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William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "A good friend noted recently how little we hear of Iraq and Afghanistan in the news anymore, and further noted the deafening silence regarding those ongoing wars from what he described as 'dishwater left-leaning political activists' whose disengagement from the issue, according to him, makes them full of something I can't repeat in print. That bogus disengagement, he asserts, stems from the fact that Obama is in office now, so everything must be OK."

http://www.truthout.org/the-real-war-reporters58914



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Öl-Katastrophe im Golf von Mexiko: Den beteiligten Firmen werden Fahrlässigkeit und mangelndes Interesse an Sicherheitsvorkehrungen vorgeworfen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32526/1.html



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Der Hang zu Präzisionswaffen für die "saubere" Kriegsführung

In Afghanistan soll die CIA bereits für Drohnenangriffe kleinere und präzisere Raketen einsetzen, auch das Konzept für den Prompt Global Strike setzt auf präzise Vernichtung oder gezielte Tötung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32521/1.html



Wenn US-Soldaten zu Veteranen werden, wächst für sie die Gefahr

Jeden Tag töten sich 18 Veteranen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/147516



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Lottery Economy
http://act.commondreams.org/go/381?akid=42.124981.x3zvl5&t=20

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The Importance of Getting Wall Street Out of Washington, and Washington Out of Wall Street

Robert Reich, RobertReich.org: "Washington's relationship with Wall Street is growing more schizophrenic by the day. On the one hand, Congress is trying to show how tough it can be on the financial sector by enacting a law ostensibly designed to prevent another near-meltdown and taxpayer-supported bailout. As the mid-term election looms, a staggering number of Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, and most Americans blame Wall Street (whose top bankers are raking in almost as much money as they did before the crisis)."

http://www.truthout.org/the-importance-getting-wall-street-out-washington-and-washington-out-wall-street58921



Could Financial Reform Curb Wall Street?

Audio

Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "Will the financial reform plan that's currently on the table prevent another economic crisis? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by looking at financial reform. Will it fundamentally change the way Wall Street operates? Will it end bank bailouts? What laws do you think should be put in place to protect citizens? Is it even possible to get a good bill with Wall Street and Washington so closely aligned?"

http://www.truthout.org/could-financial-reform-curb-wall-street-audio58893



Financial Reform: Will We Feel Better the Morning After?

Dean Baker, Truthout: "The financial reform bills being considered by Congress will lead to a better-regulated financial system, most importantly by creating a consumer protection agency that will prevent some of the worst abuses of the last decade. However, no serious person can claim that the bills passed by the House or coming out of the Senate Banking Committee will prevent future crises."

http://messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=218701&N=643&C=89f7caada66e1246c446c82a45236d36&L=5247



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods133.html

To Peg or Not to Peg?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff88.1.html



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Help STOP THE SLAUGHTER of the Yellowstone Buffalo
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The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve

By Gabor Steingart in Washington

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation by the International Monetary Fund. Just one more example of the Fed losing its power. - No Fed chief in US history has been forced to submit to the kind of humiliation that Ben Bernanke is facing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25329.htm



Financial Reform: Empower the People

By Ralph Nader

Anyone modestly familiar with the history of regulatory failures knows that the gross disparity of power and organized advocacy between big business and consumers outside of government leads to an absence of fair standards and law enforcement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25328.htm



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IMF As Grim Reaper of Austerity?

By Washington's Blog

The IMF has already performed a complete audit of the whole US financial system, something which they have only previously done to broke third world nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25330.htm

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The Anti-Imperialist League and the Battle Against Empire
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods134.html



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Liberty For All
by Rob Natelson

04/26/10

A constitutional republic that had endured for centuries was now breaking down. The signs were everywhere. Constitutional limits on political power were dissolving; politicians were increasingly demagogic and unrestrained. Magistrates secured the passage of sweeping laws by evading normal legislative procedures. Large portions of the citizenry now depended on plunder seized by those politicians and distributed to their supporters...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4179


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

04/27/10

Members of the Army National Guard and Reserves have been rotating in and out of the two-front war with such regularity it’s become difficult to tell the difference between the ‘part timers’ and the active-duty force — with one major distinction. Guardsmen and reservists go back to civilian jobs in between their multiple tours. Many are police officers. In fact, police departments across the country are actively recruiting part-time soldiers and veterans because their acquired ’skill set’ apparently makes them a desired fit for this line of work. So what happens when they bring the war to work with them?

http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/04/26/killer-cocktail/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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