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SF Tagesschau

Es war ein Fall, der die USA aufwühlte: Ein Student filmte heimlich seinen homosexuellen Mitwohner und stellte das Video anschliessend ins Internet. Tyler Clementi nahm sich daraufhin das Leben. Dem Täter drohten bis zu 10 Jahre Haft, stattdessen...

http://www.tagesschau.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2012/05/22/Vermischtes/Toedliches-Cyber-Mobbing-Taeter-erhaelt-nur-30-Tage-Haft

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Experten fordern Anti-Cybermobbing-Gesetz

Christliches Medienmagazin pro

Ein Gesetz gegen Mobbing im Netz hat das ''Bündnis gegen Cybermobbing'' am Dienstag in Berlin gefordert. Das Internet sei zum Tatort geworden, erklärte der Vorstandsvorsitzende des Vereins, Uwe Leest. Jüngst war in den USA ein Cybermobber zu 30 Tagen...

http://www.pro-medienmagazin.de/internet.html?&news%5Baction%5D=detail&news%5Bid%5D=5436>



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Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch: ''If the world can be seen in a grain of sand, watch out. As Wisconsinites are learning, there s money (and misery) in sand and if you have got the right kind, an oil company may soon be at your doorstep. March in Wisconsin used to mean snow on the ground ... But as I traveled around rural townships and villages in early March ... daytime temperatures soared to nearly 80 degrees, bizarre weather that seemed to be sending a meteorological message.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9266-how-rural-america-got-fracked



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Why the banks must be nationalized

By Horace Campbell

As central bankers from China to Venezuela and from Argentina to Japan are seeking ways to exit from the contagion of the speculative trading of US bankers, progressive forces must renew the call for the nationalization of the big banks, which are supposed to be too big to fail.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31387.htm



At Least 38 U.S. Lawmakers Personally Invested in JPMorgan Chase

By Russ Choma

15 Democrats and 23 Republicans owned shares in JPMorgan Chase worth a total of between $2.1 million and $3.8 million.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31388.htm



The Waltz of the Zombie Banks

By Mike Whitney

It s the same everywhere. The banks are keeping houses off the market to trick people into believing that prices have hit bottom. But prices haven t hit bottom, in fact, they still have a long way to go.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31386.htm



How the Ultra-Rich Betray America

By Paul Buchheit

The betrayals come in many forms. Here are a few of the more outrageous, and destructive, examples.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31393.htm



Rising US recession risk poses the real threat to Europe

The US economy has slowed to stall speed. A few lonely forecasters fear that America has already fallen back into recession, replicating the terrible double-dip of 1937.

http://tgr.ph/JuEHeo



JPMorgan Chase Losses Eclipse $30 Billion

By Mark Gongloff

Dimon, in his comments on Monday, said the bank wasn t going to keep updating everybody on its losses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31401.htm



Collateral Damage: QE3 and the Shadow Banking System

By Ellen Brown

Rather than expanding the money supply, quantitative easing (QE) has actually caused it to shrink by sucking up the collateral needed by the shadow banking system to create credit.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35633.htm


From Information Clearing House

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JPMorgan Chase and casino banking

Foundation for Economic Education
by Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr.

05/21/12

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the nation s leading banks, revealed in May that a London trader racked up trading losses reportedly amounting to $2.3 billion over a 15-day period. The losses averaged over $150 million per day, sometimes hitting $200 million daily. The bank originally stated the trades were done to hedge possible losses on assets that might suffer due to Europe s economic woes. There is now doubt whether it was a hedge or just a risky financial bet...

http://tinyurl.com/d6fftau



Break up the big banks; here s how

Our Future
by Richard (RJ) Eskow

05/21/12

The JPMorgan Chase scandal, and yes, it is a scandal, shows us why we need to break up the big banks as quickly as possible. But that won t happen unless we can get our hands around the real scope of the problem, which is probably far greater than we are being told...

http://tinyurl.com/cny9q69


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bank Regulators Under Scrutiny in JPMorgan Loss

Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess, The New York Times News Service: ''Scores of federal regulators are stationed inside JPMorgan Chase s Manhattan headquarters, but none of them were assigned to the powerful unit that recently disclosed a multibillion trading loss. The lapses have raised questions about who, if anyone, was policing the chief investment office and whether regulators were sufficiently independent. Instead of putting the JPMorgan unit under regular watch, the comptroller s office and the Fed chose to examine it periodically.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9398-bank-regulators-under-scrutiny-in-jpmorgan-loss



Is JPMorgan Paying for John Boehner s Personal Polling Operation? Questions Surround Shadowy Front ''New Models USA''

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''We d like to call your attention to a secretive nonprofit, 'New Models U.S.A.' The media has linked the group to a number of shady electioneering efforts in the past. In this day and age, not only can corporations spend unlimited amounts on elections, they can fully hide their identities using nonprofit groups that can operate as Super PACs or quasi-lobbying firms. New Models appears to exist for the express purpose of hiding political money.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9473-is-jpmorgan-paying-for-john-boehners-personal-polling-operation?-questions-surround-shadowy-front-new-models-usa

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Shadow Banking
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/central-banks/kamikazee-trading.html

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It Shadow Banking the next financial landmine?
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/macleod2.1.1.html



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Public Opinion in America s 21st Century Police State

By Prof. James F. Tracy

It is not beyond reason to point out that America is one serious terrorist attack or mass civil disturbance away from the implementation of policies to seriously limit or curtail the traffic of ideas.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31390.htm



Recovery or Collapse? Bet on Collapse

By Paul Craig Roberts

When the dollar goes, interest rates will escalate, and bond prices will collapse. Everyone who sought safety in US Treasuries will be wiped out.

We should all be aware that such outcomes are not part of the public debate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31385.htm



Police State USA

By Prof. James F. Tracy

The following pieces of legislation, programs, and actions, illustrate the unfortunate yet steady advance in the paranoid style of American governance that especially since 2001 has placed both the subject and all who come in to contact with it at risk of serious injury or death.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31499.htm



Recovery? What Recovery?

By Ted Rall


Adjusted for inflation, the 1968 minimum wage today would be a little above $10 per hour.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31530.htm

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What happened to the land of the free?

The Libertarian Enterprise
by James Glaser

05/21/12

Our government keeps telling us that they hate us for our freedom, but soon that excuse will no longer be at all valid, because our government is taking more of our freedom from us every day...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle671-20120520-03.html



The police state is here

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Tim Kelly

05/21/12

The country s degeneration into a police state has been observable for decades, but it accelerated after 9/11 when the George W. Bush administration exploited the crisis atmosphere to ram through a series of unconstitutional and tyrannical measures. Fear became the coin of the realm as the American people traded away their liberties for the empty promise of security...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1205p.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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What If We Have Only Memories of Freedom?
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano55.1.html



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By Kate Hudson

A cursory glance at NATO s recent history shows that whatever its changing rationale, or the nature of its supposed enemies in the post-Cold War period, its core function has remained to advance US global interests and foreign policy goals.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31391.htm



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Jan Lundberg, Culture Change: ''One of the world s biggest environmental crimes has been more or less forgotten. This is part of our collective guilt as the world s ecosystem continues its accelerated collapse. But the new documentary film 'The Big Fix' takes a detailed, daring look at what happened in the Gulf of Mexico with BP s Macondo offshore oil drilling rig. The story and facts that emerge are more than disturbing.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9261-the-big-fix-documentary-exposes-bp-us-government-on-gulf-disaster

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Covering up the cover-up: The BP oil spill
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/gulf-of-mexico-oil-catastrophe-1/covering-up-the-cover-up-the-bp-oil-spill.html

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BP is an Enemy of Academic Freedom: Scientists
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/05-4



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Welt Online

Cybermobbing bedeutet, dass ein Schüler über längere Zeit hinweg im Internet oder per Handy von Gleichaltrigen gehänselt, beleidigt oder bedroht wird. In einer Studie der Techniker Krankenkasse gaben zehn Prozent der Befragten an, dass sie schon...

http://www.welt.de/print/wams/wissen/article106344048/Angriff-aus-dem-Netz.html



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The government spends £25 billion a year on its war machine and is committed to spending hundreds of billions more on buying new military hardware. At what cost to the disabled?

http://bit.ly/J81WQQ


From Information Clearing House



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By Benjamin H. Friedman

The study shows that when presented with arguments for and against cutting the defense budget, Americans want to cut it-a lot.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31379.htm



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Die letzten sechs Dekaden seien in der Region Australiens die wärmsten des vergangenen Jahrtausends gewesen, bilanzieren Wissenschaftler der Universität Melbourne.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815077ms319



WWF: Die Welt verbraucht einen halben Planeten zu viel

Living Planet Report 2012 erstmals aus dem Weltraum präsentiert. EU-Lebensstil verschlingt 2,66 Mal zu viel Ressourcen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815099ms319



Bäume als Regenmacher in der Steppe

Soweit das Auge reichte, lag menschenleere Ödnis. Noch vor 25 Jahren herrschte trostlose Steppe im kolumbianischen Las Gaviotas. Heute wachsen wieder Waldgärten auf über 8000 ha, und mit dem Wald kehrte auch der Regen zurück. So ernährt der Wald bereits über 200 Familien, die neben veredelten Produkten aus den Waldgärten inzwischen sogar Trinkwasser in die Hauptstadt verkaufen. In der Nachbarschaft harren noch 6,3 Millionen Hektar Steppe ihrer Rückverwandlung in Regenwald. Von Haiko Pieplow und Ute Scheub

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815068ms319



''Wild Wonders of Europe'' kommt nach Berlin

''Wild Wonders of Europe'' belegt eindrucksvoll die Rückkehr von Europas Wildtieren dank 40 Jahren erfolgreicher Naturschutzarbeit. Sie zeigt, dass Natur- und Artenschutz funktioniert, und dass wir mehr davon brauchen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815073ms319



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Was ist dran, wenn Medien berichten, dass Spanien, Portugal und Italien über ihre Verhältnisse leben und nicht wettbewerbsfähig sind? Wir haben uns die Daten der Krisenländer etwas genauer angesehen: Die Krisenländer leben vor allem über ihre ökologischen Verhältnisse. Die Abhängigkeit vom Import fossiler Energieträger (Öl, Gas und Kohle) und anderer endlicher Rohstoffe ist eine zentrale Ursache für die Verschuldungsdynamik in Europa. Von Sven Giegold

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815067ms319



Hohe Öl- und Benzinpreise werden zur Gefahr für die Weltkonjunktur

IEA-Chefökonomen Fatih Birol fordert Europas Politiker auf, die Abhängigkeit vom Öl reduzieren.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815098ms319

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Das spricht Bände

In Spanien sind Staatsverschuldung und Krise für die konservative Regierung von Premier Rajoy nur ein Vorwand, um den neoliberalen Durchmarsch zelebrieren zu können. Artikel von Mark Weisbrot in Der Freitag vom 04.06.2012 http://www.freitag.de/politik/1222-das-spricht-baende


Eurozone: Spanien am Ende, Merkels Therapie auch

Die Nerven liegen blank. Europa steuert unaufhaltsam auf eine politische, ökonomische und soziale Tragödie zu. Nach zwei Jahren Krisentherapie à la Merkozy steht die Eurozone vor dem Kollaps. Stürzt Spanien in den Abgrund, droht sich eine Lawine zu lösen, die über Italien die ganze Eurozone begraben könnte. Noch kann die Politik einlenken. Doch von Einsicht keine Spur?'' DGB klartext Nr. 21 vom 08.06.2012 bei den Nachdenkseiten (pdf)

http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/21_2012_klartext_Spanien_am_Ende.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Juni 2012



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Q-Cells, Solon, Sovello: Eine große Solarfirma nach der anderen muss in Deutschland Insolvenz anmelden. Weitere Insolvenzfälle sind absehbar. Wie viele Firmen wird es noch treffen? Die FAZ veröffentlichte jetzt eine Studie von Goetzpartners, die zum Schluss kommt, dass bis 2017 von heute 232 deutschen Solarunternehmen nur noch 86 übrig bleiben werden.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815066ms319



Die Sonnenstrahlen einfangen

Thermische Solaranlagen zur Warmwassererwärmung können bis zu 70% des Warmwasserbedarfes bereitstellen. Teilsolare Raumheizung kann ca. 30% des Heizungsbedarfs abdecken. Beide Anlageformen sparen dadurch Energiekosten und senken den CO2-Ausstoß. Neues Infoblatt von ''die umweltberatung'' über thermische Solaranlagen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815072ms319



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Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''One thing the Afghan war policy hasn t lost: the GOP leadership. That was demonstrated Wednesday night when the GOP leadership blocked consideration in the House of a bipartisan amendment offered by Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) and Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) that would have nailed to the wall the current, slippery 'timetable' for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. There you have it. The reason that the amendment couldn t be allowed to come to a vote was because it could pass.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9241-how-house-gop-leaders-silenced-support-for-amendment-solidifying-afghanistan-withdrawal-timeline

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Congress, Standing Against Public Majority, Votes for More War in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18

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NATO summit to define enduring presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014

One of the major topics in the NATO summit is to ''establish a vision for our enduring presence in Afghanistan,'' said General John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO force in Afghanistan, as American Forces Press Service reported.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-05/17/c_131593250.htm


From Information Clearing House

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What To Expect at the GOP Convention in Tampa
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/05/25/279-what-to-expect-at-the-gop-convention-in-tampa/



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http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1139.html

End of the Nation-State
http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey123.html

Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts349.html

From Meltdown to Mayhem
http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente99.1.html

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NATO Summit Highlights Neo-con/neo-liberal Overlap

By Paul Rosenberg

Neither the neo-cons nor the neo-liberals have any intention to realistically face up to the facts of imperial decline or the damage America s empire does to its own democracy, much less anyone else s.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31483.htm

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An imperial presidency

Orange County Register
by Matthew Spalding

06/22/12

The United States was born when rebellious colonists declared their independence from an imperial ruler who had vastly overstepped his bounds. 'The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States,' they wrote in their Declaration of Independence. Today's presidency lacks the regal air of George III. But imperialism is back, in a big way...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/president-360282-congress-laws.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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While all eyes are focused on Greece (and contagiously Spain), they have forgotten that two far weaker countries still exits and combined have the power to do as much (if not more) damage than Spain. Portugal and Ireland have moved back into the Red-Zone of risk in Europe s credit markets.

http://bit.ly/LkaEwW



25 Signs That The Smart Money Has Completely Written Off Southern Europe

Some large corporations are now pulling the money that they make in Greece during the day out of the country every single night. It is becoming increasingly clear that the upper crust of the financial world considers a Greek exit from the euro to be ''inevitable''.

http://tinyurl.com/c4pq27a



Ireland: Cromwell would have been proud

Op-Ed

The hammering of young people in the Budget suggests that they constitute the most reviled demographic in Ireland. How else to explain why those aged under 26 are being used as sacrificial lambs to pay for a banking collapse for which they had no culpability?

http://www.independent.ie/business/budget/colette-browne-to-hell-or-canada-for-our-youth-cromwell-wouldve-been-proud-29662855.html



The Bank Guarantee that Bankrupted Ireland

By Ellen Hodgson Brown

Five years of austerity has not restored confidence in Ireland s banks. In fact the banks themselves are packing up and leaving.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36729.htm



Young and unemployed of Ireland are encouraged to emigrate by government: Max Keiser

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNXmL771mBA#t=177


From Information Clearing House



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The Bank of England has warned that as UK lenders are hit by higher borrowing costs families should prepare to pay more as the increase is passed down to consumers.

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From Information Clearing House



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Bernie Sanders ''The Truth Is Wall Street Regulates Congress''.

Video
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From Information Clearing House



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The Uprising Has Begun

By John Nichols

There s a dawning recognition that it is neither morally nor fiscally prudent to sacrifice human needs in order to pay for wars-or to redistribute more of the wealth upward.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31367.htm



The Politics of Language and the Language of Political Regression

By James Petras

The capitalist class has cultivated a crop of economists and journalists who peddle brutal policies in bland, evasive and deceptive language in order to neutralize popular opposition.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31373.htm

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War, Peace, and the State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard26.html

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The Austerity Agenda
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/01-0

US Austerity Is Here, We Just Don t Talk About It Enough
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/07



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By Jose Luis Magaua

An attempt to strike down any provisions allowing for the US military to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge from next year s National Defense Authorization Act was shot down Friday morning in the House of Representatives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31370.htm



Indefinite Imprisonment Without Charge Or Trial

The Case Against 'Indefinite Detention'

By Rep. Adam Smith and Rep. Justin Amash

The federal government now has the power to detain indefinitely any person-including U.S. citizens-arrested on U.S. soil, indefinitely, without charging them with a crime or proving their guilt.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31359.htm



House GOP Kills Proposal to Block Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

By Adam Serwer

At least it s on the record: Most House Republicans support the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31363.htm



The Shameful Index of Prison Rape

By Amy Fettig and Jennifer Wedekind

Number of people imprisoned in the United States: 2.3 million. Number of victims of rape or sexual abuse in U.S. prison, jails and juvenile detention facilities in the past year according to the Justice Department: 216,600.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31371.htm



Evidence of U.S. Torture: CIA Can Withhold Detainee Photo, Waterboarding Cables

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) doesn t have to release a photo of an alleged al-Qaida operative following a session of enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT), reports The Associated Press.

http://bit.ly/L33mLT


From Information Clearing House

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US Congress Endorses 'Indefinite Detention' Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18-2

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Obama Might Want to Look Forward in 2012, but America s Torture Legacy Will Keep Staring Back

Maria LaHood, Truthout: ''Forward to what? A country where government officials can carry out these barbaric acts and never face justice? In advance of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights has joined Amnesty International, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows and over 60,000 individuals in calling on President Obama to acknowledge the wrong done to Arar in a public apology and provide other forms of redress.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9239-obama-might-want-to-look-forward-in-2012-but-americas-torture-legacy-will-keep-staring-back



Department of Defense Declassifies Report on Alleged Drugging of Detainees

Jeffrey Kaye and Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''Detainees in custody of the US military were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other medications that 'could impair an individual s ability to provide accurate information,' according to a declassified Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general s report that probed the alleged use of 'mind altering drugs' during interrogations.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10248-exclusive-department-of-defense-declassifies-report-on-alleged-drugging-of-detainees

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Torture and the CIA

The American Conservative
by Philip Giraldi

05/23/12

Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives is largely a defense of [author Jose] Rodriguez s role in the CIA s use of torture on suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11. Rodriguez argues that what he describes as 'enhanced interrogation techniques' were necessary to obtain information on terrorist activities. His employment of the euphemism underscores his argument that these procedures were found to be legal by Bush administration lawyers and that they do not constitute torture, which is a war crime...

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/torture-and-the-cia/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Reuters

''At some point such actions which undermine state sovereignty may lead to a full-scale regional war, even, although I do not want to frighten anyone, with the use of nuclear weapons,'' Medvedev said. ''Everyone should bear this in mind.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31362.htm



Joseph Lieberman Says US To Topple Syrian Regime

In an article the Washington Post published on Friday, the US Senator Joseph Liebrman wrote that the [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad regime should be toppled by any means possible, be it foreign intervention or even ''airstrikes''.

http://bit.ly/Lfjgib



Regime Change: U.S. tells G8 Syria s Assad must go, cites Yemen as model

U.S. President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there, the White House said on Saturday.

http://cour.at/MvLOJN


From Information Clearing House



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Goldman-Anwälte machen versehentlich peinliche Dokumente zugänglich.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36957/1.html



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Der Sozialist Hollande setzt mit der 30prozentigen Kürzung ebenso ein Zeichen wie die konservative Kanzlerin mit der 5,7prozentigen Erhöhung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152023



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Drone filmmaker denied visa

A Pakistani student is unable to accept his film festival award because he is denied the right to enter the U.S.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/18/drone_filmmaker_denied_visa/


From Information Clearing House

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Update On NDAA And Drones Flying Over The US

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

In a stunning upset for the Obama administration and big-government zealots in general, a federal judge in New York has issued an injunction against the citizen detention portion of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Bob Unruh at World Net Daily has the story. ''A district-court judge has suspended enforcement of a law that could strip U.S. citizens of their civil rights and allow indefinite detention of individuals President Obama believes to be in support of terror. ''The Obama administration has refused to......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin702.htm



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Cenciotti has described in unprecedented detail the powerful aerial force helping wage Washington's hush-hush campaign of air strikes, naval bombardments and commando raids along the western edge of the Indian Ocean.

http://bit.ly/Jg9jXK



US to Assign Army Brigade to Africa for Training

Army leaders say a combat brigade will be assigned to the Pentagons Africa Command next year in a pilot program that will send small teams of soldiers to countries around the continent to do training and participate in military exercises.

http://abcn.ws/JTFYyJ



The Imperial Agenda Of The US 'Africa Command' Marches On

By Dan Glazebrook

With mission accomplished in Libya, Africom now has few obstacles to its military ambitions on the continent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31581.htm



U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa

At the heart of the surveillance operations are small, unarmed turboprop aircraft disguised as private planes. Equipped with hidden sensors that can record full-motion video, track infrared heat patterns, and vacuum up radio and cellphone signals, the planes refuel on isolated airstrips favored by African bush pilots, extending their effective flight range by thousands of miles.

http://is.gd/o6YmvI



Contractors run U.S. spying missions in Africa

The contractors supply the aircraft as well as the pilots, mechanics and other personnel to help process electronic intelligence collected from the airspace over Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

http://is.gd/VtTwXf


From Information Clearing House

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Expanding US ''Shadow War'' In Africa Builds Spy Network
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/14



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US Military Option for Iran is 'Ready': American Ambassador

By Michal Shmulovich and Greg Tepper

The United States has completed its planning for a military strike on Iran, the US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said in remarks at a closed conference in Tel Aviv.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31350.htm



Iran Strike Gains Support in Some Nations, Russia Says

Some countries favor more than ever using a military strike to stem Iran s nuclear ambitions, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

http://bloom.bg/K9qnvL


From Information Clearing House

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US Iran Hawks in Congress in Some Disarray
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18-0

Israel and the Neocons Mounting Pre-Emptive Strike on History
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/18



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On the unconstitutional spy drone above your backyard.
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano54.1.html

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Warrantless Spying Fight

By Glenn Greenwald

Obama officials demand power to eavesdrop without warrants. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31420.htm



We are being spied on

By Linh Dinh

Washington can now snoop on your international emails and phone calls, without warrants, but do you seriously think they d spare your domestic communications? Of course, not.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31421.htm



Coming: Even more FBI Warrantless Searches?

By Nat Hentoff

Wow! Have presidential rivals Obama and Mitt Romney said a word about this? Don t they care when the Constitution is being ravaged? Will this come up in any of their debates or in press interviews during the campaign?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31470.htm



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