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Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by James Bovard

02/03/11

The American political system failed when Congress and the media recently rolled over in favor of extending the most onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Despite stark evidence of both the law?s abuses and widespread popular opposition, Bush got a rubber-stamp extension of a law that has come to symbolize boundless government intrusions since 9/11...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1316



Blind faith in American militarism

CounterPunch
by Michael True

02/03/11

Blind faith, adhering to a proposition with no reasonable justification of its truth, is more dangerous for politicians than it is for religionists...

http://counterpunch.org/true02032011.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Austin American-Statesman

02/03/11

A 48-year-old Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay collapsed and died, apparently from natural causes, after exercising inside the jail, the U.S. military said Thursday. Awal Gul fell in the shower Tuesday night after working out on an elliptical machine in Camp 6, a communal section of the Guantanamo reserved for well-behaved prisoners, said military spokesman Army Col. Scott Malcom. The prisoner was taken to the base hospital, where he later died...

http://tinyurl.com/4sgwdoj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Outrageous': Guantánamo Prisoner Dies After Being Held for Nine Years Without Charge or Trial
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/04-6



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/03-13



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/russell-r6.1.1.html

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Governments Continue to Chip Away at Privacy Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/03-4



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey74.1.html

Death and Destruction Are So Heart-Warming?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w194.html

The Tipping Point Has Passed: Sweeping Change Is at Hand
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/edwards-m6.1.1.html

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The unraveling of US Mideast policy

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

02/03/11

The blow to U.S. foreign policy by the popular uprising in Egypt cannot be overstated. The Egyptians? demand that Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt with an iron hand and billions of American taxpayer dollars, step down is unquestionably a major setback to the U.S. governing class and its plans for the Middle East. Since the end of World War II, critics of U.S. policy have warned that defying the people of the region in favor of authoritarian ruling elites was doomed to failure...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1102a.asp



Neither justice nor stability

Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Rhetorical calls for democratic reform notwithstanding, the United States and Europe have backed and funded corrupt Arab dictatorships because they seemed a better rampart against the tidal waves of Islamic fundamentalism than any alternative. Arab dictatorships, of course, achieved neither justice nor stability...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2979


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north938.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/03-0

Inspired by a Revolution in Our Midst, Worried About a Revolution in Our Atmosphere
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/03



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/03-3



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Barry Eisler, American Constitution Society Blog: "Here's what I thought when I heard the Conservative Political Action Conference has decided to honor former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with something CPAC calls the 'Defender of the Constitution Award.' As I imagine CPAC is aware, Rumsfeld is the man who signed the very first memo authorizing the torture techniques that later became infamous with the revelations of photos from Abu Ghraib prison."

http://www.truth-out.org/donald-rumsfeld-defender-constitution-really67419



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This is a good moment to take a look at where else in the world American taxpayer dollars are helping to prop up dictatorships with poor human rights records.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/02/american_allies_dictators/index.html


From Information Clearing House



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