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Starmail - 19. Mai, 06:09

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Gas Drilling Companies Hold Data Needed by Researchers to Assess Risk to Water Quality

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/18-1

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Starmail - 19. Mai, 05:57

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Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2011

Will the US Have a 'Debt Crisis'?

Simon Johnson, Project Syndicate: 'John Boehner, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is leading the Republican Party s charge on fiscal policy, arguing that his side needs to see 'trillions of dollars' in spending cuts in order for Congress to approve an increase in the US government s debt ceiling. But framing the issue this way creates a major problem for Boehner: it will directly, completely, and quickly antagonize one of the Republicans' most important constituencies - the US corporate sector.'

http://www.truthout.org/will-us-have-debt-crisis/1305723881

Middle-Class Warriors Storm JP Morgan Chase Meeting

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: 'Hundreds of protesters greeted JP Morgan Chase bank shareholders at their annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday to tell the big bank that it s time for Wall Street pay up for its part in the financial and foreclosure crisis that has cost residents in Ohio cities $1.6 billion in property values since 2009. The protest was held as regulators and state attorneys generals continue to investigate the lending practices of big banks like Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America that are suspected of committing foreclosure fraud during the economic and housing crisis.'

http://www.truthout.org/middle-class-warriors-storm-jp-morgan-chase-meeting-ohio/1305730199

What s Inside Big Oil s Head?

Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'The big five of Big Oil might want to mull over a bit of advice that baseball great Ted Williams once offered to rookies: 'If you don't think too good, don't think too much.' Apparently, the chieftains of BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell thought that a bit of gruff, CEO bluster would be just the thing to brush back public anger over the industry s all-star avarice and arrogance. Bad thinking.'

http://www.truthout.org/whats-inside-big-oils-head/1305724856

Eric Cantor Promises Oil Speculators That Republicans Will Block Financial Regulations

Lee Fang, ThinkProgress: 'Yesterday morning, House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) visited the Chicago headquarters of the CME Group, 'the world's largest owner and operator' of private exchanges for derivatives products. CME Group specializes in a number of markets, including trading futures contracts for various blends of crude oil and food commodities. Cantor met with executives, and at one point, gave brief remarks before CME Group employees and various commodity speculators.'

http://www.truthout.org/eric-cantor-promises-oil-speculators-republicans-will-block-financial-regulations/1305740445

The Great Switch by the Super Rich

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: 'Forty years ago, wealthy Americans financed the U.S. government mainly through their tax payments. Today wealthy Americans finance the government mainly by lending it money. While foreigners own most of our national debt, over 40 percent is owned by Americans - mostly the very wealthy.'

http://www.truthout.org/great-switch-super-rich/1305737742

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Starmail - 18. Mai, 22:04

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Disposable heroes:Thousands of recent veterans homeless

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1105.html

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Starmail - 18. Mai, 21:58

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Caging the dogs of war

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Robert Higgs

05/17/11

All wars end, but someone must bring them to an end: someone in authority must order the men to stop fighting, or the fighters themselves must decide to stop fighting even if doing so requires that they disobey standing orders. Either way, someone makes a decision to bring the war to an end, and we may presume (in conformity to the precepts of methodological individualism) that the actor makes the decision only because he believes that it serves his interest, however he may conceive of that interest...

http://mises.org/daily/5272/Caging-the-Dogs-of-War

What we are up against

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

05/18/11

At least during the Bush administration we had a 'mainstream' media that was partially awake, if only in order to ambush a Republican White House .... Today, however, as Rall s example dramatizes, things are worse: much worse. ... As for us here at Antiwar.com: our nominal allies, the 'progressive' antiwar movement of yesteryear, have deserted us in droves. As long as it s not a Republican President slaughtering innocent civilians, as long as it s 'our first African-American president' invading the Muslim world, as long as their team is in power - well, then, it s okay, everything?s hunky-dory, and please don t rock the boat...

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An open letter to President Obama

Liberty & Power
by Kevin Zeese

05/16/11

We urge you to end the current wars and start a national dialogue about shifting U.S. foreign policy away from dominance through military might, and toward being a member of the community of nations. It is time to end all of these wars. It is time to initiate a fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy away from domination of others through military might and damaging sanctions. As a first step we urge a major withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan - as you promised...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/139255.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 18. Mai, 09:15

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WikiLeaks cables show that it was all about the oil

The communication, part of the cache of State Department cables that WikiLeaks passed to McClatchy and other news organizations, is just one indication of how the U.S. government over the years has maneuvered to influence the world s oil and natural gas markets.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/16/114269/wikileaks-cables-show-oil-a-major.html

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 18. Mai, 08:47

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Confidential Federal Audits Accuse Five Biggest Mortgage Firms Of Defrauding Taxpayers

By Shahien Nasiripour

The audits conclude that the banks effectively cheated taxpayers by presenting the Federal Housing Administration with false claims.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28114.htm

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Starmail - 18. Mai, 08:30

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Can Americans Be Unplugged?

The ongoing bin Laden saga

By Paul Craig Roberts

Has anyone independent of Washington examined the alleged bin Laden diary and confirmed that it was in bin Laden s handwriting? These kind of questions are the kind the media, back when we had one, used to ask.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28109.htm

Osama bin Laden s Guns Found 'Only After' US Navy Seals Killed Him

By Declan Walsh in Islamabad

AP revelation fuels claims al-Qaida chief was illegally executed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28117.htm

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Assassination nation: Are there any limits on President Obama s license to kill?

The Christian Science Monitor
by James Bovard

05/17/11

How much evidence should the US government be obliged to show before it kills an American citizen? None, according to the Obama administration. And how much evidence should the government be obliged to possess of an American?s wrongdoing before officially targeting them for killing? That?s a secret, according to the Obama team. As part of its war against violent extremism, the Obama administration now claims a right to kill Americans without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally object. On May 6, the US government launched a drone attack to try to kill a US citizen in Yemen...

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Idolizing absolute power: The pro-assassination crowd

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by James Bovard

06/27/11

The Christian Science Monitor published a piece I wrote last month in opposition to allowing the U.S. government to kill Americans without a warrant, trial, or any judicial niceties. The article, 'Assassination Nation: Are There Any Limits on President Obama s License to Kill?,' spurred a torrent of feedback on Yahoo.com that vividly illustrates how some Americans now view absolute power...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1106y.asp

After bin Laden?

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/17/11

The hunt for Osama bin Laden was always a sideshow. President George W. Bush even said at one point that he wasn t much concerned with finding him. He probably meant it. Still, bin Laden played a useful role for the U.S. foreign-policy elite: he was still out there plotting, necessitating a vigilant 'war on terror.' And if he were eventually caught and killed, whoever was occupying the White House would score a point with the American electorate. Now it has been done. What s next?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1105l.asp

Osama bin Laden: More dangerous dead than alive?

Libertarian Alliance
by Robert Henderson

05/16/11

It is clear what the US wanted to achieve; to sell the story of a menacing and capable terrorist leader and his organisation to justify the raid to Western audience and to make bin Laden seem contemptible in the eyes of Muslims. It has achieved neither end as the multiple protests against the nature of the raid and bin Laden s killing show and the outraged response of radical Muslims. The credibility of the propaganda was further eroded by the ineptitude of the bewildering number of alterations in the story told by Washington.

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 18. Mai, 08:21

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