World-News

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

08/29/11

Muammar Qaddafi is (pretty much) gone, and right on cue there is increasing talk about applying the Libya 'model' to Syria. Meanwhile, I?m more worried that eventually they ll get around to applying that 'model' to Iran. ... By model, of course, they mean the mobilization of lethal force, including coordinated bombing attacks and precision missile strikes, tied closely to rebel military tactics, jointly run by the United States and NATO...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Lee Fang, ThinkProgress: 'After spending over a decade promoting President Bush, the PATRIOT Act, and the Iraq War, Rupert Murdoch s News Corporation appears to be up to the same tricks, this time with an hour-long promotional video about Bush s leadership during the 9/11 attacks. Although News Corp. is perhaps best known for its Bush cheerleading through its Fox News subsidiary, the Bush documentary is airing on another News Corp. company with a better brand image, National Geographic.'

http://www.truth-out.org/news-corp-set-air-911-documentary-glorifying-bush-producer-says-hes-not-interested-facts/1314632428

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Conspiracy theories can explain the real doings of government and the power elite
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1027.html

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The 9/11 President

The American Prospect
by Steve Erickson

08/30/11

After September 11, 2001, the enduring cliche was that everything to which our history has led us was changed and never would be the same. A more unsettling truth is that too many of the wrong things changed and not enough of the right ones, that opportunities for change presented themselves that we failed to seize and our politics refused to accommodate...

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_911_president



Omitted facts from the 9/11 commemoration

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

08/30/11

It s commendable (or at least shrewd) enough that the White House wants to internationalize the commemoration of Al Qaeda s victims over the last decade. But what will also be 'left unsaid' are the vastly more numerous victims of America s militarism and aggression - both in putative response to 9/11 and leading up to that attack (and that s not even counting the various victims of America s client states using U.S.-supplied weapons)...

http://salon.com/a/soEIfAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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10 Painful Lessons of 9/11

By Ralph Nader

Many Americans might want to pause to recognize - or unlearn - those reactions and overreactions to 9/11 that have harmed our country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29002.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/29-0

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US government asset seizures on the rise

Daily Reckoning
by Simon Black

08/26/11

In the United States, there are hundreds of regulations which authorize dozens federal agencies to confiscate private property - homes, cars, bank accounts, gold, company shares, and even personal effects.Ironically, most Americans still think that they live in a country where you are innocent until proven guilty. Nothing could be further from the truth...

http://dailyreckoning.com/us-government-asset-seizures-on-the-rise/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Best Ron Paul Interview Ever?
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/rp-interview-fox-082811.html

A Conspiracy of Counterfeiters
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan183.html

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Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-in-Law

Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: 'Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about 'Obama spending' and 'Obama deficits' and how the 'Stimulus' just made things worse. Solution: Here are three 'reality-based' charts to send to him. These charts show what actually happened.'

http://www.truth-out.org/three-charts-email-your-right-wing-brother-law/1314626142



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By Matthew Cardinale

The first-ever audit of the U.S. Federal Reserve has revealed 16 trillion dollars in secret bank bailouts and has raised more questions about the quasi-private agency s opaque operations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28979.htm

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Federal Reserve grabs new powers

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

08/25/11

While inflation hawks understandably keep a close watch on the Federal Reserve s money-creation activities, an equally worrisome Fed activity is taking place right under their noses. Under cover of addressing the financial crisis and recession, the Fed has become the central allocator of credit...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1108w.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Mike Whitney

Monday s report on consumer spending is a perfect example of how the media distorts the news to create a cheery narrative of 'economic recovery'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28985.htm



Revolution is a Potluck

By Cindy Sheehan

Back in the days of the Great Depression in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, 'community' wasn t a concept, it was a reality-with longevity in residence, no TV box, and multi-generational homes-for better, or worse, we needed each other.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28981.htm



Madison Ave. Declares 'Mass Affluence' Over

By Sam Pizzigati

The top 10 percent of American households, now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, and a disproportionate share of that spending comes from the top 10 s upper reaches.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28976.htm



The Election March of the Trolls

By Chris Hedges

We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with inanities and absurdities until the final inanity-the 2012 presidential election.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28974.htm



IMF downgrades US economic forecast

If fear from the Fed that the economy was crumbling wasn't enough to raise a scare on Wall Street last week, now the IMF is also saying that the outlook on America isn't what it should be.

https://rt.com/usa/news/imf-fed-economic-lagarde-389/



Youth Employment Rate Hits Record Low for July

'The combined impacts of the Great Recession and increases in the minimum wage in states and at the federal level have locked thousands out of the labor market,' he said.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/youth-employment-July-labor/2011/08/25/id/408710


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By Carol Rosenberg

A once-secret CIA history detail how the American spy agency came to the rescue of and cut deals with authoritarian governments in Central America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28978.htm



The Decade s Biggest Scam

By Glenn Greenwald

So compelling is fear-based propaganda, so beholden are our government institutions to these private Security State factions, and so unaccountable is the power bestowed by these programs, that even a full decade after the only Terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, its growth continues more or less unabated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28983.htm



9/11: Ten Years Later

By Ted Rall
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28975.htm

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Zakaria trashes Rumsfeld s Iraq war talking points

The Raw Story

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld isn t letting go of his talking points that support the U.S. invasion of Iraq following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Exactly 10 years after those attacks, Rumsfeld suggested to CNN s Fareed Zakaria Sunday that Iraq had been 'hospitable' to al Qaeda before the U.S. invaded the country. 'There's no question that al Qaeda and Zarqawi and people were in Iraq,' Rumsfeld argued. 'They aggregated there.' ... 'If we hadn't invaded, they wouldn't have been there,' Zakaria pointed out.'

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Rakesh Krishnan Simha

Ironically, it is when the West is weak that the emergent nations of Asia and Africa have reason to worry. Colonialism 2.0 isn't just a catchphrase; it is simple economics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28977.htm



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