World-News

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "As we celebrate Christmas 2010, 100,000 US troops languish in Afghanistan, and Bradley Manning sits in 'maximum custody' in Quantico for the alleged crime of disclosing classified 'secrets' about US foreign policy - 'secrets' like the video of US troops killing two Reuters employees in Iraq, a video that the US military refused to release to Reuters. It is a particular stain on our country to be at war during the Season of Peace, just as it is a particular stain on our country to be at war during the Olympics. 'Peace on Earth' should stick in our throats a bit this holiday season, when our own government is bombing other people's countries, a practice which we have, so far, been unable to stop."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-christmas-truce-1914-threat-national-security66325



US to Vatican: Genetically Modified Food Is a "Moral Imperative"

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "Secret United States diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks detail efforts to promote genetically modified (GM) crops and biotechnology across the globe, including the Vatican, where US diplomats pushed the Roman Catholic Church to support biotech food in developing nations. Cables from embassies in Spain, Austria and even Pakistan reveal the US diplomats have clearly sided with the biotech industry, even as court cases and public debates over GM food raged in the US and abroad."

http://www.truth-out.org/us-vatican-genetically-modified-food-is-a-moral-imperative66369

--------

The treasonous US government

Strike The Root Strike the Root
by Scott Lazarowitz

12/28/10

The ongoing WikiLeaks affair has been an expose of who really understands the principles that define America, and who is truly confused. The 'classified' leakers and their publishers ... are merely attempting to expose the State and its crimes as well as its outright ridiculousness and irrationality. The ones who defend the State?s intrusions abroad, the killing of innocents, the occupations of foreign lands, the removal of due process through renditions, indefinite detentions and assassinations without cause or even suspicion, are the ones who want to suppress any exposing of those State crimes...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/treasonous-us-government



State lawlessness on the rampage

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

12/28/10

The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and more intrusive police state, more unemployment and home foreclosures, no economic recovery, more disregard by the US government of US law, international law, the Constitution, and truth, more suspicion and distrust from allies, more hostility from the rest of the world, and new heights of media sycophancy...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts12282010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Capital's War Against WikiLeaks
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/29-11



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+crimes
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=classified+information
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rendition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=indefinite+detention
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recovery
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=genetical+modified
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Naiman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Scott+Lazarowitz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+Levine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Ludwig

-----

Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "While much condemnation has rightly been expressed toward Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, a less-reported and potentially more sinister measure is set to take effect on January 1, 2011. This new law, which was passed by the conservative state legislature at the behest of then-School Superintendent (and now Attorney General-elect) Tom Horne, is designated HB 2281 and is colloquially referred to as a measure to ban ethnic studies programs in the state. As with SB 1070, the implications of this law are problematic, wide-ranging and decidedly hate filled."

http://www.truth-out.org/arizona-bans-ethnic-studies-and-along-with-it-reason-and-justice66340



Ethnic Studies Classes Illegal in Arizona as of January 1

Lourdes Medrano, The Christian Science Monitor: "A controversial Arizona law targeting ethnic studies in public schools will take effect come midnight.... The law bans classes that promote the overthrow of the United States government and resentment toward a race or class of people. Also outlawed are courses designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group and those that advocate ethnic solidarity rather than treat students as individuals. In Arizona, critics claim that the law ? along with the partially suspended immigration law ? threatens to make the state a "new South" of discrimination against minorities."

http://www.truth-out.org/ethnic-studies-classes-illegal-arizona-jan-166457

--------

More states following Arizona on Know-Nothing appeasement

Bloomberg News

12/29/10

Arizona?s get-tough approach to illegal [sic] immigration has sparked court challenges likely to take years to resolve. Randy Terrill, a Republican state lawmaker from Oklahoma, won?t be waiting to see what judges decide. Terrill is among dozens of state legislators drafting measures that match or go further than the Arizona law, which requires police to check the immigration status of people stopped for questioning...

http://tinyurl.com/28x8zzp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=conservative
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=immigr
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Randall+Amster
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lourdes+Medrano
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/28-3



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Pharma
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ralph+Nader
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/12/28-0

--------

The GOP Plan to Force State Bankruptcy to Cripple Public Employee Unions

Video

Countdown With Keith Olbermann: James Pethokoukis, money and politics columnist for Reuters, talks about apparent Republican support for allowing states to declare bankruptcy as a means of undermining unions.

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-plan-force-state-bankruptcy-cripple-public-employee-unions66326



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=employee+unions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tax+cut
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Olbermann
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/28-1



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
-----

Analysis

The $700-billion bank bailout, launched in the final months of the Bush administration, was meant to save US financial institutions from a systemic collapse. But an analysis of banks' earnings statements concludes that nearly 100 bailed-out banks are at risk of collapsing all the same.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/100-bailed-out-banks-may-collapse/



Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million:

Among the report's most troubling findings: The number of Americans without any health care coverage grew by more than four million in 2009. That left almost one-fifth of non-elderly people uninsured. Among those between 19 and 29 years old, nearly one-third lacked coverage.

http://huff.to/gN7ZzN


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bailout
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collaps
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=healthcare
-----

Such an order would be further acknowledgment by Obama that his campaign pledge to close Guantanamo Bay will remain unfulfilled for the foreseeable future.

http://wapo.st/gMPhIk



Guantánamo is "A Piece of Hell that Kills Everything"

By Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington reveals a distressing letter from Guantanamo by Yemeni prisoner Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27167.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=executive+order
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=what+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detainee
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Abdul+Latif
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington

-----

The Wikileaks revolution isn't only about airing secrets and transacting information. It's about dismantling large organizations-from corporations to government bureaucracies. It may well lead to their extinction.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/80481/game-changer?page=0,0



WikiLeaks Exposed US and Hillary's Hopelessness

By Robert Fisk

That Clinton should want her State Department slaves to play secret agents on the poor old UN shows what an utterly worthless institution the US State Department has become.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27143.htm



The Merger of Journalists and Government Officials

By Glenn Greenwald

It's not news that establishment journalists identify with, are merged into, serve as spokespeople for, the political class: that's what makes them establishment journalists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27146.htm


2011

By Paul Craig Roberts

The most uncomfortable truth that emerges from the WikiLeaks saga is that American public discourse consists of cries for revenge against those who tell us truths.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27141.htm


From Information Clearing House

--------

Julian Assange: Man of the Decade

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

12/28/10

It?s an old cliche, but the 9/11 terror attacks changed everything, and to act bewildered about where Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are coming from, with their demands of government transparency and accountability and of a corporate reckoning is as absurd as it is insincere. We all know where they come from. We created them...

http://tinyurl.com/23qkn49


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hillary
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Government
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Business
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wikileaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
-----

Truthout
by Shay Totten

12/24/10

You?ve probably heard of Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Maybe even Bradley Manning, the Army private and former intelligence officer who allegedly turned over thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks. But chances are you don?t know the name Thomas Drake, a former Vermonter charged under the Espionage Act for mishandling classified information. His alleged crime? Drake blew the whistle on a wasteful surveillance program within the National Security Agency...

http://www.truth-out.org/keep-state-secrets66236



Who will free Bradley Manning?

CounterPunch
by Eric Patton

12/27/10

If the left hasn?t figured out how to free Mumia, Peltier, or Lynne Stewart, why should anyone believe it will free Manning? The left will fail to free Manning, and then it will flit on to its next cause celebre.The right doesn?t operate this way. And actually, neither does the left. The right knows what it wants. The left only thinks it knows what it wants. What the left really wants is to be able to solicit donations, raise money, and get paid...

http://counterpunch.org/patton12272010.html



The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

Bradley Manning Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

12/27/10

For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. ... it is just inconceivable that someone who claims to be a 'journalist' -- or who wants to be regarded as one -- would actively conceal from the public, for months on end, the key evidence in a political story that has generated headlines around the world...

http://salon.com/a/sdSEfAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Bradley Manning's Holiday Statement
http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2010/12/mannings-holiday-statement.html


From the NEWS ON ONE CLICK



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+secrets
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=classified+document
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wikileaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mumia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Leonard+Peltier
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lynne+Stewart
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eric+Patton
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
-----

Die UN will jetzt die Haftbedingungen von Bradley Manning untersuchen. Das Pentagon wertet diese als korrekt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33923/1.html



Die zensierte Folter

Weil es Folter in Spanien angeblich nicht gibt, werden nun auch Bücher zum Thema zensiert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33945/1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Folter

-----