World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/22-9

Decade of Waste, Cost and Failure: The Ledger Sheet of War in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/22-7

On US Governments Violence and Revenge: An Open Letter to President Obama
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/22-9

'Regime Change,' 'Shock and Awe, 'Imperial Presidency:' Missing Words from the Bush Era
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/22

United for Peace and Justice Afghanistan Statement to the Obama Administration
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/22-0

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Cost of Wars a Rising Issue as Obama Weighs Troop Levels

Helene Cooper, New York Times News Service: 'President Obama will talk about troop numbers in Afghanistan when he makes a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday night. But behind his words will be an acute awareness of what $1.3 trillion in spending on two wars in the past decade has meant at home: a ballooning budget deficit and a soaring national debt at a time when the economy is still struggling to get back on its feet. As Mr. Obama begins trying to untangle the country from its military and civilian promises in Afghanistan, his critics and allies alike are drawing a direct line between what is not being spent to bolster the sagging economy in America to what is being spent in Afghanistan - $120 billion this year alone.'

http://www.truth-out.org/cost-wars-rising-issue-obama-weighs-troop-levels/1308765802

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Imperialism 101

By Michael Parenti

Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28397.htm



US cannot afford war in Afghanistan

I think that the decision on drawing down the troops from Afghanistan is truly not unexpected.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/22/52242650.html


From Information Clearing House

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The (Re)birth of A(nother) Nation

Strike The Root
by Harry Goslin

06/22/11

Since October 26, 2001, the United States has undergone several transformations. That s the date the original version of the PATRIOT Act became law and marked the beginning of Police State America...

http://strike-the-root.com/rebirth-of-another-nation


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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