World-News

Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network: ''The idea of cutting the huge U.S. military budget seems to enjoy considerable popularity among Americans. In May 2012, a survey of U.S. public opinion by the Stimson Center, the Program for Public Consultation, and the Center for Public Integrity found that 76 percent of respondents favored slashing U.S. military expenditures. This included 80 percent of respondents in districts that elected Democrats and 74 percent in districts that elected Republicans.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10586-unlike-mitt-romney-most-americans-want-to-cut-us-military-spending



Romney Still Doubling Down on Failed Policies

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: ''There s a tone of incredulity to the writings of Romney apologists. It seems as if they can t believe that the magic words ''Capitalism! Free markets! Job creators!'' aren t silencing his critics. After all, they say, wasn t Mitt Romney just doing what has been standard for the past 30 years?''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10617-romney-still-doubling-down-on-failed-policies

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Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan256.html

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Romney s 20th-Century Worldview
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/31-10

Romney: Richer Means Superior
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/31-6

Romney and Ryan Push Bogus ?Tax Reform?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/02-7

Five Adjectives That Scream ''Don t Vote Republican!''
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/06-0

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Mitt Romney financed by drug money? Las Vegas Sands target of US money-laundering probe, WSJ says

The Los Angeles U.S. attorney s office is looking into the casino company s handling of the receipt of millions of dollars from a Mexican businessman, later indicted in the United States for drug trafficking, and a former California businessman, later convicted of taking illegal kickbacks, the Journal said.

http://is.gd/ZwYYCe



Pro-Romney Donations Will Be 'Limitless,' Could Top $100M

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, along with his wife Miriam, has donated $10 million to the leading Super PAC supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney-and that s just the tip of the iceberg. A well-placed source in the Adelson camp with direct knowledge of the casino billionaire s thinking says that further donations will be ''limitless.''

http://is.gd/Np8FZI


From Information Clearing House

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Romney s incredible extremes

The Nation
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

08/07/12

Mitt Romney s tax and spending plans are so irresponsible, so cruel, so extreme that they are literally incredible. Voters may find it hard to believe anyone would support such things, so they are likely to discount even factual descriptions as partisan distortion. The pro-Obama New Priorities PAC stumbled across this phenomena early in 2012 in its focus group testing. When they informed a focus group that Romney supported the budget plan by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and thus championed ending Medicare as we know it while also championing tax cuts for the wealthy, focus group participants simply didn t believe it. No politician could be so clueless...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/169261/romneys-incredible-extremes


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Krugman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ethan+Pollack
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Buchheit
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Randall Amster, New Clear Vision: ''We simply cannot continue to sow the seeds of a 'culture of violence' any longer. The almost daily explosion of some disaffected soul, leading to the decimation of others in public and private spaces alike, is too demonstrable to be dismissed as the result of a few 'bad apples' or faulty parts somehow working in isolation from the whole. The mass-shooting phenomenon that happens routinely in the United States is part and parcel of a society that legitimizes force.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10582-there-are-no-good-guys-or-bad-guys-when-were-all-in-the-crosshairs



In a Risk Society, Is Consumption Our Only Tool to Influence Our World?

Michael A Peters, Truthout: ''The neoliberal regime is supported by the rise of enterprise culture and 'enterprise education' as an attempt to fortify neoliberalism and its conflation of autonomy with possessive, individualized consumerism and to subordinate the security of the producer to the freedom of the consumer.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10531-in-a-risk-society-is-consumption-our-only-tool-to-influence-our-world



Why Does Neoliberalism Persist Even After the Global Crisis?

Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Triple Crisis: As long as the political groups on the ground do not make their voices heard loudly enough against the top 1% or the top 10%, and as long as there are continued benefits for the elites from the perpetuation of neoliberalism, the system will persist.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13527-why-does-neoliberalism-persist-even-after-the-global-crisis



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Martha Rosenberg, Truthout: ''The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is often accused of serving industry at the expense of consumers. But even FDA defenders are shocked by reports this week of an institutionalized FDA spying program on its own scientists, lawmakers, reporters and academics that included an enemies list of 'actors' and collaborators. The paranoid and retaliatory email monitoring program, which sought to suppress the safety opinions of those hired to give their safety opinions, has provoked swift action from Capitol Hill.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10524-former-fda-reviewer-speaks-out-about-intimidation-retaliation-and-marginalizing-of-safety

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How Many Ways Does the Government Spy on You?
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano64.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=The+Food+and+Drug+Administration
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Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank, AK Press: ''Obama s most grievous political wounds were self-inflicted, starting even before his election when he rushed back to Washington to help rescue Bush s Wall Street bailout. This was perhaps the first real indication that the luminous campaign speeches about generational and systemic change masked the servile psyche of a man who was desperately yearning to be embraced by the nation s political and financial elites. Instead of meeting with the victims of Wall Street predators or their advocates ? Obama schmoozed with the crème de la crème of K Street corporate lobbyists.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10319-barack-obama-changeling

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State, War and Economy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/08/28/304-state-war-and-economy/



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/lewrockwell-show
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Across the nation, one in 126 households received a foreclosure notice in the first half, RealtyTrac said. Of the 212 metro areas with at least 200,000 residents, 125 cities had an increase in filings from the latter half of 2011.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-26/foreclosure-filings-increase-in-60-of-large-u-s-cities.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure
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Sandy Weill, der in den 1990ern die strengen Bankenregeln der USA geknackt hatte, um die Großbank Citicorp und den Versicherer Travelers zur Citigroup zu fusionieren, will zurück zum alten System, als ''Banken einfach nur Banken'' waren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152474



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/07/26-2

How Environmental Destruction Causes Illnesses and Diseases
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/17-3

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The nakedness of their greed

Our Future Blog
by Richard (RJ) Eskow

07/26/12

It s truly unbelievable: At no time in modern memory have the rich been richer, the middle class more endangered, or the number of people in poverty been so high. And yet the Republican Party is openly and shamelessly proposing more huge tax cuts millionaires and billionaires, including heirs and heiresses who have done nothing to earn their riches, while actually raising taxes on everybody else. There will be a time to engage in argument. But first let s take a moment to gaze in wonder at the nakedness of their greed...

http://tinyurl.com/c9ubc7w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/07/26



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militariz+police
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Skandale um Barclays, HSBC, JP Morgan und Peregrine erschüttern die Kunden.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37335/1.html



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Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse, TomDispatch: ''On July 12th, TomDispatch posted the latest piece in Nick Turse s 'changing face of empire' series: 'Obama s Scramble for Africa.' It laid out in some detail the way in which the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has, in recent years, spread its influence across that continent, establishing bases and outposts, sending in special operations forces and drones, funding proxy forces on the continent, and so on. As last week ended, TomDispatch received a 'letter to the editor' from Colonel Tom Davis, director of the U.S. Africa Command Office of Public Affairs, disputing in some detail a number of Turse's points.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10551-the-nature-of-the-us-military-presence-in-africa

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U.S. considers direct strikes against ''al-Qaeda'' in Mali

The U.S. is likely to weigh options ranging from military assistance to direct strikes to drive a growing al-Qaida presence out of the coup-wracked African nation of Mali, a Pentagon official said Thursday

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/26/mali-al-qaeda-us.html



Bloback from Libya regime change

Mali agrees to accept help from foreign troops in bid to oust northern rebels, strengthen army: Mali would welcome a West African military intervention force, not just to help recapture the north from rebels enforcing strict Islamic law but also to assist in other parts of the country, its military chief of staff said.

http://is.gd/H5Xwcg



Who decided? How did the U.S. military get into Africa

Less than a decade ago, the United States had almost no military presence in Africa. Be it military intervention in Mali, or the rapidly growing US bases via AFRICOM, the US continues to expand its hold on Africa through the 'Pentagon s New Spice Route."

http://is.gd/o0Xef2



Obama s Adventures in Africa

Op-Ed

How great a threat to the U.S. are Al Shabab, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram, and the other groups we are surveilling or targeting?

http://is.gd/Tx0G4x


From Information Clearing House

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American foreign policy has failed in the Horn of Africa

Reason
by Matthew Feeney

09/24/13

Al Shabab continue to wreak havoc despite U.S. policy since 9/11...
http://tinyurl.com/lc3gpud


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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