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Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?
Why Petraeus Can't Make The Sale

By Dan Froomkin

As Gen. David Petraeus kicks off an extended media blitz intended to make Americans feel better about the war in Afghanistan -- or at least give him some more time to fight it -- he faces a foe more implacable than al Qaeda, or even the Taliban: Reality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26162.htm



Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?

Video Interview

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan and the American strategy for Eurasia and the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26163.htm



Zbigniew Brzezinski says AIPAC is bad for USA/Israel

Video

While Israeli settlers relax in their swimming pool below are Palestinians with no running water and their olive groves have been cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc7BFkgmOYE&feature=player_embedded



AIPAC Pays For 81 US Lawmakers Vacation In Israel

By RT

While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28887.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/16

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Petraeus Media Blitz
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/16-6

Gen. Petreaus' Nation Building Media Tour
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/17-9

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Petraeus Indicates He'll Delay Afghanistan Drawdown Deadline

Ben Arnoldy, The Christian Science Monitor: "With the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan surpassing 2,000 this weekend, what does the road ahead in Afghanistan look like? The tally - now at 2,002 - comes from the independent iCasualties.org website. It includes 1,227 Americans, 331 Britons, 151 Canadians, and 45 French."

http://www.truth-out.org/petraeus-indicates-hell-delay-afghanistan-drawdown-deadline62352

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How the US created al Qaeda
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/915.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/why-hollywood-ignores-hiroshima.html

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Hollywood and the War Machine
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/12/26

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Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time

David Sirota, Truthout: ''Since 1986 s 'Top Gun' rekindled the Pentagon-Hollywood relationship from its post-Vietnam doldrums, the collusion between the military and the entertainment industry has become a blockbuster con, generating huge benefits for both participants and swindling the American public in the process. The scheme is simple: The Pentagon allows studios to use military hardware and bases at a discounted, taxpayer-subsidized rate. In exchange, filmmakers must submit their scripts to the Pentagon for line edits.''

http://www.truth-out.org/forgetting-past-one-military-movie-time/1330094665



Anti-War Critics Forgotten on Oscar Night

Adam Hochschild, Tom Dispatch: ''Yet curiously, for all the spectacle of boy and horse, thundering cavalry charges, muddy trenches, and wartime love and loss, the makers of War Horse, Downtown Abbey and, I have no doubt, the similar productions we ll soon be watching largely skip over the greatest moral drama of those years of conflict, one that continues to echo in our own time of costly and needless wars....The First World War was not just a battle between rival armies, but also ... between those who assumed the war was a noble crusade and those who thought it absolute madness.''

http://www.truth-out.org/antiwar-critics-forgotten-oscar-night/1330280524



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Alle Ausreden helfen nicht mehr: Die Klimakatastrophe ist da. Feuer in Russland und die Gefahr einer nuklearen Wolke. Die Flut in Pakistan und sechs Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht. Erdrutsche in China und ganze Dörfer, die verschwinden. Nicht enden wollende Regenfälle in Sachsen, Brandenburg, Polen und Tschechien.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689458ms220



Klimakollaps: Nehmen Wetterextreme zu?

Vor Grönland bricht ein riesiger Eisberg vom Petermann-Gletscher ab, in Russland toben Jahrhundertfeuer, die weltweiten Messstationen melden Hitzerekorde, und in Pakistan versinken die Menschen in Regenfluten. Lesen Sie zu den Wetterextremen ein Interview mit unserem Klimaexperten Karsten Smid. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689460ms220



Blauer Planet unter Hochdruck: Hausgemachte Wasserkrise ohne Ende

Eine seit mehreren Monaten anhaltende Dürre, Temperaturen von über 40 Celsius, versetzen den subtropischen Staat Honduras in den Wassernotstand. Gerade die Armenviertel der Städte leiden. Der Grundwasserspiegel ist dramatisch gesunken.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689463ms220



Extreme Weltereignisse: Zeichen des Klimawandels?

Das erste Halbjahr 2010 war die wärmste Periode seit 1880, dem Beginn der meteorologischen Aufzeichnungen. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689487ms220



Umwelt noch wichtiger als Wirtschaft

Globale Erwärmung und Treibhauseffekt, schmelzende Polkappen und steigender Meeresspiegel, Trockenheit und Wassermangel: Kaum ein Thema beherrscht die Medien so durchgehend wie die Klimaproblematik.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689489ms220



Welche Emissionen können wir uns noch erlauben, um die globale Erwärmung auf maximal 2°C zu begrenzen?

Dieser Frage gehen Erich Roeckner und seine Koautoren am Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (MPI-M) in einer jetzt erschienenen Veröffentlichung mit dem Titel ?Historical and future anthropogenic emission pathways derived from coupled climate-carbon cycle simulations? in der Fachzeitschrift ?Climatic Change? nach.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689461ms220

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Eisschwund im hohen Norden geht weiter

Nordwestpassage so gut wie offen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148176



Natürliches Geo-Engineering zur Rettung des Weltklimas

Ständig steigende Energiepreise und ein zusehends anfälligeres Ökosystem verdeutlichen die Notwendigkeit von effizienten Alternativen zu fossilen Brennstoffen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33032/1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/12-8

Ignoring the Obvious: The Floods and Fires, the Droughts and Disasters Will Continue

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/12-5

Union of Concerned Scientists: Drought in Russia; Floods in Pakistan and China; High Temps in the U.S. Consistent with Climate Change Projections

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/12-7

Scientists: Disasters 'Fit Perfectly' with Climate Change Predictions
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/13-2

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How Climate Change Affects You

By Amy Goodman

"We will start seeing more and more years like this year when you get these amazing events that caused tremendous death and destruction".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26144.htm



Ignoring the Obvious

The Floods and Fires, the Droughts and Disasters Will Continue: I've just returned from Niger. There, tens of thousands of people are facing extreme hunger because of the droughts of the last two years.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/europe/2010/08/12/ignoring-obvious



In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming

The climate is changing," said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climate analysis at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. "Extreme events are occurring with greater frequency, and in many cases with greater intensity."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/science/earth/15climate.html?


From Information Clearing House

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Time to Declare Global War on Flooding

Video

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: "The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million. It should be affecting all of us. A disaster of global proportions, requiring a global response, as Gwynne Dyer noted on our show not long ago, it offers a hint of what we can expect if climate change continues on apace. While it's not a cause and effect equation, if we want to know what rising waters look like? Look at Pakistan."

http://www.truth-out.org/time-declare-global-war-flooding62299



Record Summer Heat Wave a "Sample of What's to Come"

Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate: "Oppressive temperatures gripping Southern and Eastern US states this summer will only worsen if little is done to curb greenhouse gases, according to an August report update from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), a conservation group.... This hot summer is a continuation of what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says is already the hottest January through June on record."

http://www.truth-out.org/eastern-us-headed-many-more-extreme-heat-waves-with-warming-study-finds62325

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Why no rush to aid Pakistan?
http://sharenews.twoday.net/stories/6467230/



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Wann werden Manager einer Bank untreu?

In Zukunft werden Manager noch schwieriger belangt werden können.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148171



Die US-Notenbank wirft die Druckmaschinen wieder an

Um die schwache Wirtschaft zu stützen, kauft die FED wieder Staatsanleihen in großem Stil auf .

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148169



Banken nicht "länger wie heilige Kühe" verehren

Ungarn setzt nun vor allem auf eine Abgabe für Finanzkonzerne, um das Haushaltsdefizit zu senken.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148164



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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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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



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