World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/22-2

Is Rio+20 the Future of Corporate Profits?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/06/22

With New Burden on Unions, Court Tips the Balance Toward Corporations
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-0

Nada: Rio+20 Draft Text is 283 Paragraphs of Fluff
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-5

After Austerity: The Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/07/10

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''The Missing Billions'': Savage Austerity Cuts and Corporate Tax Avoidance

By Andy Worthington

£850 billion was used to bail out the banks, even though, according to some estimates, $11 trillion is hidden in offshore accounts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31679.htm

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Fossil fools from G20 to Rio+20

Developed world governments plead here at the Rio+20 Earth Summit that they cannot offer new money to deliver sustainable development globally.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815491ms324

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Unions Are in Peril

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''Lost in the Supreme Court media chatter last week: a disturbing ruling in Knox vs. SEIU Local 1000 that restricts labor unions from directing collected dues toward political causes. There s no similar limit on corporations, naturally, yet another indication that the power and status of modern unions is waning, especially when compared to the unbridled influence of Corporate America. With a sharp decline in union membership, a legion of new enemies, and a series of legal and legislative setbacks, can unions rebound and once again act strongly in the interest of ordinary workers?''

http://truth-out.org/video/item/10290-bill-fletcher-jr-and-stephen-lerner-unions-are-in-peril



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Rebecca Leber, ThinkProgress: ''Republicans have said they are for all forms of energy, but the Domestic Energy Production Act passed today shows much different priorities. While the energy package included many provisions to encourage oil and gas, clean energy was included only twice. GOP leaders did not even permit debate over amendments to include support for renewables and other forms of clean energy.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9933-members-who-supported-massive-giveaway-to-big-oil-have-received-386-million-from-the-industry



The GOP s Crime Against Voters

Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post Writers Group: ''Spare us any more hooey about 'preventing fraud' and 'protecting the integrity of the ballot box.' The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as possible, with poor people and minorities the main targets.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10256-the-gops-crime-against-voters

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The Party of Great Moral Frauds
http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo233.html

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The GOP Economy and Scorched-Earth Obstructionism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/03



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http://lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel186.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul811.html

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U.S. Marching To War In Syria

HR 5993 The Syria Non-Intervention Act of 2012

By Rep Ron Paul

These are acts of war by the United States government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31673.htm



Saudi Arabia Plans to Fund Syria ''Rebel'' Army

By Martin Chulov

Turkey has also allowed the establishment of a command centre in Istanbul which is co-ordinating supply lines in consultation with FSA leaders inside Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31684.htm



British Fighter Jets Put On Syria Alert

BRITISH fighter planes are on stand-by to launch an attack on Syria after Turkey pledged revenge for the downing of one of its war jets.

http://is.gd/NnYvz6



Britain: Syria will be held to account for shooting down Turkish plane

''The Assad regime should not make the mistake of believing that it can act with impunity. It will be held to account for its behavior. The UK stands ready to pursue robust action at the UN Security Council,'' Hague said.

http://is.gd/AwsP0F



US to help Turkey hold Syria 'accountable'

The United States said on Monday it would work with NATO ally Turkey to hold Syria accountable for what U.S. officials believe was a deliberate act of shooting down a Turkish fighter jet.

http://is.gd/ldKVAi


From Information Clearing House

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Syria and Turkey s Phantom War

By Pepe Escobar

Imagine if this was a Syrian jet flying over Turkish or Israeli territory. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31713.htm



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Joseph E. Stiglitz, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: ''There are moments in history when people all over the world seem to rise up, to say that something is wrong, to ask for change. This is what happened in the tumultuous years 1848 and 1968. Each of these years of upheaval marked the beginning of a new era. The year 2011 may prove to be another such moment.''

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/9907-the-price-of-inequality-99



After Five Years: Report Card on Crisis Capitalism

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: ''After five years of crisis ... it s time to evaluate what happened, why and what needs to be done. One key cause of this crisis is the class structure of capitalist enterprises.... By class structure, I mean enterprises' internal organization pitting workers against corporate boards of directors and major shareholders. Those boards seek first to maximize corporate profits and growth. That means maximizing the difference between the value they get from workers' labor and the value of the wages paid to workers.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10190-after-five-years-report-card-on-crisis-capitalism

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Capitalism and the Mad Uncle in the Attic
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22

Capitalism and an Ecologic Tragedy in Time
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/06-0



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Die nach einem Bericht der New York Times von Saudi-Arabien, Katar und der Türkei bezahlten Waffen sollen nicht an al-Qaida gelangen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152250



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http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano59.1.html

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/perkins1.1.1.html

The Real Reason America Is Drifting Towards Fascism
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/america-drifting-toward-fascism.html



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http://www.next-up.org/France/EDF_nucleaire.php
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Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: ''The House Republican budget would raise taxes on families making less than $200,000, even while it gives millionaires a tax cut ... Married couples in [the middle class] income range would pay an additional $2,700 annually to the Internal Revenue Service, on top of the tax increases that are scheduled to hit every American household when the George W. Bush-era cuts expire at the end of the year. Households earning more than $1 million a year, meanwhile, could see a net tax cut of about $300,000 annually.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9890-study-house-republican-budget-would-raise-taxes-on-the-middle-class-cut-them-for-millionaires



Follow the Dark Money

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''While much of the mainstream media looks the other way, some journalists are working hard to identify the fingerprints super PACs and their benefactors leave on our victimized democracy. At the top of this list of journo-detectives are Mother Jones editors Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein, who continue to throw light on what they call 'dark money.' In this conversation with Bill [Moyers], Jeffery and Bauerlein talk about the conspiracy of cash that allows the rich to influence our most fundamental political freedoms.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9886-clara-jeffery-and-monika-bauerlein-on-dark-money



Welcome to the 1930s

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: ''Martin Wolf is shrill (and rightly so). 'Before now, I had never really understood how the 1930s could happen,' the Financial Times columnist wrote ... 'Now I do. All one needs are fragile economies, a rigid monetary regime, intense debate over what must be done, widespread belief that suffering is good, myopic politicians, an inability to co-operate and failure to stay ahead of events.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9908-welcome-to-the-1930s



Five Ways Republicans Have Sabotaged Job Growth

Jeff Spross, ThinkProgress: ''Republican intransigence on economic policy has been a key contributor to the sluggish recovery. As early as 2009, Republican fear-mongering over spending and their readiness to filibuster in the Senate helped convince the White House economic team that an $800 billion stimulus was the most they could hope to get through Congress. Reporting has since revealed that the team thought the country actually needed a stimulus on the order of $1.2 to $1.8 trillion. The economy s path over the next three years proved them right.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10194-five-ways-republicans-have-sabotaged-job-growth



Bush Tax Cuts Have Delivered $1 Million in Tax Breaks to the Average Millionaire

Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: ''House Republicans this week plan to vote on a bill that would extend all of the Bush tax cuts.... A new analysis shows that the Republican plan will raise taxes on roughly 24 million people, due to its allowing various credits, including the Child Tax Credit, to expire, while maintaining Bush s tax cut for two million wealthy Americans. The Bush tax cuts delivered the weakest job growth of the post-war period, as well as a ballooning federal debt.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10650-over-the-last-nine-years-bush-tax-cuts-have-delivered-$1-million-in-tax-breaks-to-the-average-millionaire

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America s long slope down

A broad swath of official economic data shows that America and its people are in much worse shape than when we paid higher taxes, higher interest rates and made more of the manufactured goods we use.

http://is.gd/vO2dDp



The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America s Middle Class

They had good, stable jobs until the recession hit. Now they are living out of their cars in parking lots.

http://is.gd/QR9ppp



Bush Tax Cuts Have Delivered $1 Million To The Average Millionaire

By Pat Garofalo

House Republicans have written legislation to fast-track more tax cuts for the rich.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32091.htm


From Information Clearing House

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US budget: It s the spending, stupid

Orange County Register
by John Stossel

07/10/12

Last year, Congress agreed to $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts, unless politicians find other things to cut. They didn t, of course. So now, with so-called sequestration looming in January, panic has set in. Even the new 'fiscally responsible' Republicans vote against cutting Energy Department handouts to companies like Solyndra and subsidies to sugar producers. Many claim that any cut in military spending will weaken America and increase unemployment. It s another demonstration of the politicians' addiction to spending and how we are complicit...

http://tinyurl.com/cwehhjz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Four Spending Myths That Could Wreck Our World
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/18-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/20-2

God, Money, and Planet Earth
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/21-2



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The United States says the Russian military was preparing to dispatch three more ships to Syria after a separate transport carrying attack helicopters turned back when its U.K. insurer removed its coverage.

http://is.gd/44TVTv



U.S. Arming Syrian Opposition Fighters

By ERIC SCHMITT

C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31665.htm



Tensions Between UK and Russia Soared Over Syria-bound Helicopters

By David Usborne

Britain came alarmingly close to a dangerous clash with Moscow when David Cameron was asked to consider giving an order to forcibly board a ship headed towards the English Channel carrying three Russian-made helicopters for delivery to Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31663.htm



On the Right Side of History

By Sergei Lavrov

We are not trying to whitewash the multiple mistakes and miscalculations made by Damascus, including the use of force against peaceful demonstrations at the beginning of the crisis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31668.htm



Lavrov Drives Home Russia Stand on Syria

When will the West finally engage with Russia on terms of mutual respect rather than the bullying and browbeating that has become the standard modus operandi of international diplomacy these days?

http://is.gd/NlNlAT


From Information Clearing House



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By Spencer Ackerman

The government has left a long, twisted trail of pretzel logic when it comes to all of the reasons you can t know what it s doing. Here are some of the lowlights.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31652.htm



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In Rio de Janeiro wird über völlig zahnlose Dokumente verhandelt, während Konzerne erfolgreich versuchen, die Ergebnisse in ihrem Sinne zu beeinflussen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37129/1.html



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Während amerikanische und britische Politiker in der Wirtschaftskrise versuchten, keynesianische Wirtschaftstheorien anzuwenden, hielten deutsche Politiker fast ausnahmslos am neoliberalen Wirtschaftsmodell fest.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37079/1.html



Die Wirtschaftskrise und das ''fiktive Kapital''
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37366/1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/19

The Most Anti-Environment Congress in History: Here s the Record
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/20-2

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Billionaire Intrigue, Political Deception and the Fight for the Soul of the Chicago Public Schools

Jackson Potter, CTU Net: ''Now that Chicagoans are gaining awareness about the wolves in sheep clothing in our midst and how Initiatives funded by the 1 percent are vying for our hearts and minds, the fight for our schools takes on a new light.... It is a travesty that as our city continues to suffer from record levels of violence and homicide while the powers- that- be cut vital services for our children and their schools. The best reforms help to secure our future and stabilize the present. Will the real reformers please stand up!''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10208-billionaire-intrigue-political-deception-and-the-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-chicago-public-schools



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When Will We Attack Syria?

By Rep. Ron Paul

We are about to engage in military action against Syria and at the same time irresponsibly reactivate the Cold War with Russia. We are now engaged in a game of ''chicken'' with Russia which presents a much greater threat to our security than does Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31657.htm



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By Eli Clifton

Mitt Romney s pledge to massively increase military spending, close to a $2 trillion increase over the next ten years, is leaving many national security and defense experts scratching their heads.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31640.htm



Romney s Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas

Mitt Romney s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.

http://is.gd/XO3TkQ


From Information Clearing House

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Mitt Romney, deficit increaser

Our Future
by Stan Collender

06/21/12

This post from the libertarian Cato@Liberty blog by Christopher Preble about the sizeable increase in the deficit Mitt Romney s military spending plans will cause caught my eye yesterday thanks to the ever-watchful CG&G alum Bruce Bartlett. In case you are not familiar with it, Romney has pledged to spend at least four percent of GDP on the Pentagon s base budget. And, also just in case you are not familiar with it, this would be a huge increase in federal spending and, without offsetting tax increases or spending cuts (which given the amount of additional spending and the need to reduce the deficit would be impossible to do), a substantial rise in the deficit...

http://tinyurl.com/7nsy9ce



What s in Romney s offshore accounts?

The Nation Blog
by Ben Adler

07/03/12

Mitt Romney has been very reluctant to release his tax returns. In all his previous campaigns he refused to release any of them. This time, under pressure, he has given us only the last two years. But he must disclose more. If you want to know why, read Nicholas Shaxson s piece in the new issue of Vanity Fair. In it, Shaxson raises important questions about some strange aspects of Romney?s financial history...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/168711/whats-romneys-offshore-accounts


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Mittens Comes to Town
http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e205.html

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Pass the Mulvaney Amendment to Freeze Military Spending

Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''Frank is retiring from the House this year after thirty-two years of service ... I think there is a strong case that in the cause of working to rein in America s excessive, unnecessary, out-of-control military spending, Frank has stood out from his colleagues, both in terms of advancing the issue in public debate, and in terms of reaching across the aisle to form bipartisan coalitions to push in the direction of sanity.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10412-for-barney-franks-legacy-pass-the-mulvaney-amendment



Military Industry Descends on Capitol Hill to Fight for Their Perceived Right to Profit

Robert Greenwald and John Amick, Brave New Foundation: ''The US House of Representatives is scheduled to address the 2013 Defense Appropriations bill beginning Wednesday, which will go a long way in framing the later debate on automatic cuts to defense set to happen on January 2, 2013. The 'sequester' was set into law, via the Budget Control Act, last year in an effort to compel Congress to reach a deficit-reduction plan. The automatic cuts would take the Pentagon s requested FY 2013 budget of $526 billion to $469 billion, reducing Department of Defense spending by around $1 trillion over the next decade.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10410-military-industry-descends-on-capitol-hill-descend-on-capitol-hill-to-fight-for-their-perceived-right-to-profit



Three Ploys the Department of Defense Uses When Their Budget Is at Risk

Dina Rasor, Truthout: ''Lockheed and other companies continue to make threats on jobs and affect the election by sending out pink slips right before the election. These companies claim that they have to send out these pink slips right before the election according to the law, a charge that has been called bogus and a scare tactic. This could affect the election because areas with high defense jobs could be thrown to vote for the Republican candidates. This is especially true in Northern Virginia, especially the defense-job-laden Fairfax county, which is seen as crucial to winning the state.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10409-defense-sequestration-means-well-lose-a-million-jobs-and-were-all-going-to-die



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By Daphne Eviatar

The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings has just released a report decrying the lack of accountability in the U.S. overseas killings by unmanned drones.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31634.htm



Unconstitutional Uses of Drones Must Stop

By Rep. Ron Paul

We must curtail the government s ability use drones right away lest the massacres in Yemen and Pakistan turn out to be crude training exercises for what the administration has in mind on our own soil.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31635.htm



40 Years of Growing Surveillance

By Nat Hentoff

An example that far exceeds the once-fearsome vision of George Orwell s 1984.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31636.htm



U.S. Drone Attacks May Constitute War Crimes: UN

By Owen Bowcott in Geneva

Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31667.htm



Obama moves to conceal drone death figures

The Obama administration has moved to block the release of information relating to its overseas drone assassination program, and will not even acknowledge that it exists, despite countless public references to the program and the proven existence of an official ''kill list''.

http://is.gd/UQg9ek


From Information Clearing House

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Kill Lists and Drones
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead47.1.html

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Broad Coalition of Advocates Acts to Oppose ''Drone Zone'' Border Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/06/19-6

''Zero Question We Live in a Surveillance State''
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/07/05

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Christians and the Kill List

CounterPunch
by William Alberts

06/19/12

The distancing of killing people with drones enables American citizens to remain oblivious to their deaths and grieving and to the anger such terrible loss and suffering instills in their loved ones. Out of sight out of mind, which is believed to help explain why President Obama can place a 'kill list' on the altar of 'American values,' with no audible protest from 'Sunday shine' Christian leaders...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/19/christians-and-the-kill-list/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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From Agent Orange to ''Kill Lists'': ''Brilliant'' Psy-Ops Become the News

John Pilger, Truthout: ''In 1970, a US Senate report revealed that 'the US has dumped [on South Vietnam] a quantity of toxic chemical amounting to six pounds per head of population, including woman and children.' The code name for this weapon of mass destruction, Operation Hades, was changed to the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand. Today, an estimated 4.8 million victims of Agent Orange are children.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9909-history-is-the-enemy-as-brilliant-psy-ops-become-the-news



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90,000 forces from the four countries will take part in the land and sea wargames due to be held in Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31630.htm



How the Obama Administration Is Stalling Its Way to War with Iran

By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

Obama s Iran policy priorities this way: the ''nuclear program, its impact on the security of Israel, and avenues for regime change.'' With such goals, how could his team do anything but play for time in the nuclear talks?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31637.htm



Hollywoods s New Hostage Thriller Glamorizes The Cia In Iran

By Danny Schechter

Once again, mindlessness leads to malice in a search not for truth but box office revenues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31659.htm



Congress on Iran: Iraq Redux?

Don t let your member of Congress use lies to justify action against Iran

Video

In a recent debate over a new round of sanctions against Iran, six members of Congress blatantly misrepresented the findings of November s IAEA report and what is known about Iran s nuclear program.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31669.htm



Tell President Obama: We support diplomacy with Iran, not an unnecessary and costly war

The next week is critically important for those of us who want to avoid an unnecessary and costly war with Iran.

http://is.gd/diAGg2



U.S., Israel continue preparations for strike on Iran nuclear facilities

The website cites U.S. defense contracts and Israel s new military preparations, suggesting that 'all sides are getting ready for whatever may come.'

http://is.gd/N4srDS



China responds to exemption from U.S. sanctions

''China is always against one country s unilateral sanctions on another country, according to its domestic law. It is even less acceptable for such unilateral sanctions to be imposed on a third country,' said Hong Lei, speaking at a regular press conference.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-06/29/c_131685088.htm



Iran Sanctions Will Halve Oil Sales But May Still Not Succeed

By Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan

Embargo has led to huge increases in price of staple foods, while currency has lost half its value since 2010.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31741.htm



The Oil Sanctions Against Iran

By Gwynne Dyer

Barack Obama will go on tightening the screws, because he dares not gamble that Netanyahu is only bluffing about attacking Iran at least until he has won re-election this November.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31760.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Economic War Against Iran Continues; Still No Evidence of a Weapons Program
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/06/26-0

Getting Iran Sanctions Wrong
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/05-7



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Russ Wellen, Truthout: ''When dueling narratives clash and the subject is nuclear weapons, the sparks that fly could make flashing sabers seem dim in comparison. According to conventional thinking in the West, Iran is not abiding by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and restraining itself from all nuclear weapons activities. Thus, it should be denied its right to enrich uranium. But in the view of much of the rest of the world, the West is making little more than cosmetic efforts to roll back its nuclear arsenals.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9758-wests-idea-of-nuclear-disarmament-doesnt-include-itself



Deep-Sixing the China Option

Hillary Mann Leverett and Flynt Leverett, TomDispatch.com: ''America s Iran policy remains stuck in a delusion similar to the one that warped its China policy for two decades after China s revolutionaries took power in 1949, that Washington could somehow isolate, strangle, and ultimately bring down a political order created through mass mobilization and dedicated to restoring national independence after a long period of Western domination. It didn t work in the Chinese case and it s not likely to in Iran either.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9869-deep-sixing-the-china-option



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Kingsley Dennis, Truthout: ''A particular example of corporatism and social control can be found within global food systems, the ways they are monopolized and managed. The control and management of global food supplies has been a corporate and political priority for decades, with US-based conglomerates leading the charge. As elite establishment political figure Henry Kissinger remarked in 1970, 'Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.' Recent research places multinational corporations behind the push toward controlling global food supplies.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9769-democratic-unfreedom-social-technique-and-the-manufacture-of-control

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The Corporate-Driven "Green Economy"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/19-1

Backdoor Talks on Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Aim to Globalize Corporatocracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/21-10

In the Name of Saving Natural World, Governments Are Privatizing It
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/07

Five Ways Privatization Degrades America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/13-1

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The misruling class

In These Times
by Christopher Hayes

06/25/12

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life. The failure of the elites and the distrust it has spawned is the most powerful and least understood aspect of current politics and society. It structures and constrains the very process by which we gather facts, form opinions, and execute self-governance...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13352/the_misruling_class



Here s why our elites don t fix economy

Our Future Blog
by Dave Johnson

06/27/12

When we had democracy, We, the People made the rules and we ran our country and our economy for our benefit. Now that we are a plutocracy things are different. The reason our elites are not doing anything to fix the economy is because from their viewpoint, things are just fine...

http://tinyurl.com/7mksvoq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Power Elite Is Ripping Us Off
http://lewrockwell.com/burris/burris28.1.html

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What the Market Does to Our Souls

By Alan Nasser

Elites are now resolved to defeat organized labor, to reduce as much of the social wage as they can get away with and to do away with impediments to capital s unlimited freedom to accumulate, i.e. to privatize public assets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31716.htm



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Das Deutsche Institut für Urbanistik warnt vor der zunehmenden sozialen Spaltung in deutschen Großstädten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37112/1.html



Arbeitsarmut wächst, die Einkommen der Topmanager auch

In Großbritannien leben nach einer Studie sieben Millionen Menschen mit Job unter einem ''extremen finanziellen Stress'', vom Arbeitslohn leben zu können, wird für viele immer schwieriger.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37132/1.html



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Text von Wolf-Dieter Narr und Dirk Vogelskamp als Auszug (S. 255 ? 257) aus dem Kapitel G., exklusiv im LabourNet Germany (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/menschenrechte.pdf

Es handelt sich um einen Auszug aus: Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie (Hrsg.), Wolf-Dieter Narr zusammen mit Dirk Vogelskamp, Trotzdem: Menschenrechte! Versuch, uns und anderen nach nationalsozialistischer Herrschaft Menschenrechte zu erklären, Köln 2012, S. 292; 18,- Euro (ISBN 978-3-88906-137-9). Das Buch ist anlässlich des 30. Gründungsjahres des Komitees für Grundrechte und Demokratie im Jahr 2010 konzipiert worden. Gründungsmitglied Wolf-Dieter Narr unternimmt in diesem Buch den Versuch, Menschenrechte so allgemeinverständlich zu erklären, dass sie zur Grundlage und zum Horizont menschlichen Handelns, Orientierens und Urteilens zu werden vermögen. Siehe die Bestell-Seite beim Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/node/507


Asylrecht: Flüchtlinge als Verbrecher

''Erst Aufnahmehaft, dann Abschiebehaft: Europa will Asylbewerber künftig einsperren. Diese rabiate Politik praktizieren südeuropäische Grenzstaaten wie Griechenland schon lange. Nun will die EU deren Vorgehen importieren. Damit verrät der Kontinent Grundsätze seines Rechts?'' Ein Kommentar von Heribert Prantl in Süddeutsche Zeitung online vom 18.06.2012 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/asylrecht-der-fluechtling-als-verbrecher-1.1385214


Datenschutz: Elena ist tot, es lebe Bea

''Mit ''Elena'' sollten Arbeitgeber verpflichtet werden, sensible Mitarbeiterdaten weiterzugeben. Es regte sich Protest, das umstrittene Projekt wurde eingestellt. Jetzt soll es in Teilen wiederbelebt, dabei sind die Bedenken nicht vom Tisch?? Artikel von Marvin Oppong im Tagesspiegel online vom 19.6.2012 http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/datenschutz-elena-ist-tot-es-lebe-bea/6767698.html


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Juni 2012

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Schwarz-Gelb macht Ihre Daten zur Ware
http://www.campact.de/melderecht/sn1/signer



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/18-2



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Three new reports conclude a U.S. or Israeli strike on Tehran s nuclear sites would have disastrous results.

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/15/we_cant_crush_iran/singleton/



Romney calls Obama weak on nuclear Iran

For the second day in a row, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney labeled his rival weak on combating a nuclear Iran.

http://is.gd/FdrFjj


From Information Clearing House



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By Washington s Blog

The most dangerous myth, because a lot of economic policy is based upon it, and because so few know that it is false, is the myth about how banks make loans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31626.htm



'Equality of Opportunity' Can t Exist When the Rich Have 85 Percent of US Wealth

Video

Economist and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Joseph Stiglitz: ''The United States is not only the country with the most inequality in outcomes, it s the country with the least equality of opportunity,'' Stiglitz says. ''A kid s life prospects are more dependent on the education and income of his parents than in any other advanced industrial countries.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31615.htm



How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy

By Bill Moyers

Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith discuss the folly and corruption of both banks and government. Also, Peter Edelman on fighting U.S. poverty.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31694.htm



Do We All Work for Central Bankers?

CNBC Admits We are All Slaves

Video

Is this Global Governance at last? Is it One World.. with the Central Bankers in charge?"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31689.htm

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Republicans Love Big Government (So Long as It Serves Big Business)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/18-10

Low-Wage Nation: Poverty and Inequality Are Threatening Our Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/19-4

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The Disconnect Between Household Wealth and GDP Growth
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner556.html

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The state of poverty in America

The American Prospect
by Peter Edelman

06/22/12

We have two basic poverty problems in the United States. One is the prevalence of low-wage work. The other concerns those who have almost no work. The two overlap. Most people who are poor work as much as they can and go in and out of poverty. Fewer people have little or no work on a continuing basis, but they are in much worse straits and tend to stay poor from one generation to the next. The numbers in both categories are stunning...

http://prospect.org/article/state-poverty-america


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Banks Were Selling Phony Mortgages

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''Rolling Stone editor Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith, creator of the finance and economics blog Naked Capitalism, join Bill to discuss the folly and corruption of both banks and government, and how that tag-team leaves deep wounds in our democracy. Taibbi s latest piece is 'The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia.' Smith is the author of 'ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9966-matt-taibbi-and-yves-smith-on-the-follies-of-big-banks-and-government



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By Tom Engelhardt

At the very least, the Afghan War has given a different meaning to the ceremonial phrase ''till death do us part.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31623.htm



Top UK Award Goes to Journalist Who Exposed Secrets of Afghanistan War

By The Martha Gellhorn Trust

Gareth Porter, the Washington-based journalist, has won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for 2012 for his investigation of US 'killing strategy' in Afghanistan, including the targeting of people through their mobile phones.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31619.htm



Afghanistan: The Top Ten Lies that Recur in the Mainstream Media

By James O'Neill

#1. That the West's involvement in Afghanistan was initiated by the events of 11 September 2001.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31660.htm



'Bye, Bye Miss American Pie'

Video

It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31780.htm



Another Killing Machine

By Ayaz Wazir

No country in the world has suffered so much and for so long at the hands of two super powers in the last thirty years than Afghanistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31770.htm



U.S. Has No Idea Who s a Taliban 'Leader,' Still Boasts About Killing Them

Since January 2011, ISAF occupation force troops have killed or captured at least 104 Afghan resistant ''leaders''. You might expect the resistance to be battered from the loss of so many senior commanders in such a short period of time.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/taliban-leaders/



US burning money in Afghanistan

We are now talking big time billions that have probably filled the bank accounts of many Americans and Iraqis and others elsewhere. So, many of the people who are warmongers in this country championing wars have probably been well repaid by now.

http://is.gd/Vg4grl



Rep. Jim McGovern: 15 Members of Congress Speak Out: End the War in Afghanistan

Today, 14 of my colleagues from both parties joined me in speaking out against the war in Afghanistan.

http://is.gd/2tqMsj



72% of Americans and 25% of Congress Members Say: Get Out of Afghanistan!
http://is.gd/YC76Hd



''American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People s Lives''

By Larry Everest

Every issue-from jobs to manufacturing to the environment-gets filtered through ''what s good for America,'' and how ''we'' can keep America No. 1. All this is sickening and immoral.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31986.htm


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Biden warned Obama about Afghanistan fiasco

Syracuse Post-Standard

06/25/12

As President Barack Obama considered adding as many as 40,000 U.S. forces to a backsliding war in Afghanistan in 2009, Vice President Joe Biden warned him that the military rationale for doing so was flawed, a new book about Obama s expansion of the conflict says. ... A previously undisclosed Biden memo to Obama in November 2009 reflects his view that military commanders were asking Obama to take a leap by adding tens of thousands of forces whose role was poorly defined...

http://bit.ly/MmUnom


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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ACLU: The Government s Pseudo-Secrecy Snow Job on Targeted Killing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/26-4



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By The Moscow Times

Russia is preparing to send Marines to defend its naval base in Syria amid continued unrest in the Arab state, Interfax reported Monday, citing a Navy source.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31628.htm



Russian navy ships set to sail to protect military base in Syria

The official said the ships will carry an unspecified number of marines to protect Russians in Syria and evacuate some equipment from Tartus, if necessary.

http://is.gd/BHbNWf



Not 'if' but 'when': US intervention in Syria on countdown

A delegation from Syrian opposition is reportedly in talks with US officials over the targets they want to attack to weaken the Syrian government and the arms they want America to provide to do it. A ''Libya lite'' operation in Syria may be imminent.

http://www.rt.com/news/syria-rebels-us-arms-028/



US Attempting to Trigger Full Proxy War in Syria

Torrent of propaganda, foreign arms, and political sabotage seek to fulfill broader plans for destabilization.

http://is.gd/NcL4I3



West avoids direct intervention in Syria for own reasons, but blames Russia

The U.S. would rather deflect blame for the bloody conflict onto its old Cold War foe.

http://is.gd/g6nWmE



A Lincoln Brigade For Syria

By Doug Bandow

The sofa samurai and ivory-tower warriors are in full war cry over Syria.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31622.htm



U.S. Implementing Afghanistan, Kosovo Models For Syria

By Rick Rozoff

As Pakistan was used as the base of operations for attacks inside Afghanistan from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, so now Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq are used for the same purpose vis-a-vis Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31643.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Syrien: Neue Erkenntnisse zum Massaker von Hula und die Fabrikationen von Wahrheit.

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