World-News

Fault Lines, Al Jazeera: ''In January 2012, two controversial pieces of legislation were making their way through the US Congress. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted on request of the content industry, Hollywood studios and major record labels.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10895-controlling-the-web-are-us-authorities-increasingly-trying-to-limit-user-freedom-on-the-internet-in-the-name-of-national-security

--------

Bogus justifications for the national security state

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/21/12

Interventionists justify the existence of the vast military and intelligence establishment in America by telling us that there are 'radical Islamic elements' in the world. But the question is: Should that be a justification for continuing the U.S. national security state i.e., a permanent military and intelligence establishment that was brought into existence in 1947?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-08-21.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

How Dare You Question the Word of Government Authorities
http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz53.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=internet+freedom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=authorities
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=SOPA
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=PIPA
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=radical+Islam
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=intelligence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/lazarowitz
-----

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: ''This crisis is not going away. Officially begun late in 2007, nearly five years later, no end is in sight. Trillions in government-funded bailouts and interventions failed to do the trick. The private sector s hyped resilience disappeared. 'Recoveries' proved weak, uneven and short-lived. The president who rode the crisis into power risks being ridden out by its persistence.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10805-five-reasons-why-crisis-persists

--------

Economic Recovery Is Weakest Since World War II

Economic growth has never been weaker in a postwar recovery. Consumer spending has never been so slack. Only once has job growth been slower.

http://is.gd/QDYgPJ


From Information Clearing House

--------

Life and Death in a Cruel Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/16-0



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recovery
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=economic+growth
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=consumer+spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=job+growth
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bailout
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+D.+Wolff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+C.+Koehler

-----

By Tangerine Bolen

I am one of the lead plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the president the power to hold any US citizen anywhere for as long as he wants, without charge or trial.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32160.htm

--------

The Battle Over NDAA s Police-State Provisions Continues in Court

Jake Olzen, Waging Nonviolence: ''On August 6, Department of Justice lawyers filed an appeal in federal court against a recent ruling that temporarily enjoined section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which gives powers to the military to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens on U.S. soil without charge or trial. The case, and the organizing that surrounds it, will have profound implications for basic constitutional rights, though it has been largely ignored by the mainstream media.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11124-the-battle-over-ndaas-police-state-provisions-continues-in-court



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=National+Defense+Authorization+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=NDAA
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=indefinit+det
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
https://www.google.de/search?q=Tangerine+Bolen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jake+Olzen
-----

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32162.htm



Democracies Don t Start Wars, But Fake Democracies Sure Do

By Dave Lindorff

Clearly the reason we have seen the US starting so many wars is that the US is and has not for a very long time been anything approaching a democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32181.htm



NBC s War for Fun and Profit

By Glenn Greenwald

A new reality show of soldiers and celebrities playing war games showcases our national religion: military worship.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32183.htm



The American Way

By Stephen Lendman

Past and present leaders reveal the soul of their nations. Arguably America never had one. Current domestic and foreign policies provide convincing evidence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32204.htm

--------

Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad: How Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life

Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch: ''After a decade of fiery public debate and bare-knuckle partisan brawling, the United States has stumbled toward an ad hoc bipartisan compromise over the issue of torture that rests on two unsustainable policies: impunity at home and rendition abroad.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10891-impunity-at-home-rendition-abroad-how-two-administrations-and-both-parties-made-illegality-the-american-way-of-life

--------

How Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/cia-outsources-harsh-interrogations-to-its-allies-.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=election+2012
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oligarch
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=the+American+Way+of+Life
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+worship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wargames
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=impunity
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interrogat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Alfred+McCoy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
-----

By Reuters

Russian Foreign Ministry warns new sanctions could harm bilateral relations between the two powers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32166.htm



Killing Iran s Children

Are the Sanctions ''Worth It?''

By Dave Lindorff

Iranians suffering from cancer, MS, kidney disease or other diseases. many of them children, are reportedly being prevented from getting needed medicines because of US sanctions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32167.htm



Inventing an Iranian Threat

By Stephen Lendman

Washington and Israel target the Islamic Republic relentlessly. Longstanding war plans await implementation. Media scoundrels and right-wing think tanks support it. They are paid to endorse ravaging one country after another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32291.htm



Plot to Provoke War with Iran Thwarted by Navy Analyst

By Juan Cole

The Neocons have glommed onto Mitt Romney and will come to power if he does, and they still desperately want a war on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32285.htm

--------

Israel s Iran threats: Blackmail by suicide?

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

08/22/12

Israel, along with its American partisans, is trying to get what it wants by threatening to commit suicide. Israel, nearly everyone agrees, would have to crazy to attack Iran. And Israel, nearly everyone also agrees, isn t crazy. There s a kind of Catch 22 involved here, which is why the chance that Israel will bomb Iran s nuclear facilities is as close to absolute zero as things can get in politics. The Catch 22: only a crazy prime minister would order Israel to bomb Iran, and Netanyahu isn t crazy. So Netanyahu must have something else in mind. After all, bombing Iran would be a catastrophe for Israel...

http://tinyurl.com/8gnf5fn



Baiting the bear

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

08/23/12

I confess that I cannot quite understand the campaign by the neoconservatives and also a number of leading Democrats to vilify Russia and confront it at every opportunity. The Cold War has been over for more than 20 years, but some appear to want to revive it...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/08/22/baiting-the-bear/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nuclear+facilities
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Russia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lavrov
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Israel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Netanyahu
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Romney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rightwing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=think+tanks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=sanctions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Juan+Cole
-----

By Brandon Smith

The mainstream media, once tasked with the job of investigating government corruption and keeping elitists in line, has now become nothing more than a public relations firm for corrupt officials and their Globalist handlers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32163.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=globalist
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corrupt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=disinformation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brandon+Smith
-----

Brzezinski und seine neuen ''Strategic Visions''.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37418/1.html



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

-----

Die Opposition fordert eine Flugverbotszone, die US-Regierung gibt sich noch bedeckt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152571



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syrien
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Türkei
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Turkey
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Flugverbotszone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=no-fly

-----

''Workfare ist keine Zwangsarbeit. Das jedenfalls hat ein britisches Gericht in der vergangenen Woche geurteilt. Zwei Erwerbslose, eine ehemalige Studentin und ein entlassener Lastwagenfahrer, hatten gegen diese Maßnahmen der Regierung geklagt. Workfare bedeutet, daß Arbeitslose über einen bestimmten Zeitraum hinweg unbezahlte Arbeit verrichten müssen, sonst wird ihnen die Erwerbslosenunterstützung gestrichen. Im Fall der beiden Kläger bedeutete dies ein halbes Jahr lang eine 30-Stunden-Woche ohne Lohn?? Artikel von Christian Bunke, Manchester, in der jungen Welt vom 13.08.2012 http://www.jungewelt.de/2012/08-13/016.php


Aus: LabourNet, 13. August 2012



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Erwerbslos
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Zwangsarbeit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Workfare

-----

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37426/1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syrien
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
-----

Richard Sale, Truthout: ''With no hobbies, no fishing, no hunting, no golf, the five-foot-nine, 155-pound [Gen. David] Petraeus, who wears his brown hair neatly parted, is known as a colossal worker....Today, Petraeus heads a massive, 'secret' policy under President Barack Obama that uses drones, cell phone monitoring and night assaults by US troops to eliminate high-value targets in the war on terror.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10659-general-petraeus-and-the-drone-war



Drone on the Range

Jim Hightower, OtherWords: ''The pilotless, remote-controlled planes that the CIA uses to spy on and bomb people in Pakistan and elsewhere are headed to our local police departments.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10859-drone-on-the-range



Cover-Up of Civilian Drone Deaths Revealed by New Evidence

Gareth Porter, Truthout: ''Detailed information from the families of those killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and from local sources on strikes that have targeted mourners and rescue workers provides credible new evidence that the majority of the deaths in the drone war in Pakistan have been civilian noncombatants, not 'militants,' as the Obama administration has claimed.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10907-cover-up-of-civilian-drone-deaths-revealed-by-new-evidence



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Petraeus
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=secret+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militants
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Hightower
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter

-----

By Adrian Hamilton

It is an illusion of democracies, and of America in particular, that you can interfere abroad without consequences simply because you can do it in secret and without uniformed bodies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32155.htm

---------

The United States' Clandestine Armies Plunge Us Deeper Into Violence

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''There are now many thousands of clandestine operatives, nearly all of them armed and equipped with a license to kidnap, torture and kill, working overseas or domestically with little or no oversight and virtually no transparency. We have created a state within a state. A staggering 40 percent of the defense budget is secret, as is the budget of every intelligence agency.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10996-the-united-states-clandestine-armies-plunge-us-deeper-into-violence



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=clandestine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interfer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=secret+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=kill+list
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adrian+Hamilton
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Hedges
-----

Die Plünderung der Welt stoppen, die Politik entmilitarisieren.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815868ms331



11 DROHENDE KRIEGE

Künftige Konflikte um Technologien, Rohstoffe, Territorien und Nahrung.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815867ms331



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

Die Energiewende ist beschlossen, aber wie schnell und wie effektiv sie umgesetzt werden wird, ist erst seit kurzem in der Diskussion. Das Erstaunlichste dieser Diskussion ist die Tatsache, dass der potenteste Regulator für Angebot und Nachfrage auf dem Strommarkt, nämlich die Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung, außen vor bleibt. Für viele ist die KWK nur eine Form der Energieeffizienz, sie ist aber viel mehr. Ein Bericht von Tino Merz.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815864ms331



Mit aller Kraft für die Energiewende

Greenpeace Deutschland zieht Bilanz für das vergangene Jahr.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815886ms331



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Energiewende
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Energieeffizienz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=KWK
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Strommarkt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Blockheizkraftwerk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greenpeace
-----

Ein Antrag auf Klageabweisung seines Anwalts dokumentiert den Maßnahmenkatalog, mit dem Bradley Manning zermürbt werden sollte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152562



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Folter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
-----

Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress: ''Mitt Romney has picked as his running mate Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the architect of the GOP budget, which the New York Times has described as 'the most extreme budget plan passed by a house of Congress in modern times.' [Here] are 12 things you should know about Ryan and his policies.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10837-twelve-things-you-should-know-about-vice-presidential-candidate-paul-ryan



Mitt s Many Mansions and the Foreclosure Crisis

Peter Dreier, AlterNet: ''It is time for reporters following Mitt to start asking him some questions about the crisis we face in our housing markets.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10832-mitts-many-mansions-and-the-foreclosure-crisis



Meet Paul Ryan: Climate Denier, Conspiracy Theorist, Koch Acolyte

Brad Johnson, ThinkProgress: ''Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Mitt Romney s vice-presidential pick, is a virulent denier of climate science, with a voting record to match.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10855-meet-paul-ryan-climate-denier-conspiracy-theorist-koch-acolyte



Washington Post Again Defends Romney

Robert Parry, Consortium News: ''Mitt Romney is running the most secretive presidential campaign in modern US history.... Yet, his cover-ups have found a surprising ally, the Washington Post.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10847-washington-post-again-defends-romney



Paul Ryan s Far-Right Agenda: The Media Can t Take the Truth

Dean Baker, Truthout: ''[T]o imply that Ryan is some sort of stringent free-market fundamentalist would be far too generous. Representative Ryan has never expressed any discomfort with the numerous forms of government intervention that redistribute income upward to those at the very top.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10860-rep-paul-ryans-far-right-agenda-the-media-cant-take-the-truth



In Paul Ryan, the Right at Last Has Their Man

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: ''This was never Romney s party, and without Karl Rove s shadowy money behind him, he would not have survived the primaries.... But in Paul Ryan, the Golden Boy from Janesville who schooled himself in the ideology of right-wing think tanks inside the Beltway, they finally have one of their own, a true believer for the new Gilded Age.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10874-bill-moyers-in-paul-ryan-the-right-at-last-has-their-man

--------

Paul Ryan Is No Ron Paul
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/aitken1.1.1.html

The Marketing of Paul Ryan
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo178.html

--------

''An Extreme Choice'': Embracing Ayn Rand, GOP VP Pick Paul Ryan Backs Dismantling New Deal
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/13-0

Bernie Sanders: Ryan s Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Be a 'Death Sentence' for Many Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/14

Bernie Sanders: The Deficit Hawk Hypocrites
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/15

--------

Defense Hawks, Rejoice-Paul Ryan s Your Man!

By Eli Lake

Romney s VP pick tilts his ticket closer to the neocons on questions about America s role in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32161.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Romney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Ryan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+denier
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hawk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bernie+Sanders
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ayn+Rand
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rightwing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocrit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=presidential+campaign
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=housing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=medicaid
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Igor+Volsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Peter+Dreier
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brad+Johnson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Parry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/aitken
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dean+Baker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=moyers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
-----

Under the guise of fighting nonexistent voter fraud, the GOP is attempting the greatest election-stealing conspiracy in US history.

http://is.gd/DLt5BB



Erasing W

By Robert Reich

The GOP is counting on America s notoriously short-term memory to blot out the last time the nation put a Republican into the Oval Office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32153.htm



Worshiping Government

Message To The Voting Cattle

Video

From early childhood most people are conditioned to listen to authority when they try to figure out what is right and what is wrong instead of listening to their own hearts, their own conscience and their own moral values. The problem is not those in power, the problem is right between your ears.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32152.htm



Voter ID laws and roll purges are the real defrauding of US ''democracy''
'Voter fraud' has made a strong Republican rallying cry. But it s a con.

http://is.gd/415p4z


From Information Clearing House

--------

GOP Targets Democratic Turnout With War on Early Voting
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/17

Voter-ID Election Fraud Found ''Virtually Non-Existent''
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/08/17-1

Risk of Voter Suppression Resurfaces: Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Reinstate Voter ID Law
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/24-4

ACLU of Florida: The Faces of Voter Suppression Become the Voices of Voter Empowerment at ''Let Me Vote''
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/09/10-1

Wave of Anti-Voter State Laws Detailed by GAO
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/04-8

--------

GOP land grab

In These Times
by Joel Bleifuss

08/25/12

Sometimes the people s will is thwarted. In 2001 and 2003, President George W. Bush ... and the Republican Congress cut taxes. According to the New York Times, between 2002 and 2009 these cuts reduced tax revenues by about $1.8 trillion. Those who benefited most from the cuts were the richest Americans. So in effect, America s millionaires had hundreds of billions of dollars deposited, through the legislative process, into their pockets. Another way resources will be redistributed, if the Republicans have their way, is the privatization of public assets...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13703/gop_land_grab


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Election fraud is an American an apple pie
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/20487.html

--------

A Repeat of the 2000 Election Crisis Would Be a Disaster for American Democracy

Charles M. Smith, Truthout: A review of the 2000 election suggests we could again experience a crisis election with results that call the United States' republican way of government into question and lead to a general sense that ours is a failed state.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11922-a-repeat-of-the-2000-crisis-election-would-be-disaster-for-american-democracy



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=2012+election
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wisconsin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bernie+Sanders
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ACLU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GAO
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=failed+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=early+voting
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=voter+suppression
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Voter+ID+Law
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=vote+fraud
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=disenfranchise
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=public+asset
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=privatization
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=super+rich
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=millionaire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tax+cut
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=Larken+Rose
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brendan+Fischer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joel+Bleifuss
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Charles+M.+Smith
-----

Britain s role in supplying information to an American military ''kill list'' in Afghanistan is being subjected to legal challenge amid growing international concern over targeted strikes against suspected insurgents and drug traffickers.

http://is.gd/mtY9S4


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=kill+list
-----

An Afghan police commander and several of his men killed three U.S. soldiers in the southern province of Helmand, turning guns on them after inviting them to a dinner to discuss security, Afghan officials said on Friday.

http://is.gd/HBaQfM



Three US special ops troops killed, Afghan officials say

A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American Marines, the U.S. military command said Friday. Afghan officials said the victims were American special operations forces troops.

http://is.gd/0nAkLI



US Kills 50 People In Afghanistan

About 50 militants were killed on Saturday afternoon when a NATO pilotless plane carried out an attack in Afghanistan s eastern province of Kunar, the police said.

http://is.gd/UsTiBe



Afghan Policeman Kills U.S. Service Member on Joint Patrol

A U.S. service member was killed in southern Afghanistan today on a patrol with Afghan security forces when one of the Afghans turned his weapon on the Americans, the latest in a rash of what the ISAF is now calling ''insider'' attacks on American troops.

http://is.gd/T4oy1w



Two NATO occupation force soldiers killed by Afghan army

Two NATO soldiers were killed Monday when an Afghan army soldier opened fire against coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led coalition said in a statement.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7925077.html


From Information Clearing House

--------

Deadly Week Continues in Afghanistan With Helicopter Crash, 11 Dead
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/16-1

Latest 'Green on Blue' Attack Leaves Two Dead in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/17-0



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Helmand
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=NATO
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ISAF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=special+operations
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militants
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
-----

By Reuters

The United States still believes that Iran is not on the verge of having a nuclear weapon and that Tehran has not made a decision to pursue one, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32132.htm



Iran to Make own WMD if Israel Delivers Airstrike: expert

By RIA Novosti

''The United States does not want this airstrike to be delivered before the presidential election. They [the U.S.] are restraining Israel.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32130.htm



Decision To Attack Iran is Almost Final: Israel TV

By Times of Israel staff

Netanyahu and Barak reason that ''we may have reached the moment of truth'' after which it would be too late to stop Iran, and that "the price of an attack is far lower than the price of inaction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32149.htm



Bomb Iran Fever

Pepe Escobar

The whole convoluted premise for an Israeli attack on Iran turns out to be bogus.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32148.htm



Israel s 'Bomb Iran' Timetable

By Ray McGovern

Obama s silence regarding a public warning speaks volumes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32158.htm



Majority of Israelis oppose strike on Iran

Forty-six percent say that Israel should not attack Tehran s nuclear plants; support for prime minister drops to 34% from 46% three months ago.

http://is.gd/g87NoI



Ex-CIA Analyst: The Real Reason Israel Wants To Strike Iran Before US Election

By Michael Kelley

McGovern believes that Israel s primary goal is to ''have Iran bloodied the same way we did to Iraq'' so that Iran "would no longer be able to support Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza, Lebanon, and elsewhere.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32190.htm



Persian Gulf States Are Telling Their Citizens To Leave Lebanon 'Immediately' As Syrian War Spills Over

The UAE received information about its nationals being targeted ''because of the difficult and sensitive circumstances in Lebanon.'' Saudi Arabia cited ''reported threats to kidnap Saudi citizens'' in Lebanon, according to BBC News.

http://is.gd/TVEqJ6



Israel to strike Iran as window of opportunity narrows?

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the country s new ambassador to China, recently discussed precise estimates of Israeli casualties, and the timeframe of a possible war with Iran. A hypothetical war with Iran would probably last a month, and include about 500 estimated Israeli casualties from Iranian missile strikes, Vilnai told Israeli newspaper Maariv on Wednesday.

https://rt.com/news/israel-strike-iran-nuclear-739/




Bibi s Secret War Plan

By Richard Silverstein

In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel s war plans against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32201.htm



Israeli 'document' on Iran attack leaked

An American journalist and blogger on Israeli affairs, says he has been given a leaked document which outlines a plan for an Israeli attack on Iran s nuclear facilities.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19271083



US Punched Bibi, Barak in the Face

By Attila Somfalvi

The US hit Israel s most sensitive nerve: The pride in its military power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32206.htm



With an attack on Iran less likely, Israel s leaders add fuel to the media s fire

Senior Haaretz analyst Amos Harel says a recent comment by the U.S. army chief made it clear that Obama has had enough of Netanyahu and Barak s antics. They, however, could still attack just to show they can.

http://is.gd/hEC8z7



Netanyahu is Preparing his Nation for War

Israel war talk fails to ignite U.S. debate

USA Today Editorial

Netanyahu s timing, speculative but logical, is that he sees the American political campaign as a moment of maximum leverage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32254.htm



War Fever As Seen From Iran

By Pepe Escobar

So it s time for something completely different and totally absent from Western corporate media; sound Iranian minds rationally analyzing what s really going on behind the drums of war regarding Iran, Turkey, the Arab world and across Eurasia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32262.htm



The March of Folly

By Uri Avnery

NOTHING COULD be more scary than the thought that this duo, Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which are incalculable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32382.htm


From Information Clearing House

--------

Inside Israel, Talk of Attack on Iran Grows Louder
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/14

'Not Humane': US Sanctions Prevent Iran Earthquake Aid
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/14-0

Israel s Iran War Talk Aims at Deal for Tougher US Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/16

--------

This weekend Netanyahu and Barak lost Israeli debate on attacking Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11159/

--------

An Israeli strike against Iran is bound to go nuclear
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo179.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nuclear+facilities
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lebanon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Saudi+Arabia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Turkey
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Israel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Netanyahu
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ehud+Barak
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nuclear+weapon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=sanctions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hamas
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hezbollah
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=UAE
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pepe+Escobar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Silverstein
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Attila+Somfalvi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Uri+Avnery
-----

By Nick Turse

Washington is now planning to rely ever more heavily on drones and special operations forces to fight scattered global enemies on the cheap. A centerpiece of this new American way of war is the outsourcing of fighting duties to local proxies around the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32139.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=proxy+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=special+operations
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nick+Turse
-----

Durch die Kämpfe zwischen Rebellen und regierungstreuen Truppen entsteht zunehmend ein Machtvakuum.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152555



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syrien
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
-----

http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=FlY_MJLL-2a4hWVXPA4dSA

--------

Don t Let Wyoming s Wolves Be Sacrificed
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11371

Stop the Plan to Slaughter Wolves
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13725

--------

Salazar s Wyoming Decision ''A Death Sentence'' for Gray Wolves
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/31-3

Center for Biological Diversity: Wyoming Wolves Lose Federal Protection, Will Be Shot on Sight Across Most of State
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/08/31-1

Suit Filed Against Wyoming s Kill-at-Will Wolf Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/14-6

Killing of World Famous Wolf Reignites Battle in the Rockies
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/10



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wolves
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Salazar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Center+for+Biological+Diversity
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Earthjustice
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jon+Queally
-----

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11136/

--------

The Election Year Outsourcing That No One s Talking About

Nick Turse, TomDispatch: ''... Washington is now planning to rely ever more heavily on drones and special operations forces to fight scattered global enemies on the cheap. A centerpiece of this new American way of war is the outsourcing of fighting duties to local proxies around the world.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10800-washington-puts-its-money-on-proxy-war-the-election-year-outsourcing-that-no-ones-talking-about



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=special+operations
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nick+Turse
-----

Gar Alperovitz, The Democracy Collaborative: ''We often forget that it was once simply assumed the United States would move inevitably in the direction of ever greater equality. A 1963 American Economic Review article observed that 'most recent studies' of US economic history take for granted that 'since the end of the depression the nation s wealth has been redistributed and prosperity has been extended to the vast majority.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10786-drifting-away-from-our-ideals



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=inequality
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Alperovitz
-----