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By Bob Herbert

If we had a draft - or merely the threat of a draft - we would not be in Iraq or Afghanistan. But we don't have a draft so it's safe for most of the nation to be mindless about waging war. Other people's children are going to the slaughter.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23358.htm



Is The USA A Sick Country Or What?

By Dave Lindorff

We've got a litany of horror and abuse here that sounds like the worst kind of stories that used to come out of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or the Argentine Junta or Idi Amin's Uganda. About the only thing missing is word that the military and CIA torturers were eating their victims, or feeding them their own genitals, but who knows? Maybe we'll get there yet. It's hard at this point to rule anything out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23361.htm



The CIA's Post-torture Profits

By Tim Shorrock

Architects of a shameful chapter in the agency's history now reap rich rewards in the private sector. They must be held to account.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23357.htm



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Spencer Ackerman, The Washington Independent: "In a statement, Tom Parker, the policy director of Amnesty International’s American branch, said, 'Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Vice President Cheney's track record, the two CIA memos released today are hardly the slam dunk we had been led to expect. There is little or no supporting evidence in either memo to give substance to the specific claims about impending attacks made by Khaled Shaik Mohammed in highly coercive circumstances.'"

http://www.truthout.org/082509S?n

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Full inspector general's report on CIA interrogation
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/cia_report.pdf?


Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report

Inspector General Reportedly Discovered Three Died, Many Unaccounted For by CIA.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8410340



Cheney Slams Obama Administration Decision

"President Obama's decision to allow the Justice Department to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA personnel, and his decision to remove authority for interrogation from the CIA to the White House, serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many Americans have doubts about this Administration's ability to be responsible for our nation's security,"

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8409637


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Urge President Obama and Congress to close the door on torture and illegal detention once and for all

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The Calm Before the Financial Storm?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner409.html



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Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell
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The central bank's secret tricks
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/what-involved-auditing-fed.html



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Lawsuit required to force "transparency" and "change" Obama promised as Bernanke is re-appointed as Fed chief

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

A New York District Judge has ordered the Federal Reserve to disclose the destination of around $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds after the Fed failed to convince the Judge that the records should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

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AntiWar.Com
by Jeff Huber

08/25/09

Those of you still hoping for ‘change’ can forget it. Young Mr. Obama is working the same number that young Mr. Bush pulled on us. In Obama’s address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Ariz., on Aug. 17, he made his commitment to war in the Bananastans irrevocable. It would be wonderful if public servants seeking to associate themselves with the military would cater to the agenda of the Veterans for Peace. For a president of the United States to pander to the VFW is a disgrace. While the VFW is not a pack of latter-day Brownshirts like the American Legion, the two groups possess a common value: they never saw an armed conflict they didn’t like. If they had to serve in a pointless war, everyone else should too...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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by Stephen Lendman

Global Research, August 24, 2009

Codex Alimentarius (CA) serves corporate interests
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14889


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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A prominent banking analyst said Sunday that 150 to 200 more U.S. banks will fail in the current banking crisis, and the industry's payments to keep the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp afloat could eat up 25 percent of pretax income in 2010.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/32532937



Double-dip recession likely: Roubini

Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the financial crisis, said the chance of a double-dip recession is increasing because of risks related to ending global monetary and fiscal stimulus.

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The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration's practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to insure they are not tortured, administration officials said on Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/us/politics/25rendition.html



CIA interrogator threatened to kill children

Another agent allegedly told a second suspect the man's mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him. The agent has denied the allegation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8219307.stm



CIA report: 'Inhumane' tactics used on detainees

The documents released by the CIA's inspector general said interrogators went too far - even beyond what was authorized under Justice Department legal memos that have since been withdrawn and discredited.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_cia_interrogations



CIA Outsourced for Killers

Following reports the CIA hired private spies to be assassins, former U.S. intelligence officials are defending the use of contractors, estimating one out of three intelligence workers is on contract.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2009/08/137_50593.html



Who Needs Trials? Kill Terror Suspects!

By Nat Hentoff

Is it possible that the CIA would actually commit alleged war crimes - and the U.S. government would not hold the CIA and itself accountable in any way? Is water wet?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23995.htm


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By Chris Hedges

Between 40 and 62 percent of the American people, including 80 percent of registered Democrats, want universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all Americans. The ability of the corporations to discredit and silence voices that represent at least half of the population is another sad testament to the power of our corporate state.

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