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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano outlined Wednesday the Obama administration's domestic approach to preventing terrorist attacks -- a strategy that will rely in large measure on refining and expanding initiatives launched under President George W. Bush.

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By The Independent

Britain's national security and the lives of its citizens will be put at risk if the High Court publishes its findings on what happened to former terror detainee Binyam Mohamed at the hands of the CIA. That was the effect of letters from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and CIA officials, two judges were told in London yesterday.

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UK Government to be Sued For Involvement in CIA Kidnapping Program

Former Gitmo Detainee Alleges Stopover on British Island Makes UK Complicit in Torture.
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Helping the victims of Guantánamo

Within a day of his inauguration the new US president, Barack Obama, promised the world, in no uncertain terms, that the world's most infamous prison's days were numbered. As of today, that's 190 days - and counting.

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Within a day of his inauguration the new US president, Barack Obama, promised the world, in no uncertain terms, that the world's most infamous prison's days were numbered. As of today, that's 190 days - and counting.

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An Unprecedented Network of Military Bases That is Still Expanding

By Catherine Lutz

Asked why the US has a vast network of military bases around the world, Pentagon officials give both utilitarian and humanitarian arguments. Utilitarian arguments include the claim that bases provide security for the US by deterring attack from hostile countries and preventing or remedying unrest or military challenges; that bases serve the national economic interests of the US, ensuring access to markets and commodities needed to maintain US standards of living.

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Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So

By Chalmers Johnson

According to the 2008 official Pentagon inventory of our military bases around the world, our empire consists of 865 facilities in more than 40 countries and overseas U.S. territories. We deploy over 190,000 troops in 46 countries and territories.

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Mother Jones
by Nomi Prins

07/28/09

Bank holding companies (which all the biggest financial firms now are) come under the regulatory purview of the Fed, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the FDIC. The capital they keep in reserve in case of emergency (like, say, toxic assets hemorrhaging on their books, or credit derivatives trades not being paid) is supposed to be greater than investment banks’. That’s the trade-off. You get access to federal assistance, you pony up more capital, and you take less risk. Goldman didn’t like the last part. It makes most of its money speculating, or trading. So it asked the Fed to be exempt from what’s called the Market Risk Rules that bank holding companies adhere to when computing their risk. Keep in mind that by virtue of becoming a bank holding company, Goldman received a total of $63.6 billion in federal subsidies (that we know about — probably more if the Fed were ever forced to disclose its $7.6 trillion of borrower details)...

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Cato Institute
by Will Wilkinson

07/29/09

Whatever happened to income inequality? George W. Bush’s last term was a golden age of the moralizing polemic decrying a widening income gap. Since then, this once paramount concern has completely evaporated. Yet if the question of income inequality was ever interesting or urgent, you’d think a transformative shock to the American economy would make it more urgent still. A wealth-obliterating disaster has put our economy in the dump along with the livelihoods of millions of lower-income Americans. So why have we stopped talking about income inequality?

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Für Eliot Spitzer, den früheren Gouverneur und Generalstaatsanwalt von New York, war die US-Bankenrettung der größte Betrug aller Zeiten.

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Auslaufmodell Dollar

Auch die Mercosur-Staaten wollen den internen Handel nicht mehr in Dollar abwickeln.
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By Paul Craig Roberts

Last week on NPR a professor in the Sloan School of Management at MIT explained that what is really at stake in the health care bill is the US government's ability to borrow. In other words, the bill is about cutting health care costs, not about providing hard-pressed Americans with health care.

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