World-News

Stephen Zunes, Truthout: 'The decision by the United States and its Western allies to intervene militarily against the Libyan regime of Muammar Qaddafi may have averted a massacre, but it is fraught with serious risks of eventually costing even more lives. Furthermore, it could undermine the remarkable and overwhelmingly nonviolent pro-democracy movements which have been sweeping the Arab world in recent months. As will be described below, had Libyas popular uprising maintained its largely nonviolent discipline of its early days, there probably would not be the bloody stalemate and other dangers now emerging in the conflict.'

http://www.truth-out.org/intervention-libya-is-it-really-only-option68834

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Obamas March Madness
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/28-13

Obama Gears Up for Hard Sell on Libya
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/28-0

Intervention, Warmongering and the Media
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/28

Attack on Libya May Unleash a Long War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/28-6

An Open Letter to Liberal Supporters of the Libya War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/28-12

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Obama and the ghost of ?68

Reason Reason
by Steve Chapman

03/28/11

Liberal doves are feeling a deep sense of betrayal after watching their champion of peace drop bombs on an Arab country. If the war drags on inconclusively, or if Obama feels compelled to expand our involvement, their discontent will grow. Then what? Then he could face what Lyndon Johnson faced in 1968: a Democratic primary challenger appealing to those tired of war and mistrustful of their president.'

http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/28/obama-and-the-ghost-of-68



Costliest government 'program' of all? Undeclared wars

The Christian Science Monitor
by Walter Rodgers

03/28/11

In their zeal to cut government spending, Republicans in Congress have been quoting the Constitution and hacking away at funds for National Public Radio, which saved $5 million. But if those same Republicans had seriously honored the Constitution 10 years ago, they might have saved $4-to-6 trillion. Thats the total estimated cost of Americas wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- wars that Congress putatively authorized but never formally declared. ... And now its happening again, as the US began bombing Libya without a congressional declaration - or even a single hearing or debate...

http://tinyurl.com/4kth33g



The professors war

The Orange County Register
by Charles Krauthammer

03/26/11

President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States, a minor inconvenience for a citizen of the world.) It's war as designed by an Ivy League professor...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-293574-arab-league.html



Libya: My first liberal war

Ilana Mercer Barely A Blog
by Ilana Mercer

03/27/11

Obamas war against Libya is my first liberal war as a resident of the USA; I was living in Canada during the Kosovo campaign. Americans may be used to waging war on the world, but this brand of Exceptionalism is a shock to the sane persons system. Most countries ? I?ve lived in a few ? do not go to war with the regularity the US does. As it was once noted, here, 'a brave nation fights because it must; a cowardly one fights because it can'...

http://barelyablog.com/?p=36170


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

03/27/11

Theres an anonymous message circulating on Twitter that?s says, 'Barack Obama has now fired more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace prize winners combined.' That would be funny, if it werent so depressing an observation. There are calls now from some foreign leaders for President Obama to return the award...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5706



Obama earns peace prize by bombing his sixth country

Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.

03/27/11

President Barack Obama, after hemming and hawing for several weeks, launched an illegal, immoral and unjust war against Libya and our nations 72 million Democrats arent sure how to react. After all, isnt this exactly the kind of thing they hated about President George W. Bush? Turns out Obama is as much a warmonger as his predecessor...

http://tinyurl.com/4st6ffr



Is this why Obama didnt ask before going to 'kinetic military action?'

The Orange County Register
by Mark Landsbaum

03/25/11

The War Powers Act circumvented the Constitutions clear language and since its adoption, presidents have been emboldened to go to war without getting a specific declaration from Congress. Now Barack Obama has taken this trend to the next logical step: he didnt even bother to consult Congress, apparently believing that when a bunch of foreign dignitaries say it?s OK, he can send Americans off to die and kill. ... Well, at least we know that this war wont go on forever because its clear that as soon as civilians are protected on the ground our job is done. Or, wait a minute, as soon as Gadhafi is dead our job is done. Or, wait, as soon as the Europeans take over all the shooting our job is done. Or, hold on, as soon as Gadhafi kills all the rebels our job is done...

http://tinyurl.com/4hhu37e


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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War in Libya plainly unconstitutional
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10276/

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Defense Secretary: Libya Did Not Pose Threat to U.S., Was Not 'Vital National Interest' to Intervene

In December, 2007, Barack Obama told The Boston Globe that 'The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.'

http://abcn.ws/h58Rm0


From Information Clearing House



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Politico

In lengthy interviews with a conservative magazine, the billionaire Koch brothers mounted an aggressive defense of their business and political interests, describing their liberal critics as 'very, very extreme' and 'very dangerous' and President Barack Obama as a 'radical' with 'Marxist' ideas whose success is owed largely to his 'silver tongue.' Obama is 'the most radical president we?ve ever had as a nation ? and has done more damage to the free enterprise system and long-term prosperity than any president we?ve ever had,' David Koch is quoted saying in a story posted late Friday on the website of the Weekly Standard...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51978.html



Billionaire self-pity and the Koch Brothers

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

03/27/11

Theres no question in my mind that the unrestrained power over the political process and both political parties enjoyed by oligarchs is the single greatest political problem the country faces -- the overarching problem -- but in the scheme of corporate and oligarchical dominance, the Koch Brothers are a small part of that dynamic. Nor do I believe that theyre motivated in their political activism by personal profit: for people with a net worth of $20 billion, there are vastly more efficient ways to convert ones wealth into greater wealth than spending money to influence public policy; I think theyre True Believers...

http://salon.com/a/sJi8fAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Revolutionary calls for freedom, where are they in America?

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Mary Theroux

03/25/11

As revolts demonstrating humankinds innate yearning to be free erupt around the world, it is deeply ironic that here in the formerly freest nation ever established, Americans are being conditioned to submit to unreasonable searches on top of the warrantless wiretaps and other rights violations that have escalated over the past 10 years...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1384



Is the American dream over?

Nolan Chart Nolan Chart
by Raven West, JD

03/26/11

Dreams are nice, but in the cold hard light of day, reality can be daunting and dreams are the first to die...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article8489.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd9.1.1.html

Principled Non-Interventionist
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/ron-paul-on-libya.html



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Robert Benson, Miller-McCune: 'Youve got to go back to the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 for a precedent to the anti-science mania that is currently sweeping the GOP. Then, the issue was teaching Darwins work on evolution in the schools. Today, the issue is global warming. Then, as now, large numbers of politicians tapped into the stratum of popular culture that simply rejects science as the basis for public or personal decisions... We are in Tennessee again, 1925, in the grip of the anti-scientists and their politicians. We will lose a generation in dealing with greenhouse gases. Yet the science says we have only a few years.'

http://www.truth-out.org/an-anti-science-mania-takes-over-gop68795



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