World-News

Exports dropped 3.6 percent to $180.5 billion. Sales of commercial aircraft, autos and farm products all declined.

http://is.gd/bbLqhF


From Information Clearing House



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HSBC Fined Record $1.9 Billion In Money Laundering Case

By Nils Pratley

The money-laundering fine represents four weeks' earnings, and the idea of a bank being 'too big to prosecute' is alarming.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33282.htm



How Did HSBC Executives Avoid Jail?

Video

''Here we have a bank that laundered $800 million of drug money, and they can't find a way to put anybody in jail for that?''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33313.htm



Money Laundering For Drug Cartels

Max Keiser: HSBC Too Big To Jail?

Video

Max proposes banksters walk the plank in a specially built platform in Trafalgar Square.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33334.htm



HSBC Couldn t Track $60 Trillion in Suspicious Activity?

HSBC was able to track Eliot Spitzer s 3 deposits to a holding account for an escort service. But they couldn t track $60 trillion in suspicious activity transfers from drug cartels and al-Qaeda that benefited them? Could it be because Spitzer was investigating the banks? Cenk Uygur breaks down the financial hypocrisy.

http://is.gd/b7yoEt



Bank Pays Bribe

UBS admits fraud in £940m Libor rigging settlement

By Graeme Evans, Holly Williams

At least 45 individuals including traders, managers and senior managers were involved in, or aware of, the practice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33375.htm



Banking on Criminality: Drug Money and the Above-the-Law Global Banking Cartel

By Andrew Gavin Marshall

Welcome to the world of financial criminality, the ''international cartel'' of drug money banks and their political protectors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33355.htm



How HSBC Bank Got Away With Money Laundering for Drug Cartels

Prison time? Felony record? Asset forfeiture? Not for drug trafficking executives of banks that are ''too big to fail'' or jail.

http://is.gd/Ma4oNw



Not Too Big to Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall Street s Worst Nightmare

By Ellen Brown

Wall Street fraud, corruption and abuse have caused millions of homeowners to lose their homes and have tipped cities toward bankruptcy; and Spitzer is one of the brave few who has exposed and attempted to prosecute those predatory practices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35932.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Matt Taibbi on the Biggest Wall Street Story of the Year: Libor
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/27

Strip HSBC of Depository Insurance and Right to Do Business
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/31-7

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JPMorgan Chase s Record Highlights Doubts About Big Banks' Devotion to Fighting Dirty Money Flows

Michael Hudson, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Money-laundering issues at US and UK financial firms shed light on the role of rich nations and elite banks that enable elite offshore players to weave a web of corruption across the world.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/16097-jpmorgan-chase%E2%80%99s-record-highlights-doubts-about-big-banks%E2%80%99-devotion-to-fighting-dirty-money-flows



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By Glenn Greenwald

Her record of war advocacy and close ties to tyrants is notably missing from the debate over whether she should be Secretary of State.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33288.htm



Susan Rice and American Evil

By Margaret Kimberley

It was during the Bush administration that the black face in the high place joined in committing the worst kinds of dirty work to be carried out by the United States around the globe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33309.htm

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Troubling Implications of Susan Rice s Appointment as National Security Adviser

Stephen Zunes, Truthout: Rice defended the Bush administration s lies about the supposed ''Iraqi threat'' in the run-up to the Iraq War.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16979-troubling-implications-of-susan-rices-appointment-as-national-security-adviser

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Why Obama s selection of Susan Rice as national security adviser is 'highly problematic'
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11522/



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/11-8

How U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/11-3

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Picking Up a $170 Billion Tab

By David Vine

How U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33297.htm



7 Shocking Ways the Military Wastes Our Money

By Laura Gottesdiener

Hint: none of them have anything to do with national defense.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33305.htm



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Jimmy Carter has slammed American assassination drone strikes in other countries, saying that killing civilians in such attacks would in fact nurture terrorism.

http://is.gd/VoFlRS



U.S.'Drone strike killed my grandmother outside our house'

Unmanned planes that drop bombs are being used indiscriminately - resulting in untold civilian casualties.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20660443



The threat of drones ushering in 'invisible wars'

Op-Ed

No American wants to return to the fear that Sept. 11th instilled in us all. But as we set rules that govern our use of drones, we must also consider other factors.

http://is.gd/dJeSXP


From Information Clearing House

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Obama s ''Rules'' for Killing People with Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/10

The Threat of Drones Ushering in ?Invisible Wars?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/10-8



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By Lewis Lapham

The war against human nature strengthens the fear of one s fellow man. The red, white, and blue pills sell the hope of heaven made with artificial sweeteners.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33280.htm



Proof The Drug War Is A Joke'

By Matt Taibbi

This is the disgrace to end all disgraces. It doesn t even make any sense.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33371.htm



Mexico s new government offers blistering critique U.S.-backed drug war

''The rate of increase in homicides places us among the highest in the world,'' he said. ''In recent years, because of the violence linked to organized crime, thousands of people have died and thousands of people have disappeared.'' Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said.

http://is.gd/O91yke



10 Ways the Drug War Is Causing Massive Collateral Damage to Our Society

From racial injustice to flawed foreign policy, the war on drugs causes harm on many fronts.

http://is.gd/Wx0dbf



The House I Live In

Video Documentary

The War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world s largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong, and what can be done?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34464.htm



10 Shocking Examples of Police Killing Innocent People in the 'War on Drugs'

Many innocent victims have become collateral damage in our pointless, destructive drug war.

http://is.gd/P6DT6w


From Information Clearing House

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When Will the Drug War Finally End?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/11-1

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Next Target: Latin America
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-bogus-drug-war-1/next-target-latin-america.html

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The war on drugs is still not working

Mother Jones
by Asawin Suebsaeng

04/02/13

Four decades ago, President Nixon launched the US-led global War on Drugs. It has cost the nation over a trillion dollars. 50,000 people have lost their lives to shootouts, bombings, torture, and execution, and that s only counting six years in Mexico. And it is still not working...

http://tinyurl.com/bpcwylh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Growing War on the War on Drugs

Andrew Cohen, Brennan Center for Justice: The problem of the mass incarceration of America didn t start with a single event, and it won t end with one. There will have to be incremental reform, because throwing millions into prison for drug crimes isn t working.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15659-the-growing-war-on-the-war-on-drugs



There Is No Good Drug War

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: Carl Hart contends that we should concentrate public policy energy around confronting the core problems that decimate communities, not fighting a war to eradicate certain illegal drugs.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17865-bad-science-and-the-drug-war-book-review-interview-with-carl-hart



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By David DeGraw

In the United States, the 400 richest people now have as much wealth as 185 million people combined, nearly 60% of the entire population.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33274.htm



Billionaires Warn Higher Taxes Could Prevent Them From Buying Politicians

By Andy Borowitz

The group, led by casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, commissioned a new study showing that the cost of an average politician has soared exponentially over the past decade.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33276.htm



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By Professor Francis A. Boyle

Historically this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the U.S.-instigated Spanish-American War in 1898.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33272.htm



A Capitalist System Gone Awry

By Rev. Richard Skaff

The Military Industrial Complex has solidified its ties and deeply inserted his long horns into the arteries of the American taxpayers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33273.htm



US Intelligence Analysts: American Power is in Terminal Decline

By Dave Lindorff

The US is on the way out as a hegemonic power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33311.htm



The Military-Industrial Complex

Dwight D. Eisenhower

''In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33647.htm



Gerald Celente on the New Renaissance and Big Non-State Trends Changing the World

By Anthony Wile

It s time for another revolution, this one, of course, not of bombs and bullets or armies but of the mind, the spirit and the heart.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34917.htm

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US Intel Report Predicts US Decline as Global Resource Wars Rise
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/10-3

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War: Big Government s Best Friend
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/21286.html

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The military-industrial complex

The Nation
by Peter Rothberg

01/17/13

Fifty-two years ago today, President Dwight D. Eisenhower used his farewell speech to the nation to warn the country against the rise of what he called the military-industrial complex. Sadly, his words, though they became iconic and well-remembered, were not heeded and his warning is now more relevant and critical than ever...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/172275/military-industrial-complex


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The World Is Going to War
http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente109.html



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Intel Report

By Shaun Tandon

The study predicted that Asia's economy, military spending and technological investment would surpass those of North America and Europe combined by 2030, but warned of major uncertainty over an emerging China.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33279.htm



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Legitimate Murder?
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance312.html

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Covert US Warfare
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/22-0

Obama s Dirty Wars Exposed at Sundance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/24

'Dirty Wars': Documentary on US Covert Warfare Abroad
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/28-1

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Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley s New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert US Warfare

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: The new documentary Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen as he chases down the hidden truths behind America s expanding covert wars.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/14088-dirty-wars-jeremy-scahill-and-rick-rowleys-new-film-exposes-hidden-truths-of-covert-us-warfare

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Review: Dirty Wars

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

01/23/13

Dirty Wars follows intrepid investigative war reporter Jeremy Scahill as he exposes covert military operations that are 'hidden in plain sight.' Where many liberals and progressives stopped talking about the war after Obama s election, Scahill illuminates the horrors of these wars that have escalated in secret under Obama...

http://c4ss.org/content/16556


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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