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Zur Operation Odyssee Dawn und 'allen notwendigen Maßnahmen' zum Schutz der Zivilbevölkerung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34453/1.html



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The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

03/28/11

In ordering air and naval strikes on a country that neither threatened nor attacked the United States, did President Obama commit an impeachable act? So it would seem. For the framers of the Constitution were precise. The power to declare war is entrusted solely to Congress. From King Williams War to Queen Annes War to King Georges War to the Seven Years? War, the colonists had had their fill of royal wars. To no principle were they more committed than that the power to declare war must be separate from the power to wage it. And Obama usurped that power...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/03/28/obama-goes-to-war/



Obamas war on Libya is aiding al Qaeda

US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) Freedom's Phoenix
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

03/28/11

Gaddafi may well be every bit the 'bad guy' we are told he is, but who are the rebels we are assisting? Do we have any clue? Will they bring freedom and prosperity to Libya if they are victorious? We might like to hope so, but the fact is, we don't know...

http://tinyurl.com/63fgnfe



The Libya folly

Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Charles V. Pena

03/28/11

Constitutionality and selective memory aside, the president was wrong to order the attacks on Libya for three reasons. First, it?s not clear whos in charge of Operation Odyssey Dawn .... Second, whats the objective? ... Third ? and most importantly ? even if the previous two questions are properly addressed, they would be trumped by the fact that U.S. national security is not at stake in Libya...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3018


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Every now and then, someone in the mainstream media cuts through the general - and shameful - indifference about Guantánamo, publishing a powerful story that should change hearts and minds.

http://bit.ly/gVxCRZ


From Information Clearing House



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By Mike Whitney

It just goes to show that 'free market' solutions are always jettisoned when they dont meet the needs of the rich and powerful. The free market is just a stick that's used to beat up on little guys.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27784.htm



Tracking Our Downward Spiral

The Ways in Which America Still 'Leads' the World

By Richard Clark

Amongst 20 of the worlds wealthiest countries, America now has: the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27785.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-2

Only Thing Clear About Obamas Afghan Policy: Its a Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-0

The Rich Get Richer While Nurses, Teachers, and Firefighters Get Trounced
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-4

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The New American Dream

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'If you are wealthy, you are living in the Golden Age of your American Dream, and it's a damned fine time to be alive. The two major political parties are working hammer and tong to bless you and keep you. The laws are being re-written - often by fiat, and in defiance of court orders - to strengthen the walls separating you and your wealth from the motley masses. Your stock portfolio, mostly made by and for oil and war, continues to swell. Your banks and Wall Street shops destroyed the economy for everyone except you, and not only did they get away with it, but were handed a vast dollop of taxpayer cash as a bonus prize.'

http://www.truth-out.org/the-new-american-dream68847



Banding Together for the Common Good

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'American revolutionaries Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, and decades later even the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville, fretted about a return to America of a despotic government running roughshod over the rights of citizens. Few, however, seriously considered the possibility of corporations rising up to take over the people of the world and then to take control of the peoples governments. It was only after he had left the presidency that Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816 about the rise of power of the 'moneyed corporations.'

http://www.truth-out.org/banding-together-common-good68845



The Collapse of Globalization

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: 'The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world where vital resources, including food and water, jobs and security, are becoming scarcer and harder to obtain. They presage growing misery for hundreds of millions of people who find themselves trapped in failed states, suffering escalating violence and crippling poverty. They presage increasingly draconian controls and force - take a look at what is being done to Pfc. Bradley Manning - used to protect the corporate elite who are orchestrating our demise.'

http://www.truth-out.org/the-collapse-globalization68839

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This can be our moment

In These Times
by Stephen Lerner

03/29/11

Working people are losing when we should be winning. Wall Street, the Koch brothers, greedy CEOs, and the super-rich have seized the economic crisis they created and are exploiting it. They are slashing public budgets; attacking nurses, teachers and firefighters; destroying public employee unions; and cutting healthcare, education, childcare and other critical community programs. Their campaign will intensify as they dedicate themselves to destroying the remaining islands of private-sector union strength ? slashing benefits and pay for all workers. Their goal: lock in their political and economic dominance...

http://tinyurl.com/4a9cqp6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/29-4

What Exactly Is a 'Limited War?'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/29

Obamas Unconvincing Case on Libya
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-7

Americas Growing Intolerance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-5

Obama Tries, Without Success, To Explain An Undeclared War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29

Kucinich: President Had Time to Consult with International Community, Not Congress?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/29-8

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Contrary to the Presidents Speech, Removal of Qaddafi Is the Military Objective

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "The most important content of presidential speeches is often what they don't say. Here are some things that President Obama didn't say about Libya in his speech last night. The president did not answer his critics who asked why he took America into war without authorization by Congress. This question was made sharper on Sunday when Jake Tapper of ABC asked Defense Secretary Gates, 'Do you think Libya posed an actual or imminent threat to the United States?'

http://www.truth-out.org/contrary-president-removal-qaddafi-is-military-objective68859

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NATO Chief Opens The Door to Libya Ground Troops

By Spencer Ackerman

Welcome to a new possible 'endgame' for Libya. Western troops patrolling Libyas cities during a a shaky transition after Moammar Gadhafis regime has fallen, however thats supposed to happen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27790.htm



Regime change by any other name: U.S. Gives Its Air Power Expansive Role in Libya

The American military has been carrying out an expansive and increasingly potent air campaign to compel the Libyan Army to turn against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/us/29military.html?hp



Libya: Cameron and Sarkozy demand that 'Gaddafi must go'

Britain and France have demanded that Muammar Gaddafi should stand down immediately and declared that the era of the Libyan leader is over.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/libya-sarkozy-cameron-gaddafi



Libya: Coalition bombing may be in breach of UN resolutions legal limits

Concern over the legality of the military action in Libya reignited on Monday as rebel forces surged into the space created by the international bombardment of Colonel Gaddafis military.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/28/libya-bombing-un-resolution-law


From Information Clearing House

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UN 'authorization' is the emperor?s new fig leaf

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

03/29/11

Last night, nine days after we began bombing Libya, President Obama went on television to explain what were up to and what the plan is. Its always nice to be kept in the loop. But the real outrage here isnt that Obama ? for once ? has been reluctant to make a speech. It's that our Nobel Peace Prize-winning, former constitutional law professor president has launched yet another war in the Middle East without any constitutional authority for doing so...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12919



Our misguided faith in strength

The Boston Globe
by James Carroll

03/28/11

'What if US military force were proportionately more like that of other nations? ... Our military would still be strong enough not only to defend the United States from attack, but also to deter attacks in the first place. But such a military would not be so world-transcendent as to make us think that brute force, exerted by America alone with token support of other nations, is the solution to every international problem ? including the contemporary obligation to protect civilian populations from mass attacks...

http://tinyurl.com/4p4zf6k



You lie, Mr. President

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

03/30/11

The lives we 'saved' are countless only because they dont exist: we intervened to prevent a holocaust that never happened -- and theres no way of knowing (although plenty of reason to doubt) whether it would have happened without Western intervention. This is the kind of lie that Americans like to hear: hes telling us were heroes, not Ugly Americans. Quite literally every other word in his Libya peroration is a lie...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/03/29/you-lie-mr-president/



The 'Obama Doctrine,' Libya and Iran

The Nation Blog
by Robert Dreyfuss

03/29/11

Does Libya set a precedent? If a revolt breaks out again in Iran, and the regime cracks down with brutal force, will the United States support a Libya-style response? The New York Times, in its coverage of Libya, is already talking about imposing a no-fly zone against Syria. Is there an 'Obama Doctrine' emerging? It looks like it. And, unfortunately, it seems focused on the idea of humanitarian interventionism, with some add-ons and codicils, that make it broader than that...

http://tinyurl.com/4qnnw3d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/raico/raico41.1.html

US Military Dictatorship as the Economy Goes Off a Cliff
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/03/29/194-us-military-dictatorship-as-the-economy-goes-off-a-cliff/

Obama Raises American Hypocrisy to a Higher Level
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts297.html

They Make a Desolation and Call It Freedom
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/visalli2.1.1.html



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Andrew Kennis, Truthout: 'Through interviews with Truthout, experts and members of the public interest community characterized news media coverage of WikiLeaks as being poor, inadequate and more akin to soap opera-ish tabloid coverage rather than serious journalism assessing revelations of US foreign policy abuses. When news coverage was more serious, a friendly frame of reference to successive US administrations was often used, with concerns about the standing of US diplomacy - not its revealed disregard for democratic values - taking front and center.'

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