World-News

Joseph Natoli, Truthout: 'We live now in a country which is perceived, according to a decreasing (increasing?) number, as having turned upside down. A plutocracy has emerged from previous aspirations toward egalitarian democracy; a 'trickle down' economics in which tax burdens are transferred from rich to poor persists even though it has only continued to redistribute the wealth to the wealthy; a tax rebate to the wealthy, which increases the national debt, is insisted upon by those who seeks massive cuts in government spending in order to decrease the national debt; a monumental collapse of the economy resulting from the reckless finagling of financial institutions results in an 'austerity' campaign against the working class and the middle class; the largest wealth gap among all industrialized nations is defined as a war between taxpayers and public employees; a privatized energy industry has silenced a major threat to its profits - global warming; programs which have greatly benefited the majority of Americans - Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid - face a continuous attack by the wealthy and a capitulating response by its defenders ...'

http://www.truth-out.org/when-world-is-turned-upside-down-and-protest-is-privatized68394



Europes Austerity: Like Something Out of the Brothers Grimm

Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus: 'In ways big and small, Europeans from Greece to Portugal, from Britain to Bavaria are registering their growing anger with the relentless assault inflicted by government-imposed austerity programs. Wages, working conditions and pensions that unions successfully fought for over the past half century are threatened by the collapse of banking systems caught up in a decade-long orgy of speculation that the average European neither took part in, nor profited from. Even the so-called 'well off' workers of Bavaria, Germany's industrial juggernaut, saw their wages, adjusted for inflation, fall 4.5 percent over the past 10 years.'

http://www.truth-out.org/europes-austerity-like-something-out-brothers-grimm68580



In Proposed Mortgage Fraud Settlement, a Gift to Big Banks

Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica: 'Lurking in a proposed mortgage fraud settlement with the state attorneys general is a clause that could be worth billions for the big banks. Yes, I mean the settlement that might extract the supposedly large sum of $20 billion from the banks to settle foreclosure fraud. The one denounced as a 'shakedown' by Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama. Despite such rhetoric, the settlement might let the banks avoid tens of billions of write-downs, thanks to a clause with a biblical flavor: the last shall be first.'

http://www.truth-out.org/in-proposed-mortgage-fraud-settlement-a-gift-big-banks68578



Totalitarian Democracy

Richard Lichtman, Truthout: 'Those of us who have wondered how fascism would come, if and when it came, did not sufficiently credit the possibility that it would arrive through the process of law and 'freely chosen' representatives of the people. We were too much given to dramatic, filmic versions of the occasion, influenced perhaps by images of 'body snatchers' from another galaxy, or aliens as they were depicted in 'Independence Day.' There is often the exogamous tendency to imagine that catastrophe must come from beyond our shores, whether defined geographically, culturally or psychologically. It is always 'them,' not 'us,' that is the source of our disaster. Even when the foreign intrusion took a mortal form, we were more likely to view our antagonists in ways that denied their actual humanity.'

http://www.truth-out.org/totalitarian-democracy68543



Ohio Governor Gets 3,000 Boos

Howard Ryan, LaborNotes: 'Ohio Governor John Kasich delivered his 'State of the State' speech March 8 with all the pomp expected of a new governor setting his agenda. But 3,000 union members and allies - led by 2,000 firefighters along with teachers, state workers, electrical workers, steelworkers, and many others - had just finished rallying outside the Columbus statehouse damning Senate Bill 5, the governor's proposal to gut public employee unions.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ohio-governor-gets-3000-boos68569



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USA Today

03/17/11

The suicide rate for female soldiers triples when they go to war, according to the first round of preliminary data from an Army study. The findings, released to USA TODAY this week, show that the suicide rate rises from five per 100,000 to 15 per 100,000 among female soldiers at war. Scientists are not sure why but say they will look into whether women feel isolated in a male-dominated war zone or suffer greater anxieties about leaving behind children and other loved ones.

http://tinyurl.com/64j4sql


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Kevin Zeese, Truthout: 'Bradley Mannings appeal of the refusal to relax his conditions of confinement makes a strong case that he has been a model prisoner who is being unjustly abused. His inhumane treatment violates his due process rights and is cruel and unusual punishment. After providing detailed descriptions of his excellent behavior and the positive reports he has received while detained at Quantico since July 29, 2010, Manning contradicts the militarys claim that he is being treated just like any other prisoner.'

http://www.truth-out.org/mannings-appeal-refusal-relax-conditions-outlines-more-details-mistreatment68513



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/17-8

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Is Obama worse than Bush?

The Libertarian Standard
by Anthony Gregory

03/16/11

The two are definitely in the same league, in absolute terms. Maybe Obama is Nixon to Bushs LBJ, in that he is continuing and expanding upon his predecessors foreign and domestic enormities, deserving special ire for ramping them up, but with the president before still deserving special hatred for having started so many horrible policies. Of course, it is unfair to compare Obama to Bush just yet, since Bush had eight years of destruction and Obama has only had a little over two...

http://tinyurl.com/6gb5y6v



Nullifying tyranny

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by George C. Leef

03/17/11

One of the big mistakes made by the drafters of the Constitution was their omission of any provision that says what is to be done if the Congress or president acts unconstitutionally. Although the Constitution places limits on their authority, nowhere does it specify the course or courses of action open to citizens or states who want to block the offending action. That omission has plagued the nation almost since its beginning...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1371


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/17-5

On Libya and No-Fly Zones
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/17-0

Taking the 'War' Out of Air War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/17-5

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The UN Security Council Has Not Authorized Regime Change in Libya

Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'Its a great thing that the Obama administration has resisted calls for unilateral US military action in Libya, and instead is working through the United Nations Security Council, as it is required to do by the United Nations Charter. Now, the administration needs to follow through on this commitment to international law by ensuring that foreign military intervention remains within the four corners of what the UN Security Council has approved. If it does not, and instead Western powers take the view that we now have a blank check to do whatever we want, the certain consequence will be that it will be much more difficult to achieve Security Council action in a similar situation in the future, and those who complain that the Security Council is too cautious will have only themselves to blame.'

http://www.truth-out.org/the-un-security-council-has-not-authorized-regime-change-libya68587



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Sinneswandel bei der Supermacht: Eine Flugverbotszone reicht laut der amerikanischen UN-Botschafterin Rice möglicherweise nicht mehr aus, um Zivilisten ausreichend zu schützen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149475

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Gaddafi, die USA und Europa

Während Gaddafis Truppen marschieren, um den Osten des Landes niederzuschlagen, fordern USA und EU seinen Abgang (was sie bei besseren, genau so blutigen Freunden wie der berüchtigten Familie Saud, nicht tun) und es mehren sich auf der Linken Stimmen, die an Gaddafi irgendetwas antiimperialistisches sehen...Was schon in anderen Fällen die einstige Voraussetzung liquidierte, Antiimperialismus müsse einen sozialen Inhalt jenseits von Deklarationen haben, wird im Falle des Frontex-Vollziehers vollends 'seltsam'. So wird in dem Beitrag 'Libya and the World Left' von Immanuel Wallerstein vom 17. März 2011 bei commondreams argumentiert: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/17-6

Siehe dazu auch: "Libya and the London School of Economics: When civil-societyism fronts for barbarism" von Patrick Bond am 15. März 2011 bei der australischen Links, worin die Beziehungen libyscher Eliten zum europäischen Bürgertum behandelt werden..: http://links.org.au/node/2212

Sowie: 'Quand Kadhafi était un ami: Cet or noir dans le viseur de Hillary' von Manlio Dinucci beim frankokanadischen Mondialisation, eine Übersetzung aus il manifesto vom 13. März 2011, worin die Veränderungen der Beziehungen zu Libyen in den letzten 10 Jahren Schwerpunkt sind: http://www.mondialisation.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23689

Aus: LabourNet, 18. März 2011

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18. März 2011

Krieg ist auch in Libyen keine Lösung

Zur Libyen-Resolution des UN-Sicherheitsrates erklären die Vorsitzenden von Partei und Fraktion DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch, Gregor Gysi und Klaus Ernst:

'Mit der Resolution des Sicherheitsrates der Vereinten Nationen droht aus dem Bürgerkrieg in Libyen ein international geführter Krieg zu werden. So richtig es ist, Gaddafis mörderischem Treiben Einhalt zu gebieten, so falsch ist es, dies mit Krieg erreichen zu wollen. Auch Frankreich, Großbritannien und die USA wissen, welch hohes Risiko mit der Einrichtung einer Flugverbotszone und der faktischen Freigabe von militärischen Interventionen durch den Sicherheitsrat verbunden ist. Die Charta der Vereinten Nationen wird verletzt. Deutschland hat im Weltsicherheitsrat die militärischen Entscheidungen nicht vorangetrieben. Diese Haltung wird nun aus den Reihen von SPD und Grünen kritisiert. Die Kritik ist falsch. SPD und Grüne machen sich wieder zum Vorreiter eines kriegerischen Abenteuers. Sie nutzen dafür das längst widerlegte Argument von Schröder und Fischer, Krieg wäre auch in diesem Falle die 'Ultima ratio'. Für DIE LINKE gilt: Krieg ist die Ultima irratio. Wir werden einem Krieg für Öl und einer deutschen Beteiligung daran auf keinem Fall zustimmen. Die Bundesregierung von Union und SPD hat den libyschen Diktator mit den von ihr 2006- 2009 genehmigten Rüstungsexporten von über 83 Millionen Euro aufgerüstet und den Krieg gegen die eigene Bevölkerung für Gaddafi führbar gemacht. Sie hat zu wenig getan, um den wirtschaftlichen Druck auf die Machthaber in Libyen zu erhöhen. Öl- und Geldströme wurden nicht konsequent unterbrochen, ein weltweiter Stopp für Rüstungs- und Munitionslieferungen nicht durchgesetzt. Eine Hilfe in der Flüchtlingsfrage wurde nur nebenbei betrieben. DIE LINKE fordert, eine Kriegsbeteiligung der NATO auszuschließen. Die Bundesregierung muss ihre Enthaltung im Sicherheitsrat nun in politisches Handeln umsetzen und auf Großbritannien, Frankreich und die USA mäßigend einwirken. Deutschland darf sich weder unmittelbar noch mittelbar an einem militärischen Eingreifen beteiligen. Deutschland muss sich dafür einsetzen, dass unter dem Dach der Vereinten Nationen ernsthaft über einen Waffenstillstand aller Konfliktparteien verhandelt wird. Eine militärische Eskalation muss verhindert werden."

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/krieg-ist-auch-in-libyen-keine-loesung/



19. März 2011

Die Waffen nieder!

Die Vorsitzenden der LINKEN, Klaus Ernst und Gesine Lötzsch, erklären zum Beginn der internationalen Militärintervention in Libyen:

Die Militärintervention ist keine Lösung sondern eine Verschärfung des Konflikts. Aus einem Bürgerkrieg ist ein international geführter Krieg geworden. Es droht eine Eskalation mit unabsehbaren Folgen. Wir fordern die Bundesregierung auf, entschieden bei ihren NATO-Partnern Widerspruch gegen das Bombardement einzulegen. Bundeskanzlerin Merkel muss unverzüglich mit Präsident Obama sprechen und ihn von der Notwendigkeit einer friedlichen Lösung überzeugen. Krieg schafft keinen Frieden. Demokratie kann man nicht herbeibomben. Unsere Botschaft an alle Kriegsparteien lautet: Die Waffen nieder! Wir fordern einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand. Es müssen sofort Verhandlungen auf der Grundlage eines allgemeinen Gewaltverzichts und einer Anerkennung der völkerrechtlichen Standards beginnen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/die-waffen-nieder/



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Nuclear (and Economic) Meltdown In Progress
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/martenson3.1.1.html

Escape From America Continues
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/bauman-b6.1.1.html



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Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

03/15/11

Should we get involved in another civil war in the Middle East? Sure! What could possibly go wrong? That seems to be the way the Libya debates trending here in D.C. Ever generous with other Americans' blood and treasure, Beltway pols and pundits are lining up behind a 'no-fly zone' (for starters) and busily decrying President Obama's 'weakness.' Rarely is the question asked, is our political class learning? (Probably because the answer's always 'no.') And yet, 'the children' may have learned something from coming of age during two seemingly interminable and fruitless wars...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12878



Stay out of Libya!

Downsize DC

03/15/11

We are inspired by the desire of the Libyan people to overthrow Muammar Qadhafi. Sadly, Qadhafi has reacted violently to their protests, and a civil war is now being waged. We hope the insurgents are committed to freedom, and if so, we hope they will prevail. But they must to do it without our help. This is THEIR struggle, not ours...

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/new-campaign-stay-out-of-libya


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Military Action Against Gaddafi 'Within Hours' Of UN Vote

By Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Nicholas Watt

Britain, France and the US, along with several Arab countries, are to join forces to throw a protective ring around the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi as soon as a UN security council vote on military action is authorised, according to security council sources.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27708.htm



The Fatally Flawed Logic of a No-fly Zone

By Michael Williams

Our supposed moral superiority in intervening to 'save' human rights is a mask for years of supporting dictators who have oppressed the very human rights politicians claim we must now defend.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27705.htm



Saudi-backed Crackdown in Bahrain Exposes U.S. Hypocrisy

By Michael Hughes

Critics accuse the U..S. of employing a double-standard - reluctant to oust the monarchy in Bahrain but more than willing to encourage Libyans to topple Moammar Gaddafi.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27702.htm



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Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

03/17/11

On the anniversary of his birthday, it once was the custom to read in the United States House of Representatives all of George Washingtons Farewell Address. The tradition lost its immediacy with the passage of time and ceased during the 1970s, when Washingtons endorsement of a free republic that assiduously avoided the quarrels of others became increasingly irrelevant to an America mired in Vietnam that was moving in the opposite direction at breakneck speed. I had hoped that the custom might be revived this year by some of the tea partiers, but, alas, could not find a congressman willing to take the lead to honor our first president...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/03/16/a-farewell-address/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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