World-News

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Kohler Publishers: 'While corporations can live forever, exist in several different places at the same time, change their identities at will, and even chop off parts of themselves or sprout new parts, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, according to its reporter, had said that they are 'persons' under the Constitution, with constitutional rights and protections as accorded to human beings. Once given this key, corporations began to assert the powers that came with their newfound rights..... Interestingly, during the era of the Santa Clara decision granting corporations the full protections of persons under the Constitution, two other groups also brought cases to the Supreme Court, asking for similar protections. The first group was women. This was a movement with a fascinating history, its roots in the American Revolution itself.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-protections-from-birth-american-democracy-through-birth-corporate-personhood68647



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Ludwig von Mises Institute Ludwig von Mises Institute
by SM Oliva

03/20/11

Theres a scene in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock that I find useful at times like this. Dr. McCoy is trying to arrange covert passage to a star system declared off-limits by the Federation Council. McCoy asks an alien pilot what it would cost to transport him there. The alien replies that since the system is 'restricted,' it would take money and 'many permits.' McCoy replies, 'There arent going to be any damn permits! How can you get a permit to do a damn illegal thing?!' This is basically my reaction to all the hand-wringing over Barack Obamas decision to attack Libya without first obtaining a congressional declaration of war...

http://blog.mises.org/16135/on-libya-congress-and-the-constitution/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Our Future Blog
by Dave Johnson

03/20/11

Just what is this Koch Industries? Should it be called a 'company?' If so we need to re-think the idea of what a company and a business is supposed to be. Even the brother of Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch called the company an 'organized crime' operation. Koch money is a key driver of the conservative movement. Almost every conservative-movement rock you turn over has Koch money crawling around under it. As the movement becomes more and more of a pay-to-play operation conservatives of every stripe do more and more to protect and enrich the Koch operation...

http://tinyurl.com/4jrpmpz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Unemployment rose in nearly all of the 372 largest U.S. cities in January compared to the previous month.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/18/business/main20044747.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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Is Muammar Gaddafi a Target? PM and Military Split Over War Aims
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/21-6

Obamas Libya War: Unconstitutional, Naive, Hypocritical
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/21-8

Wars Should Be Declared by Congress, Not Merely Launched by Presidents
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/21-12

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West in 'Mediaeval Crusade' on Gaddafi, Putin Says

By Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy

Chinas official newspapers on Monday stepped up Beijings opposition to air attacks on Libya, accusing nations backing the strikes of breaking international rules and courting new turmoil in the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27738.htm
[ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110321/wl_nm/us_libya_162 ]



A Flippant Beginning to Another War

ByTimothy P. Carney

Maybe Obama doesnt think 112 Tomahawk Missiles and a pledge to shoot down Libyan aircraft flying in their own airspace counts as 'war'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27731.htm



Obamas Serbia-Solution for Libya

By Mike Whitney

All of Libyas resources lie in the eastern province which can be easily split-off Serbia-style with the support of foreign imperialists using their proxy armies and their 'democracy promoting' puppets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27733.htm



Farrakhan Warns, Advises Obama on Libya

Video

Minister Farrakhan blasted Pres. Obama and Secy. Clinton for their arrogance in meddling in another sovereign nation's affairs and publicly recommending regime change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27734.htm



Libya In Pictures - From The Front Lines
http://cryptome.org/info/libya-fight/libya-fight-03.htm



Russia calls for halt to Libya attack

'The reports say that during air raids on Libya strikes were also delivered on non-military facilities. ... As a result, 48 civilians are reported dead and over 150 wounded,' the Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the RIA Novosti news agency.

http://bit.ly/fmm0cf



Arab League chief condemns killing of Libya civilians by Western powers

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa calls for emergency meeting to discuss situation in Libya, says Arabs did not want military strike on Libya by Western powers when the League called for a no-fly zone.

http://bit.ly/gBALwm



UK Government refuses publicly to rule out ground troops in Libya

The UK governments Chancellor has pointedly refused publicly to rule out British ground troops being sent in - despite the clear position of UN Security Resolution 1973 to the contrary.

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/14369



Bill Kristol calls for U.S. ground forces in Libya

'The political goal is to remove Gaddafi and ultimately military assets will serve that political goal.'

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/20/bill-kristol-calls-for-u-s-ground-forces-in-libya/


From Information Clearing House

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Kucinich: Obama could be impeached for attacking Libya

The Raw Story

03/21/11

'Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says President Barack Obama did not have the constitutional authority to order U.S. forces to participate in an attack on Libya. In a conference call with other liberal lawmakers Saturday, Kucinich asked why the U.S. missile strikes were not impeachable offenses, according to two Democratic lawmakers who spoke to Politico. The U.S. unleashed a barrage of strikes against the Libyan regimes air defenses over the weekend, but ruled out using ground troops in what Obama called a 'limited military action.'

http://tinyurl.com/4g6ctmj



The 'liberation' of Libya

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

03/20/11

Although, for the great majority of those whose lives it touches, the U.S. war machine is force for grisly devastation ? indeed, for the 'terror' it so devotedly fulminates against ? it actually does represent a stabilizing force through its strafes of places like Libya. What it stabilizes, though, are the mechanisms of power through which the American economic and political ruling class exploits productive people both here and abroad...

http://c4ss.org/content/6484



Attack on Libya: The barbarism of buffoons

Spiked
by Brendan O'Neill

03/21/11

The grotesque competition between Britain, France and America to see who can fire the most missiles at Libya confirms the emergence of a new form of Western militarism. This is not the return of the politics of Empire or a re-flourishing of Western colonialism in north Africa, as some have claimed. Rather it is the barbarism of buffoons...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10309/



They hate us because we bomb them

Liberty For All
by LP staff

03/21/11

Giving little thought to the lessons of history, President Obama has begun attacking Libya with the full support of virtually every member of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans. Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: 'President Obama?s decision to order military attacks on Libya is only surprising to those who actually think he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. He has now ordered bombing strikes in six different countries, adding Libya to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5683



Libya: It?s not our fight

Los Angeles Times
by Edward N. Luttwak

03/21/11

Once again the United States is bombing a Muslim country to liberate its people from their own sanguinary rulers. Once again we are told that innocent civilians are being massacred and that the United States must intervene as a matter of moral duty, in its capacity as a great and good nation. But in this case -- even as part of a broader, U.N.-sanctioned coalition to enforce a no-fly zone -- the U.S. should not have intervened at all...

http://tinyurl.com/4sn5bv6



Muslim radicals strike at US foreign policy

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

03/21/11

U.S. Rep. Peter Kings recent hearing on the domestic radicalization of Muslims was an act of misdirection. While King, a New York Republican, no doubt exaggerates this phenomenon, he might as well have held a hearing on why objects drop when let go. The answer is obvious. The violence the U.S. government inflicts on the Muslim world is the source of hostility to America. If it?s true of people in the Middle East and North Africa, why wouldn?t it also be true of Muslim Americans?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1103j.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Libyen: Militärisch hat Gaddafi den Luftangriffen nichts entgegenzusetzen, er kämpft mit anderen Mitteln,

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34393/1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff344.html

Shock, Awe, and Oil
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis232.html

Thoughts on the Insanity
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski264.html

The 1st Great War of the 21st Century Has Begun
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente65.1.html

Americans Cant Seem To Get Their Fill of War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e29.1.html



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Dmitri Iglitzin and Carson Glickman-Flora, Truthout: 'Its not like we didnt see it coming. At the very start of this year, January 2, The New York Times warned us of the coming battle with a front-page story, 'Public Workers Facing Outrage in Budget Crisis.' The Economist, in its January 8 issue, gave us, 'The battle ahead: confronting the public-sector unions.' And the January Time Magazine, 'Public Employees Become Public Enemy No. 1.' So, nobody should have been surprised when public employees became enemy No. 1 in Wisconsin, whose governor and Republican-dominated Legislature are pressing a bill that would eviscerate most of the unions representing that state's employees.'

http://www.truth-out.org/kill-public-employee-unions-erase-middle-class68639



Unionize Everybody!

Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice: 'Unions fought for and won fundamental rights that we all now take for granted - things ranging from child labor and minimum wage laws to lunch breaks and the 40 hour week. And as union wages increased, so did non-union wages, since union contracts raised the wage floor in our free market for labor. As long as union jobs offered better pay and benefits, they would attract better workers, which worked out well for unionized businesses. In order to compete to hire qualified workers, non-union businesses had to match union wages and benefits. Some of us paid union dues, but all of us reaped the benefits those dues bought. The union effect balances the profit-wage equation. Take it away, and the equation tips back toward the radical social inequity of the 19th century and the period right before the Great Depression. And this is what is happening. As the wage floor increased, the need for individuals to join unions decreased.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unionize-everybody68657

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The future of the middle class
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/642.html



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Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the 'official tally' (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the Pakistan and Yemen actions are covered by the 2001 authorization of military force, but no one has dared to argue that the 2001 authorization to use military force covers Libya.) Some will no doubt claim that the president is acting in Libya within his authority as commander in chief. But this is an extremely dangerous claim.'

http://www.truth-out.org/congress-must-debate-libya-war68643



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Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/18/11

Would someone please tell me what limits constrain President Obama in foreign affairs? A dictator is a government ruler with omnipotent powers, one who has no constitutional or legislative constraints on his powers. Operating through his military, paramilitary, intelligence, and police forces, he can do whatever he chooses to do...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-03-18.asp



Another presidential war

Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

03/19/11

As recently as Bill Clinton, there was at least some concern when the president of the United States began bombing a country without a congressional declaration of war or national debate. There was a lot of concern building up to Bushs war in Iraq, but the mass destruction he unleashed has apparently made Americans totally desensitized to presidential wars...

http://www.independent.org/blog/index.php?p=9783



The littlest invasions

The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Gary Brecher

03/20/11

The newest fad in foreign intervention is the slim-line approach. I swear, it really is like fashion news. A few years ago, the neocons were pushing a full-figured style of intervention, which ended up with us wasting hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives in Iraq. Since that went so badly, the fashion has swung the other way, and the same idiots who brought you Iraq are pushing for a smaller, smarter style of intervention that leans on small groups of special-forces troops and covert operations. ... The notion of not intervening, period, never enters the neocons? heads...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-littlest-invasions/



Libya should be Europes problem, not America?s

The Christian Science Monitor
by Leon T. Hadar

03/17/11

The recent upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya demonstrate the impact of political instability in that region on the EU?s Mediterranean flank -- and why Europe should take the lead in any international resolution to the problem. It is well past time for the European powers, whether through the EU, the UfM, or some other entity, to be more than casual bystanders that expect Washington to resolve strategic challenges in the Middle East...

http://tinyurl.com/4eb4wkn



Libya

by Ayn R. Key

03/19/11

At this point, in proper Democratic Party militarism form, the initial intervention will be in the form of No-Fly zones, air patrols. It was the same pattern for Clinton in both Iraq and in the former Yugoslavia. Eventually ground troops were sent in to both, with Clinton sending troops in to Bosnia and Bush sending troops in to Iraq. If Obama holds true to the pattern of other pro-war Democrats, ground troops are only a matter of time. Then the US will be embroiled in yet another war of occupation...

http://aynrkey.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The myth of precision bombing
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/520.html



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