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Change. What change?

Democrats retreat from adding new privacy protections to the law.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35571223/ns/politics-capitol_hil

From Information Clearing House

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=provision+Patriot+Act

rudkla - 25. Feb, 23:36

We don't need US, says Latin America

Latin American and Caribbean nations have agreed to create a new regional alliance, without the United States and Canada, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said at a summit here on Tuesday.

http://snipurl.com/uii1m

War on the Horizon in Latin America

By Eva Golinger

The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the "terrorist list" this year, we could be on the verge of a regional war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24978.htm

From Information Clearing House

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Latin+America
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Venezuela
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rudkla - 25. Feb, 23:33

War Politics: Numb and Number

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "Playwright Lillian Hellman said, 'I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.' The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The year was 1952. We tell ourselves that the McCarthy era was vastly different than our own - but what about the political fashions of 2010?"

http://www.truthout.org/war-politics-numb-and-number57174

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+politic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon

rudkla - 25. Feb, 23:02

Senate Panel Blasts Blackwater Over Theft of Assault Weapons, Civilian Deaths

Grace Huang, Truthout: "'Multiple irresponsible acts' and 'troubling gaps in government oversight' plagued the Afghan operations of a Blackwater Worldwide affiliate defense contractor named Paravant, according to a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday."

http://www.truthout.org/senate-panel-blasts-blackwater-over-theft-assault-weapons-civilian-deaths57171

Blackwater's Migraines Multiply

William Fisher, Truthout: "Legal headaches are growing exponentially for the security firm formerly known as Blackwater - once the darling of the military-industrial community.... In separate developments, two former employees of the company previously charged that the security firm committed 'systematic fraud' under their contracts with the US State Department in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Iraqi government announced it would seize heavy weapons from foreign security firms and expel ex-Blackwater contractors still in the country and a US Senate hearing learned that Blackwater employees stole more than 500 assault rifles intended for the Afghan police force."

http://www.truthout.org/blackwaters-migraines-multiply57324

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=industrial+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grace+Huang
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher

rudkla - 25. Feb, 22:57

Lateinamerika wendet sich von den USA ab

Die lateinamerikanischen und karibischen Staaten haben beschlossen, eine neue Allianz im Unterschied zur OAS ohne die USA und Kanada zu gründen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147136

rudkla - 25. Feb, 12:51

Has a Shakeup Started in Washington?

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "All of a sudden, things are getting weird in Washington, DC. We've all gotten used to nothing coming out of government but a whole lot of obstructionism and big talk, because that's basically all we've gotten for the better part of a year. Health care reform: fail. Real banking reform: fail. The Democrats' ability to use their 60-vote majority in the Senate to pass important pieces of legislation: epic fail."

http://www.truthout.org/has-a-shakeup-started-washington57140

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

rudkla - 25. Feb, 11:27

The Right Should Not Wage A Hundred Years War

By George W. Carey

The single most important factor accounting for the lack of dissent within Republican ranks is the mentality created and nourished by the Cold War. During that era, individuals were habituated to think in terms of a determined enemy, an "evil empire" intent upon imposing a totalitarian order.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24853.htm

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=evil+empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=totalitarian+order

rudkla - 25. Feb, 08:37