World-News

Michael Luo and Mike McIntire, The New York Times News Service: ''Although Mr. Obama has made a point of not accepting contributions from registered lobbyists, a review of campaign donations and White House visitor logs shows that special interests have had little trouble making themselves heard. Many of the president s biggest donors, while not lobbyists, took lobbyists with them to the White House, while others performed essentially the same function on their visits. More broadly, the review showed that those who donated the most to Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party since he started running for president were far more likely to visit the White House than others.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8532-white-house-opens-door-to-big-donors-and-lobbyists-come-in



Growth of Income Inequality Is Worse Under Obama than Bush

Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism: ''Recently, the President gave a speech in which he demanded that Congress raise taxes on millionaires, as a way to somewhat recalibrate the nation's wealth distribution. His advisors, like Gene Sperling, are giving speeches talking about the need for manufacturing. A common question in DC is whether this populist pose will help him win the election. Perhaps it will. Perhaps not. Romney is a weak candidate, cartoonishly wealthy and from what I've seen, pretty inept. But on policy, there's a more interesting question. A better puzzle to wrestle with is why President Obama is able to continue to speak as if his administration has not presided over a significant expansion of income redistribution upward.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8533-growth-of-income-inequality-is-worse-under-obama-than-bush



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Luo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+McIntire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Matt+Stoller
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The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color.

http://bit.ly/Iu6rkc



Are We Sliding Toward a Police State?

By Steven Greenhut

We are creating a brutal and inhumane society.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31154.htm



US Border Patrol Beat and Taser Man to Death

Video

A new video shows Anastacio Hernadez-Rojas lying on the ground in the fetal position, circled by at least a dozen federal agents as one repeatedly shocks him with an electric stun gun.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31152.htm


From Information Clearing House

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40 Years on, 1960s Black Radical Still Suffers Racial and Political Injustice

Rania Khalek, Truthout: ''The consequences of America s racist history still linger deep into the present. No one understands this better than Gary Freeman, a 1960s black civil rights activist whose life has been turned upside down by the racial and political injustice perpetuated first by the United States and now by Canada. Freeman has spent the last four years separated from his Canadian wife and four grown children due to false allegations that he is a former member of the Black Panthers Party. This accusation stems from an incident that took place in 1969, when Freeman, just 19 at the time, shot a white police officer in the arm, which he claims was in self-defense.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8196-40-years-on-1960s-black-radical-still-suffers-racial-and-political-injustice



Activists Occupy the Justice Department to Demand an End to Racist Mass Incarceration

Rania Khalek, Truthout: ''On Tuesday, April 24, several hundred activists from around the country gathered outside the Justice Department (DOJ) in Washington, DC, to call for an end to mass incarceration.... It s no secret that America holds 25 percent of the world s prisoners, more than any other nation on earth, yet makes up only five percent of the world s population, with the costs falling predominately on communities of color. While African-Americans make up just 13 percent of the overall population, they account for 40 percent of US prisoners.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8871-activists-occupy-the-justice-department-to-demand-an-end-to-racist-mass-incarceration



How the Amendment to End Slavery Was Damaged by Racism

Gary Freeman, Truthout: ''The Constitution of the United States of America was created to enable the founding ideals and principles of the Declaration of Independence. Yet something went terribly wrong. It failed to recognize, defend and enable those ideals. The tragedy of such a gargantuan failure is still with us today in the form of institutionalized and systemic racism and a deeply embedded exploitation of labor. Both are still given constitutional sanction.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8709-how-the-amendment-to-end-slavery-was-crippled-by-racism

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A Censored Race War?
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell88.1.html

14 Signposts to Slavery
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/sullivan-c10.1.html

Supreme Court OKs Police Tasering Pregnant Women
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead46.1.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/sullivan-c
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/whitehead
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Russian warships will be continuously deployed for patrol duty off the Syrian coast in the Mediterranean, a high-ranking source in the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20120413/172799962.html



McCain: U.S. should arm Free Syrian Army

''For the United States to sit by and watch this wanton massacre is a betrayal of everything we stand for and we believe in,'' McCain said on CBS s ''Face the Nation,'' as he called on the U.S. to ''lead for a change.''

http://politi.co/IdxmSA


From Information Clearing House



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=Russia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=McCain
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In a rare show of unity, the government and opposition joined on Thursday to present the United States with a list of stringent demands, including an immediate end to C.I.A. drone strikes, that were cast in uncompromising word.

http://nyti.ms/Jf1H0H



US won t stop CIA strikes in Pakistan

Officials noted that they would work in the near future to try and mend ties with Pakistan, but if suspected terrorist targets are detected by the CIA drone s hellfire missiles lasers, they will shoot

http://rt.com/news/pakistan-us-nato-demands-022/


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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AUSTRALIA is five weeks away from signing a crucial strategic agreement with Afghanistan that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars and outline Australia s postwar role there, but the government has yet to inform the public of its existence.

http://bit.ly/ITX8cu


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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By Mahboob A. Khawaja

American and British leaders are fighting wars they cannot win, nor afford to lose in the public eyes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31077.htm



US Muslims are prosecuted for their political views

By Glenn Greenwald

In one of the most egregious violations of the First Amendment s guarantee of free speech seen in quite some time, Tarek Mehanna, an American Muslim, was convicted this week in a federal court in Boston and then sentenced yesterday to 17 years in prison.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31073.htm



Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness

By Paul Craig Roberts

The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31070.htm



And Then They Came For The Muslims

By Roqayah Chamseddine

This case has made it possible for citizens of the United States of America, from all walks of life, to be charged with thought-crimes. Orwellian conditions, described as being hallmarks of an oppressive State, are right at our front door.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31082.htm



The ICC is Criminal

By Margaret Kimberley

The US, which is not even a signatory to the treaty that created the International Criminal Court, calls all the shots like a Mafia don. Africans and a few Serbs are the only ones that get arrested, while great crimes against peace masquerade as humanitarian intervention.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31080.htm



Tarek Mehanna: Punished For Speaking Truth To Power

By Ross Caputi

If Mehanna is a terrorist conspirator for advocating resistance to US military occupation, then so am I, a Marine veteran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31093.htm



American Muslim Alleges FBI Had a Hand in His Torture

Yonas Fikre believes the US government played a role in his hellish three-month detention in the United Arab Emirates.

http://bit.ly/J5Qz6Q



California-Born Muslim Forced to Enter U.S. on Foot

By Shirin Sadeghi

U.S. Citizen Put on No-Fly List to Pressure Him Into Becoming FBI Informant.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31558.htm


From Information Clearing House

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A Vast, Lawless Wasteland
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano50.1.html

Should Peace Prevail?
http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski285.html

Passport Denials Long a Feature of U.S. Foreign Policy
http://lewrockwell.com/nestmann/nestmann53.1.html

Permanent Checkpoints
http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e287.html

Would-Be Conspirators: You Will Lose
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1283.html

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Tale of a rogue

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Dean Wet

04/16/12

I don t usually advocate military intervention, but I am aware of a country that would seem, by our government s standards, to desperately need it. This nation has one of the largest standing armies in the world. They spend an enormous portion of their GDP on their military, and on devising new and more dangerous WMD. While claiming their love of peace, they routinely bully or invade other nations...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle666-20120415-04.html



Ten rules of the ''war on terrorism''

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

04/20/12

I confess that I have trouble sometimes figuring out the nature and logic of the so-called war on terrorism. The following are what seem to be the principles of this 'war': 1. Since the 'war on terrorism,' according to U.S. officials, is a real war, the president has all the powers of a military commander in a real war, and those powers, they say, are the same omnipotent powers that are wielded by military dictators...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-04-20.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Vicious Cycle of Jihadism and Patriotism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/02-1

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With the stroke of a pen, Obama makes free speech a felony
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/obama-watch-1/with-the-stroke-of-a-penobama-makes-free-speech-a-felony.html

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The Peace Train: Seeing and Believing It

Noah Kass, New Clear Vision: ''Instead of giving in to the negative narratives of apocalypse, we must prepare to wage peace. Personal steps toward a collective mentality of conscious consumption and resource respect embodies one piece of the peace puzzle. Through personal awareness, societal collective action, and environmental preservation, the planet we inhabit can be a peaceful place. We must believe it before we can see it.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9426-the-peace-train-seeing-and-believing-it



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

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By Strategy Page

Turkey has threatened to use its participation in the NATO alliance to launch a war against Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31071.htm



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

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Merkel und Röttgen müssen unmissverständlich NO! zur Forderung nach Subventionen für Atomkraftwerke sagen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814806ms314



Weniger Treibhausgase mit weniger Atomenergie

Deutschlands Gesamtemission sinkt gegenüber Vorjahr um etwa 2 Prozent.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814812ms314



AKW-Entsorgung: Atomkonzerne können sich langfristig vor Kosten drücken

Greenpeace: Öffentlich-rechtlicher Fonds muss Rückstellungen absichern.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814817ms314



3Sat: ''der größte Fortschritt-Flop ist die Atomkraft!''

Kernenergie ist nach 3sat-Zuschauer-Ranking der größte Fortschritt-Flop.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814879ms315



Österreich wird atomstromfrei

Das ist ein Signal, das über die Landesgrenzen Österreichs hinaus geht.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814885ms315



Nein zu Atom-Subventionen der EU

Was Großbritannien, Frankreich, Polen und Tschechien erreichen wollen. Forderung an die Bundesregierung: Am 20.4. ablehnen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814890ms315

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Nein zu Atom-Subventionen der EU

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/atom-subvention



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Der Anstieg der Kohlendioxid-Konzentration in der Erdatmosphäre war der wichtigste Faktor für das Ende der letzten Eiszeit.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814820ms314



Schwächerer Golfstrom verschiebt Sturmtiefs in Richtung Europa

Die Intensität von Tiefdruckgebieten (Zyklonen) über dem östlichen Nordatlantik und Europa wird in diesem Jahrhundert zunehmen. Gleichzeitig schwächt sich der Golfstrom im Nordatlantik ab. Meteorologen der Universität zu Köln und der Universität Reading ist es gelungen, einen Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Phänomenen nachzuweisen. Sie verglichen 22 Klimamodelle des International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814799ms314



Studie: Verseuchung der europäischen Böden durch Antibiotika

Eine neue Studie analysiert die Verseuchung der europäischen Böden durch Antibiotika.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814830ms314



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IPCC
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Der renommierte US-Ökonom und Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Joseph Stiglitz, der unter anderem für seinen Einsatz für Entwicklungsländer und gegen die über Jahrzehnte verfehlte Strukturanpassungspolitik der Weltbank und des IWF berühmt geworden ist, hat ein exklusives Interview mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung geführt. Joseph Stiglitz kritisiert in dem Interview die eiserne Sparpolitik der Euroländer. Der Kapitalismus hilft derzeit nur Wenigen: ''Der Wohlstand wird ungleich verteilt, das Meiste geht an die Spitze, an der Basis bleibt wenig.''

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814797ms314



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stiglitz
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IWF

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