World-News

David Bromwich, TomDispatch.com: "We have begun to talk casually about our wars; and this should be surprising for several reasons. To begin with, in the history of the United States war has never been considered the normal state of things. For two centuries, Americans were taught to think war itself an aberration, and 'wars' in the plural could only have seemed doubly aberrant. Younger generations of Americans, however, are now being taught to expect no end of war -- and no end of wars."

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



Worst Case Scenario

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The torture debate in America got real three weeks ago. Oh, the debate has been around for years now, of course, ever since the photos of what happened in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq came to light. Men covered in feces, bent double and lashed to bedframes, their faith humiliated by the menstrual blood smeared on their faces, their bodies savaged by dogs, and worse, reports of the rape of women and children."

http://www.truthout.org/072109R?n



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Consortium News
by Ivan Eland

07/21/09

The seeming irrationality behind the George W. Bush administration’s ‘against the grain’ (and the law) policies on torture, warrantless domestic surveillance, and now notification of Congress about CIA covert operations was not irrational at all. Most experts say that torture is counterproductive because the subject will tell the interrogator what he or she wants to hear to stop the pain and because many military people say that it merely revs up the opposition, gives them no incentive to surrender, and gives them every incentive to torture U.S. military personnel. Yet in the face of this mountain of authoritative opinion and the policy’s clear violation of international law and a U.S. criminal statute against torture, the Bush administration gleefully did it anyway...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/072009b.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Nation
by William Greider

07/15/09

The financial crisis has propelled the Federal Reserve into an excruciating political dilemma. The Fed is at the zenith of its influence, using its extraordinary powers to rescue the economy. Yet the extreme irregularity of its behavior is producing a legitimacy crisis for the central bank. The remote technocrats at the Fed who decide money and credit policy for the nation are deliberately opaque and little understood by most Americans. For the first time in generations, they are now threatened with popular rebellion. During the past year, the Fed has flooded the streets with money — distributing trillions of dollars to banks, financial markets and commercial interests — in an attempt to revive the credit system and get the economy growing again. As a result, the awesome authority of this cloistered institution is visible to many ordinary Americans for the first time. People and politicians are shocked and confused, and also angered, by what they see. They are beginning to ask some hard questions for which Federal Reserve governors do not have satisfactory answers...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090803/greider


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Associated Press

07/21/09

President Barack Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional grounds after having criticized George W. Bush for doing the same. Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were ’surprised’ and ‘chagrined’ by Obama’s declaration in June that he doesn’t have to comply with provisions in a war spending bill that puts conditions on aid provided to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...

http://tinyurl.com/n6yljj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Während die gedopten Großbanken angeblich wieder Gewinne schreiben, geht das Bankensterben munter weiter.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30753/1.html



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The weak economy is taking its toll, with an increasing number of bodies in Los Angeles County being cremated at taxpayers' expense.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-unclaimed21-2009jul21,0,5379880.story


From Information Clearing House

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner398.html



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Fund Expected to Be Exhausted in 2037

By Ellen E. Schultz

Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23115.htm



The Great Tax Con Job

By Thom Hartmann

Republicans are using the T-word - taxes - to attack the Obama healthcare program. It's a strategy based in a lie.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23113.htm



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