World-News

By David Rose

UK soldiers 'beat innocent Iraqi men in black ops jails but new secret justice law means their torture will be hidden forever'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31681.htm



Poland shaken by case alleging an illicit CIA prison there

Evidence that a foreign power was allowed to conduct illicit activities on Polish soil has deeply shaken many Poles' faith in the United States and in Poland s sense of itself as a successful democracy born from the ashes of the Cold War.

http://is.gd/gK70L2



Poland Shedding Light on Secret CIA Prison

On an idyllic lake surrounded by woods and a double row of mesh-and-razor-wire fences about 100 miles north of Warsaw, there stands a secluded villa that the CIA once used to interrogate, and allegedly torture, top al-Qaida suspects.

http://is.gd/8a6jmS


From Information Clearing House

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Still no accountability for torture

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

06/22/12

Last week, the bad news from the Supreme Court was not manifested only in the Court s decision to abdicate its responsibilities towards the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by turning down appeals submitted by 7 of the 169 men still held. That dreadful decision established that the D.C. Circuit Court could continue in its mission to extinguish the habeas corpus rights that had been granted to the prisoners in June 2008...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1206q.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Isabelle de Grave, Inter Press Service: ''U.S. counterterrorism measures are under intense scrutiny from United Nations (U.N.) experts and civil rights groups declaring drone strikes illegal under current frameworks. During the 20th Session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva from Jun. 18 to Jul. 6, these experts declared such measures in urgent need of greater accountability and transparency.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9953-a-biblical-threat-to-national-security



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Jane Dugdale, War Is A Crime: ''Philadelphia City Council, by a vote of 15-2, passed a resolution 'calling on the U.S. Congress to bring all U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, to take the funds saved by that action and by significantly cutting the Pentagon budget, and to use that money to fund education, public and private sector family-sustaining job creation, special protections for military sector workers, environmental and infrastructure restoration, care for veterans and their families, and human services that our cities and states so desperately need.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9957-philadelphia-city-council-says-stop-funding-the-war-machine

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War, Killing and Destruction: Your Tax Dollars at War

Video

''People have to realize that 53 cents of every dollar that they are paying into taxes is going to the military to an astonishing figure there is an enormous, enormous amount of money being blown on war an killing and destruction.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31690.htm



Persistent Myths of Combat

By Chris Hedges

If veterans speak of terrible wounds, of lies told to make them kill, of evil committed in our name, we fill our ears with wax.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31892.htm



Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine

Video

A brief and crucial history of the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30620.htm



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Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, CounterCurrents.org: ''The U.S. media has been writing an obituary for Occupy, but in fact Occupy is active all over the country and is just being ignored by the corporate media. This weekly installment of Occupy news highlights families occupying schools in Oakland to prevent their closure, Occupiers across the country working to prevent evictions and foreclosures, Occupiers confronting Jamie Dimon about JPMorgan Chase s foreclosure policies and Occupy SEC asking Dimon some tough questions.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9945-occupy-is-not-dead-occupy-continues-to-work-for-justice



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/22-2

Is Rio+20 the Future of Corporate Profits?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/06/22

With New Burden on Unions, Court Tips the Balance Toward Corporations
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-0

Nada: Rio+20 Draft Text is 283 Paragraphs of Fluff
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-5

After Austerity: The Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/07/10

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''The Missing Billions'': Savage Austerity Cuts and Corporate Tax Avoidance

By Andy Worthington

£850 billion was used to bail out the banks, even though, according to some estimates, $11 trillion is hidden in offshore accounts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31679.htm

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Fossil fools from G20 to Rio+20

Developed world governments plead here at the Rio+20 Earth Summit that they cannot offer new money to deliver sustainable development globally.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815491ms324

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Unions Are in Peril

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''Lost in the Supreme Court media chatter last week: a disturbing ruling in Knox vs. SEIU Local 1000 that restricts labor unions from directing collected dues toward political causes. There s no similar limit on corporations, naturally, yet another indication that the power and status of modern unions is waning, especially when compared to the unbridled influence of Corporate America. With a sharp decline in union membership, a legion of new enemies, and a series of legal and legislative setbacks, can unions rebound and once again act strongly in the interest of ordinary workers?''

http://truth-out.org/video/item/10290-bill-fletcher-jr-and-stephen-lerner-unions-are-in-peril



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Rebecca Leber, ThinkProgress: ''Republicans have said they are for all forms of energy, but the Domestic Energy Production Act passed today shows much different priorities. While the energy package included many provisions to encourage oil and gas, clean energy was included only twice. GOP leaders did not even permit debate over amendments to include support for renewables and other forms of clean energy.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9933-members-who-supported-massive-giveaway-to-big-oil-have-received-386-million-from-the-industry



The GOP s Crime Against Voters

Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post Writers Group: ''Spare us any more hooey about 'preventing fraud' and 'protecting the integrity of the ballot box.' The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as possible, with poor people and minorities the main targets.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10256-the-gops-crime-against-voters

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The Party of Great Moral Frauds
http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo233.html

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The GOP Economy and Scorched-Earth Obstructionism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/03



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http://lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel186.html



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Joseph E. Stiglitz, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: ''There are moments in history when people all over the world seem to rise up, to say that something is wrong, to ask for change. This is what happened in the tumultuous years 1848 and 1968. Each of these years of upheaval marked the beginning of a new era. The year 2011 may prove to be another such moment.''

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/9907-the-price-of-inequality-99



After Five Years: Report Card on Crisis Capitalism

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: ''After five years of crisis ... it s time to evaluate what happened, why and what needs to be done. One key cause of this crisis is the class structure of capitalist enterprises.... By class structure, I mean enterprises' internal organization pitting workers against corporate boards of directors and major shareholders. Those boards seek first to maximize corporate profits and growth. That means maximizing the difference between the value they get from workers' labor and the value of the wages paid to workers.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10190-after-five-years-report-card-on-crisis-capitalism

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Capitalism and the Mad Uncle in the Attic
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22

Capitalism and an Ecologic Tragedy in Time
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/06-0



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http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano59.1.html

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/perkins1.1.1.html

The Real Reason America Is Drifting Towards Fascism
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/america-drifting-toward-fascism.html



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Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: ''The House Republican budget would raise taxes on families making less than $200,000, even while it gives millionaires a tax cut ... Married couples in [the middle class] income range would pay an additional $2,700 annually to the Internal Revenue Service, on top of the tax increases that are scheduled to hit every American household when the George W. Bush-era cuts expire at the end of the year. Households earning more than $1 million a year, meanwhile, could see a net tax cut of about $300,000 annually.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9890-study-house-republican-budget-would-raise-taxes-on-the-middle-class-cut-them-for-millionaires



Follow the Dark Money

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''While much of the mainstream media looks the other way, some journalists are working hard to identify the fingerprints super PACs and their benefactors leave on our victimized democracy. At the top of this list of journo-detectives are Mother Jones editors Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein, who continue to throw light on what they call 'dark money.' In this conversation with Bill [Moyers], Jeffery and Bauerlein talk about the conspiracy of cash that allows the rich to influence our most fundamental political freedoms.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9886-clara-jeffery-and-monika-bauerlein-on-dark-money



Welcome to the 1930s

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: ''Martin Wolf is shrill (and rightly so). 'Before now, I had never really understood how the 1930s could happen,' the Financial Times columnist wrote ... 'Now I do. All one needs are fragile economies, a rigid monetary regime, intense debate over what must be done, widespread belief that suffering is good, myopic politicians, an inability to co-operate and failure to stay ahead of events.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9908-welcome-to-the-1930s



Five Ways Republicans Have Sabotaged Job Growth

Jeff Spross, ThinkProgress: ''Republican intransigence on economic policy has been a key contributor to the sluggish recovery. As early as 2009, Republican fear-mongering over spending and their readiness to filibuster in the Senate helped convince the White House economic team that an $800 billion stimulus was the most they could hope to get through Congress. Reporting has since revealed that the team thought the country actually needed a stimulus on the order of $1.2 to $1.8 trillion. The economy s path over the next three years proved them right.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10194-five-ways-republicans-have-sabotaged-job-growth



Bush Tax Cuts Have Delivered $1 Million in Tax Breaks to the Average Millionaire

Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: ''House Republicans this week plan to vote on a bill that would extend all of the Bush tax cuts.... A new analysis shows that the Republican plan will raise taxes on roughly 24 million people, due to its allowing various credits, including the Child Tax Credit, to expire, while maintaining Bush s tax cut for two million wealthy Americans. The Bush tax cuts delivered the weakest job growth of the post-war period, as well as a ballooning federal debt.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10650-over-the-last-nine-years-bush-tax-cuts-have-delivered-$1-million-in-tax-breaks-to-the-average-millionaire

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America s long slope down

A broad swath of official economic data shows that America and its people are in much worse shape than when we paid higher taxes, higher interest rates and made more of the manufactured goods we use.

http://is.gd/vO2dDp



The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America s Middle Class

They had good, stable jobs until the recession hit. Now they are living out of their cars in parking lots.

http://is.gd/QR9ppp



Bush Tax Cuts Have Delivered $1 Million To The Average Millionaire

By Pat Garofalo

House Republicans have written legislation to fast-track more tax cuts for the rich.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32091.htm


From Information Clearing House

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US budget: It s the spending, stupid

Orange County Register
by John Stossel

07/10/12

Last year, Congress agreed to $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts, unless politicians find other things to cut. They didn t, of course. So now, with so-called sequestration looming in January, panic has set in. Even the new 'fiscally responsible' Republicans vote against cutting Energy Department handouts to companies like Solyndra and subsidies to sugar producers. Many claim that any cut in military spending will weaken America and increase unemployment. It s another demonstration of the politicians' addiction to spending and how we are complicit...

http://tinyurl.com/cwehhjz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Four Spending Myths That Could Wreck Our World
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/18-10



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