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Le Monde's editorialist: "Pretending that nothing had happened.... As though the global crisis they provoked weren't daily dragging along with it its cortege of social dramas, human tragedies and economic routs, banks are reviving yesterday's practices. The practices of a pre-crisis world."

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Kip Sullivan, Physicians for a National Health Program: "The people who brought us the 'public option' began their campaign promising one thing but now promote something entirely different. To make matters worse, they have not told the public they have backpedalled. The campaign for the 'public option' resembles the classic bait-and-switch scam: tell your customers you've got one thing for sale when in fact you're selling something very different."

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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "While the European Union cut off aid to the coup regime in Honduras, the United States continues the money flow, and while the US says it has cut military ties, the National Catholic Reporter reveals Honduran army officers are still receiving military training at the notorious School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia."

http://www.truthout.org/072209T?n

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The Honduran coup and the Clinton connection

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

[W]hile the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has officially taken the position that the coup is illegitimate and President Manuel ‘Mel’ Zelaya must be restored to office, there are hints that the U.S. is playing both sides of the fence — and even tilting toward the coup leaders. When Zelaya announced that he would cross the border between Honduras and Nicaragua on foot and called on his supporters to gather, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced him as ‘reckless.’ Which led Zelaya to ask, in effect, which side is she on? Good question, and the answer is she’s on Lanny Davis’ side. Davis, you’ll recall, was her chief attack dog during the presidential primary campaign, and now he’s sold his services to the Honduran branch of CEAL, the Central American business alliance, which supports the coup...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Cato Institute
by Benjamin H. Friedman

07/22/09

The Obama administration promised an ‘unprecedented level of openness in government.’ The White House website says that citizens have a right to know what their government is doing and that accountability makes government more effective. That’s absolutely right. In some areas, such as the liberalization of policy on Freedom of Information Act requests, the administration has embraced this principle. Disappointingly though, the administration’s commitment to openness and accountability does not extend to intelligence activities...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Campaign For Liberty
by Mark Lerner

07/22/09

The Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee met July 15th to hear testimony regarding the Real ID Act 2005 and the newly introduced Providing for Additional Security in States’ Identification (’PASS’) Act. Senator Lieberman is the Chairman of the committee. As you will see, the ‘fix’ was in. For two weeks the Stop Real ID Coalition, of which I, Mark Lerner, am the co-founder, had lobbied to provide testimony to the committee. Thousands of our supporters called the committee on our behalf...

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Foundation for Economic Education
by William Anderson

07/22/09

Last week, I wrote about the crudeness of so-called Keynesian economic theory in which one assumes that all assets and capital ‘investment’ are ‘homogeneous’ in character, which means that their only contribution to the economy is from the money that is spent in their creation and continued operation. This view contrasts with the Austrian paradigm, which emphasizes the structure of production within an economy and the unsustainability of capital that is malinvested during a boom. Unfortunately, too many people in high places are prone to believe what on its face is unbelievable: running huge federal deficits somehow is a good thing for the economy...

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CounterPunch
by Bernard Chazelle

07/22/09

Anti-torture voices have been left sounding defensive, insecure, incoherent. Yet, while boasting the world’s highest incarceration numbers and supermax prisons characterized by a warden as a ‘clean version of hell,’ the US has also begun to question its tolerance of torture. The debate is on, and torture is winning. I intend here to lay the foundation for a strong, cogent anti-torture position. It rests upon three principles: Torture is always wrong; Torture must be banned by law unconditionally; Not all torture decisions should be morally codified...

http://counterpunch.com/chazelle07222009.html


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