World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/04-0

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The Financial War Against the Economy at Large

Michael Hudson, Naked Capitalism: Today s economic warfare is not the kind waged a century ago between labor and its industrial employers, and the weapon in this financial warfare is no larger military force. It s debt.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13718-the-financial-war-against-the-economy-at-large



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/17-4

Tree-Sitters in Texas Arrested for Blocking 'Death Machine of Industrial Extraction'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/04-1



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Op-Ed

If the White House is going to act as judge, jury and executioner in targeting individuals with airstrikes, the least it can do is divulge its legal rationale.

http://is.gd/DcbUut



Obama s New Year s Resolution: More Extrajudicial Killing

Welcome to 2013, yet another year of the drone.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33537.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Outrage in Yemen Grows as Deadly US Drone Attacks Expand
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/04-4

Obama Administration Needs to Explain Drone Strikes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/04-11



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By Patrick O'Connor

The latest attacks demonstrate that the drawdown of US-led occupying forces in Afghanistan will be accompanied by an expansion of illegal drone operations across the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33529.htm



US waiting for blowback after drone killing of Pakistani ally

A US drone attack killed an important senior militant commander in Pakistan on Thursday. The Taliban leader was on good terms with the Pakistan military, which makes his death a contentious issue.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-drone-nazir-pakistan-299/



An Afghan Soldier s Journey From Ally to Enemy of America

Although the Taliban have successfully infiltrated the security forces before, they do not always have to. Soldiers and police officers will instead go to them.

http://is.gd/9dtxEz



Armed Yemeni tribesmen rally against drone attacks

A drone killed at least three suspected Al Qaeda militants including a local commander in the town of Redaa on Thursday, the fifth strike by a pilotless plane in the area in 10 days.

http://is.gd/fjE6Ls


From Information Clearing House



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/war-on-terror-never-ends.html

By Any Measure, the U.S. Is the Largest Sponsor of Terror
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/us-largest-sponsor-of-terror.html

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Western Powers Continue to Ignore War on Terror s Blowback
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/21-5



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S.E. Smith, Care2: Approximately every 80 minutes, a US military veteran commits suicide in the United States; for Iraq and Afghanistan, the numbers of veterans lost to suicide now outstrips casualty lists of those killed in action.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13702-suicides-outnumber-battle-deaths-in-the-armed-services



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Tim Kelly

01/03/13

Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 6,000-page report providing a comprehensive analysis of the CIA s detention and interrogation policies. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee chair, released a statement saying that 'the report uncovers startling details about the CIA detention and interrogation program and raises questions about intelligence operations and oversight...

http://tinyurl.com/a3gwzu6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Our Culture Has Failed

Mother, Should I Trust the Government?

By Jim Quinn

People need to perceive they are being manipulated, controlled and used by the thought leaders and awaken from their narcissistic materialistic debt financed lives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33527.htm

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The secret history of the CIA
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-secret-government-1/the-missing-history-of-the-cia.html

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Apology for Torture
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/wolf-n10.1.html



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President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, giving his stamp of approval to a Pentagon spending bill that will keep Guantanamo Bay open and make indefinite detention for US citizens as likely as ever.

http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-ndaa-detention-president-288/



Groups Decry Obama s Failure to Close Guantanamo

By Jim Lobe

For the second year in a row, Obama failed to follow through on his threat and close Guantanamo.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33523.htm



Unmasking the NRA s Inner Circle

The NRA s shadowy leaders include the CEO who sells Bushmaster assault rifles and a top director who lives in Newtown.

http://is.gd/uSbd0h


From Information Clearing House

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Center for Constitutional Rights Condemns President Obama for Signing NDAA
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/03-2

Obama Signs NDAA 2013 Without Objecting to Indefinite Detention of Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/04

The Pentagon as a Global NRA
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/14

How Obsequious Media Coverage Perpetuates NRA Mythology
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/16-8

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Groups Decry Obama s Failure to Close Guantanamo

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: For the second year in a row, Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by both houses of Congress last month and authorizes the Pentagon to spend 633 billion dollars on Guantanamo in 2013.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13727-groups-decry-obamas-failure-to-close-guantanamo



How About Gun Control for the Pentagon?

Laura Flanders, The Nation: If you think American weapons are a problem in the US, look at the damage they are doing abroad.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13892-how-about-gun-control-for-the-pentagon

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Renewing FISA and the NDAA Under Cover of the Fiscal Cliff Debates
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead67.1.html

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Indefinite detention without charges or trial
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/21879.html



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Orange County Register
by Elizabeth Goitein

12/31/12

A little-known presidential advisory committee recently issued recommendations for transforming the way government officials classify national security information. The goal is to rein in the growing problem of over-classification, the classification of information that poses no threat to national security. ... President Barack Obama can, and should, go further. Last year alone, there were 92 million decisions to classify information, and top military and intelligence officials agree that between 50 percent and 90 percent of such material could safely be released. Such massive over-classification threatens national security rather than enhancing it...

http://tinyurl.com/bjloab3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Worse Than Nixon': Pentagon Papers Lawyer on Obama, Secrecy and Press Freedoms
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/20-3



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