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By Tim Reid

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25173.htm



Prisoner demands compensation for Guantánamo nightmare

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson's serious accusations against the Bush White House over Guantánamo Bay are made to support the cause of Adel Hassan Hamad, a former detainee who is now seeking compensation from the United States.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7092469.ece



Why Was Cheney in Saudi Arabia?

Dick Cheney just went on a junket to meet with Saudi Arabian leaders, a quiet pow-wow that's been discussed in the Saudi media but not so much over here. Cheney-who's been busy defending torture and complaining that Barack Obama lets world leaders "think they're dealing with a weak president"-weakened the president by visiting a leading torture regime and its caliph, King Abdullah.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/05/why-was-dick-cheney-in-saudi-arabia-oil-halliburton-logan-act-riyadh


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A baffling defense of Bush policy

Christian Science Monitor
by Walter Rodgers

04/13/10

In April 2003, I was embedded with the US Army’s 7th Cavalry in the western suburbs of Baghdad, sleeping on top of a Humvee. Seven years later I still wonder why we were there. So, I suspect, do many Americans. What responsibility — what options — do generals have when they believe civilian leaders, the president, the vice president, and the secretary of Defense, are bent on a ‘wrongheaded’ war? I recently put that question to former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, who served from 2001 to 2005 and was a major architect of the war in Iraq. ‘If it’s a debate over what’s the smart and right thing to do,’ he said, ‘the president is the elected representative of the American people. Somebody has to make policy for the country, and the country decides by democratic means [that] it’s going to be the president.’ His implication seemed clear. Americans elected George W. Bush, and the public must live with the consequences of its former president’s decision...

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An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantanamo Loses His Habeus Petition

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Such is the prevailing disregard for the fate of the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo that last week, when Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, submitted a declaration in a case brought by a former prisoner, in which he stated that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld all knew - and didn’t care - that 'the vast majority of Guantanamo detainees were innocent,' almost no one noticed that one of the remaining 183 men had just lost his habeas corpus petition in a US court."

http://www.truthout.org/an-insignificant-yemeni-guantanamo-loses-his-habeas-petition58645



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Adam Smith Institute
by Nikhil Arora

04/08/10

Barack Obama (the ‘Change We Can Believe In’ President) looks more like his disastrous predecessor every passing day. I am not talking about the bailouts to politically-connected cronies, ‘stimulus’ spending that doesn’t stimulate anything, or the futile throwing of money at an inefficient healthcare system. Rather, I am referring to something that Democrats and ‘proper liberals’ are supposed to agree on — the rule of law and the rejection of unconstitutional anti-terrorism policies. Specifically, I am talking about the use of targeted assassination as a policy priority...

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Handouts for lobbyists

Fox Business News
by John Stossel

04/08/10

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to get tough with lobbyists; ‘They will not work in my White House,’ he declared. ‘We’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.’ But Obama’s stimulus plan has created jobs for those evil lobbyists. Tom Schatz of Citizens Against Government Waste writes that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is dishing out grants for lobbying groups that want to change how Americans live. States can’t wait to get their hands on the cash. … Well, Obama did say his stimulus plan would create jobs. To the carpenters, waitresses, plumbers and secretaries who thought he was talking about jobs for you, not lobbyists … welcome to Washington...

http://tinyurl.com/y8zmhlx



The real intern scandal: Privileges for the privileged

Christian Science Monitor
by Danielle Connor

04/08/10)

During this great recession, more and more students and young people are accepting unpaid internships because there simply aren’t paying gigs available. Some employers are taking advantage of this, deceiving young people and offering shallow experiences that won’t actually help them develop professional skills. Now the Obama administration wants to crack down on these abusive practices. … Such accountability is welcome, but there’s a deeper issue at stake: the way internships today privilege the privileged. In an environment where getting a good job requires a long stint as an unpaid intern, only those with substantial savings can get ahead. So rather than act as a leveler, this great recession may end up providing a further boost to the prep-school crowd...

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Let’s get our own foreign policy house in order before criticizing others

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

04/07/10

On March 31, 2010, the New York Times wrote an editorial that briefly expressed horror in response to the Moscow subway terror bombings, then warned that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin might yet again use terrorist attacks to further consolidate his power, and finally lectured Russia that the only way to defeat such extremism was to deal with the underlying causes. Such a sermonizing editorial by any Russian publication after the 9/11 attacks would have engendered outrage in America. Yet the same conclusions and advice that the Times gave to Russia in the wake of its tragedy could equally be applied to post-9/11 U.S. policy...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2764


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Drawing Back the Veil on the 'Death State'

By Chris Floyd

The Nobel Peace Laureate who is temporarily managing the Death State is now pushing hard for even more sanctions on the Iranians for the crime of ... developing a nuclear energy program as allowed by international treaty and inspected to a fare-thee-well by international observers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25297.htm



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In March 2010, over 44 percent of unemployed Americans met or exceeded that standard-the highest rate since World War II.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=58310



Initial jobless claims increase unexpectedly

The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits rose last week, a sign that jobs remain scarce.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Initial-jobless-claims-apf-355511092.html?x=0&.v=7



Study: 1.2 million households lost to recession

As friends and families double up, 'overcrowding' is up fivefold.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36231884/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/



Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Increase as Dismissals Remain Elevated

Initial jobless claims rose by 25,000 to 471,000 in the week ended May 15, exceeding the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News and the highest level in a month, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington.

http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-20/more-americans-unexpectedly-file-claims-for-jobless-benefits.html



What Good Are Economists Anyway?

Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now they can't agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder: What good are economists anyway?

http://tinyurl.com/nelvsn


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Americans, I have some bad news for you

By Lance Freeman

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you'd be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

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Inflating Government Bubble Can Only Lead to a Major Financial Hangover
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Campaign For Liberty
by Jake Tate

04/06/10

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or ‘Stimulus Package,’ is a bill that was passed by the U.S. Congress and later signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. It is a bill that by most estimates will cost at least $787 billion dollars. The legislation was supposed to stimulate our struggling economy and promised to create between 3 and 4 million jobs in a one year period. Also included in this sweeping legislation is money to modernize roads, improve our public school systems, and lower health care costs...

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In what may be the beginning of an explosion of city insolvency across the U.S., the city of Vallejo, Calif., with a population of 117,000 in the San Francisco Bay area, has filed bankruptcy, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

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California's $500-billion pension time bomb

The state of California's real unfunded pension debt clocks in at more than $500 billion, nearly eight times greater than officially reported.

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Official labor statistics show Black unemployment rose to 16.5 percent in March, up from 15.8 percent the month before, while white joblessness remained steady at 8.8 percent.

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