World-News

By Bill Quigley

Boeing's directors include a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, a former White House chief of staff, a former vice chair of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a former U.S. Ambassador and U.S. Trade Representative. It hosts the 10th largest political action committee, giving away more than one million dollars to federal candidates in 2009. Since 1998, it has spent $125 million lobbying Congress.

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By Laura King

The father's eyes reddened with tears as he hefted an English textbook that had belonged to his ninth-grade son, Habibuddin. The boy, along with eight other people, was shot dead this month when American special-operations forces swooped down on the family's remote mud-brick compound in the dead of night.

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Grayson's Smart Calculus Makes War Cost Real for Taxpayers

By John Nichols

"What George Orwell wrote about in 1984 has come true. What Eisenhower warned us about concerning the 'military-industrial complex' has come true," the congressman argues. "War is a permanent feature of our societal landscape, so much so that no one notices it anymore."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25539.htm



Ahmed Wali Karzai - From waiter to 'King of Kandahar'

With ties to his brother's government and links to local warlords and drug kingpins, Ahmed Karzai has become patron and a powerbroker on a grand scale.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=3084999


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McChrystal Strategy Shifts to Raids and Wali Karzai
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Chris Hedges, Truthout: "Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse."

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Athens Hosts the Olympiad of Debt
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north851.html



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Der Nobelpreisträger Joseph E. Stiglitz ist für die Einführung einer Finanztransaktionssteuer. Die Spekulation ließe sich mit dieser Steuer eindämmen, sagt er. Ökonom J. E. Stiglitz über Regulierung der Märkte in der taz vom 20.05.2010 http://www.taz.de/1/zukunft/wirtschaft/artikel/1/rating-agenturen-sind-inkompetent/


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Mai 2010



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National Review
by Michael Barone

05/24/10

In the past, rebellions against fiscal policy have concentrated on taxes rather than spending. This time is different...

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Line item veto

Fox Business News
by John Stossel

05/25/10

President Obama wants Congress to give him the line-item veto — that is, the power to veto specific parts of Congressional bills, rather than the whole thing. That way, supposedly, the president can just cut out the waste. … On its face, it seems like a good idea. It may cut down on useless pork like bridges to nowhere. But the suggestion that it will help control spending is laughable. … It would be nice to eliminate pork, but it’s chump change compared to the big picture. Even now, Congress and the president are pushing for $200 Billion in new spending...

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Does malinvestment matter?

Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson

05/26/10

Two years into the Obama administration we have seen an unprecedented rise in government spending and unprecedented federal budget deficits, all in the name of ’stimulating’ the economy. Nor is Barack Obama the only president to engage in economic ’stimulus;’ his predecessor George W. Bush also spent recklessly for the same reason. Yet with literally trillions of dollars spent, the rate of unemployment hovers around 10 percent, many banks remain in a precarious state, and a meaningful economic recovery is as elusive as ever...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Stopping Orwell's Nightmare
http://act.commondreams.org/go/801?akid=69.124981.EP03W9&t=18

 

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CounterPunch
by Bill Quigley

05/24/10

Our nation does not respect our soldiers by engaging in permanent war. War is grinding up our children. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost over 5000 US lives and tens of thousands more lives of people in those countries. Over 20% of those in our military who served in these two wars, 320,000 people, have war-related traumatic brain injuries. Suicide rates are up by 26 percent among 18 to 29 year old male veterans in the latest Veterans Administration study. Mental health hospitalizations are now the leading cause of hospital admissions for the military, higher than injuries. On any given night, over 100,000 veterans are homeless and living on our nation’s streets...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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Disaster Must Be Catalyst for Change, Says Jean-Michel Cousteau
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Oily Apocalypse or Green Wave?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/05/25-15

BP's 'Top Kill' Plan Set But Could Worsen Leak
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'Top Kill' Hype Collides With Reality

All day yesterday, people across America were really, really excited about the latest and greatest method that BP was using to finally stop the gush of undersea oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the so-called Top Kill. "Woo, Top Kill," tweeted America.

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President Obama can and must halt Shell's exploratory drilling plans
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It's Time to Pause Arctic Oil Drilling
http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/arcticshell_0510

 

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Obamas Katrina, die US-Regierung scheint wieder einmal handlungsunfähig zu sein.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147680



Top Kill und nie wieder gutzumachende Schäden

Ölpest: BPs orwellhafte Konzern-Politik
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147688



BP verordnet Blackout

Das Video-Feed vom Bohrloch wird BP während des "Top-Kill"-Versuchs abschalten - das verursacht erneut Misstrauen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147692



Top Kill erst einmal nicht erfolgreich

BP hat weiterhin Schwierigkeiten, das Bohrloch im Golf von Mexiko zu schließen, aus dem wesentlich mehr Öl austritt, als der Konzern bislang gesagt hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147713



Kein "Top Kill": Ölkonzern BP und US-Regierung hilflos

Die Welt beobachtet die kläglichen Bemühungen von Konzern und US-Regierung, das Ölbohrloch zu schließen.

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