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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

03/22/10

In the dark farce that is the Obama administration’s counter-terrorism policy, decisions are now, it seems, being made by whoever makes the most noise, regardless of whether what they are shouting for actually makes sense. Since last November, when Attorney General Eric Holder first announced that five men — including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — would face federal court trials for their alleged involvement in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, critics have pushed to keep the men at Guantanamo...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1003g.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Common Dreams
by Cesar Chelala

03/25/10

War, we should sadly acknowledge, is not a Nintendo game. And innocent people’s lives are not expendable. If we don’t admit the tragic dimension of war we will be cursed by its consequences...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/24-2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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WikiLeaks to release video of civilians, journalists being murdered in airstrike

WikiLeaks to release video of civilians, journalists being murdered in airstrike. Whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is planning to release a video that reveals what it's calling a Pentagon "cover-up" of an incident in which numerous civilians and journalists were murdered in an airstrike, according to a recent media advisory

http://snipurl.com/v5ai2


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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/24-9

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We Fought the War and the War Won: Will We Let It Win Again?

Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Truthout: "It was seven years ago that I found myself running the wrong way up Sixth Avenue with my high school sweetheart. Through the rain we ran, with peace on our lips. New York's finest were running after us, as they had a way of doing with pesky antiwar protesters."

http://www.truthout.org/we-fought-war-and-war-won-will-we-let-it-win-again57919



Have a Nice World War, Folks

John Pilger, Truthout: "Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and, now, the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, American missiles have been placed in four Persian Gulf states, and 'bunker-buster' bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean."

http://www.truthout.org/have-a-nice-world-war-folks57985



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/24

Drone Wars, Without Any Rules
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/24-5

Legality of Drone Strikes Still in Question
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/03-2

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Trivializing War

By Cesar Chelala

"Drones are currently killing people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. It should be noted that the United States is not at war with any of those countries, which should mean in a sane world that the killing is illegal under both international law and the US Constitution," states Philip Girald, a former CIA officer and fellow of the American Conservative Defense Alliance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25076.htm



When Presidential Sermons Collide

By Glenn Greenwald

Nothing enables the glorification of crimes, and nothing ensures their future re-occurrence, more than shielding the criminals from all accountability. It's nice that Barack Obama is willing to dispense that lecture to other countries, but it's not so nice that he does exactly the opposite in his own.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25075.htm



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The foreclosure crisis in Philadelphia is now becoming a matter of life and death. Eyewitness News has learned that in the past month, two homeowners took their own lives before sheriff's deputies arrived to tell them that they were being evicted.

http://cbs3.com/local/Foreclosure.Suicide.Philadelphia.2.1584571.html



Eighteen Million, Out in the Road

By David Glenn Cox

RealtyTrac, the California-based authority on property trends and valuations, projects 4.5 million home foreclosures before the end of this year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25109.htm


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By Paul Craig Roberts

There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25066.htm



Social Inequality in America: Widening Income Disparities

By Vi Ransel

Reforms, regulatory agencies and elections themselves are America's Circus Maximus, mere flourishes on the veneer of democracy painted over the naked concentration of power accrued to the few who hold the reins of the corporate mechanism, the most stunningly efficient means ever invented for accumulating and concentrating wealth, which is then translated into political power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25067.htm



The US is at a Precipice

By Tim Gatto

This recent fiasco concerning health insurance really made me understand that most Americans have no idea what is really important. The minuscule amount of money compared to the defense budget and the bail-outs is not the important issue here. The selling out of our nation by Congress and the Executive Branch is the real problem.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25065.htm



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