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By Unsilent Generation

Last year alone the drug industry spent $234 million on lobbying. In the first three months of this year, it spent more than $66.5 million-$1.2 million a day.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23015.htm



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By Barry Grey

Nothing so clearly demonstrates the decay of American democracy and the "free press" in the United States than the manner in which it lines up behind phony "color revolutions" against regimes deemed inimical to US interests and ignores flagrantly antidemocratic measures by regimes backed by the CIA, the military and the State Department.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23011.htm



Obama's Rollback Strategy

Honduras, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan (and the Boomerang Effect)

By James Petras

The recent events in Honduras and Iran, which pit democratically elected regimes against pro-US military and civilian actors intent on overthrowing them can best be understood as part of a larger White House strategy designed to rollback the gains achieved by opposition government and movements during the Bush years.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23010.htm



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By John Pilger

Liberals say that the United States is once again a "nation of moral ideals", but behind the façade little has changed. With his government of warmongers, Wall Street cronies and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, Barack Obama is merely upholding the myths of a divine America.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23017.htm



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Congressman says investigating private Federal Reserve would reveal where missing TARP funds went

Paul Joseph Watson
PrisonPlanet.com
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Congressman Ron Paul has vowed that he will not be stopped in his effort to audit the Federal Reserve, as he slammed Senate authorities for blocking the bill earlier this week.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-on-fed-audit-we-will-not-be-stopped.html



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Pamela Hess, The Associated Press: "Democrats are accusing senior CIA officials of repeatedly misleading Congress, but Republicans say the allegations are just political maneuvering to protect House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The accusations come as lawmakers prepare to debate intelligence legislation - a bill President Barack Obama has threatened to veto."

http://www.truthout.org/070909A?n



CIA's History of Lying to Congress

Lisa Pease, Consortium News: "On TV this week, with a measure of disbelief in their voices, the pundits ask, did the CIA lie to or deliberately mislead Congress? How is that not a rhetorical question?"

http://www.truthout.org/071109C?n

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Democrats Say Panetta Admits CIA Misled Them

Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta has told lawmakers that the agency "concealed significant actions" from Congress, according to a letter released Wednesday from seven Democratic lawmakers.

http://snipurl.com/mg3e8



Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute

Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from Congress since 2001, a revelation that prompted him to immediately cancel the initiative and schedule a pair of closed-door meetings on Capitol Hill.

http://snipurl.com/mivts


From Information Clearing House



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Strike the Root
by Daniel Lakemacher

07/08/09

Do people go to war because it is part of human nature? If so, then we might consider it impossible to do away with war. But there is no evidence, in biology, or psychology, or anthropology, of a natural instinct for war. If that were so, we would find a spontaneous rush to war by masses of people. What we find is something very different: we find that governments must make enormous efforts to mobilize populations for war. They must entice young people with promises of money, land, education, skills. Immigrants are lured with promises of green cards and citizenship. And if those enticements don’t work, government must coerce. It must conscript young people, force them into military service, threaten them with prison if they do not comply...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/lakemacher/lakemacher1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Will Van Wagenen

07/09/09

Most defenders of torture rely on the argument that torture saves (American) lives, and that torture is therefore justified and moral. Such defenders often cite fantastic scenarios similar to the following: Imagine a terrorist group is planning to detonate a nuclear bomb in the middle of a major US city. Now imagine that one of the terrorists is captured by the CIA. The terrorist won’t reveal the information needed to stop the attack so he must be tortured until he gives up the information, allowing the CIA to stop the attack and save hundreds of thousands of lives. Such defenders then pose the question, ‘How could it be wrong to torture one evil person in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives?’ In other words such defenders cite as their ‘proof’ that torture is moral an imaginary scenario which has never occurred and which has no basis in reality...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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