13



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Fuelled by President Obama's $787bn stimulus package and reduced tax revenues due to the recession, it compares with a $455bn deficit in 2008.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8221207.stm



White House, CBO debt forecasts challenge Obama

The U.S. national debt will nearly double over the next 10 years, government forecasts showed Tuesday. The White House projected a cumulative $9 trillion deficit between 2010 and 2019

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE57M0WV20090825



Obama re-nominates Bernanke to stabilize markets

US President Barack Obama has nominated Ben Bernanke to head the US Federal Reserve for a second term despite oppositions that he failed to fend off the economic meltdown.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104449&sectionid=3510203


From Information Clearing House

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White House: $9 trillion in new government debt over next decade

Longview News-Journal

08/25/09

In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America’s founding. And it says by the next decade’s end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy. But before President Barack Obama can do much about it, he’ll have to weather recession aftershocks including unemployment that his advisers said Tuesday is still heading for 10 percent...

http://tinyurl.com/ls2vk5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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