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Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout: Transparency is the cure for a long off-kilter US foreign policy. By reducing secrecy in US diplomacy and embracing transparency, we shall begin to behave in ways that are just and honorable such that our reputation is enhanced and improved.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18440-secrets-result-in-abuse-of-power-the-new-era-is-becoming-one-of-transparency



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As the growth of the U.S. prison population has stalled, American private prison companies have expanded their reach across the globe, operating prisons and detention centers in at least 11 countries, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project, a non-profit advocacy group.

http://is.gd/JVcq6F



'Low-Crime Tax' Keeps For-Profit Prisons Profitable

Compare these two tales of corruption that illustrate how the opportunity to turn a profit distorts our supposedly impartial judicial system.

http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/20/report-low-crime-tax-keeps-for-profit-prisons-profitable/



US Nun Faces Up To 30 Years in Prison for Protesting at Nuclear Weapons Facility

By Karen McVeigh

District judge denies appeal of Sister Megan Rice, 83, and two other activists, citing their intent to 'disarm' Oak Ridge.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36428.htm



The U.S. s 64-Square-Foot "Torture Chambers"

He has not had human contact or a good night s sleep in nearly three decades. Every single day, he wakes to the sound of metal doors clanging open and a pair of disembodied hands pushing a tray of food through a slot into his 64-square-foot cell.

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/10/the-u-s-s-64-square-foot-torture-chambers/



Locked Up in America: One quarter of the World s Prisoners

With well over half the prison population performing victimless crimes.
http://www.criminaljusticedegreehub.com/locked-up-in-america/



A Living Death: Sentenced to Die Behind Bars for What?

For 3,278 people, it was nonviolent offenses like stealing a $159 jacket or serving as a middleman in the sale of $10 of marijuana. An estimated 65% of them are Black.

https://www.aclu.org/living-death-sentenced-die-behind-bars-what



This Man Was Sentenced to Die in Prison for Shoplifting a $159 Jacket

This Happens More Than You Think: Thousands of lives have been ruined by life sentences for crimes such as shoplifting.

http://www.alternet.org/man-was-sentenced-die-prison-shoplifting-159-jacket-happens-more-you-think?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark



American private jails reap record profits

If you are looking for somewhere to invest, and aren t too bothered about the moral implications, private jails could be an option. The number of inmates being held in them has swelled. And that s giving private shareholders bumper profits. But as RT's Marina Portnaya explains, there's a huge conflict of interests.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVzZjg6jZQk&feature=youtu.be



US prison population jumps 27% in a decade over harsh drug sentencing

The number of Americans incarcerated in federal prisons throughout the country has increased by nearly 30 percent over the past ten years, according to a new report by an investigative arm of Congress.

http://rt.com/usa/prison-population-grows-thirty-963/


From Information Clearing House

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State Guarantee Private Prisons 96% Occupancy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/daniel-g-j/you-give-us-the-money/

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Divest Funds From Private For-Profit Prison Corporations
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/25-2

With 2.3 Million People Incarcerated in the US, Prisons Are Big Business
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/02-9

UN Expert: Torture of 'Angola 3' Shows Inhumanity of US Prisons
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/08-2

Corporations Reap Billions from Mass Incarceration
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/10/24

Massive Investment in For-Profit Private Prison Industry
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/01/22-0

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Lockup Quotas Help For-Profit Prison Companies Keep Profits High and Prisons Full

Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: Given the longstanding, cozy relationships between for-profit prison companies and legislators, questions have long been raised about their role in promoting policies that put more people behind bars and create more demand for prisons.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19067-lockup-quotas-help-for-profit-prison-companies-keep-profits-high-and-prisons-full



Fifteen Things That We Relearned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2013

Mariame Kaba, Prison Culture: The engine of the prison industrial complex unfortunately kept on chugging in 2013. The author highlights some of the key developments within the US prison industrial complex during this year.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20759-fifteen-things-that-we-re-learned-about-the-prison-industrial-complex-in-2013

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The prison industrial complex

How Wall Street profits from human misery
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-prison-industrial-complex/the-prison-industrial-complex.html

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America s prisons: The worst national disgrace

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

10/08/13

The U.S. correctional system is the worst of America s domestic disgraces. More people languish behind bars in the United States than in any other country, except perhaps China if we factor in the unknown numbers in labor camps...In practice, U.S. imprisonment has become an institution of slavery, torture, and rape...

http://tinyurl.com/mkdj725


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Der ehemalige US-Präsident Bush und seine Minister dürfen nach Ansicht des US-Justizministeriums nicht für Kriegsverbrechen belangt werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/154836



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Geheimes Memo von Timothy Geithner an Larry Summers bestätigt Verschwörungstheorien über einen Pakt des US-Finanzministeriums mit der Wall Street zur weltweiten Deregulierung der Finanzmärkte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/154826



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Furious at the killing of an Australian college baseball player in Oklahoma, a senior figure in the victim s home country blamed the 'gun culture' of United States for the death, saying it was 'corrupting the world.'

http://is.gd/tlFpHm


From Information Clearing House

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US Civil War is Coming
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/russia-today/civil-war/



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Rainey Reitman von der Electronic Frontier Foundation über die Verurteilung des WikiLeaks-Informanten Bradley Manning, der künftig eine Frau sein will, durch ein Militärgericht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39759/1.html



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Heidi Boghosian, City Lights Books: Once a massive spying apparatus is in place that functions with minimum oversight, who is to keep it from being used for domestic and political and economic agendas in the name of combating terrorism?

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/18356-freedom-cannot-exist-alongside-a-massive-surveillance-industrial-complex-they-are-incompatible



Pursuing Profits or Power?

James K. Boyce, Dollars & Sense: Recognizing the real-world pursuit of power redirects our attention from the dichotomy between the market and the state toward a more fundamental one: the divide between oligarchy and democracy.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/18354-pursuing-profits-or-power

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A Time for Creative Suffering

Martin Luther King s Words in a Surveillance World

By Ariel Dorfman

Let us hope and pray, for his sake and ours, that his faith in his own country was not misplaced and that 50 years later his compatriots will once again listen to his fierce yet gentle voice calling on them from beyond death and beyond fear.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35999.htm



The Surveillance State: To Make Journalism Harder, Slower, Less Secure

By Jay Rosen

That s what the surveillance state is trying to do. It has the means, the will and the latitude to go after journalism the way it went after terrorism. Only a more activist press, working together, stands a chance of resisting this.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36004.htm



I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision

By Michael Parenti

Opinion-makers prefer to treat Martin Luther King as an inspirational icon rather than a radical leader. He has been domesticated and sanitized.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36048.htm

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The seven choices left to the military-industrial complex

Freeman s Perspective
by Paul Rosenberg

09/12/13

Since 2002 the US government has presided over one of the most dramatic financial bubbles of all time: the bubble of the military-industrial complex. (A few will remember that Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans about this in 1961.) This bubble, like all others, will pop, and it looks to be deflating right now. The amounts of money that have been spent in the past decade can only be characterized as obscene. But the point that really matters is this: Military spending is just part of the bubble...

http://www.freemansperspective.com/military-industrial-complex/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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'Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG) kritisiert die Haftstrafe für den Wikileaks-Informanten Bradley Manning als unverhältnismäßig hart. Mit dem am Mittwoch verkündeten Strafmaß von 35 Jahren Haft ist eine US-Militärrichterin zwar hinter der Forderung der Anklage zurückgeblieben. Dennoch wird Manning viele Jahre im Gefängnis verbringen?' Pressemitteilung von Reporter ohne Grenzen vom 21.08.2013 http://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/meldung-im-detail/artikel/reporter-ohne-grenzen-kritisiert-strafe-fuer-bradley-manning-als-unverhaeltnismaessig/


Bradley Manning verurteilt: Supergrundrecht Menschenwürde

'(?) Nicht umsonst ist die Freiheit des Wortes wie der Schutz der Privatsphäre in zivilisierten Staaten meist sogar verfassungsrechtlich geschützt. Diese Werte jedoch geben wir auf, wenn westliche Staaten wie die USA nun Whistleblower wie Bradley Manning härter bestrafen als Kriegsverbrecher. Wenn Regierungen wie die britische nun schon die Lebensgefährten von unliebsamen Journalisten festhalten und ihre Datenträger durchsuchen, auf einer höchst fragwürdigen rechtlichen Grundlage. Wenn eine Bundesregierung, ebenso wie die französische oder die italienische, außer ein paar Floskeln nichts unternimmt, um die Rechte ihrer Bürger zu verteidigen?' Kommentar von Daniel Haufler in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 21.08.2013 http://www.fr-online.de/meinung/bradley-manning-verurteilt-supergrundrecht-menschenwuerde,1472602,24080806.html


Bradley Manning Verdict

Das Special von Democracy Now! vom letzten Prozesstag http://www.democracynow.org/live/bradley_manning_verdict


ACLU Comment on Bradley Manning Sentence

Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union s Speech, Privacy & Technology Project: 'When a soldier who shared information with the press and public is punished far more harshly than others who tortured prisoners and killed civilians, something is seriously wrong with our justice system. A legal system that doesn t distinguish between leaks to the press in the public interest and treason against the nation will not only produce unjust results, but will deprive the public of critical information that is necessary for democratic accountability. This is a sad day for Bradley Manning, but it s also a sad day for all Americans who depend on brave whistleblowers and a free press for a fully informed public debate.' Pressemitteilung der ACLU vom 21.08.2013 https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/aclu-comment-bradley-manning-sentence


Vermächtnis eines erbarmungslosen Urteils gegen die Meinungsfreiheit: Bradley Manning

Kommentierte Presseschau von Volker Bahl vom 22.8.2013
http://www.labournet.de/?p=42849


Aus: LabourNet, 23. August 2013



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Im Auftrag der US-Raumfahrtbehörde entwickeln amerikanische Wissenschaftler Strategien, um 'Europa' effektiv auszuspähen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39730/1.html

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Als Grundlage dienten angeblich unter Labour erlassene Vorschriften.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39755/1.html



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