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Ölkatastrophe am Golf von Mexiko: Der US-Präsident gerät in die Kritik.
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Big Oil is once again riding high oil prices to large profits (see below) while American consumers get stuck with a $2.7 billion gasoline bill in the first quarter of 2010 due to higher oil prices.

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-04-30-big-oil-companies-continue-to-see-big-profits-pollution-while-am/


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Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes in Gulf

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "A former contractor who worked for British Petroleum (BP) has alleged that the oil behemoth has broken federal laws and violated its own internal procedures by failing to maintain crucial safety and engineering documents related to one of the firm's other deepwater production projects in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving it vulnerable to a catastrophic disaster that would far surpass the massive oil spill that began last week following a deadly explosion on a BP-operated drilling rig, according to emails and other documents obtained by Truthout."

http://www.truthout.org/whistlelower-bps-other-offshore-drilling-project-gulf-vulnerable-catastrophe59027

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Environmentalists: Gulf Spill Should Take "Offshore Drilling Off the Table for Good"
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Oil Comes Ashore in Gulf, Scale of 'Historic' Disaster Sets In
http://act.commondreams.org/go/429?akid=46.124981.v9Gc_3&t=15

Spewing 5,000 Barrels of Oil a Day, BP Spill Hits Louisiana Coastline
http://act.commondreams.org/go/430?akid=46.124981.v9Gc_3&t=18

When Oil Spills, All Things Are Connected
http://act.commondreams.org/go/437?akid=46.124981.v9Gc_3&t=32

Defenders of Wildlife: Defenders' Statement on Gulf Oil Spill Disaster
http://act.commondreams.org/go/439?akid=46.124981.v9Gc_3&t=36

BP Enjoys Lobbying Strength, Close Ties to Lawmakers as Federal Investigation Looms
http://act.commondreams.org/go/445?akid=47.124981.KzrE00&t=9

Deepwater Horizon: Conservationists Warn of 'True Catastrophe' for Wildlife
http://act.commondreams.org/go/447?akid=47.124981.KzrE00&t=13

Was the Gulf Oil Spill an Act of War?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/449?akid=47.124981.KzrE00&t=18

Fire on the Bayou: Non-Stop River of Oil Heads to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida
http://act.commondreams.org/go/453?akid=47.124981.KzrE00&t=26

From the Wetlands in the Gulf, 'They Saw It Coming'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/454?akid=47.124981.KzrE00&t=28

Coastal Commuities Bracing for Catastrophe
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Scientist Doesn't See a Way for Preventing Oil From Reaching Florida Keys, Eastern Seaboard
http://act.commondreams.org/go/461?akid=48.124981.xYPIZQ&t=13

BP Oil Spill Worsens With No Solution in Sight, 210,000 Gallons a Day Spew into Gulf of Mexico
http://act.commondreams.org/go/462?akid=48.124981.xYPIZQ&t=16

New Orleans Fears New Disaster
http://act.commondreams.org/go/463?akid=48.124981.xYPIZQ&t=18

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Houston, we have a problem: an 'American Chernobyl' is causing growing desperation
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Nato's top civilian official in Afghanistan warns of further deaths in 'very tough year' for British and other foreign troops.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/29/afghanistan-combat-nato-official



Is the War in Afghanistan Justified by 9/11?

By David Ray Griffin

"It is widely recognized that the US-led war in Afghanistan is illegal under international law, because it was never authorized by the UN Security Council".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25365.htm



No One Cares

By Chris Hedges

Our passivity has resulted, in much more than imperial adventurism and a permanent underclass. A slow-motion coup by a corporate state has cemented into place a neofeudalism in which there are only masters and serfs. And the process is one that cannot be reversed through the traditional mechanisms of electoral politics.

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Video Report - RussiaToday

The largest anti-Wall Street rally since the credit crunch has taken place in New York. Thousands of workers and trade union leaders marched in anger over lost jobs and ruined lives, demanding answers from the source of the trouble - the banks.

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Workers march on Wall Street, protest big banks

Thousands of workers and union leaders marched on Wall Street on Thursday to express their anger over lost jobs, the taxpayer-funded bailout of financial institutions and questionable lending practices by big banks.

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$1 Rent for Billionaire Broad: Los Angeles

City Councilwoman Jan Perry and others were involved in secret negotiations to lease billionaire Eli Broad a piece of choice, taxpayer-owned property next to Walt Disney Concert Hall for $1 a year.

http://www.laweekly.com/2010-04-29/news/1-rent-for-billionaire-broad?src=newsletter


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A New Blueprint for Taking On Wall Street

Abby Scher, Truthout: "Wanda Hernandez of NYC AIDS Housing Network was on the podium at the 10,000-strong march on Wall Street April 29, saying, 'We didn't screw up the economy - they did. But me and my community have to pay the consequences. Some don't, so that's why we demand that Wall Street pay their fair share in taxes!' The people were crowded in City Hall Park under the shadow of the financial district not just to chant down Babylon, but also to demand that Congress not bow to Wall Street pressure and instead enact strong regulations of Wall Street so that it can't wantonly destroy jobs."

http://www.truthout.org/a-new-blueprint-taking-wall-street59043



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Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

04/29/10

In February, 2008, the Bush DOJ issued a subpoena to The New York Times‘ James Risen, demanding the identity of his source(s) for one chapter in Risen’s best-selling book, State of War. The chapter in question described a painfully inept and counter-productive CIA effort to infiltrate the Iranian nuclear program, but which ended up instead passing on valuable information to the Iranians about how to build a bomb. At the time that subpoena was issued, I wrote that it was a serious and ‘dangerous’ escalation of the ongoing effort by Bush officials to intimidate journalists and their sources in order to choke off whistle-blowing disclosures, ‘the sole remaining avenue for a country plagued by a supine, slothful, vapid press and an indescribably submissive Congress.’ I don’t recall a single progressive or Democrat — not one — defending that subpoena. It should surprise absolutely nobody that, as Charlie Savage reports, the Obama DOJ has now re-issued the same subpoena to Risen...

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Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner
by Kent McManigal

04/29/10

Security is an illusion. If you seek it you will end up being hurt and enslaved. You are better off taking your chances in the real world, knowing there are no guarantees, than handing over your liberty to someone who has only your subjugation in mind...

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By Camillo Mac Bica

For the apathetic and for those who trumpet and champion war's necessity from a safe distance, war is a distraction, bleak, dire, and unpleasant, from their consumer driven lives, better left for others and for other peoples' children to fight.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25349.htm



The Military Occupation of Our Minds

By Tom Hayden

As Congress weighs Afghanistan funding, the military is escalating what it calls the "war of perceptions" at home and abroad. The question is whether the American media and Congress will collaborate in the Pentagon's press strategy or retain a critical edge.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25345.htm



Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion in No-Bid Fuel Contracts to Mysterious Companies

The Pentagon's main supply agency has acknowledged awarding $1.4 billion in no-bid contracts to two foreign companies whose ownership and management seem extremely mysterious.

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Law Prof Says

By Nathan Hodge

"Under the legal theories adopted by our government in prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, these CIA officers as well as any higher-level government officials who have authorized or directed their attacks are committing war crimes."

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Times Square Terror: Drone Payback?

By Noah Shachtma

Faisal Shahzad tried to bomb Times Square as payback for American drone attacks in Pakistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25387.htm



Did You Hear the Joke About the Predator Drone That Bombed?

By Medea Benjamin and Nancy Moncias

Obama's 'joke' at the White House correspondents' dinner was no laughing matter to the relatives of the hundreds of people killed in Pakistan by drones.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25383.htm



US to expand Pakistan drone strikes

Federal lawyers backed the measures on grounds of self-defence to counter threats the fighters pose to US troops in neighbouring Afghanistan and the United States as a whole, according to authorities.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/05/201056104348785170.html



CIA drones have broader list of targets

The agency since 2008 has been secretly allowed to kill unnamed suspects in Pakistan.
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How Not to Tell a True War Story
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Aktivisten der Friedensbewegung klagen gegen Stationierung US-amerikanischer Nuklearsprengköpfe im rheinland-pfälzischen Büchel.

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