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If youre rebelling against a dictator whos been a thorn in Americas side, you get airstrikes and UN resolutions; if youre rebelling against tyrants who are forthcoming with their oil or ports, you're lucky if the Secretary of State will bestir herself for a round of finger-wagging as your comrades are coldly murdered in the streets.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/18/where-are-the-un-res.html


From Information Clearing House

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Media Ignores Brutal Crackdowns by US Allies Bahrain and Yemen

Zaid Jilani, Think Progress: 'One of the major factors in the success so far of the 'Jasmine Revolution' ? the wave of pro-democracy revolts across the Middle East ? has been the empowering international press coverage of the protests. Yet in recent weeks, this coverage in the United States has been overwhelmingly focused on just one country where these revolts are occurring ? Libya. While the events in Libya, where rebels are battling the Qaddafi dictatorship, certainly merit coverage, the American press has unfortunately failed to provide the same detailed coverage to the events in Yemen and Bahrain, two U.S. allies where mostly nonviolent protesters are being brutally put down by the armed forces in those countries.'

http://www.truth-out.org/no-coverage-zone-media-ignores-brutal-crackdowns-by-us-allies-bahrain-and-yemen68616

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Bahrain and Yemen Declare War on Their Protesters
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/20-0

Saudi-Backed Crackdown in Bahrain Exposes US Hypocrisy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/20-0



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Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Nations

By Felicity Arbuthnot

Shame on France, shame on Britain and the US and a UN avowed: '... to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Every shattered body, every child maimed or blown to bits, every widow, widower, orphan, will have their name of those countries, and the UN, written in their blood in their place of death.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27727.htm



Washington and the Civilians of Libya

By Lawrence Davidson

It was Oscar Wilde who once said that 'the true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27728.htm



UK: LIBYA EMERGENCY PROTEST: HANDS OFF LIBYA:

Britain and the USA have bombed Libya with more than one hundred Tomahawk cruise missiles. These are not precision guided weapons but weapons of mass destruction that will create many civilian casualties in Libya.

http://stopwar.org.uk/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/



First it was Saddam. Then Gaddafi

Now theres a vacancy for the Wests favourite crackpot tyrant. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27729.htm



Libyas No-Fly, No-Drive Zone

If Gaddafi refuses to obey a cease-fire order, the international coalition could agree on a hard strike against airfields and armored columns, troop barracks, military headquarters and other military facilities that already have been identified and targeted. A full-out strike might cost between $500 million and $1 billion, according to the CSBA analysis.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/18/libya-no-fly-no-drive-zone_n_837754.html



West overzealous on Libya

The overzealousness of certain Western powers like Britain, France and, as of late, the US, to interpret the resolution as an open-ended use of force, is worrisome.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011318132217965513.html#


From Information Clearing House

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Obamas new war

From No-Fly to Bombing
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1060.html

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Liberal Democrats in Uproar over Libya Action
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/20-1

Libya: The Wearingly Familiar Odor of Regime Change
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/19-8

Libya and the Familiar Patterns of War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/19-6



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'Betty Anne Waters' erzählt von Fanatismus und Kreuzzugsmentalität.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/149492

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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: 'Theres no more scrupulous or versatile broadcast journalist than NPRs Daniel Zwerdling. He is one of those reporters who keeps his eye on the sparrow that is, on small details from individual lives that add up to significant issues of public policy. As he described in a special report this week how the United States Army is clarifying guidelines 'that should make it easier for soldiers with traumatic brain injuries from explosions to receive the Purple Heart,' it was mind-boggling to think that right wingers in Congress were at that very moment voting to eliminate the modest federal funds that make such essential and authoritative reporting available to anyone in America who cares to tune in.'

http://www.truth-out.org/npr-the-saga-continues68592

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The honor in war

by Debbie Harbeson
Jeffersonville Evening News

08/11/11

I have been thinking a lot about war lately. This is partly due to the U.S. Postal Service s government-granted monopoly on delivering first-class mail. See, I recently discovered that the stamps with the odd shape I have been using for a while, and slapping on envelopes upside down, are commemorating the Purple Heart. As most of you probably already know, the Purple Heart is an attempt to make us all feel better about the damage done to individuals who were unlucky enough to get physically wounded or killed by our nation-state s involvement in various wars...

http://bit.ly/nyXbN2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Joya has also become an internationally known critic of the US-NATO war in Afghanistan.

http://www.afghanwomensmission.org/?p=1255


From Information Clearing House



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War On The Poor

By Susie Madrak

Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have more $20 in cash in their pockets any given month.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27717.htm



Michigan passes 'financial martial law' bill

Michigan legislators have approved a bill authorizing state-appointed emergency financial managers to break union contracts that struggling cities and school districts have with their workers.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51396.html



Remarks of Robert F. Kennedy, March 18, 1968

By Robert F. Kennedy

'But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all.. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27718.htm


From Information Clearing House

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America Not Broke, Wisconsin Not Broke; Were Just Wasting Money on War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/18-14



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Dollar Destructionism
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/grant7.1.1.html

The Fed Is a Sinister Joke
http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy177.html

America Poised for a Hyperinflationary Event?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/pollaro9.1.1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/another-obama-war173.html

The Great Anglo-American Gaddafi Deception
http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland44.1.html

World Government and War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff343.html

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Declaration of Cease-Fire Is Not Enough

By ELISABETH BUMILLER, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ALAN COWELL

The United States, Britain and France pushed forward against Libya on Friday as they declared that a cease-fire abruptly announced by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's government was not enough, at least for now, to ward off military action against his forces.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27719.htm



A Contrarian View on Libya? Colonialism is Still Alive and Thriving

By Sam Hamod

The truth is that the West wants to dominate the Arab World further, and all of the riches of Africa with it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27722.htm



Large Opposition to Military Intervention in Libya

A CNN/Opinion Research poll finds 74% believe the United States should 'leave it to others' to resolve the situation in Libya.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/03/18/large_opposition_to_military_intervention_in_libya.html


From Information Clearing House

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Obama on Presidential War-Making Powers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/18-6

More than 100 Actions to Protest US Wars and Occupations
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/18-1

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Arab Uprisings Cast Harsh Light on CIA Relationships

Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, New York Times News Service: 'The uprising against [Muammar el-Qaddafi], along with the revolts that drove out the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt and threaten other rulers, have cast a harsh light on the cozy relationships between America?s intelligence agencies and autocratic, often brutal Arab governments. The CIA faces questions about whether such ties blinded it to undercurrents of dissent and may now damage Americas standing with emerging democratic governments.'

http://www.truth-out.org/arab-uprisings-cast-harsh-light-cia-relationships68594



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Sarah Laskow, The Media Consortium: 'Faced with the nuclear crisis in Japan, governments around the world are confronting the vulnerabilities of their nuclear energy programs. And while some European countries, such as Germany and France, are already considering more stringent safety measures - or backing off of nuclear development altogether - in the United States, the Obama administration is pushing forward with plans for increased nuclear energy production. Ultimately, these questions are the same that the country faced after last summer's Gulf Coast oil spill. As we search for more and more clever ways to fill our energy needs, can we write off the risk of disaster? Or are these large-scale catastrophes so inevitable that the only option is to stop pursuing the policies that lead to them?'

http://www.truth-out.org/saying-no-nuclear-option68577



Here, on the Other Side of the Ring of Fire

Alexander Cockburn, Truthout: 'Americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of deepening catastrophe at Fukushima 1, speed to the pharmacy to buy iodine and ask, 'It's happened there; can it happen here?' Along much of California's coastline runs the 'ring of fire,' which stretches round the Pacific plate, from Australia, north past Japan, to Russia, round to Alaska, down America's West Coast to Chile. 90 percent of the world's earthquakes happen round the ring. The late great environmentalist David Brower used to tell audiences, 'Nuclear plants are incredibly complex technological devices for locating earthquake faults.'

http://www.truth-out.org/alexander-cockburn-here-other-side-ring-fire68574



Two Ghouls

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'Ive spent the last few days walking around my quiet little Boston neighborhood looking at the houses, the cars, the shops, the trees. I look at my wife, my neighbors, my cat. Then I close my eyes, and in that darkness I see it all wiped out, washed away, obliterated, shattered to kindling and utterly gone. I see a moonscape of annihilation, no reference points in sight, nothing familiar. I see the day after the end of everything, and the horror of it comes nowhere close to the reality that is Japan.'

http://www.truth-out.org/two-ghouls68579



Tepco, Security Sacrificed on the Altar of Profit

Rosa Moussaoui, l'Humanite: 'Profit at any price: This could be the motto of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), the multinational that exploits the nuclear power plants at Fukushima. The largest producer of electricity in the world illustrates the excesses of an industrial sector in which neo-liberalism has unfurled to the last extremities of its destructive logic.'

http://www.truth-out.org/tepco-security-sacrificed-altar-profit68593

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Regulators Aware for Years of Understated Seismic Risks to Nuclear Plants
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/18-6

The Nuke Lobby has the US Regulatory Commission in Their Pocket
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/18-0

A Nuclear Warning from Japan We Cannot Ignore
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/18-9



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