World-News

Dean Baker, Truthout: As praise for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pours in, Dean Baker reminds us that while federal bailouts were good for big banks, they were not the saving grace of the American people.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14175-timothy-geithner-saved-wall-street-not-the-economy



As Federal Prosecutors Cash In, Big Bankers Go Unpunished

Richard Eskow, Campaign for America s Future: As Deputy Attorney General Lanny Breuer exits the Obama administration, Richard Eskow reflects on the ''leaders'' that failed their country when it came to economic reform.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14190-as-federal-prosecutors-cash-in-big-bankers-go-unpunished



Geithner Gets a Perch on Wall Street

Jim Hightower, OtherWords: The former treasury secretary is proof the Washington-to-Wall Street revolving door serves the interests of bankers, not the public.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20971-geithner-gets-a-perch-on-wall-street

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Treasury approved ''excessive'' pay for executives at bailed-out AIG, GM and Ally

Washington Post

01/28/13

A watchdog says the U.S. Treasury Department disregarded its own guidelines and allowed large pay increases for executives at three firms that had received taxpayer-funded bailouts during the financial crisis. The Special Inspector General for Troubled Asset Relief Program says Treasury approved 18 raises for executives at American International Group Inc., General Motors Corp. and Ally Financial Inc. Of those requests, 14 were for $100,000 or more. One raise, for the CEO of a division at AIG, was for $1 million...

http://tinyurl.com/asvmasa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Geithner moves from US Treasury to Wall Street

Geithner joins the legions of bank regulators and officials who have leveraged their insider status while in government to land positions in private finance paying millions in salaries and bonuses.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/21/geit-n21.html


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The Danger of the Still-escalating Obama Whistleblower War: Kiriakou and Stuxnet

By Glenn Greenwald

''The president s crackdown chills dissent, curtails a free press and betrays Obama s initial promise to 'usher in a new era of open government.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33738.htm



'US a Police State, Obama Consciously Allows Torture': CIA Veteran

By RT

Ten years ago, the idea of the US government spying on its citizens, intercepting their emails or killing them with drones was unthinkable. But now it s business as usual, says John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent and torture whistleblower.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33804.htm



Meet the Contractors Turning America s Police Into a Paramilitary
Force

By John Knefel

You should know about them because they may already know about you.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33801.htm



US' Betrayal of Truth: Our Silence Is Complicity

Video

Abby Martin sits down with former NSA whistleblower, Thomas Drake, about his personal story as a whistleblower and what he describes as a 'total betrayal' by part of the governmet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33894.htm



If Guantanamo Prisoners Stage a Hunger Strike, Does Anybody Care?

By Adam Clark Estes

''More detainees have died at the camp (nine) than have been convicted of wrongdoing by its military commissions (six).'' And some of these prisoners died without even getting the chance to defend themselves.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34178.htm



U.N. torture sleuth says no U.S. change on Guantanamo detainee access

United Nations' torture investigator Juan Mendez said on Tuesday the Obama administration showed no sign of reversing its position and allowing him access to terrorism suspects in long-term detention at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

http://is.gd/Fr1qOV


From Information Clearing House

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The broken promise of Barack Obama

Heartland Institute
by Benjamin Domenech

01/22/13

If history holds, President Obama s second term will be marked by fewer legislative achievements, more gridlock, and more contentious ideological division than his first. It is hard to see how this is possible. But I suspect we ll soon find that it is inevitable. It s because of the divide between the leader he promised us he would be, and the politician he actually is...

http://tinyurl.com/akdws3y



The president of perpetual war

In These Times
by David Sirota

01/25/13

Four years into his presidency, Barack Obama s political formula should be obvious. He gives fabulous speeches teeming with popular liberal ideas, often refuses to take the actions necessary to realize those ideas and then banks on most voters, activists, reporters and pundits never bothering to notice, or care about, his sleight of hand.

... Never was this formula more apparent than when the president discussed military conflicts during his second inaugural address. Declaring that 'a decade of war is now ending,' he insisted that he 'still believe(s) that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.' The lines generated uncritical applause, much of it from anti-war liberals who protested against the Bush administration. Living up to Obama s calculation, few seemed to notice that the words came from the same president who is manufacturing a state of 'perpetual war'...

http://tinyurl.com/a5m8gb3



A hollow inauguration

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

01/25/13

On January 11, the 11th anniversary of the opening of the 'war on terror' prison at Guantánamo, I was in Washington D.C., with human rights groups, lawyers, anti-torture groups (mostly religious), and other concerned persons, calling on Barack Obama to fulfill the promise he made to close the prison when he took office in 2009...

http://tinyurl.com/bkgpgtm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Torture Was Official US policy
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/02/01

The Rightward Shift of US Politics
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/02/01-0

Attorneys Demand Guantanamo Officials Address Hunger Strike at Camp 6
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/03/04-5



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Belgian MP Laurent Louis stands against war in Mali and exposes the international neo-colonial plot

Video

''Preventative war has become the rule. And today in then name of democracy and the fight against terrorism, our states grant themselves the right to violate the sovereignty of independent countries and to overthrow legitimate leaders''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33733.htm



France kills civilians in Mali

Residents of a Malian town are describing civilian casualties from airstrikes used by France to drive out Islamic militants.

http://is.gd/3ckzXY



Most Terrorist Plots in the US Aren t Invented by Al Qaeda, They Are Manufactured by the FBI

In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department indicted and convicted more than 150 people following sting operations involving alleged connections to international terrorism. Few of these defendants had any connection to terrorists, evidence showed.

http://is.gd/ejXbhD



Responsibility to Protect And The Myth of Large Numbers

By Vijay Prashad

The United States often uses exaggerated civilian casualty numbers to make a case for military intervention in strife-torn regions.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-myth-of-large-numbers/article4497905.ece


From Information Clearing House



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US Federal Reserve is reporting a major deposit withdrawal from the nation s bank accounts. The financial system hasn t seen such a massive fund outflow since 9/11 attacks.

http://rt.com/business/news/us-major-deposit-withdrawal-740/


From Information Clearing House

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On the failure to indict Wall Street bankers for the fraud behind the 2008 financial crisis
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11369/

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Is the Federal Reserve insane?

Campaign For Liberty
by Norm Singleton

The Fed plans these purchases despite its balance sheet already topping $3 trillion. Clearly, the Fed s aggressive asset purchases have not stimulated the economy, in fact, they have weakened the economy and will likely contribute to further economic problems...

http://tinyurl.com/ch6sqku


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Myth of Fed Independence
http://lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard317.html



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The Obama administration sent some 100 military trainers last week to Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Togo and Ghana, the nations that are poised to send their troops to Mali.

http://is.gd/RwiKOB



Before he was overthrown and killed, Muammar Gaddafi warned jihadists would conquer northern Africa

The Islamists would pour in from Afghanistan, Algeria, and Egypt, he warned, saying, ''These are beasts with turbans.''

http://is.gd/b2A6kj



Two Years After Launching Libya Intervention

Arms from Libya are spreading out across the whole continent.

By Alexander Mezyaev

This day in 2011 NATO started combat actions against the Arab Jamahiriya under the pretext of complying with the United Nations Security Council resolution N 1973.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34348.htm


From Information Clearing House

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US Shops for New Drone Base in Africa
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/28-6

How the US Should (or Should Not) Involve Itself in North Africa
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/28



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Das Joint Interagency Counter Trafficing Center hat in Deutschland neben Terrorismus auch Drogen-, Waffen- und Menschenhandel im Visier, die Bundesregierung sieht selbst bei der Kooperation von deutscher Polizei und ausländischem Militär keine Probleme.

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Für den UN-Sonderberichterstatter für Menschenrechte und Terrorbekämpfung ist eine juristische Regelung dringend erforderlich.

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After 9/11, the CIA began planting secret prisons in Poland and Lithuania. The Russian-based RT channel investigates two claims of the existence of these prisons and cam with a remarkable documentary

http://is.gd/kspl7b



CIA s secret prison: 'Poland dragging out investigation'

A Polish investigation into secret CIA jails is being suppressed because it will embarrass the top echelon of the country s government, lawyers of two men held illegally in one of the CIA s 'black sites' in Poland tell media.

http://rt.com/news/poland-investigation-cia-prisons-839/



'CIA used ISI s detention centres in Pak during war on terror'

Detention facilities in Pakistan in which detainees were held at the behest of the CIA include the ISI detention facility in Karachi, which was allegedly used as an initial detention and interrogation point before detainees were transferred to other prisons.

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report__1796508



At Least 20 CIA Prisoners Still Missing

The CIA says it is ''out of the detention business,'' as John Brennan, Obama s pick to head the agency, recently put it. But the CIA s prisons left some unfinished business.

http://is.gd/B60xJu



Imported Torture Haunts Poland

According to a U.S. intelligence source quoted by The New York Times, the prison in Poland was the most important of the CIA s black sites, where terror suspects were subjected to interrogation techniques that would not be legal in the United States. The source claimed that Poland was picked mostly because ''Polish intelligence officials were eager to cooperate.''

http://is.gd/R6byo3



Poland asks European court to hide CIA secret torture prison case from public

Poland has asked the European Court of Human Rights to bar media and public presence during an upcoming hearing on Poland s complicity with the CIA s "extraordinary rendition" program that delivered terror suspects to secret prisons around the world.

http://rt.com/news/poland-cia-prison-european-court-991/



The hidden history of the CIA s (torture) prison in Poland

On a cold day in early 2003, two senior CIA officers arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw to pick up a pair of large cardboard boxes. Inside were bundles of cash totaling $15 million that had been flown from Germany via diplomatic pouch.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-hidden-history-of-the-cias-prison-in-poland/2014/01/23/b77f6ea2-7c6f-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html


From Information Clearing House

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Globalizing Torture: Report Reveals International Rendition Ring
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/05-0

New Interactive Map Shows Flight Path of CIA s Rendition Flights
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/22-1

Poland Faces Charges for Complicity in CIA Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/03-3

In Poland, CIA Paid $15 Million in Cash for Torture Site
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/24-3

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The CIA s Secret Torture Prisons
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/no_author/the-cias-secret-torture-prisons/



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