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New Docs Show Effort to Oust U.S. Attorneys

ABC News

08/11/09

Newly released emails from the Bush administration indicate that senior White House aides may have been directly involved in the firing of a U.S. attorney for apparently political reasons. The documents released today by the House Judiciary Committee suggest that the White House was angry at then New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias because he was not aggressively pursuing the prosecution of a Democratic congressional candidate...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8306582&page=1


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Vindication for Iglesias?

Michael Isikoff, Newsweek: "The former federal prosecutor at the center of the controversy over the 2006 U.S. attorney firings said today that he feels fully vindicated by newly disclosed e-mails from the Bush White House showing that Karl Rove and his deputies were actively involved in arranging his dismissal from the Justice Department. 'This confirms my worst nightmares,' David Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney in New Mexico, said in an interview with NEWSWEEK. 'There were improper and potentially illegal - as in criminally illegal - reasons for my removal.'"

http://www.truthout.org/081209E?n



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Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/11-8

Big Powers Faulted for Abuse of Geneva Conventions
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/11-3

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Obama asked Supreme Court to block release of Iraq abuse torture photos

This spring, a lower court granted a request by the American Civil Liberties Union, a US rights group, that the photographs be made public and ordered the Defense Department to make them available by the end of May.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5joBly6XDRZEC8K_Fkg_NsoURU00g



Government rhetoric on torture rings hollow

The evidence tells a very different story.
http://snipurl.com/poht5


From Information Clearing House



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Spencer Ackerman, The Washington Independent: "Even as a wrongful-death lawsuit moves forward against the controversial private security company formerly known as Blackwater, the firm seeks to renew its contract with the State Department to guard diplomats when the deal expires next year. And the State Department shows no signs of ruling the company out of competition, despite a high-profile incident in 2007 that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead."

http://www.truthout.org/081109B?n



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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Sergio Kochergin, back home from his second deployment in Iraq, held a gun in his mouth, trying to muster the courage to pull the trigger. Untreated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and accompanying nightmares and insomnia, heavy substance abuse, and several failed attempts at self-medication had taken their toll on him."

http://www.truthout.org/081109A?n

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My 1933 Nightmare

By David Michael Green

Can we really live in a country populated by so many fools, people who can so readily, proudly and belligerently be made into tools of their own destruction? Can the greatest political, economic, cultural and military power on the world's stage possibly be so incredibly backward at its core?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23245.htm



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Joseph Stiglitz, The Guardian UK: "Questions are being raised as to whether the policy of jump-starting the economy through a massive fiscal stimulus has failed. Has Keynesian economics been proven wrong now that it has been put to the test?"

http://www.truthout.org/081009L?n



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Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle: "The Obama administration is fighting on multiple fronts - in courts in San Francisco, Washington and London - to keep an official veil of secrecy over the treatment of a former prisoner who says he was tortured at Guantanamo Bay."

http://www.truthout.org/081009R?n



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New York Daily News
by Mort Zuckerman

08/09/09

Obama’s spending and borrowing leaves U.S. gasping for air …. The unprecedented, improbable and indeed almost unimaginable global financial crisis has virtually put an end to the comfortable notion that American and Western capitalism would dominate the world economy. In turn, the financial meltdown threatening another Great Depression has been the rationale for a phenomenal expansion of government spending to prop up demand and fend off economic disaster...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Boston Globe
by Robert Kuttner

08/11/09

Ever since the financial crisis began in 2007, there has been a tension between recovery and reform. It seems to make sense to get the economy back on track now and worry about reforms later. But a time of financial crisis, when Wall Street needs big-time government help, is the rare moment when government has the leverage to demand fundamental change. Otherwise, the moment is lost and the cycle of risky practices and taxpayer bailouts continues. Despite the infusion of massive taxpayer funds, however, it’s back to business as usual on Wall Street…. Here’s one new abuse that should be stopped before it spreads: Big private equity companies, which are largely unregulated, are hungry to take over failed banks...

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A large portion of the revenue is likely to come from the most financially stretched consumers, according to the paper.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5790YM20090810



State unemployment rates continue to climb

The most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics continue to paint a bleak picture for unemployment rates. According to the most recent unemployment rate press release, unemployment rates rose in 38 states.

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Guess What? Unemployment's Really at 16.3 Percent

How is it possible for the unemployment rate to essentially remain unchanged when 247,000 jobs have been lost? Because the number of people who gave up and stopped looking for work rose dramatically.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/08/07/john-lott-unemployment/



Battered women forced to search for new housing

As California officials wrestle with a $26.3 billion state budget deficit, their continued cuts to social service programs have forced the closure of 96 battered women's shelters across the state.

http://www.theunion.com/article/20090810/NEWS/908099986/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1053


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