World-News

Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

06/16/12

Most discussions about the costs of war focus on two numbers, the cost in dollars and cents and the more profound and heartbreaking cost in lives. Yet even as depressing as these numbers are, the figures discussed rarely encompass the whole truth. Over many generations those in power have learned there are benefits to keeping the populace as ignorant as possible when it comes to the true costs of war...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7723


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=costs+of+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/17

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U.S. is the driving force behind the fighting in Somalia

Washington has been quietly equipping and training thousands of African soldiers to wage a widening proxy war against the Shabab, the Al Qaeda ally that has sparked alarm as foreign militants join its ranks.

http://is.gd/KHTdES


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=secret+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Somalia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Shabab
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Woods
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Carey L. Biron, Inter Press Service: ''The United States is set to far surpass previous records for defense sales this year, according to U.S. officials. 'Despite the global economic strain, demand for U.S. defense products and services is stronger than ever,' Andrew J. Shapiro, an assistant secretary in the U.S. State Department, said on Thursday. He confirmed that the U.S., long the world s largest weapons exporter, has already seen more than 50 billion dollars in government-to-government military sales this fiscal year.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9834-us-sets-another-record-on-defence-sales-already



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Carey+L.+Biron
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http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS_Zone_Refuge.php
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A warning to Western countries contemplating an intervention

By Andrew E. Kramer

Russia is shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships if the United States or other Western nations try to intervene to halt the country s spiral of violence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31603.htm



U.S. military completes initial planning for Syria

The U.S. military has completed its own planning for how American troops would conduct a variety of operations against Syria, or to assist neighboring countries in the event action was ordered, officials tell CNN.

http://is.gd/Bstm58



Plans afoot to arm Syrian ''rebels'' with sophisticated anti-tank weapons and surface to-air-missiles

Senior Middle Eastern diplomatic sources said that Libyan-supplied weapons, paid for by Saudi Arabia and Qatari government funds and private donations, had already been stockpiled in anticipation of the ''inevitable'' intervention needed to end the Assad regime.

http://is.gd/sgFW8A


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Russia
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+E.+Kramer

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Aus Fukushima nichts gelernt.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815431ms323



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fukushima
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Deutsche+Bank
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Mehr Output mit weniger Input

Zahlreiche europäische Länder haben über ihre Verhältnisse gele, ökonomisch, aber eben auch ökologisch. Sie haben ihren Output mit teuren Importen fossiler Energie teuer, zu teuer erkauft.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815397ms323



Energiewende in Gefahr

Erst der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien hat es überhaupt ermöglicht, dass Deutschland vorangehen und den Weg Richtung Energiewende einschlagen konnte. Das immer gleiche Argument, dass Solarstrom ein Preistreiber sei und Strom unerschwinglich teuer mache, wird in schöner Regelmäßigkeit neu aufgetischt. Dabei ist längst erwiesen, dass die Photovoltaik sich sogar preissenkend auf den Börsenpreis auswirkt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815398ms323



Einigung zu Effizienzrichtlinie: Durchbruch für deutsche Wirtschaft

EU-Richtlinie verhindert Energiepreisexplosion und unterstützt deutsche Energiewende.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815408ms323



Erneuerbare Energien sorgen in ganz Deutschland für Beschäftigung

Insbesondere für den ostdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt haben Erneuerbare Energien hohe Bedeutung.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815435ms323



Privilegien für Industrie treiben Strompreise hoch

Kosten der Energiewende müssen gerechter verteilt werden.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815412ms323



Netzbetreiber tricksen bei Strommengen aus Kohlekraftwerken

Die Netzbetreiber gehen bei ihren Planungen zum Netzausbau von einer viel zu hohen künftigen Strommenge aus Kohlekraftwerken aus.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815602ms326



Solarwärme wichtig für Energiewende

Haupthemmnisse: Mangelndes Bewusstsein für Wirtschaftlichkeit und fehlende Fördermittel.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815420ms323



Günstige Strompreise dank Ökostrom

Viele Verbraucher haben Angst, dass sie wegen des Atomausstiegs und der Förderung Erneuerbarer Energien höhere Stromrechnungen bekommen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815433ms323



Wichtiger Schritt hin zu wirtschaftlicher Unabhängigkeit von Netzbetreibern

Sonnenstrom vom eigenen Dach mit juwi Home Power auch nachts nutzen.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815411ms323



SOLON präsentiert Energiespeicher und innovative Lösungen für Industriedächer

Mit diesem Speichersystem können Besitzer von Photovoltaikanlagen bis zu 70 % ihres jährlichen Strombedarfs decken und sich so unabhängiger von ihrem Energieversorger machen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815426ms323



Solarenergie erreicht weltweit wichtige Meilensteine zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

Eröffnung der weltweit größten Solartechnik-Messe in München ist gezeichnet durch harten internationalen Wettbewerb, Überkapazitäten, unstete Förderpolitik.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815417ms323



Potenzial für ökologische und effiziente Stromerzeugung

Umweltverband BUND und Stadtwerke Heidelberg Umwelt im Dialog über das Holz-Heizkraftwerk.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815414ms323



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wachstum
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Energiewende
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Solarenergie
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Photovoltaik
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kohlekraft
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Netzausbau
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Strompreis
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Seit dem FCKW-Verbot ist das Lachgas zur ozonschädigensten Emission geworden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/152202



Warnung vor dem flächendeckenden Einsatz von Biokraftstoffen

Zu wenig möglicher Ertrag in Deutschland, zu viele negative Nebenwirkungen weltweit, Solar und Wind gegenüber Bioenergie im Vorteil.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/152470



USA: Kritik an Agrarsprit wächst

Wegen der hohen Maispreise fordert FAO-Chef von der US-Regierung, die Subventionen für Ethanol auszusetzen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/152559

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Rapsöl nicht automatisch nachhaltig

Studie widerlegt EU-Angaben zu CO2-Einsparungen durch Biodiesel.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815876ms331



Ozonbelastung verringert Produktivität

Vor allem Landarbeiter betroffen, auch Ernten gehen zurück.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416817182ms351



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ethanol
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Der ehemalige Gouverneur von Massachusetts hat seinen Bundesstaat bereits vor der Abstimmung im November als verloren abgeschrieben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37106/1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Romney
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http://lewrockwell.com/yk/military-occupation-of-tampa.html

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What Happens If GOP s Voter Suppression Works?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/25



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Harold+Meyerson
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http://lewrockwell.com/yk/ron-paul-wont-endorse-romney.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Romney
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Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''Chris Frates of National Journal broke the story that health insurance companies secretly funneled over $100 million into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for advertising. The Chamber, during the period in which the money was accepted, orchestrated one of the largest electioneering outside money efforts in American history to help weaken health reform and elect lawmakers, mostly Republican, running on platform to repeal health reform.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9804-health-insurance-companies-plowed-over-$107-million-into-electing-speaker-boehners-anti-health-reform-congress



Campaign Cash: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co.: ''If you are visiting a candidate this summer and looking for a thoughtful house gift, might we suggest a nice super PAC? Thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United, they are all the rage among the mega-wealthy. All it takes is a little paperwork and a wad of cash and presto, you can have, as The Washington Post describes it, a 'highly customized, highly personalized political action committee.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9818-campaign-cash-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving



The Corruption of Politics by Checkbooks

Gerald E Scorse, Baltimore Chronicle: ''Dollars deliver messages in a new book by 'Dollar Bill' Bradley, and the former Rhodes scholar, NBA star, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate has no doubt where the dollars should and shouldn t be going. They should be pouring FDR-style into job creation, and they shouldn t be donated to politicians, especially dollars from corporations. Bradley s book, We Can All Do Better, has an early chapter, ''Uprooting the Root of All Evil,'' that examines the corruption of politics by checkbooks.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9824-the-corruption-of-politics-by-checkbooks



On Money in Politics

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''When it comes to the vast, corrupting influence of money in politics, historian Thomas Frank has sounded the alarm loudly and often. In 'It s a Rich Man s World,' one of his recent essays for Harper s Magazine, Frank writes, 'Over the course of the past few decades, the power of concentrated money has subverted professions, destroyed small investors, wrecked the regulatory state, corrupted legislators en masse, and repeatedly put the economy through the wringer. Now it has come for our democracy itself.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9847-thomas-frank-on-money-in-politics



How to Own an Election

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''In this Bill Moyers Essay, Bill calls out some of the biggest political and super PAC donors, revealing how easy it is for the wealthy one percent to sway an election.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9866-how-to-own-an-election

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Leaked Document Reveals New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

By Zach Carter

The administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31610.htm



Senators Grovel, Embarrass Themselves at Dimon Hearing

By Matt Taibbi

The senators not only supplicated before the blowdried banker like love-struck schoolgirls or hotel bellhops, they also almost all revealed themselves to be total ignoramuses with no grasp of the material they were supposed to be investigating.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31605.htm



Writing Off The Elderly

By Paul Craig Roberts

What we have witnessed in the 21st century is a clear decision by political elites and the private interests that control them that gratuitous wars are more important than the elderly.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31608.htm



Poverty In The USA: Disposable Families in Ohio

By Greg Kaufmann

Ohio has thrown nearly 70,000 people-including 40,000 children-off of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance program. That s nearly 25 percent of the state s TANF caseload. The reason?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31604.htm



Is the Threat of a ''Mafia State'' Real?

By Michael Busch

The intersection between state power and illicit actors is as old as the modern nation-state itself.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31692.htm

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Super PACs must face accountability

San Francisco Chronicle
by Robert Reich

06/17/12

JPMorgan, BP, Walmart and the multibillionaire Koch brothers have just launched a TV advertisement blasting President Obama for the national debt. Actually, I don t know who s behind the ad because there s no way to know. And that s a big problem. The front group for the ad is Crossroads GPS, the sister organization to the super PAC American Crossroads run by Republican political operative Karl Rove. But because Crossroads GPS is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 'social welfare organization,' it can spend unlimited money and doesn t have to reveal its sources. In reality, it s a political front group, and the ad is blatantly partisan...

http://tinyurl.com/7sn6wjr



JPMorgan probed over possible power market manipulation

Reuters

07/03/12

Energy regulators have subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase & Co twice in the past three months as part of an investigation into whether the bank manipulated power markets in California and the Midwest. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Monday filed a petition in U.S. federal court to require JPMorgan to produce emails from 2010 and 2011 as part of a formal probe into JPMorgan power market bidding practices in those areas...

http://tinyurl.com/6lgsytp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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For Billionaires Only: Uncle Sam s Real Estate Fire Sale
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/real-estate-fire-sale.html

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The US Chamber of Commerce s Multimillion-Dollar Attack Plan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/05-1



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lee+Fang
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=moyers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Winship
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Zach+Carter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Matt+Taibbi
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greg+Kaufmann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=moyers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+F.+Jasper
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Busch
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sasha+Abramsky
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British authorities on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to log details about every Web visit, email, phone call or text message in the U.K. and in a sharply-worded editorial the nation s top law enforcement official accused those worried about the surveillance program of being either criminals or conspiracy theorists.

http://is.gd/o9LrPV


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=law+enforcement
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By Robert W. Merry

Like Roosevelt in his dealings with Japan, President Barack Obama has helped place Iran under severe strain of economic sanctions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31600.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=sanctions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+W.+Merry

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Stattdessen sollten willkürliche Branchenbefreiungen von Netzumlagen hinterfragt werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/152205



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=erneuerbare+Energie
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http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan247.html

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US Official: Russia Sends Troops to Syria as Peace Hopes Fade

By Jim Miklaszewski, NBC New

Moscow has sent a ship carrying a small contingent of combat forces to guard Russia s deep-water port and military base at the Syrian city of Tartus, the US officials said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31595.htm



McCain Admits U.S. Armed And Equipped Libya Rebels Calls For Same In Syria Conflict

Video

We just need to arm and equip these people, the same way that we did in Libya.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31594.htm



U.S. Exploits Syrian Situation For Showdown With Russia

By Rick Rozoff
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31601.htm



U.S.: Russian military ship en route to Syria

A Russian ship carrying small arms and ammunition and possibly a small contingent of troops is on its way out of the Black Sea and into the Mediterranean bound for Syria. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons are intended to re-supply or beef up the defenses at Russia s naval base in Syria.

http://is.gd/CAvmRi



Houla massacre coverage based on opposition propaganda

As quietly as possible, BBC world news editor Jon Williams has admitted that the coverage of last month s Houla massacre in Syria by the world s media and his own employers was a compendium of lies.

http://is.gd/CJPJj8


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mideast
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rick+Rozoff
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Cora Currier, ProPublica: ''Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, faced a Senate hearing over more than $2 billion in bank losses caused by risky hedges that blew up.... Many lawmakers are holding up the losses as evidence of the need for stronger financial regulation. The chairman of the Senate banking committee, Tim Johnson, D-S.D., in his opening remarks, asked for 'a full accounting' of JP Morgan s losses. But through campaign contributions and well-connected staff, JP Morgan appears to have already taken its own accounting of the Banking committee.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9789-charting-the-cozy-connections-between-jp-morgan-and-the-senate-banking-committee



Why the Senate Won t Touch Jamie Dimon: How JPMorgan Props Up US Debt

Ellen Brown, Truthout: ''When Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase Bank, appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on June 13, he was wearing cufflinks bearing the presidential seal. 'Was Dimon trying to send any particular message by wearing the presidential cufflinks?' asked CNBC editor John Carney. 'Was he ... subtly hinting that he s really the guy in charge?'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9876-the-jpmorgan-derivatives-propping-up-us-debt-why-the-senate-wont-touch-jamie-dimon

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20 Reasons Why America s Next Bank Holiday Will Be a Nightmare
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/bank-holiday-nightmare.html



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Drones over America. Are they spying on you?

By some government estimates, as many as 30,000 drones could be part of intelligence gathering and law enforcement here in the United States within the next ten years.

http://is.gd/7dLfo2



US Marine Corps Creates ''Law Enforcement'' Battalions

By Julie Watson

The Marine Corps has created its first law enforcement battalions, a lean, specialized force of military police officers that it hopes can quickly deploy worldwide to help investigate crimes from terrorism to drug trafficking and train fledgling security forces in allied nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32026.htm


From Information Clearing House



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''When a U.S. drone missile kills a child in Yemen, the father will go to war with you, guaranteed. Nothing to do with Al Qaeda,'' a Yemeni lawyer warned on Twitter last month. President Obama should keep this message in mind before ordering more drone strikes like Wednesday s, which local officials say killed 27 people, or the May 15 strike that killed at least eight Yemeni civilians.

http://is.gd/PMBbL4



Lawmakers want legal justification for drone strikes

A group of more than two dozen anti-war lawmakers wants the White House to explain the legal justification for ''signature'' drone strikes, in which drone attacks can be launched when the identity of those killed is not known.

http://is.gd/vIEPyA



Do Americans Approve Mass Murder?

By Michael Hampton

A majority of Americans, it seems, approve of drone strikes against ''terrorists'', even if they kill innocent bystanders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31589.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Nick Turse

Special Ops, Drones, Spy Games, Civilian Soldiers, Proxy Fighters, and Cyber Warfare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31583.htm



Drone Me Down on the Killing Floor

By Pepe Escobar

And the winner of the Humanitarian Oscar for Best Targeted Assassination with No Collateral Damage goes to... the Barack Obama White House death squad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31593.htm



The West s ''War on Humanity''

Freedom is Slavery, Popular Support is Authoritarianism

By Lizzie Phelan

The humanitarian-intervention discourse, however, is perhaps one of the oldest tricks in Western empire s book, but it has only evolved its disguise.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31995.htm



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By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman

The latest drone attack happened early Wednesday in the Yemeni town of Azzan, killing nine people. It s the 23rd strike in Yemen so far this year, according to the Long War Journal. In Pakistan, there have been only 22.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31579.htm



Widespread anti-American sentiment

By Joe Wolverton II

''We see little evidence that these actions are generating widespread anti-American sentiment or recruits for AQAP'', White House's top counterterrorism advisor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32134.htm



US Kills Eight People in Yemen

The victims were in a car on the road between Qatan and Khashgha when missiles fired from a US drone hit their vehicle on Friday.

http://is.gd/Siph8G


From Information Clearing House



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By Stephen Zunes

A huge bipartisan majority of Congress has essentially told the president that nothing short of war or the threat of war is an acceptable policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31577.htm



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Exposing Obama s Not-So-Secret War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/13-10



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