World-News

By Michael Isikoff National investigative correspondent

Top U.N. official calls defendant a 'child soldier,' says proceedings violate international legal norms.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26124.htm

Political Prisoners in America

By Stephen Lendman

How do you go into Iraq (and) Afghanistan telling people about their democracy when (you've got innocent people) locked down in prison for 30 - 40 years as political prisoners....(activists) against social injustice, colonialism, and/or imperialism, (incarcerated for) their political commitments."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26120.htm

Caught in America's legal black hole

Guantanamo still holds 176 detainees, and one of them is about to stand trial - in a test of Barack Obama's resolve to embrace the rule of law.

http://bit.ly/d4pWhw

Video: 'Child soldier' Gitmo trial draws criticism
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38634007/ns/us_news-security/#slice-2

The Omar Khadr case makes a mockery of US justice

Omar Khadr was a badly wounded boy of 15 when, in 2002, US forces captured him in Afghanistan. As the dust settled on a suspected al-Qaeda compound after a firefight that July, troops discovered him slumped in the rubble among the dead, leaning against a wall.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/08/omar-khadr-case-obama-trial

Amnesty International says Omar Khadr trial should not go ahead

Amnesty said the USA had not listened to repeated appeals from the international community, including senior UN officials, about what it has called the "unfair trial of an individual accused of alleged war crimes committed when he was a child."

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=671610

From Information Clearing House

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Officer off Gitmo “jury” for agreeing with Obama

MSNBC

08/11/10

A veteran U.S. Army officer who agreed with President Barack Obama that the Guantanamo Bay prison should be closed was excluded from the jury in a U.S. military commission trial Wednesday after prosecutors objected that he had ‘pre-conceived’ views that might jeopardize their case. The move came as prosecutors and jurors selected a seven-person jury of military officers to hear the case of Omar Khadr, the so-called ‘child soldier’ accused of hurling a hand grenade that killed an American soldier in a firefight in Afghanistan eight years ago...

http://tinyurl.com/265oaml

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Campaign to Get the Facts out on Guantánamo
http://actions.humanrightsfirst.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2275

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Human rights for Guantánamo's Omar Khadr
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=lhKRJUOwEbLQIbI&s=4dLFINOjH6IDJRNqFjF&m=7fKGISNzFjKML2I

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Guantánamo: A Prison That Stains US Moral Authority
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/13-5

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Mittwoch, 4. August 2010

Afghanistan: Echoes of Vietnam

In These Times
by Noam Chomsky

08/03/10

The War Logs ? a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet by the organization WikiLeaks ? documents a grim struggle becoming grimmer, from the U.S. perspective. And for the Afghans, a mounting horror. The War Logs, however valuable, may contribute to the unfortunate and prevailing doctrine that wars are wrong only if they aren?t successful ? rather like the Nazis felt after Stalingrad...

http://tinyurl.com/2cxo8cg

Has Congress become useless?

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

08/03/10

Has Congress become ?a useless appendix on the governmental structure?? That was what then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., feared in 1968, according to newly released transcripts from the committee?s closed-session debates over Vietnam. Unless Congress was willing to assert itself on the war, he said, ?I do not see how we have any real function.? Last week found Congress once again doing a good imitation of a vestigial organ, as the House forked over $37 billion more for our endless Afghan adventure...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12023

Alpha dogs

San Francisco Chronicle
by Jon Carroll

08/03/10

The interesting thing about those 90,000 leaked documents from WikiLeaks about the Afghanistan war was how unsurprising they were?. They told us we were doing badly in Afghanistan, which, duh. ? Secrecy for the sake of secrecy is what got us here, from way back in the halcyon days of the invasion of Iraq. Remember when you weren?t supposed to call it an ?invasion? ?? Obama ain?t Bush, but he apparently is equally fanatical about stopping leaks in his White House. ? Well, good luck on that one. He should be grateful for something like WikiLeaks, which at least took the time to redact certain documents that might put American soldiers in harm?s way...

http://tinyurl.com/266xx6m

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010

Stierkampfverbot in Katalonien auf der Zielgeraden

Am Mittwoch wird das katalanische Regionalparlament über das Verbot der Tierquälerei entscheiden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33036/1.html

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

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Montag, 19. Juli 2010

Deficit hawks or war hawks?

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

07/16/10

Last week?s TGIF asked if the American people can afford a world-girdling foreign policy more befitting an empire than a republic. Look at it this way: War hawks make poor deficit hawks. Facing a $13 trillion national debt and trillion-dollar-plus annual budget deficits, we can?t afford to be complacent about foreign interventions costing $12 billion a month. It?s not just that the budget numbers are daunting: The very institutions of small-government republicanism are suffocated by the quest for global hegemony...

http://tinyurl.com/2vnz9on

Deficits of mass destruction

The Nation
by Christopher Hayes

07/15/10

If you?ve been paying attention this past decade, it won?t surprise you to learn that the country?s policy elites are in the midst of a destructive, well-nigh unhinged discussion about the future of the nation. But even by the degraded standards of the Washington establishment, the growing panic over government debt is shocking. First, the facts. Nearly the entire deficit for this year and those projected into the near and medium terms are the result of three things: the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts and the recession. The solution to our fiscal situation is: end the wars, allow the tax cuts to expire and restore robust growth. Our long-term structural deficits will require us to control healthcare inflation the way countries with single-payer systems do...

http://www.thenation.com/article/37534/deficits-mass-destruction

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Deficit Doves
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/21-7

Democrats May Stop Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy From Expiring
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/22-1

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We're in a One-and-a-Half Dip Recession

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "We're not in a double-dip recession yet. We're in a one and a half dip recession. Consumer confidence is down. Retail sales are down. Home sales are down. Permits for single-family starts are down. The average work week is down. The only things not down are inventories - unsold stuff is piling up in warehouses and inventories of unsold homes are rising - and defaults on loans."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-we%E2%80%99re-in-a-one-and-a-half-dip-recession61614

Professors as Welfare Queens?

Jesse Lemisch, Truthout: "From Obama on down, the political atmosphere is deeply polluted by the use of 'centrism' as a self-description of what are essentially retrograde right-wing views. Under Obama, the US wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq continue, as do the lies put out about them. Guantanamo goes on. Obama's 'Deficit Commission' warms us up for cuts in Medicare and Social Security. 'The perfect is the enemy of the good,' and, thus, we have health care 'reform' by and for the insurers, with higher premiums and profits, and more evasions of coverage by merchants of death like UnitedHealthCare."

http://www.truth-out.org/professors-welfare-queens61981

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