World-News

Gareth Porter, Truthout: General David Petraeus represents a new type of military commander, whose primary strength lay neither in strategy nor in command of combat, but in strategic manipulation of information to maintain domestic support for counterinsurgency wars of choice and enhance his own reputation.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12997-how-petraeus-created-the-myth-of-his-success



Gareth Porter on Petraeus

Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Ted Asregadoo s interview with Gareth Porter on his four part series on General David Petraeus in Truthout.org. In this interview, Gareth talks about Patraeus' strengths as a manipulator of information, his ambitious personality, and his ability to paper over his failures in Iraq.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13097-truthout-radio-gareth-porter-on-petraeus



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President Barack Obama s administration is in the process of drawing up a formal rulebook that will set out the circumstances in which targeted assassination by unmanned drones is justified, according to reports.

http://is.gd/3zluOU



Autonomous US stealth drone completes 1st test launch

The US Navy has executed the first launch of a stealth drone set to be the first robot aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence. The ''killer robot'' might be the next step in the development of machines with the power to decide who lives or dies.

https://rt.com/usa/news/us-drone-launch-autonomous-986/


From Information Clearing House

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Obama defended habeas corpus
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11294/

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Obama: A GOP President Should Have Rules Limiting the Kill List
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/27-2

A Reformist Strategy to Downsize the Drone Strike Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/27-1

Reining in Obama and His Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/30-8

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The immortality of the drone war
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/21073.html

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Obama Breaks the Golden Rule on Drones

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: In countries we are not even at war with, people live in constant fear of robots in the sky and watch with horror as these aerial robots create cratered, bloody messes in their communities.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13085-obama-breaks-the-golden-rule-on-drones



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Libby Busbee pounded on the window of her son s maroon Dodge Charger as he sat in the driveway of their home earlier this year. Locked inside his car, Army Spc. William Busbee sat with a .45-caliber gun pointed to the side of his head.

http://is.gd/VvZr20



US soldiers suicide numbers likely to top 2011, Army says

As many as 12 active-duty soldiers committed suicide in November, pushing the Army above last year s record number of suicides with one month left to go in the year, officials said today.

http://is.gd/mZfB9J


From Information Clearing House



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By RT-Video

From the time of the Cold War the US has military bases all over the world. Today, running a budget deficit of 10 per cent of its GDP, America simply cannot afford to continue to carry this enormous burden.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33154.htm



Media And War Conference

Video

Humanitarian interventions reframing the war on terror.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33168.htm



Washington s Utter Hypocrisy?

By Paul Craig Roberts

How can Washington pass a law punishing Russian government officials for allegedly doing once what we know for an absolute fact Washington does every day?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33296.htm



Russia calls US lawmakers 'hypocritical'

Russia moved closer on Friday to adopting a law barring entry to Americans who violate human rights, the same day U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law a rights-linked trade bill Moscow finds objectionable.

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/278271.html


From Information Clearing House

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Countries the US Demonizes

Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and China now More Free Than America in Notable Ways
http://lewrockwell.com/adams-m/adams-m25.1.html

Americans Rediscover the Right of Self-Determination
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/naylor7.1.1.html



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By Conn M. Hallinan

If there is a single characterization of US policy vis-à-vis Africa, it is the increasingly militarization of American diplomacy on the continent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33147.htm



AFRICOM s Imperialist Quest

By Burkely Hermann

Since 2003, the modern American 'scramble for Africa,' has begun, as "...in quiet and largely unnoticed ways, the Pentagon and the CIA have been spreading their forces across the continent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33597.htm



The Master as ''Guest'': The U.S. Military Swarms Over Africa

By Glen Ford

2013 is the year the U.S. kicks off its wholesale military occupation of Africa.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33592.htm



Africa and AFRICOM

Neo-Imperialism and the Arrogance of Ignorance

By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY

Most Americans do not realize the extent to which the U.S. is becoming involved militarily in the welter of conflicts throughout Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34140.htm



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Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and ''least transparent'' trade negotiation in history. The agreement stipulates that foreign corporations operating in the United States would no longer be subject to domestic U.S. laws regarding protections for the environment, finance or labor rights.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12934-why-so-secretive?-the-trans-pacific-partnership-as-global-coup



The People Bail Out the People

John Light, Moyers & Company: In canceling the debt, the Strike Debt team is taking advantage of a fairly common banking practice. When debt is severely distressed, that is, when debtors aren t paying up, banks write the loans off their books. But they often sell the debt for less than the loan was worth to recoup some of their losses.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12937-the-people-bail-out-the-people



The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What ''Free Trade'' Actually Means

Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com: While the rhetoric of ''free markets'' tends to be all about reducing state interference in the economy, in actuality state interference increases, but only for the benefit of large corporations and banks.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13082-the-trans-pacific-partnership-what-free-trade-actually-means



The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Warnings From NAFTA

Dean Baker, Truthout: The World Bank trumpeted the success of NAFTA, showing how it led to greater prosperity for Mexico. They used a mistaken analysis to get this result. This is what the opponents of the TPP can expect to encounter.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21330-dean-baker-the-trans-pacific-partnership-warnings-from-nafta



A Fast Track to Eroding Our Rights

Wenonah Hauter, OtherWords: The Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens the very essence of our democratic process by promoting the privatization of public resources and corporate self-regulation.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21602-a-fast-track-to-eroding-our-rights

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Corporate Evil Creeps Up Unobserved

TransPacific Partnership Will Undermine Democracy

By Prof. Rodney Shakespeare

The TPP is intended to (finally) undermine democracy by handing power to the global financial elite and the big corporations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34513.htm



TPP Uncovered: WikiLeaks Releases Draft of Highly-secretive Multi-national Trade Deal

By RT

"No wonder they kept it secret. What a malicious piece of US corporate lobbying.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36869.htm



The People Can Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

Time to end the failed experiment with rigged corporate trade and put in place fair trade for the people and planet before profits.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36874.htm



Is the TPP treaty the next great threat to net freedom?

Document released by WikiLeaks raises concerns over intellectual property rules.

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201311142053-0023193


From Information Clearing House



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Letztes Jahr sah US-Verteidigungsminister al-Qaida fast besiegt, jetzt wird der alte Feind wieder hervorgezogen, der Krieg gegen al-Qaida wieder an die ''Spitze der Prioritätenliste'' gesetzt.

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By John F. Kennedy

What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33120.htm



An American Moral Crisis: Dennis Kucinich

Op-Ed

It s easy to forget sometimes, but here s the world we are living in: over the past several years, the United States has conducted hundreds of drone strikes under the secret authority of the CIA-which is accountable to no one-resulting in the deaths of several thousand people.

http://is.gd/oBFqXd



How Washington Makes Love for War

What Paula Broadwell teaches us about the foreign-policy elite.

By Justin Logan

The Washington foreign-policy elite is an insular, cosseted clique.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33124.htm



U.S. Considers Increasing Military Presence in Mediterranean

Senior U.S. military officials are considering increasing the American military presence in the Mediterranean because of what they see as growing instability in recent months. ''This is post-Benghazi,'' one military official told CNN. ''We are looking at instability in Libya, Egypt, Syria and now Israel and Gaza.''

http://is.gd/pFEiou



Washington s Role in the Renewed Violence in DR Congo

The outbreak of fighting is also the result of a colossal failure by US foreign policy-makers dating back to the mid-1990s, aided and abetted by an ill-led United Nations peacekeeping force that stood by as the M23 seized Goma.

http://is.gd/kn7CAy



Police State USA

U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens

By JULIA ANGWIN

The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33318.htm



Slavery s Global Comeback

By J.J. Gould

There are now twice as many people enslaved in the world as there were in the 350 years of the transatlantic slave trade.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33397.htm



A Wee Comparison of Civil Liberties in the United States of America

By Kevin Drum

The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33485.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The United (Police) State of America
http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey139.html

US: We Initiate Terrorism To Create Terrorists To Overthrow Governments
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/terrorism-to-create-terrorists.html

The Police State vs. the Internet
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/rosenberg-p9.1.1.html

Fighting for Family and Freedom in Your Own Backyard
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/red-dawn.html

The true roots of US imperialism
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo198.html

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America s Future: War and Peace in the 21st Century

Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout: Despite the political rhetoric, America is not defined by its division into red and blue states, but by its addiction to imperialism, exceptionalism and a military budget that positions it as The United States of War.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12980-americas-future-war-and-peace-in-the-21st-century



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