World-News

By Pat Buchanan

A new Middle East is dawning. What will it look like? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27507.htm



Live Updates From The BBC

Protests across the Middle East and North Africa.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12492706



Fresh protests hit Iraqi cities

Reports of deaths as thousands turn out to demand better service delivery and jobs from government.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011218104510878522.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
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CIA-Chef will das Lager, in dem noch immer 172 Menschen festgehalten werden, auch für Bin Laden nutzen, sollte er gefangen werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34217/1.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency

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The Nation
by US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)

02/16/11

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The anthrax attack. The Patriot Act. Those were the themes in a speech which I gave nine years ago in Los Angeles. ... Today the news is about ... the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, the anthrax attack, the Patriot Act. We keep circling back to where we began: One war based on lies, another war based on arrogance and ignorance of history, both eventually contributing trillions to the deficit while we cut non-defense discretionary spending. The war machine is engulfing the rest of the government...

http://www.thenation.com/article/158629/prayer-america



Congressional testimony on the stimulus

Cafe Hayek
by Russ Roberts

02/16/11

Over the last two years, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has injected over half a trillion dollars into the US economy in hopes of spurring recovery and creating jobs. The results have been deeply disappointing...

http://tinyurl.com/4oyydqj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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USA Matriot Act

By Cindy Sheehan

We reject the USA PATRIOT ACT and its draconian oppressions and declare ourselves a free people based on the political and human law that says a government can only have authority over us with our permission.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27525.htm



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Tens of thousands of Wisconsin residents march on the Wisconsin State Capitol at Madison to demonstrate opposition to a proposed plan to end collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin public workers. PR Watch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, is on the ground live blogging from the protests.

http://www.truth-out.org/watch-live-blog-wisconsin-protest-rally-madison-wisconsin67866



Wisconsin Crowds Swell to 30,000; Key GOP Legislators Waver

John Nichols, The Nation: "'I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment,' shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally closing the downtown as tens of thousands of Wisconsinites protested their Republican governor's attempt to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights."

http://www.truth-out.org/wisconsin-crowds-swell-30000-key-gop-legislators-waver67882



Russ Feingold on Union Breaking Efforts by GOP in Wisconsin

Video

The Rachel Maddow Show: "Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United, talks with Rachel Maddow about massive rallies against the Wisconsin governor's anti-union threat and how to politically empower the American working class against corporate greed."

http://www.truth-out.org/rachel-maddow-russ-feingold-union-breaking-efforts-gop-wisconsin67831

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On conservatives versus freedom
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/for-the-love-of-liberty170.html



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Video:

Ron Paul explains why the new Congress is the same as the old when it comes to budget deficits and overspending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siosCGynR-s


From Information Clearing House

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On Obama?s Budget: ?They?re Bankrupting the Country!?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente64.1.html

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Government shutdown?

Indianapolis Star

02/17/11

In a deepening struggle over spending, Republicans and Democrats swapped charges Thursday over a possible government shutdown when money runs out March 4 for most federal agencies. 'Read my lips: We're going to cut spending,' declared House Speaker John Boehner. He pledged that the GOP-controlled House would refuse to approve even a short-term measure at current funding levels to keep the government operating...

http://tinyurl.com/4u24vyg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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By Matt Taibbi

Financial crooks brought down the world's economy - but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27499.htm

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Home Sweet Wall Street

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "A most dastardly deed occurred last Friday, when the Obama administration issued a 29-page policy statement totally abandoning the federal government's time-honored role in helping Americans achieve the goal of homeownership. Instead of punishing the banks that sabotaged the American ideal of a nation of stakeholders by 'securitizing' our homesteads into poker chips to be gambled away in the Wall Street casino, Barack Obama now proposes to turn over the entire mortgage industry to those same banks."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-scheer-home-sweet-wall-street67838



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Wer geheime Dokumente von US-Behörden veröffentlicht, soll nach dem Spionage-Gesetz angeklagt werden können.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149281



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/17-6

Obamaland, Where Right Meets Center-Right
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/17-5



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Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Ivan Eland

02/16/11

"[D]idn?t Secretary of Defense Bob Gates just announce that he was cutting $78 billion over five years from the Department of Defense?s (DoD) budget? Yes, but only in Orwellian Washington, D.C., is a budget cut actually a budget increase. In reality, to forestall deeper reduction, the cagey Gates offered only to cut planned increases in DoD?s future budgets (excluding funds for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars). Thus, the non-war defense budget will still be increasing from year to year, but at a lower rate than the fictional plan...

http://tinyurl.com/4atdlvc



Obama?s sea of red

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Michael D. Tanner

02/15/11

In the days and weeks leading up to the release of his budget, President Obama and his spokesmen warned us that it would contain 'tough choices' and 'painful cuts.' Having increased government spending by 21.4 percent during his first two years in office, Obama would now be intent on imposing 'fiscal discipline.' Hah! By the administration's own estimates, Obama's $3.7 trillion budget would raise this year's budget deficit to $1.65 trillion, the largest pool of red ink since the end of World War II...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12786


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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