World-News

Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "New evidence has surfaced that the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) may have endorsed on-campus proselytizing by fundamentalist and evangelical organizations, particularly the Cadets for Christ ministry. The Baas family, whose daughter Lauren was converted after entering the school to become a pilot, has been fighting with watchdog group Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) for the USAFA to address the accusations against the academy and Cadets for Christ. The Baas family has alleged that the ministry, which was given free rein by the USAFA to operate on campus, convinced Lauren to abandon her career aspirations and focus solely on an arranged, subservient marriage."

http://www.truth-out.org/family-escalates-fight-against-air-force-academy-allowing-on-campus-proselytizing66161



The "Family": Who Really Is Behind This Secret Organization?

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Jesus plus nothing' is the mantra of the Fellowship, also known as the Family, a secret, fundamentalist Christian organization peopled primarily by devout policy makers and high-ranking individuals. Though the nonbeliever's view of religion can often be dismissive when faced with such catchphrases, in 'C Street,' a nonfiction account of the extended reach of the Family, these phrases fuel moral crusades with real, and terrifying, impact.... In his latest book, Sharlet traces the powerful orthodoxy's chilling influence on governments both inside and outside of the United States as well as the devastating effects of fundamentalism within the military."

http://www.truth-out.org/c-street-review-is-fact-power-its-justification66406

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Cadets For Christ Solicits Letters to the Air Force Academy to Use as Ammo

This is the most recent development in an outrageous story that has been developing over the better part of this year, so, for those who need to be brought up to speed, here's what's going on in as small of a nutshell as I can put it.

http://bit.ly/gfhchC


From Information Clearing House



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The American Spectator
by Doug Bandow

12/17/10

It has been years since the Constitution has had any meaningful impact on what is done in Washington. True, no one challenges the structural provisions -- there are a hundred senators, presidential elections are held every four years, etc. And there are lots of court battles over application of the Bill of Rights, largely because it protects some liberties favored by the Left. But most congressmen pay little, if any, attention to their authority under the Constitution before they pass legislation...

http://tinyurl.com/2fbw5mg



Bend Over and Spread Your Cheeks, Madam

authority Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

12/19/10

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now treating every airline passenger as a potential criminal terrorist suspect. All travelers must line up like prison inmates and submit to humiliating full body searches or be denied access to their flight. Huge x-ray scanner machines allow the government agents to see through clothing and view the naked bodies, genitalia and all, of each suspect in a virtual digital strip search...

http://tinyurl.com/2bd5klv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Naked Man at the Airport
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/sinner1.1.1.html

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TSA 'Terror Baby' Crackdown

Video

The TSA detains an eighteen month old for questioning.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31292.htm

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TSA tried to cover up $184 million in wasteful spending
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/tsa-nonsense-and-abuse/tsa-tried-to-cover-up-184-million-in-wasteful-spending-.html



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Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture. Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries. In sum, Manning has been subjected for many months without pause to inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions of isolation similar to those perfected at America's Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado: all without so much as having been convicted of anything. And as is true of many prisoners subjected to warped treatment of this sort, the brig's medical personnel now administer regular doses of anti-depressants to Manning to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation. Bradley Manning is a whistleblower in the purest and most noble form.

Glenn Greenwald, Salon

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=4260&end=4280&view=yes&id=5671#newspost



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By Aparna Pande

The cables show that contrary to what was said in public the military leadership, including General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, approved drone strikes against Al Qaeda targets and approved US Special Forces being embedded within the Pakistani army fighting in the north-west.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27064.htm



Australia at odds with US on Tehran

Australia is at odds with its major security ally, the United States, over Iran, saying it is not a "rogue state" and its nuclear weapons programme is for deterrence, not attack, according to US cables released by WikiLeaks.

http://gulfnews.com/in-focus/wikileaks/australia-at-odds-with-us-on-tehran-1.730021



Swedish Prosecutor Raises Possible Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder to U.S.

The Swedish prosecutor who asked British authorities to detain Mr. Assange and send him to Sweden for questioning about possible sex crimes, discussed the possibility of sending him to the United States in a statement posted on the Swedish Prosecution Authority's Web site on Tuesday.

http://nyti.ms/fcc7lI


From Information Clearing House

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Air Force cutting off access to WikiLeaks news

CNN

12/14/10

The U.S. Air Force is denying its personnel access to websites carrying documents released by WikiLeaks, including those of some news organizations, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The White House Office of Management and Budget has already forbidden federal employees and contractors from accessing classified documents publicly available on WikiLeaks and other websites via computers or mobile devices...

http://tinyurl.com/25vfd7z



Campaign against Wikileaks is lawless

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

12/14/10

Anyone who values the First Amendment ought to oppose the campaign to ?get? Assange by any means necessary. In a free society, you can?t just ?change the law? to persecute someone you don?t like, and you can?t abuse your position to silence speech you oppose...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12633



The assault on Assange is an assault on liberty

Spiked
by Wendy Kaminer

12/14/10

Julian Assange is not Wikileaks; in other words, whether you regard him as a hero, villain, victim or egotistical malcontent, Wikileaks itself remains difficult to characterize. If it can be blamed for deterring diplomacy, derided for titillating us with diplomatic gossip, or dispensed with faint praise (by activist and writer Todd Gitlin) as the ?Facebook of whistleblowing?, it can also be heralded for providing additional proof (if any were needed) of the gross hypocrisies and moral cowardice of the post-9/11 American security state...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10000/



What the state fears most: Information

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan

History tells a cyclical story of man versus state: man persistently creating new ideas and the state tirelessly laboring to destroy them. Bureaucracy has never been a friend to the ideas that undermine its artificial legitimacy. All too often, history provides us with examples of state-enforced book burnings and other forms of extreme censorship...

http://mises.org/daily/4903



Attempts to prosecute WikiLeaks endanger press freedoms

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

To criminalize what WikiLeaks is doing is, by definition, to criminalize the defining attribute of investigative journalism. That, to be sure, is a feature, not a bug, of the Obama administration?s efforts...

http://salon.com/a/sJSAfAA



Justice for Julian, justice for all!

Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

Everyone who values freedom should be concerned about the arrest of WikiLeaks personality Julian Assange. This is one of those cases that are not just about the accused, but are contests of values. Anyone who wants freedom and truth to triumph over tyranny and censorship should make two specific demands: A fair trial for sexual offenses and no prosecution for free speech...

http://c4ss.org/content/5362


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Grave Domestic Threats to National Security
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff337.html

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Journalists Begin, Finally, to Stand Up in Defense of WikiLeaks and Freedom of Information
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/15-2

USAF Blocks Media Sites over Wikileaks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/15

Personal Democracy Forum: Wikileaks and Internet Freedom
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/12/15-1

?Assangination?: From Character Assassination to the Real Thing
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/15

US Rights Group Criticizes Swedish Prosecutors Discussion of Extraditing WikiLeaks Founder to US
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/12/15



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Christian Science Monitor
by Walt Minnick

12/13/10

Every business person, and anyone who has ever managed a checkbook, knows you can?t survive by borrowing 40 cents of every dollar you spend. Yet this is what our federal government is doing ? with no real improvement projected even after the economy recovers. Tax cuts, trillion-dollar wars, deep recession, and the spending binge of the past 10 years have boosted our national debt to $13.8 trillion, over 90 percent of our total national output (GDP). This is two and a half times what it was 10 short years ago...

http://tinyurl.com/27bh3sn



The tax deal and the apocalypse

Huffington Post
by Dean Baker

12/13/10

The proponents of the tax deal that President Obama and the Republicans negotiated last week have gotten out their TARP and Iraq War hysterics. All the important people are now telling us that if Congress doesn?t approve the package, it will be the end of the world! To be an important person in Washington these days requires a solid record of failure. That is why we have 25 million people unemployed, underemployed or out of the labor force altogether. And those who got us into this disaster are still overwhelmingly the ones calling the shots...

http://tinyurl.com/2ddjng5



Payroll tax cut: Another bailout for the rich

Our Future Blog
by Daniel Marans

12/13/10

We already know the proposed $120 billion payroll tax cut in President Obama?s deal with the Republicans poses tremendous risks to Social Security. Now, an analysis done by Nancy Altman, Co-Director of Social Security Works, reveals that it is altogether bad policy. ? State and local workers who are not covered by Social Security, including policemen and firefighters, would receive nothing from the plan. Americans seeking employment would also see nothing from the payroll tax cut...

http://tinyurl.com/2eoa6s7



No, really ? we can!

Boston Globe
by Heather Boushey

12/13/10

?Yes, we can.? That was Barack Obama?s mantra as he took the helm of the nation nearly two years ago. Even though the economy looked scary, he ? and we ? had a sense of optimism that we could fix it. Not only would we avoid a second Great Depression, but we?d make things better. Since then, we?ve successfully pulled back from the precipice. Private employers have added jobs for 10 straight months. In September, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the recession ended in June 2009. And yet despite these improvements, we seem to have lost our can-do conviction that the economy can indeed improve, that we can again create good jobs for all who need them...

http://tinyurl.com/28knomo



Charting the US fiscal catastrophe

Zero Hedge
by Tyler Durden

12/12/10

With little fanfare, the November budget deficit of $150.4 billion was reported, which happened to be the worst fiscal November in the history of the US, and just out of the top 10 of worst deficit months ever, including the traditionally weak seasonal months of December, April and September (indicatively, the worst deficit month was the February 2010 $221 billion)...

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/charting-us-fiscal-catastrophe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Tax Cuts Create Jobs? Prove It
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/14-8

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The Next Financial Meltdown

State Budgets: The Day of Reckoning

Video

The day of reckoning is at hand. Steve Kroft tells us what we need to know about the looming financial crisis that almost no one is talking about.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27117.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/did-bp-know-well-would-blow.html

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Court Approval of Bargain-Basement Plea Deal for Halliburton Energy Service s Destruction of Evidence Is a Travesty
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/19-8



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Julian Assange's Lawyers Warn of Imminent US Charges
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/10-3

UN Rights Boss Concerned at Targeting of WikiLeaks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/10-0

International Manhunt for Julian Assange
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/12/10-0

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Interview with Julian Assange
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/assange2.1.1.html

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US Assange indictment 'unconstitutional'
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/us-assange-indictment-unconstitutional-20101211-18t5j.html


Informant: Bob Banner

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Julian Assange Internet Wars
https://groups.google.com/group/freepage-news/t/7525d16b8c99211d?hl=en

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What's new about Wikileaks?
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10022/

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WikiLeaks cables: Pfizer 'used dirty tricks to avoid clinical trial payout'

Cables say drug giant hired investigators to find evidence of corruption on Nigerian attorney general to persuade him to drop legal action.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/09/wikileaks-cables-pfizer-nigeria



Did Pfizer Bribe Its Way Out of Criminal Charges in Nigeria?

By Walter Armstrong

The cables suggest that the world's largest drugmaker may have blackmailed the head of Nigeria's Ministry of Justice into dropping a $6 billion criminal lawsuit.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27149.htm



WikiLeaks cables: Consult us before using intelligence to commit war crimes, US tells Uganda

The US told Uganda to let it know when the army was going to commit war crimes using American intelligence - but did not try to dissuade it from doing so, the US embassy cables suggest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-cables-uganda-war-crimes



Putin leads backlash over WikiLeaks boss detention

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Thursday led growing support from some world leaders for the beleaguered WikiLeaks founder, describing his detention in Britain as "undemocratic".

http://bit.ly/fj9y7N



Europeans Criticize Fierce U.S. Response to Leaks

For many Europeans Washington's fierce reaction to the flood of secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks displays imperial arrogance and hypocrisy, indicating a post-9/11 obsession with secrecy that contradicts American principles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/world/europe/10wikileaks-react.html?_r=1



Chomsky signs Australian letter of support for Assange

Renowned American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky signed an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday urging her to make a "strong statement" in support of Julian Assange.

http://bit.ly/e9oH8B


After 12 days of WikiLeaks cables, the world looks on US with new eyes

Reaction across the globe to the leaked US embassy cables has ranged from anger and bitterness to extreme indifference.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/10/wikileaks-reaction-world-reaction



WikiLeaks: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of two credit card companies'

New cables released by the WikiLeaks website disclose how Visa and Mastercard received lobbying support from the Obama administration.

http://bit.ly/hllttK



Assange Lawyer: Rape Allegations a "Stitch Up"

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's lawyer tells CBS News that rape and sexual molestation allegations against his client in Sweden are a "stitch up," and the Swedish prosecutor's failure to provide him with documentation on the claims, or any evidence, makes it impossible to begin crafting a legal response.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20025111-503543.html



Amazon Kindles cash from Wikileaks

Won't host the leaked cables but will sell them: Amazon's UK tentacle is selling a Kindle version of the Wikileaks documents for £7.37.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/09/amazon_sells_wikileaks/


From Information Clearing House



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WIKILEAKS AVOIDS SHUTDOWN AS SUPPORTERS WORLDWIDE GO ON THE OFFENSIVE
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10018/

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Wikileaks Mirrors

Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 1334 web sites
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27007.htm



WikiLeaks Shows America's Imperious Attitude to Pakistan

By Simon Tisdall

Leaked US diplomatic cables published by the Guardian show the extraordinary extent to which Pakistan is in danger of becoming a mere satrapy of imperial Washington.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27023.htm



Free Julian Assange! Hands off WikiLeaks!

By Bill Van Auken

It is almost certain that the ultimate goal of the shoddy legal frame-up is to have Assange extradited to the United States to be tried as a spy or even as an accomplice of terrorism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27025.htm



Wikileaks and the Diplomacy of Secrecy

Video

Gareth Porter, Investigative Journalist and Ray McGovern, Retired CIA Analyst discuss Wikileaks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27022.htm



WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed

US embassy cables reveal top executive's claims that company 'knows everything' about key decisions in oil-rich Niger Delta.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-cables-shell-nigeria-spying



Top human rights lawyer to defend Assange

Robertson, a barrister who has dual British and Australian nationality, has participated in some of the highest-profile freedom of speech trials in British history.

http://www.thelocal.se/30706/20101208/



Cyberattacks Are Retaliation for Pressure on WikiLeaks

Targets included Mastercard.com, which stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks; Amazon.com, which revoked server space from the group; the online payment service PayPal, which cut off its commercial cooperation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/09wiki.html?hp


From Information Clearing House

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WikiLeaks: The Man Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/man-who-kicked-hornet-nest.html

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Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/08-5

This Case Must Not Obscure What WikiLeaks Has Told Us
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/08-0

From Jefferson to Assange
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/08-2

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Leaks and leakers

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

12/09/10

Contrary to the message emanating from the chattering media, WikiLeaks has embarrassed many but it has neither killed nor endangered anyone. Washington?s relationships with most foreign nations are based on mutual interests and they will continue in spite of concerns expressed by Hillary Clinton and others. And the positive far outweighs any potential negatives...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/12/08/leaks-and-leakers/



Wikileaks vs. the empire

CounterPunch
by Eric Walberg

12/08/10

The sides are lining up, much like Bush predicted in 2001 with his ?You are with us or against us.? A brave Aussie, a principled French judge, an American libertarian congressman, a youthful computer nerd ? the enemies of empire come in all shapes and sizes...

http://counterpunch.org/walberg12082010.html



WikiLeaks: The problem is America?s imperial foreign policy

Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

12/08/10

The WikiLeaks disclosure of U.S. diplomatic cables has stirred a storm of outrage in Washington, generating apparently serious calls to execute individual leakers and bomb media organizations. Yet despite the abundant egg over the faces of many American officials, there?s little evidence of significant harm to U.S. security. In fact, not much in the documents is new...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1232


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Want To Find the Best WikiLeaks Mirror Site?
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/2138045/12759198/130760/0/

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Wikileaks: Stop the crackdown
http://www.avaaz.org/en/wikileaks_petition/?cl=850233236&v=7730



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Policy makers in China, which holds $883.5 billion in U.S. Treasuries, are concerned the nation with the world's biggest economy is debasing its currency.

http://bit.ly/fyqd5b



Millions Bracing for Cutoff of Unemployment Checks

More than two million jobless Americans are entering the holiday season seized with varying levels of foreboding, worry or even panic over what lies ahead as they cope with the expected cutoff of their unemployment benefits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/us/04unemployed.html?_r=2&hp


From Information Clearing House



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By Braden Holly

President Hamid Karzai's half-brother, is getting paid by the CIA and that thousands of other officials are being paid off. That, in my mind, is corruption," said Pratap Chatterjee, an author and columnist for the Guardian. "A lot of the biggest money in Afghanistan is U.S. military and State Department contracts."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26984.htm



Why Amazon Caved, and What It Means for the Rest of Us

By Lauren Kirchner

Amazon Web Services dropped WikiLeaks material from its servers on Tuesday, a move that is widely assumed to be a direct response to pressure from the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26982.htm



Rightwing Nut Job Says: Assassinate Assange

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

Web provocateur undermines war on terror, threatens American lives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26986.htm



The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange

By David Samuels

Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents available on Wikileaks -- and, predictably, no one is grateful.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26985.htm



History Will Win

By Julian Assange

The Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with significant material from the US and other countries to over 100,000 people in encrypted form. If something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26987.htm



Is WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a Hero?

By Democracy Now!

A debate between Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who has become a leading critic of WikiLeaks, and Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and legal blogger for Salon.com.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26988.htm



John Pilger - Wikileaks - The War You Don't See

Audio

Award winning journalist John Pilger speaks on Australian radio about the absurdities put forward by members of the American government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26992.htm



Myth of "American Exceptionalism"

The Ultimate, Pernicious Howler

By Robert Becker

Beyond the '50's jingoism of "America, right or wrong," the right now stays this course, "America, never wrong." We must be special, the chosen elect, morally superior to every other country. Why else would an omnipotent God put us in charge? End of discussion. Frankly, the Roman Empire was more culturally tolerant.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26991.htm



Vietnam: The Last Battle

By John Pilger

Vietnam was allowed to join the World Trade Organization and qualify for World Bank loans provided it embraced the "free market," destroyed its free public services and paid off the bad debts of the defunct Saigon regime: money which had helped bankroll the American war. The reparations agreed by President Richard Nixon in the 1973 Paris Peace Accords were ignored.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26990.htm



Latin America's Twenty First Century Capitalism and the US Empire

By James Petras

Insofar as militarism defines the policies and strategies of the US Empire there is no remedy for the challenges of lumpen power in its 'backyard'. And Washington has nothing on offer to recapture a dominant presence in Latin America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26989.htm



Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen

A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks shows that the US military covered up the killing of dozens of civilians during a cruise missile strike in south Yemen in December 2009.

http://bit.ly/fl9WEL



Hillary Clinton rejects criticism of UK Army

The diplomatic cables said US officials and Afghan President Hamid Karzai believed UK forces were not up to the task of securing Helmand province.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11914818



Dozens Of Major Military Contractors Granted Legal Immunity

Taxpayers may be on the hook if U.S. military contractors in Iraq incur liability while carrying out their work.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/military-contractors-legal-immunity_n_791330.html



Cables reveal frank U.S. views on Latin America, from Argentina to Venezuela

The global fall-out over the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables continues to trickle into Latin America, where leaders are responding to a variety of disclosures that reveal frank opinions on governments with whom the United States has sometimes had tense relations.

http://lat.ms/gU9sfW



WikiLeaks cables: Seven key things we've learned so far

Some in the media glibly dismissed the US embassy cables at first, but such WikiScepticism is on the wane.

http://bit.ly/hHjjiQ



Wikileaks offline; faces triple threat

Although the site has lost its domain name service - meaning its web address Wikileaks.org no longer works - the site can still be accessed via its less user-friendly IP address.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/wikileaks-offline-faces-triple-threat-134238



Amazon's Wikileaks Takedown

As a society, we have reached a place where the only way to protect some sorts of speech on the Internet is through one of only a couple dozen core Internet organizations. Totally ceding decisions about control of politically sensitive speech to that handful of actors, without any legal process or oversight, is a bad idea

http://bit.ly/fEe7rq



State Dept. warning prospective recruits to steer clear of Wikileaks
http://bit.ly/hTmIPR



When it comes to Assange rape case, the Swedes are making it up as they go along

by Melbourne barrister James D. Catlin, who acted for Julian Assange in London in October.

http://bit.ly/ep9QVn


From Information Clearing House



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