World-News

http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis286.html

Noninterventionism: Cornerstone of a Free Society
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory245.html

Anti-Authoritarianism Starts Within
http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e172.html

--------

Our road to serfdom

Adam Smith Institute
by Sam Bowman

04/04/12

The depressing thing is how predictable all this is. 'Pragmatic' erosions of our civil rights to date, CCTV cameras everywhere, centralized government databases of personal information, attacks on habeas corpus, covert surveillance operations by local councils and sundry encroachments onto people s online privacy, have led naturally to this grotesque new plan. Every new piece of authoritarianism has been justified as 'counter-terrorism'...

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/liberty-justice/our-road-to-serfdom



Little Evidence That Torture Treatment Used By CIA Produced Any Counter-Terrorism Breakthroughs

People familiar with the inquiry said it consisted of as much as 2,000 pages in narrative accounts of how the CIA interrogation program worked, including specific case histories in which enhanced interrogation tactics were used.

http://huff.to/Iw8frM


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=cold+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=authoritar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=counterterror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=surveillance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spying
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=serfdom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=margolis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/gregory
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sam+Bowman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/peters-e

-----

http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1114.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Geithner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/north
-----

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''Most discussion about the 'costs of war' focuses on two numbers: dollars spent and American troops who gave their lives. A decade into the war on terror, those official costs are over a trillion dollars and more than 6,000 dead. But as overwhelming as those numbers are, they don t tell the full story. In one of the most comprehensive studies available, researchers in the Eisenhower Study Group at Brown University s Watson Institute for International Studies looked at the human, economic, social and political costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as our military actions in Pakistan.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8238-the-real-costs-of-war

--------

War for terror

Liberty For All
by John Jay Myers

03/29/12

Wars are not about ideals. Wars are about things, things people want. Telling people that wars are about religion or ideals is what is known as propaganda. No one wants to be the guy who is fighting over a 'thing' because that makes you appear greedy. Terror is not a group of people, or a country, it is a tactic used in war...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7458


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

---------

The Immense Tolls of Imperial War

Casualty Comprehension

By Christian Sorensen

Juxtaposition provides insight into Pentagon delusion. Over 6,400 uniformed American service-members and 2,330 mercenaries have died in the Global War on Terror since 2001, but their corpses might end up in a landfill when they return to the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30978.htm

--------

The Vengeance of ''Don t Retreat, Reload'' Vigilantes

By Robert S. Becker

What the Bush Doctrine distilled into unilateral pre-emptive perfidy, executed by Rumsfeld s dire ''shock and awe,'' then justified by Cheney s One Per Cent Doctrine, was domesticated by this in-your-face mandate from a presumptive national leader.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30983.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=pre-emptive
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cheney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=propaganda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+action
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=casualt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=greed
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Moyers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Jay+Myers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christian+Sorensen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+S.+Becker

-----

Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen: ''This week has showcased a dire need, a need to spotlight the unregulated money overwhelming our democracy. Reform groups, investors, state elected officials and more have demanded that Congress and federal agencies do their jobs and make elections transparent to the people voting in them?. Both SEC rules and congressional action are critical to closing the gaping loopholes in our system left by the Citizen United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) decision and ineffective FEC regulations on the disclosure of political spending.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8226-this-week-in-unregulated-super-pac-spending

--------

Voters want super PACs to be illegal

Sixty-nine percent of all Americans and voters alike say super PACs, a fundraising vehicle that allows wealthy donors to make unlimited donations in support of a particular candidate or party, should be banned. Just 25 percent said they should remain legal.

http://wapo.st/ImiMXD



Top 10 donors make up a third of donations to super PACs

The top 10 contributors gave more than a third, or $68 million of the nearly $202 million reported by the outside spending groups this election, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of Federal Election Commission records.

http://bit.ly/JBwwCl


From Information Clearing House

--------

The Citizens United Gang Executes a Corporate Coup D'etat
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/18

Progressives in Congress Support Constitutional Change to Overturn Citizens United
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/19-0

From 'Pipe Dream' to 'Mainstream': Citizens Take on 'Citizens United'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/20-3

Corporate Reform Coalition Breaks Record for Comments Sent to Securities and Exchange Commission on Corporate Political Spending
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/05/02-4



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Romney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=PACs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vermont
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Citizens+United+ruling
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Securities+and+Exchange+Commission
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lisa+Gilbert
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Hightower
-----

By Patrick Martin

The US House of Representatives has adopted a budget resolution that calls for privatization of Medicare and the elimination of Medicaid, food stamps and many other federal entitlement benefits. The resolution is part of a bipartisan campaign to slash spending on social programs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30947.htm

--------

GOP Unveils Plan to Gut Food Stamp Program
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/17-7



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=medicare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=medicaid
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+stamps
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patrick+Martin
-----

By Bob Abeshouse

The Kochs are planning to raise and spend more than $200m to defeat Obama in 2012. But the brothers could easily kick in more without anyone knowing due to loopholes in US law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30945.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Koch+brothers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bob+Abeshouse
-----

By Paul Harris in New York

A group political activists and journalists has launched a legal challenge to stop an American law they say allows the US military to arrest civilians anywhere in the world and detain them without trial as accused supporters of terrorism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30949.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=anti-terror+law
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+military
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Harris
-----

By Irfan Ahmad

Rather than promote democracy in the Middle East, the West has a long history of doing the exact opposite.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30946.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Irfan+Ahmad
-----

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

03/29/12

Ten years ago, on the evening of March 28, 2002, the Bush administration officially embarked on its 'high-value detainee' program in the 'war on terror' that had been declared in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (more commonly identified as Abu Zubaydah), was captured in a house raid in Faisalabad, Pakistan...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1203z.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detainee
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Abu+Zubaydah
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington
-----

Einen siebzehnjährigen Jungen erschießen? Natürlich Notwehr, was denn sonst, selbst wenn dokumentarisch festgehalten ist, dass es nichts zum Verteidigen gab. Kommt man aber in Florida mit durch, der selbsternannte Bürgerwehrschütze George Zimmermann jedenfalls blieb unbehelligt von jeglicher Behörde. Der Wahrheit am nächsten kam der Konservative Geraldo Rivera: Die Kleidung Trayvon Martins sei mindestens ebenso sehr schuld an seinem Tod wie der Todesschütze... der Junge trug Hoodie, also Kapuzenshirt, das Gesetz, nachdem darauf die Todesstrafe steht, war bisher nicht bekannt. Hier eine kurze Videoaufzeichnung vom "Million Hoodie March" in New York vom 21. März 2012 bei You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9896y3BGcs

Siehe dazu: ''Michelle Alexander, The Age of Obama as a Racial Nightmare'' am 25. März 2012 bei Tomdispatch - ein aktueller Beitrag der Autorin von ''The new Jim Crow'' über die rassistischen Bedingungen solcher Todesfälle - und ihre Produktion durch ein Vorgehen, das Sicherheitspolitik genannt wird..: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175520/best_of_tomdispatch:_michelle_alexander,_the_age_of_obama_as_a_racial_nightmare/

Sowie: ''Es ist Rassismus'' von Reymer Klüver am 24. März 2012 in der Süddeutschen Zeitung, wo es unter anderem heisst: ''In den USA gehen Tausende Menschen auf die Straße, weil die Polizei den mutmaßlichen Todesschützen des 17-jährigen Trayvon Martin laufen ließ. Der Junge war auf dem Rückweg von einem Süßigkeitenladen einem Mitglied der freiwilligen Bürgerwehr zum Opfer gefallen. Auch Präsident Obama zeigte Flagge in der Rassismus-Debatte: ''Wenn ich einen Sohn hätte, würde er wie Trayvon aussehen''..: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/proteste-in-den-usa-nach-tod-eines-teenagers-es-ist-rassismus-1.1317120

Und: ''Gespannte Rassenbeziehungen in den USA'' von Peter Winkler am 24. März 2012 in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, wo hinzu weitere jüngste Gewalttaten berichtet werden: http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/international/gespannte_rassenbeziehungen_in_den_usa_1.16048645.html


Aus: LabourNet, 30. März 2012



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rassismu
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=racis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rightwing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Trayvon+Martin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=George+Zimmermann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Alexander

-----