World-News

David Swanson, War Is a Crime: 'If you can think back all the way to January 2009, back when wars were ending, Guantanamo was closing, the Pentagon was getting oversight, employees were going to have free choice, the rich would start paying taxes, the air would be getting cleaner, and so forth, you ll recall that the Obama transition team was acting super populist and high-tech. They had questions from ordinary people for the President Elect submitted on their website and voted up or down. The top question at the end of the voting had come from Bob Fertik of Democrats.com and it was this: 'Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor - ideally Patrick Fitzgerald - to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?' (Bob Fertik, New York City) Not only was the answer no, but it had to be inferred because President Change U. Wish refused to answer the question.... However, we now have an account from someone involved in the decision process way back when.'

http://www.truth-out.org/insider-tells-why-obama-chose-not-prosecute-torture/1315419328

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Guantanamo: Global Symbol of State Terror

Guantanamo Bay prison has become a universal symbol of unlawful detention, daily abuse, and fatal torture.

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/guantanamo-global-symbol-state-terror


From Information Clearing House



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By Charles Hugh Smith

To understand why the euro is failing and the Swiss Franc peg is a sand castle that will dissolve in a rising tide, we must start with a historical context and the crisis of global Capitalism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29059.htm



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By Michael Parenti

From the origins of the Bill of Rights up to today s challenges by the FBI and other government entities, Parenti says, it is essential to stand up for one s rights.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29047.htm



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The Nation
by Moustafa Bayoumi

09/06/11

On August 24, the AP broke the news that the CIA and the NYPD are combining forces to spy on Muslims in New York City. Since the CIA is prohibited by law to collect intelligence on American citizens, this is more than newsworthy. It s probably unconstitutional, which explains why the NYPD has, according to the report, kept these activities secret. This is no ordinary program, nor does it seem to be merely about sharing expertise...

http://tinyurl.com/3cuhnmx



The Pentagon refuses to be audited

Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

09/06/11

I urge my Senators to oppose H.R. 2219, The Department of Defense Appropriations Act. This bill, which passed the House in July ... 'Is filled with pork and earmarks.' Will cost $649 billion overall 'Will cost the average family $6,300 ... What am I getting for this 'defense?' Nobody knows - not the Pentagon, not Congress, not We the People...

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/the-pentagon-refuses-to-be-audited


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Our Future Blog
by Robert B. Reich

09/06/11

The 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest research from Moody s Analytics. That should come as no surprise. Our society has become more and more unequal. When so much income goes to the top, the middle class doesn t have enough purchasing power to keep the economy going without sinking ever more deeply into debt - which, as we have seen, ends badly...

http://tinyurl.com/3g59wcu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

09/07/11

Funded by the British government, and now simply called 'Quilliam,' the organization deploys its 'experts' - ex-jihadis of one sort or another - whenever some event requires a pro-government 'spin.' It is a replication of the CIA s orientation during the cold war, when a cadre of ex-radicals was recruited to do Washington s bidding in the fight against Communism...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/09/06/islamist-neocons/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bank of America has over $100 billion in mortgage liabilities, says Chris Whalen Co-founder of Institutional Risk Analytics.

http://read.bi/mZxRLr



Bank Of America Called Grieving Widow '48 Times A Day'

Many families who have just lost a loved one have had to deal with the unfortunate task of dealing with the debt left behind after death. One widowed woman is suing Bank of America Home Loan Servicing, saying they called her as many as 48 times a day demanding payment.

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Sales of firearms have surged since he took office: This year, they are on track to surpass 15 million for the first time.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44375021/ns/business-us_business/


From Information Clearing House



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By Greg Jaffe

In previous decades, the military and the American public viewed war as an aberration and peace as the norm.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29054.htm



Inside Job

Full Documentary Movie

A powerhouse of a documentary that will leave you both thunderstruck and boiling with rage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29057.htm



Stanford Students Protest CIA on Campus

Video

Are you interested in an exciting career committing war crimes?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31088.htm

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The Price of 9/11

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate: 'The September 11, 2001, terror attacks by Al Qaeda were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush s response to the attacks compromised America s basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security. The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9/11 attacks was understandable, but the subsequent invasion of Iraq was entirely unconnected to Al Qaeda - as much as Bush tried to establish a link. That war of choice quickly became very expensive - orders of magnitude beyond the $60 billion claimed at the beginning - as colossal incompetence met dishonest misrepresentation.'

http://www.truth-out.org/price-911/1315403131



Toward Total Information Awareness

Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: 'It is no secret that the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA) bungled a multitude of opportunities to foil the 9/11 plot. There were no fewer than 12 intelligence reports in the three years preceding 9/11 that Osama bin Laden planned to use aircraft as weapons and crash them into buildings in Washington and New York City, information that was included in the president's daily intelligence brief. In addition to the 2004 report by the 9/11 Commission, the often astonishing list of intelligence failings that contributed to the success of the attacks has been exhaustively documented.... In his minority report to the Joint Intelligence Committee, Alabama Republican Sen.. Richard Shelby urged agency leaders to be held accountable for the litany of failures. This was never done. Instead, well before the public was alerted to the extent of the multiple intelligence failures, the government embarked on a 'fix' that bore little relation to the actual shortcomings outlined in the reports.'

http://www.truth-out.org/toward-total-information-awareness/1314201923



Let s Cancel 9/11: Bury the War State s Blank Check at Sea

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: 'Ask yourself this: ten years into the post-9/11 era, haven t we had enough of ourselves? If we have any respect for history or humanity or decency left, isn t it time to rip the Band-Aid off the wound, to remove 9/11 from our collective consciousness? No more invocations of those attacks to explain otherwise inexplicable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and our oh-so-global war on terror. No more invocations of 9/11 to keep the Pentagon and the national security state flooded with money. No more invocations of 9/11 to justify every encroachment on liberty, every new step in the surveillance of Americans, every advance in pat-downs and wand-downs and strip downs that keeps fear high and the homeland security state afloat. The attacks of September 11, 2001 were in every sense abusive, horrific acts. And the saddest thing is that the victims of those suicidal monstrosities have been misused here ever since under the guise of pious remembrance.'

http://www.truth-out.org/lets-cancel-911-bury-war-states-blank-check-sea/1315488002

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Our war on the politics of fear

Spiked
by Mick Hume

09/06/11

Contrary to what we have been told a thousand times over the past decade, and particularly this week, 9/11 was not ?the day that changed the world?. No act of terrorism alone, even one as bloody as the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, could ever do that. What 9/11 and, more importantly, the fear-driven responses to it did was to confirm that the world had already changed, and to act as a further catalyst accelerating the end of the old political order...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11052/



The meaning of September 11

CounterPunch
by Ramsi Kyzia

09/06/11

U.S. violence in Afghanistan and Iraq has destabilized vast populations of human beings who were already living inside of unacceptable catastrophes. Violence has built walls between those peoples and ours, enflamed prejudices and injustice, entrenched persecutions and created fears leading to increased hatreds, depression and despair. This is the central truth that lies at the heart of all violence - the brutal severing of human ties and emotions, the destruction of our human spaces...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/06/the-meaning-of-september-11-2/



Ten years of fear is enough

Wrights 2012
by R. Lee Wrights

09/07/11

As we approach the tenth anniversary of one of the most devastating events in American history, we will be inundated with a mind-numbing around-the-clock media coverage of the event. We will be flooded with a rehash of the events of that tragic day, hear countless stories about heroes, be subjected, once again, to endless analysis from 'experts' about why this attack occurred, and listen to political leaders pontificate on the meaning of the tragedy in memorial services, newspapers and on radio and television...

http://wrights2012.com/2011/09/ten-years-of-fear-is-enough/



9/11: A time for truth

Activist Post
by Ethan Jacobs

09/06/11

Now is the time to support the Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth s 10th Anniversary Campaign by making a donation at Remember Building 7. Remember Building 7 will use the donations for a historic nationwide ad campaign in the month of October showing the American people the unmistakable footage of Building 7's demolition and forcing the mainstream media to finally discuss the issue...

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/09/911-time-for-truth.html



Perpetual war

CounterPunch
by Tariq Ali

09/07/11

War - jus belli - is now a legitimate instrument as long as it is used with US approval or preferably by the US itself. These days it is presented as a ?humanitarian? necessity: one side is busy engaged in committing crimes, the self-styled morally superior side is simply administering necessary punishment and the state to be defeated is denied its sovereignty...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/07/perpetual-war/



Ten years later: The liberties that we have sacrificed

Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

09/03/11

It s been ten years since 9/11. Washington has started three wars. Massively increased spending. Created big new bureaucracies. And stolen away many of our liberties. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 Americans were willing to trade freedom for presumed security, even though most of the powers claimed by the government either did little to protect people or could have been enacted with legal safeguards. Now, it seems, Americans are thinking more about liberty...

http://tinyurl.com/3teeckf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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10 Years After 9/11, Is America a Better Place?
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/10-years-after-911.html

A Bloody Decade of Fear and Vaunting
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory240.html

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ACLU: Report, 'A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11,' Details Dangers of Establishing Permanent War Footing
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/07-11

War Crimes and the Mythology of 'Bad Apples'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/22-2

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The 9/11 Files: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4914.html



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Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: 'When David Petraeus walks into the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday, he will be taking over an organization whose mission has changed in recent years from gathering and analyzing intelligence to waging military campaigns through drone strikes in Pakistan, as well as in Yemen and Somalia. But the transformation of the CIA did not simply follow the expansion of the drone war in Pakistan to its present level. CIA Director Michael Hayden lobbied hard for that expansion at a time when drone strikes seemed like a failed experiment. The reason Hayden pushed for a much bigger drone war, it now appears, is that it had already created a whole bureaucracy in the anticipation of such a war.'

http://www.truth-out.org/cias-push-drone-war-driven-internal-needs/1315330945

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US Army orders its first batch of suicide drones

MSNBC

09/06/11

Soldiers who fly hand-launched drone scouts to spot enemies on the battlefield may soon get a deadly robotic device capable of also delivering a knockout blow. The U.S. Army has ordered its first batch of small suicide drones that are capable of launching from a small tube, loitering in the sky and then diving at a target upon command. The backpack-size 'Switchblade' drone and its launch tube give individual soldiers a new level of precise control over an explosive weapon.

http://tinyurl.com/3wos8mm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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