World-News: 09 September 2011

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Starmail - 9. Sep, 10:58

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Comparing Obama and Bush on civil liberties and war

Starmail - 9. Sep, 10:21

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Iraq prisoner death 'great stain' on UK army: inquiry

British soldiers beat to death an Iraqi civilian in an act of 'unjustified and brutal violence' that left a 'very great stain' on Britain s armed forces, an inquiry concluded on Thursday.

http://arabnews.com/world/article499211.ece

It is not the brutality that is 'systematic', it is the lying about it

It's the lying about it: Baha Mousa s nose was broken. There was blood above the corpse s mouth. The skin had been ripped off his wrists. According to his friend, Baha had been crying and pleading for his life from beneath his hood.

http://ind.pn/nnpfOR

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 9. Sep, 10:11

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Have we Become the Enemy of Freedom?

By John W. Whitehead

Let us dismantle our military empire. Let us take care of our poor, our downtrodden. Let us push back against the surveillance state. Let us put human dignity above corporate profits. If not now, then when?.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29067.htm

A new jobs plan is thinking too small. What we need is a new economy

By David Korten

We can turn as a species from an economic system devoted to perfecting our capacity for violent exclusionary competition to one devoted to perfecting our capacity for caring, inclusive cooperation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29073.htm

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Ten years on, America is at war with itself

Spiked
by Wendy Kaminer

09/08/11

I write this under surveillance, or so it s safe to assume. We are all suspects now; we all read, write, talk on the phone and travel under surveillance, or the threat of it. A shadowy national security state has access to our emails, phone calls and web-surfing habits; government agents monitor our political activities and collect reports about our suspicious activities - photographing bridges for scrapbooks or art projects or attending political protests...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11061/

Who really kept us safe after 9/11

Reason
by Steve Chapman

09/08/11

There have been very few attacks in this country by Islamic extremists - and nothing remotely on the scale of 9/11. The 'sleeper cells' proved to be mostly nonexistent. This surprising record has been attributed to excellent work by the FBI, CIA, and other law enforcement agencies, the war in Afghanistan, and the Bush administration s aggressive treatment of suspected terrorists. But on the list of those deserving credit, the first is a group hardly anyone would have predicted: American Muslims...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/08/who-really-kept-us-safe-after

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical'

By Spencer Ackerman

The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that 'main stream' [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a 'cult leader'; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a 'funding mechanism for combat.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29131.htm

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Anti-Islam Material Part of FBI Training
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/09/15

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Starmail - 9. Sep, 09:36

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Drone Killing: US 'Overcomes' Philosophical, Legal Misgivings

Starmail - 9. Sep, 09:10

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Congresswoman Lee Introduces Bill to Repeal the Authorization to Use Military Force

Starmail - 9. Sep, 08:54

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EU High Court Rules on GMO Contamination; Opens Door to Biotech Liability

Rady Ananda, Food Freedom Blog: 'On Sept. 6, the European Union s top court paved the way for farmers and beekeepers to recoup losses when their crops or honey become genetically contaminated from neighboring GM fields. The European Court of Justice ruled that all food products containing GMOs - whether intentional or not - must undergo an approval process. This marks a much stricter view than that being pushed by European Union Commissioner for health and consumer affairs, John Dalli, who wants no regulation of foods genetically contaminated 'by accident,' a ludicrous idea given that coexistence ensures genetic contamination. At the center of the dispute is Bavarian beekeeper Karl Heinz Bablok who joined with several others in suing the state when its research plots of Monsanto s GM corn, MON 810, contaminated his honey.'

http://www.truth-out.org/eu-high-court-rules-gmo-contamination-opens-door-biotech-liability/1315497342

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Starmail - 9. Sep, 08:47

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The Military Assault on Global Climate

H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: 'By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy ... Yet, the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements ... Any talk of climate change which does not include the military is nothing but hot air, according to Sara Flounders. It's a loophole [in the Kyoto Convention on Climate Change] big enough to drive a tank through, according to the report, 'A Climate of War.' At the outset of the Iraq war in March 2003, the Army estimated it would need more than 40 million gallons of gasoline for three weeks of combat, exceeding the total quantity used by all Allied forces in the four years of World War 1. Among the Army s armamentarium were 2,000 staunch M-1 Abrams tanks fired up for the war and burning 250 gallons of fuel per hour.'

http://www.truth-out.org/war-and-tragedy-commons-part-7-military-assault-global-climate/1315418406

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Starmail - 9. Sep, 08:43

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