World-News

Jonathan Hafetz, Truthout: 'The United States' systematic use of torture has been extensively documented ? Ironically, these interrogation methods grew out of a program originally designed to help American soldiers resist torture at the hands of enemy forces. That program - known as SERE - was developed in response to the brutal interrogation methods used by the Chinese Communists against American soldiers during the Korean War to extract false confessions?. The Bush administration reverse-engineered the SERE program.'

http://www.truth-out.org/legacy-torture/1323714492



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interrogat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Hafetz
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Anthony DiMaggio and Paul Street, Truthout: 'Regular reporting of public anger at business elites has led some to compare OWS to the Tea Party with regard to both forces' 'insurgent,' 'revolutionary' themes and their support for 'rebellion' against the status quo. Beneath and beyond these easily noticeable similarities, however, deep and fundamental differences significantly undermine the core equivalence and parallels that are commonly posited between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-street-mass-media-and-progressive-change-tea-party-era-our-window-opportunity/1323381449



Miracles for Christmas

Jeff Madrick, TripleCrisis: 'It s the Christmas season, so why not indulge ourselves? Let s ask for a few miracles. In fact, we in America have had a miracle and everyone has noticed it, Occupy Wall Street. There was another even bigger one in the Mideast. Not only an Arab spring in Egypt and Libya, but peaceful voting in Tunisa. There may even be a Slovak spring. So here is my wish list for miracles - ASAP. More or less in order of importance.'

http://www.truth-out.org/miracles-christmas/1324822891



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arab+spring
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=OWS
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Occupy+Movement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elites
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Anthony+DiMaggio
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeff+Madrick
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Some 25 million workers are either unemployed or underemployed, 50 million live without health insurance, one out of every seven Americans receives food stamps. The number of self-employed Americans has fallen by two million over the past five years. Nearly six million of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/pers-d23.shtml


From Information Clearing House

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Stiglitz: Wall Street System Destroying Not Serving Society
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/23-7

US Health System Working Great... For Private Industry Execs
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/23-10

OWS: A Protest Against a Broken Economic Compact
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/23-7



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stiglitz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=banking+system
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=OWS
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Occupy+Movement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=workers
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=health+system
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=healthcare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=health+insurance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Roger+Bybee
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Amy+Dean
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http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan202.html

Government Drones
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1078.html

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'Accusing Iran of 9/11 echoes Iraq scenario'
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/iranus-sabre-rattling/accusing-iran-of-911-echoes-iraq-scenario.html

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Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria. The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30077.htm

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Obama s America: Tyranny and permanent war

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

01/03/12

December 31, 2011 will be remembered as a day of infamy. More on it below. October 17, 2006 was an earlier one under Bush. In a White House ceremony, he signed the infamous Military Commissions Act (MCA). It authorized torture as official policy...

http://bit.ly/t0L9j3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Military+Commissions+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tyranny
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=permanent+war
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+of+aggression
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/buchanan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nazemroaya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/north
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
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Der libertäre Kandidat führt überraschend in Iowa.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151098



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul

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Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout: 'Universities need to shut down their departments of death and stop preparing students to manufacture nuclear bombs, pesticides, chemical or biological weapons and industrialized farming. Replace this abominable science with the science of solar power and life. John Cobb, a process theologian and philosopher, was right in his denunciation of universities that speed up the plans of rapacious banks and the industrial-military complex, including petroleum corporations responsible for fuelling global warming.'

http://www.truth-out.org/new-dark-age/1323458713



'The Harvest/La Cosecha' Reveals Hardships of Child Farmworkers

Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: 'The conventional wisdom tells us that eating fruits and vegetables will help us stay healthy. But what about the agricultural workers who pick these crops? Do they also get to benefit from the spoils of their labor? 'The Harvest/La Cosecha,' a new film available on DVD directed by U. Robert Romano, answers these questions with a resounding, 'No,' and opens with several startling facts. 'In some countries, children pick crops for 14 hours a day. The United States is one of those countries,' it begins.'

http://www.truth-out.org/harvestla-cosecha-reveals-hardships-child-farmworkers/1323467612

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The Homeland Battlefield

By Lawrence Davidson

The truth is that in many places, including the U.S., it is dangerous to tell the truth. Just look at the cases of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30061.htm



Truth Hurts, Lies Kill. Reality Behind the Phony Wars

By Dr. Dahlia Wasfi

In these times, remaining silent on our responsibility to the world and its future is criminal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30066.htm



Racism: Dehumanization

Video

Dahlia Wasfi, M.D.speaks to the Winter Soldier II Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) events in March, 2008. Dr. Wasfi, daughter of a Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father, puts into context the background of the war in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30377.htm

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The Whole Derivatives Market Will One Day Cease To Exist
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber124.html

The Economic Lessons of Bethlehem
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/bethlehem.html

The Light of the Seven Days
http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/velikovsky4.1.1.html

Soldiers Against War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson4.html

Worlds In Collision
http://lewrockwell.com/velikovsky/velikovsky11.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=phony+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dehumanization
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=racis
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nuclear+bomb
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=pesticides
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Evaggelos+Vallianatos
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eleanor+J.+Bader
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lawrence+Davidson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dahlia+Wasfi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/faber
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/rockwell
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=velikovsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/denson
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