World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-2

Poverty in America
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/17

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We must focus on the working poor

Reuters
by Brandon Roberts

01/15/13

In many respects the economy is healing, as both the unemployment rate and hiring statistics slowly improve. But there are growing numbers of Americans being left out. These are not just the unemployed. Rather they are families that, despite having a working adult in the home, earn less than twice the federal poverty income threshold, a widely recognized measure of family self-sufficiency. They are working, but making too little to build economically secure lives. And their number has grown steadily over the past five years...

http://tinyurl.com/cc6mah4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick

Obama has not challenged U.S. perpetuation of the most powerful and far-reaching empire in human history with an estimated 700 to 1,000 foreign bases.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33618.htm



World War in Asia?

By Linh Dinh

With the Asia Pivot, the US wants to encircle China, and supplies old and new allies with missiles aimed at its main rival. An amped up arms race means cash flow for the world s biggest death dealer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33620.htm

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The Endless Arms Race
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/21-1



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Cyril Mychalejko, Truthout: The tendency to invoke a national security framework in discussions of climate change can lead to misguided and opportunistic policies centered on greenwashed imperialism.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13917-turtles-and-tomahawk-missiles-together-at-last-war-is-not-the-answer-to-climate-change

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Climate Scientists to Obama: Heed the Planet s Warnings, Reject the Tar Sands Pipeline
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-5

Outrage as ''Public'' Locked Out of ''Public Hearings'' on Tar Sands Pipeline
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/15-3

Keystone XL: A Clear Test for Obama s Lofty Climate Promises
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/22

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Keystone s Tar Sands Waste Said to Warm Climate More Than Coal

Refining Canada s oil sands into gasoline may speed global warming more than previously estimated after accounting for use of a waste product, which can be burned like coal.

http://is.gd/nqs6yI


From Information Clearing House



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Palm Beach Post

01/14/13

Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic...

http://tinyurl.com/bk2thfl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sex Crimes Continue to Plague US Military

Sarah L. Blum, Truthout: A culture of fear, intimidation and entitlement allows sexual predators at all levels and branches of the armed services free access to military women (and men), who often have little recourse.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13923-a-target-rich-environment-sex-crimes-continue-to-plague-the-us-military

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Army psychologist critical of military rights abuses commits suicide

He went to Iraq to help U.S. troops manage post-traumatic stress disorder, and returned with the disorder, according to news reports.

http://is.gd/rD3amv


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/153494



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By Patrick C. Doherty

America has never confronted a global challenge of the type or magnitude it faces today. If it does not change course, the United States will be racked by violent storms, both figurative and literal, as the global order breaks down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33604.htm



US playing strategic arms game

The US has allocated more funds for the development of Prompt Global Strike, a system that can deliver a precision non-nuclear weapon strike anywhere in the world within 1 hour.

http://is.gd/xTDcnZ


From Information Clearing House

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Republicans creating their worst nightmare

The American Prospect
by Jamelle Bouie

01/15/13

Two years ago, when S&P downgraded the credit rating of the United States, they didn t cite our debt or our spending. Instead, they knocked our political system, and in particular, the dysfunction and institutional creakiness that made a debt-ceiling stand-off possible: 'The downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenge,' said the company in a statement released that summer. We are just two weeks into 2013, but it s already clear that the 'effectiveness, stability, and predictability' of our institutions is in question...

http://tinyurl.com/cqmj4xx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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America s False History Allows the Powerful to Commit Crimes Without Consequence

Mark Karlin, Truthout: Seasoned journalist Robert Parry offers a thoroughly researched account of how the Republican Party and neocons have conspired to create a false narrative about America s political and constitutional history.

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13904-americas-false-history-allows-the-powerful-to-commit-crimes-without-consequence



The GOP s Boldest Election-Rigging Move Yet

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: The Republican Party is preparing for its boldest maneuver yet to ensure Democrats never again win the White House, by changing the way presidential electoral votes are counted.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13938-the-gops-boldest-election-rigging-move-yet

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I am Sick and Tired of Neocons
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2013/01/14/340-im-sick-and-tired-of-neocons/



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By WashingtonsBlog

The situation in Mali is simply a convenient, after-the-fact rationale for a long-planned expansion of the U.S. military footprint in Africa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33601.htm



The Bombing of Mali Highlights all the Lessons of Western Intervention

By Glenn Greenwald

The west African nation becomes the eighth country in the last four years alone where Muslims are killed by the west.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33611.htm



Mali and the Scramble for Africa: A New Wave of Barbarism

By Ben Schreiner

The notion that the West s renewed interest in Africa is derived from an altruistic desire to help African states combat terrorism and establish democracy is rather absurd.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33622.htm



The War on Libya, Blowback in Mali

By Owen Jones

France used tactics of divide-and-rule in Mali, leading to entrenched bitterness between the nomadic Tuareg people, the base of the current revolt, and other communities in Mali.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33619.htm



Preplanned Mali invasion reveals France s neo-colonialistic agenda

By Finian Cunningham

The precise nature of this ''Islamist threat'' from Mali is never spelled out or evidenced...We are expected to accept the word of Paris, London and Washington, the rogue states that have and are conducting illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33633.htm



By Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria

By Tony Cartalucci

These very same terrorist forces continue to receive funding, arms, covert military support, and diplomatic recognition in Syria, by NATO, and specifically the US and France.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33636.htm



2013 and the new Scramble for Africa

By Chris Marsden

The governments and corporations based in Washington, Paris, London and Beijing rely upon the myriad corrupt local regimes and movements to man their predatory wars and to police the brutal exploitation of the workers and poor peasants.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33637.htm



Stay Out of Mali

By Dan Simpson

French aircraft bombing Malian towns and French troops defending the capital of an African country carries with it the strong, pungent odor of neocolonialism, whatever ''terrorist'' label the French may try to put on the Malian rebels.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33648.htm



Burn, Burn: Africa s Afghanistan

By Pepe Escobar

Forget about spotting any Americans; these are, what else, contractors who do not wear military uniforms.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33656.htm



Algeria and Mali: An Obscene Remake of Earlier Western Interventions

By Robert Fisk

We are outraged not by the massacre of the innocents, but because the hostages killed were largely white, blue-eyed chaps rather than darker, brown-eyed chaps.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33650.htm



Algerian government says terrorists came from Libya

The Algerian government has said that the Islamist guerrillas responsible for capturing and killing a number of hostages came from Libya. Citing European and American security sources, France s Le Figaro newspaper has reported that the attack had been planned well before the French military intervention in Mali.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201301180403.html



France sends troops to secure Niger uranium mines

By Bill Van Auken

Barely two weeks after invading Mali with over 2,000 troops of the Foreign Legion, France has dispatched special forces troops to neighboring Niger to secure uranium mines run by the French state-owned nuclear power company Areva.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33717.htm


From Information Clearing House

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No Military Solution Can Solve Crisis in Mali, says Emira Woods
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/16

Mali: Fragile Democracy and Clumsy US Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/18-10

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Welcome Americans to West Africa s Mysteries
http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis323.html

In Mali, The Interventionist Establishment Already Is Lying About 'Unintended Consequences'
http://lewrockwell.com/scheuer/scheuer19.1.html



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Während im Kongress über Sparen gestritten wird, wären in den USA gewaltige Investitionen vor allem in die Verkehrsinfrastruktur erforderlich, um den Wirtschaftsstandort zu erhalten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38302/1.html



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The CIA has escalated its use of drones in Pakistan, launching seven deadly strikes during the first 10 days of 2013 and killing at least 40 people.

http://is.gd/pRxY4G



U.S. Drones Pound Pakistan, Which Responds by Doing Exactly Nothing

Tribesman rallied on Saturday in the ''thousands'' to protest the killing of Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir, who had reached a truce with the Pakistani military. So far, the main Pakistani politician speaking out against the drones is Imran Khan, who condemned the new strikes on Sunday as a violation of Pakistani sovereign...

http://is.gd/xR7i0E



Drones Bury Beautiful Lives

Video

''A beautiful life was buried and the sound of crying and sorrow arose from peaceful homes. I say that this is inhumane.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33606.htm



CIA Drone Wars Protested at CIA headquarters

Anti-killer-drone activists were joined by participants of Witness Against Torture who were on the last day of their week-long fast and work calling for the closing of Guantanamo, justice for the prisoners there, and an end to torture everywhere.

http://is.gd/xQlJvW



King: I Have a Dream, Obama: I Have a Drone

By Norman Solomon

Crowing about the moral virtues of making war while accepting a peace prize might seem a bit odd, but Obama s rhetoric was in sync with a key dictum from Orwell: ''Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33627.htm



CIA gets exception in upcoming drone strike 'playbook'

The adoption of a formal guide to targeted killing marks a significant, and to some uncomfortable, milestone: The institutionalization of a practice that would have seemed anathema to many before the Sept. 11 , 2001, terrorist attacks.

http://is.gd/pesnc4



British man stripped of citizenship says he was tortured and forced to sign a confession by the CIA. First shocking interview with Mahdi Hashi from his New York cell.

http://is.gd/CbYDwI


From Information Clearing House



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US-Bürger haben im Vergleich zu Menschen in anderen Industrieländern eine kürzere Lebenserwartung und einen schlechteren Gesundheitszustand, ein Expertengremium spricht von einer ''gesundheitlichen Benachteiligung'' der Amerikaner.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38333/1.html

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