World-News

Part I

Dina Rasor, Truthout: 'With the DoD budget ballooning again and again over the past 40 years and the news yesterday that we have already spent $600 million in the first week in defending Libya from the air, there appears to finally be some movement to look into what is wrong with our defense spending. We have fired 191 cruise missiles at a cost of $288 million alone ($1.5 million per missile) - just one illustration on how we have spent too much for our weapons, and the Pentagon has admitted that it is unauditable and cannot successfully track most of its procurement money.'

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/browse_thread/thread/894d18035ee5df31/0a8f37bb45c824a6?lnk=raot

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CIA, British Special Forces Swarm Through Libya

By David Dayen

Americas no boots on the ground humanitarian intervention in Libya features ground-based CIA agents (presumably wearing tennis shoes) coordinating with Libyan rebels so as to better be able to assist them with tactical air support.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27800.htm



Obama on Libya: George W. Bush 2.0

By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis

The Obama administration and supporters of the war -- who a month ago couldnt tell the difference between Benghazi and Baghdad -- portray the intervention in Libya as a simple morality tale, with evil on one side and good on the other.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27805.htm



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