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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/07

How Wisconsin Could Turn Austerity into Prosperity: Own a Bank
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/07-9

The Republican Attack on Womens Health Goes Global
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/07-14

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Whats wrong with government debt

Ludwig von Mises Institute Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Robert P. Murphy

03/07/11

The news abounds with arguments and even riots over so-called austerity measures. Whether in the Middle East, Europe, or even certain US states, the public is realizing just how deep a hole various governments have dug for themselves. In this article I'll outline Uncle Sam's position and then explain why it's such a problem...

http://tinyurl.com/4w5qoeb



Iraqi protests make Washington squirm

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

03/08/11

After news that a 'Day of Rage' in Iraq had not only drawn tens of thousands of Iraqis demanding jobs, clean water and electricity, but the wrath of security forces ? at least 29 dead, a hundred journalists rounded up and beaten and police firing into crowds ? one official had this to say: '[The security forces] generally have not used force against peaceful protesters. ? We support the Iraqi people?s right to freely express their political views, to peacefully protest and seek redress from their government.' We would have expected this kind of mealy-mouthed response from nervous apologists for ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the confusing first days of his recent downfall. But this was Iraq, and the man who issued that statement was an American, Aaron Snipe, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Baghdad...

http://tinyurl.com/4ox9b4w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis230.html

Handouts, Morality and Common Sense
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams73.1.html

Buying Friends Creates More Enemies
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul725.html

Is the New World Order Losing the Arabs?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/gabb7.1.1.html

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US, allies edge toward military options for Libya

Salt Lake Tribune

03/07/11

The U.S. and its NATO allies edged closer Monday to formulating a military response to the escalating violence in Libya as the alliance boosted surveillance flights over the country and the Obama administration signaled it might be willing to help arm Moammar Gadhafi's opponents. Europe, meanwhile, kick-started international efforts to impose a no-fly zone...

http://tinyurl.com/63c5crj



Who still believes the West can bomb Libya to freedom?

Spiked
by Mick Hume

03/07/11

The debacle of the British SAS team arrested and kicked out of the country by the Libyan rebels they assumed would welcome their expert advice ?captured? well the crisis of Western policy towards Libya and the wider Arab uprising. If this gathering storm has exposed the fragility of the region?s alleged strongman regimes, then the agonising over how to intervene has confirmed the parlous state of the West?s old great powers...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10267/



Stay out of Libya

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

03/04/11

It?s good to see that the Pentagon is unenthusiastic about military intervention in Libya. But that hasn?t stopped armchair generals such as Sen. John Kerry from pushing for a no-fly zone over that country. Kerry thinks he can make his plan more appealing by couching it in internationalist terms, but we know the American people would bear the brunt of the burden...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1103b.asp



The past and future of American antimilitarism

Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

03/06/11

We should be encouraged by the Rasmussen poll finding that 2/3 of Americans oppose intervention in the Arab nations. However imperfect a reading, it reflects in the national culture a lingering strain of America First sentiment - that disposition against U.S. intervention in foreign squabbles that are not Americans? business, or at least not our government?s business...

http://www.independent.org/blog/index.php?p=9570



The US government: Egypt?s co-tyrant

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
03/08/11

In a scene that almost certainly made Pentagon and CIA officials both angry and nervous, Egyptian protestors stormed the headquarters of the much-feared State Security Investigations agency in Cairo, where they began examining top-secret documents. This is the agency that was primarily responsible for enforcing the Mubarak dictatorship?s war on terrorism and war on drugs with such things as warrantless arrests, indefinite detention, torture, and execution...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-03-08.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Chris Hedges

The global economy is built on the erroneous belief that the marketplace-read human greed-should dictate human behavior and that economies can expand eternally.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27627.htm



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By Mike Whitney

Fed policy in a nutshell. If you want to reverse deflation and ignite a 'global economic recovery'; pump up stock prices. In other words, if we just make the rich even richer, our problems will be solved.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27630.htm



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By Peter G Cohen

Is it in our national interest to maintain over 900 foreign military bases? Why do we need them?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27623.htm



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Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: 'The dramatic and inspiring occupation of the Wisconsin Statehouse in Madison by angry public workers and their supporters over the past few weeks is an exciting preview of what we can expect to see in the halls of Congress before long, as right-wing forces, funded by corporate lobbies and corporate-funded think-tanks push hard for cutbacks in Social Security and Medicare... Here's the big point: Corporate America, and its political lackeys in the Republican and Democratic Parties, know that they are about to confront a dramatically more powerful protagonist in their campaign to kill Social Security and Medicare: the Boomer Retirees.'

http://www.truth-out.org/madison-a-foretaste-things-come-next-big-occupation-could-be-boomers-taking-over-capitol-building682



The Battle of Wisconsin

Eli S. Evans, n+1: 'After my parents got back from a weeklong vacation in Florida, funded in part by the pensions they receive as retired Wisconsin public educators, they went to Madison and, after enjoying lunch at the hip, local-food-oriented The Weary Traveler, took to Capital Square to protest Governor Scott Walker's budget bill.... In itself, that probably won't change the fact that the Battle of Wisconsin is going to end as expected, which is to say, badly. But it may nonetheless give people like my parents and me grounds to continue to believe that, beyond the horizon of the expected, a more human future might yet await us.'

http://truth-out.org/the-battle-wisconsin68256



Incalculable

Kathy Kelly, Truthout: 'Sadly, more and more of us in America are getting used to the idea of child poverty - and even child labor - as our own economy sinks further under the burden of our latest nine years of war, of two billion dollars per week we spend creating poverty abroad that we can then emulate at home. Things are getting bad here, but in Afghanistan, children are bombed. Their bodies are casually dismembered and strewn by machines already lost in the horizon as the limbs settle... Afterward, we deplore the tragedy; we make a pretense of acknowledging the cost of war, but it is incalculable. We can't hope to count it. We actually, finally, have to stop making people like the nine children who died on March 1 pay it.'

http://truth-out.org/incalculable68231



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Unmenschlich ist es auf jeden Fall, eigentlich auch Folter, wie der verdächtige WikiLeaks-Whistleblower Manning vom US-Militär gequält wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149387



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/bradley-manning-forced-nudity.html

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Bradley Manning and the Stench of US Hypocrisy

By Ryan Gallagher

The US condemns human rights abuses abroad yet appears to be allowing the psychological torture of Bradley Manning.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27624.htm



Under Obama, Better to Commit a War Crime Than Expose One

By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis

Recall when candidate Obama said 'government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected from reprisal'?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27628.htm



WikiLeaks Cables Recount How U.S. Pressured Allies

By Bog Egelko

They have received little attention in the United States, but a set of WikiLeaks disclosures of confidential documents has caused an uproar in Europe by showing that U.S. officials pressured Germany and Spain to derail criminal investigations of Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27629.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts296.html



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Linn Washington, Jr., This Can't Be Happening: 'While Pennsylvania's Gov. Corbett is not openly emulating Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker by calling for busting public employee unions, he has said he does support allowing workers at unionized companies to opt out of being members. Further, Corbett supports barring public school teachers from striking, according to that Daily News account... Deceptively described fiscal conservatives like Pennsylvania?s Corbett and Wisconsin?s Walker justify balancing their state?s budgets on the backs of the non-wealthy by calling it 'shared sacrifice'... But Corbett is not sharing the sacrifice among his newly installed top staffers, whose six-figure paychecks are higher than those paid for similar positions under former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.'

http://archive.truthout.org/philadelphia-next-big-target-right-wing-assault-public-employees-and-unions68238



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