World-News: USA

Ron Paul and Ralph Nader on corporatism and war

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/28/11

What is American politics coming to? I just watched a joint interview with Ralph Nader and Rep. Ron Paul ? and they were mostly on the same side! Nader has spent his life promoting government intervention in the economy. Paul has spent his life promoting the free market and minimal government. For the two of them to discuss making common cause is something extraordinary.

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101o.asp

Obama?s corporatist big plans

Future of Freedom Foundation Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

01/28/11

Win the future. What did Barack Obama mean when he uttered those ridiculous words in some form more than ten times during his State of the Union speech? Was it just an exhortation or does it have actual content? If 'we' -- who exactly? -- are to win the future, does everyone else have to lose? If not, what?s his point? Are we even meant to think about this?

http://tinyurl.com/4hvxwws

What saving the nation will cost

Orange County Register
by Walter E. Williams

The spending path that Congress has chosen for the past half-century is unsustainable and will end up with economic collapse but little or nothing can be done about it unless I'm grossly wrong about the American people. Americans who detest our country and those who love our country are hell-bent, wittingly or unwittingly, on destroying it...

http://tinyurl.com/5u93flt

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ralph+Nader
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=economic+collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporatism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+E.+Williams
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Starmail - 31. Jan, 09:03

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FBI involved in hundreds of violations in national-security investigations

The FBI disclosed to a presidential board that it was involved in nearly 800 violations of laws, regulations or policies governing national-security investigations from 2001 to 2008, but the government won't provide details or say whether anyone was disciplined, according to a report by a privacy-watchdog group.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014078300_violations30.html

From Information Clearing House

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Do you need the Patriot Act?

Downsize DC Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

01/28/11

Forty-five days after 9/11, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act without reading it. This new law was supposed to protect you from terrorism, but it has really left you unprotected against lawless federal agents. ... In 2001 and 2006 concerned members of Congress urged expiration dates on some of the Patriot Act's most controversial powers. Regrettably, Congress has constantly renewed those powers, despite a multitude of FBI abuses. Last year, the extension was passed with just a voice vote! Now, another expiration is at hand -- February 28, 2011...

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/do-you-need-the-patriot-act

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Babka
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Starmail - 31. Jan, 08:52

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Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as "the president who lost Iran," - Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who "lost" Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America's alliances in the Middle East crumbled.

http://bit.ly/i3Oxt4

Chomsky: Elections Today "Public Relations Extravaganzas"

Video - Noam Chomsky Lecture University Of Tennessee

Chomsky discussed the United States' support of dictatorships in Egypt, Tunisia, Georgia, Jordan and Colombia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27381.htm

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The Mideast burns

LewRockwell.Com
by Eric Margolis

01/31/11

As I predicted in this book, and in a column last April, Egypt was headed for a major explosion. America?s Mideast Raj is now on fire. Whether it survives or not remains to be seen. One cannot escape a sense that we may be looking at a Mideast version of the 1989 uprisings across Eastern Europe that brought down its Communist regimes and then the Soviet Union. Americans should be uneasy seeing crowds of Egyptians pleading for freedom and justice watched over by US-supplied tanks.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis225.html

The crack in American exceptionalism

Liberale et Libertaire
by dL

01/29/11

A spectre is now haunting Northern Africa and the Middle East -- the spectre of the collapse of the American-aligned Arab Nation State. What started from a single act of self-immolation by a fruit stand operator in Tunisia has now metastasized into a full-blown revolutionary wave that has spread to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. Ben Ali has already exited to Saudi Arabia and Mubarak may now follow. If Mubarak goes, expect the gated cul de sac community of former dictators in Riyadh to grow. The US Political class reaction, as one would expect, has been dissonant...

http://tinyurl.com/4lnmzwo

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptionalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lebanon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Colombia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/margolis
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Starmail - 31. Jan, 08:42

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