World-News

Indiscriminate use of drones in Middle East causes too many civilian casualties, warns former CIA counterterrorism head.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/05/al-qaida-drone-attacks-too-broad



First the 'targeted killing' campaign, then the targeted propaganda campaign

Officially, the CIA insists its drone war is a state secret, yet we re now seeing a concerted PR effort to sanitise its dubious legality.

http://is.gd/wWcRzf



CIA gets nod to step up drone strikes in Pakistan

Expressing both public and private frustration with Pakistan, the Obama administration has unleashed the CIA to resume an aggressive campaign of drone strikes in Pakistani territory over the last few weeks, approving strikes that might have been vetoed in the past for fear of angering Islamabad.

http://is.gd/LzcPVG


From Information Clearing House



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Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

06/05/12

The Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) was passed shortly after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Many in Congress thought it would be used against Al Qaeda, the terrorist organization alleged to have been behind the attacks. One member of Congress, Barbara Lee, voted against it, predicting the AUMF would be justified for endless war and lawless Presidential power. She was right. Now, she has a bill that would repeal the AUMF outright...

http://bit.ly/KOBNXc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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False Accounts of U.S. Political and Military Leaders on 9/11

By PR Newswire

New evidence shows that the September 11th activities of former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were falsely reported by official sources.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31569.htm



Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?

By Michael T. Klare

As history suggests, engaging in aggressive global geopolitical confrontations with other determined, well-armed players usually leads to friction, crisis, war, and disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31670.htm



America: Drugged Up, Dumbed Down

By Robert Bridge

The dogs of war are barking in the backyard and some deranged minds seem determined to swing open the gates, again. At the same time, the American people, the only ones who can stop the savagery, are saddled with long-term debt, deficits and depression.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31672.htm



9/11 And The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise

By Dennis Ryan

This information is reproduced from a U.S. Military web site. The article is dated Nov. 3, 2000, some 10 months prior to the attack on the Pentagon of 9/11/01.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3533.htm



Criminalizing Dissent

By Chris Hedges

The very name of the law itself, the Homeland Battlefield Bill, suggests the totalitarian credo of endless war waged against enemies within ''the homeland'' as well as those abroad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32165.htm



Why Americans Must End America s Self-Generating Wars

By Peter Dale Scott

The most urgent political challenge to the world today is how to prevent the so-called ''pax Americana'' from progressively degenerating, like the 19th-century so-called ''pax Britannica'' before it, into major global warfare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32315.htm

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What Might Cause Another 9/11?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/13-1



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Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Story Tellers: ''What do Arctic drilling and drone killing have in common? They are both being decided by Barack Obama without public debate.... Obama got personally involved and fast-tracked Shell s drilling permits. According to Foreign Policy magazine, 'Barack Obama has become George W. Bush on steroids.' The article makes this reference with regard to Obama s drone killing, but perhaps a similar thing could be said about his Arctic drilling that we must condemn.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9617-let-us-conjoin-arctic-and-niger-when-we-talk-about-shells-drilling

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Study: At Least 70% of Arctic Sea Ice Loss 'Man-Made'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/26



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http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano57.1.html

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Free Press: House Committee Siding with Powerful Broadcasters to Keep Americans in the Dark
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/06/06



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By Paul Craig Roberts

A failed political system that allows unregulated banks to place uncovered bets 15 times larger than the US economy is a system that is headed for catastrophic failure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31507.htm



Paper Money Collapse

The Keiser Report: Video

Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss all h... breaking loose as an electronics chain store stockpiles security shutters, capital flees Greece.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31511.htm



Peter Schiff: ''Upcoming Crash Is Going To Be Worse Than 2008''

Video

Euro Pacific Capital's Peter Schiff argues that quantitative easing is ''toxic'' for the economy.

http://is.gd/VZ6BJJ



The Greek Catastrophe

By James Petras

As Greece enters the sixth year of Europe s worst economic depression, with 30% of its labor force unemployed and over 52% of its youth jobless, the entire social fabric is unraveling; a suicide rate are skyrocketing and close to 80% of the population is downwardly mobile.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34170.htm


From Information Clearing House

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10 Things That We Can Learn About Shortages and Preparation From the Economic Collapse in Greece
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/learn-from-greek-collapse.html

QE Worked for the Weimar Republic
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/michael-snyder/qe-worked-for-the-weimar-republic/

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How quantitative easing helps the rich and soaks the rest of us

Reason
by Anthony Randazzo

09/13/12

Quantitative easing, a fancy term for the Federal Reserve buying securities from predefined financial institutions, such as their investments in federal debt or mortgages, is fundamentally a regressive redistribution program that has been boosting wealth for those already engaged in the financial sector or those who already own homes, but passing little along to the rest of the economy. It is a primary driver of income inequality formed by crony capitalism. And it is hurting prospects for economic growth down the road by promoting malinvestments in the economy.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/13/occupy-the-fed



Supersized statist government creates poverty in America

Libertarian News Examiner
by Garry Reed

09/13/12

According to recently released Census Bureau stats America s poverty rate remains at record levels. Of course, the War on Poverty isn t meant to end poverty; it s meant to enrich the ruling class by perpetuating hundreds of thousands of jobs for their enabling bureaucrats and civil servants...

http://exm.nr/QRB4GH


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken142.html

Is This the End of the Ron Paul Campaign?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/06/08/282-is-this-the-end-of-the-ron-paul-campaign/

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Bias in Campaign Spending Makes Business Influence Look Smaller Than It Really Is

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''Reporting campaign finance can be difficult because much of the action is obscured. Journalists have to rely on fairly unreliable government disclosure websites, many of which only report certain types of spending on an almost arbitrary schedule.... A vast portion of election spending, including big business-related efforts to encourage executives, employees, and others to vote for a particular candidate, is simply left off disclosures altogether.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9699-bias-in-campaign-spending-makes-business-influence-look-smaller-than-it-really-is



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Three drone strikes in as many days on suspected militants have killed 27 people, Pakistani intelligence officials say. The foreign ministry called the attacks ''illegal'' and said they violated the South Asian country s sovereignty.

http://is.gd/zkwsAl



We are sleepwalking into the Drone Age, unaware of the consequences

Obama s policy of killing 'militants' in Pakistan may go down well in the US, but it is provoking an extremist backlash abroad.

http://is.gd/JvYINk



Obama Was 'Obsessed' With Killing The American Al-Awlaki

This certainly doesn t fit into the popular conservative image of a president that is diffident when it comes to the war on terror

http://is.gd/1TwbEy



From Dreams to Drones: Who Is The Real Barack Obama?

By Pankaj Mishra

As the latest US attacks kill 17 and threaten to destabilise Pakistan, the president could be the cruellest political hoax of our times.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31510.htm


From Information Clearing House

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About the Life-and-Death Decisions of Drone Warfare

Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''One poll shows that eight out of ten Americans support the use of lethal drones. That s because drones have been posed as a cheap alternative for killing our enemies that puts no American lives at risk and only hits the 'bad guys.' In reality, they are not all that cheap (especially since they are constantly crashing), they kill lots of innocent people, and while they don t put pilots at risk, they stir up anti-American sentiment and provoke new attacks against us.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9541-an-interview-with-medea-benjamin-about-the-life-and-death-decisions-of-drone-warfare



We Can Do Something About the Drone Strikes

Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''There s a conventional wisdom in Washington that there s nothing we can do politically to stop the US government from killing innocent civilians with drone strikes. But it ain t necessarily so. Speaking only for myself, I m willing to stipulate that killing 'high value terrorists,' who are known to be actively preparing to kill Americans is wildly popular, regardless of whether it is constitutional and legal. Here s what s not wildly popular: killing innocent civilians.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9572-yes-virginia-we-can-do-something-about-the-drone-strikes



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Campaign For Liberty
by Tim Shoemaker

In a foreign policy speech before the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday, Senator Marco Rubio again displayed that he is nothing more than a neoconservative hawk who would love to send America s sons and daughters into a new field of battle against Iran, Syria, or any other perceived threat to American hegemony. Marco Rubio is the latest champion of the worst parts of the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party...

http://tinyurl.com/7p6arel


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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UN body says changes to Canada s immigration laws risk human rights violations.
http://is.gd/fY80KL



Obama and Immigration

The Great Pretender Throws His Base a Bone

By Mike Whitney

Barack Obama has the worst record on immigration of any president in US history. No one else comes close.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31677.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Judd Legum, ThinkProgress: ''On Thursday, the Justice Department demanded Florida Governor Rick Scott end his extensive purge of registered voters from the rolls because it was in violation of federal law. Scott still hasn t formally responded but his county election supervisors have already taken action?. Florida elections supervisors said Friday they will discontinue a state-directed effort to remove names from county voter rolls because they believe the state data is flawed and because the U.S. Department of Justice has said the process violates federal voting laws.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9553-all-67-florida-election-supervisors-suspend-governor-rick-scotts-voter-purge

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Tell Governor Scott the ACLU is on alert and won t let him derail or deny anyone s voting rights

http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=a6f7a507d1f4e2f76b9cce3cfdbe56a524504beabc7235d73307602844849657



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