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by JB Williams

These folks are just plain old fashioned spoiled beyond rotten. They won’t give our country back or give up the lavish lifestyles that we have to so generously allowed them to live at our expense. We will have to take it all back and there’s no time like the present to begin that process. We can’t change yesterday and tomorrow may never come at the rate we are going. Today is the only day we can do anything about........

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The New Republic
by Michael Mandelbaum

08/10/10

Just as the recession and the new financial regulations will deprive banks and similar institutions of some of the resources they controlled before September 15, 2008, so the scope of America’s international activities will contract in the years ahead because the American government will have far less money with which to conduct the nation’s foreign policy. Because that foreign policy underwrites global stability and prosperity, the contraction of American power will adversely affect countries everywhere, even those that complain about the way the United States uses its power...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/11/10

The smear campaign against Bradley Manning took off the moment he was arrested, with professional snitch Adrian ‘I Have Asperger’s Syndrome’ Lamo detailing how he supposedly ensnared Manning in his web and adding that the young intelligence analyst was merely vying for ‘attention’ by ‘vacuuming up’ all the secret data he could just for the h... of it. … But that was just the beginning of the effort to discredit a very brave and idealistic young man...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How WikiLeaks Is Changing Journalism
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/36b8a8d9cf49fd46?hl=en

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Bradley Manning's guilt and ours

The accused leaker to WikiLeaks appears to have acted out of idealism. Now that we've seen the results of our wars, can we say the same?

http://theweek.com/article/index/206106/bradley-mannings-guilt-mdash-and-ours


From Information Clearing House



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Future of Freedom Foundation

by Sheldon Richman

08/10/10

Thanks to Wikileaks and heroic leakers inside the military, we now know the U.S. government has killed many more innocent Afghan civilians than we were aware of heretofore. We also know that American military and intelligence personnel roam Afghanistan assassinating suspected bad guys. Sometimes they kill people they later acknowledge weren’t bad guys at all. ‘Bad guys,’ like ‘Taliban,’ is implicitly defined as anyone who resists the U.S. occupation force and the corrupt puppet government it keeps in power. What other atrocities are our misleaders and misrepresentatives committing in our name?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1008b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: Beyond the Body Count

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "The United Nations announced on Tuesday that the rate of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is reaching an all-time high as the US-led occupiers escalate a war that has ravaged the country since 2001. The report proves that the situation is getting worse for the people of Afghanistan amid allegations that coalition governments have attempted to cover up recent civilian massacres. The report tracks 2010 civilian casualties up to June 30, and does not include the consequences of escalated fighting during July."

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By Cenk Uygur

These days it doesn't seem politically possible to ever change course. If you start a war, the only acceptable answer is to escalate it. We can never surrender, even if we should.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26119.htm



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By Michael Isikoff National investigative correspondent

Top U.N. official calls defendant a 'child soldier,' says proceedings violate international legal norms.

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Political Prisoners in America

By Stephen Lendman

How do you go into Iraq (and) Afghanistan telling people about their democracy when (you've got innocent people) locked down in prison for 30 - 40 years as political prisoners....(activists) against social injustice, colonialism, and/or imperialism, (incarcerated for) their political commitments."

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Caught in America's legal black hole

Guantanamo still holds 176 detainees, and one of them is about to stand trial - in a test of Barack Obama's resolve to embrace the rule of law.

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Video: 'Child soldier' Gitmo trial draws criticism
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38634007/ns/us_news-security/#slice-2



The Omar Khadr case makes a mockery of US justice

Omar Khadr was a badly wounded boy of 15 when, in 2002, US forces captured him in Afghanistan. As the dust settled on a suspected al-Qaeda compound after a firefight that July, troops discovered him slumped in the rubble among the dead, leaning against a wall.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/08/omar-khadr-case-obama-trial



Amnesty International says Omar Khadr trial should not go ahead

Amnesty said the USA had not listened to repeated appeals from the international community, including senior UN officials, about what it has called the "unfair trial of an individual accused of alleged war crimes committed when he was a child."

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=671610


From Information Clearing House

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Officer off Gitmo “jury” for agreeing with Obama

MSNBC

08/11/10

A veteran U.S. Army officer who agreed with President Barack Obama that the Guantanamo Bay prison should be closed was excluded from the jury in a U.S. military commission trial Wednesday after prosecutors objected that he had ‘pre-conceived’ views that might jeopardize their case. The move came as prosecutors and jurors selected a seven-person jury of military officers to hear the case of Omar Khadr, the so-called ‘child soldier’ accused of hurling a hand grenade that killed an American soldier in a firefight in Afghanistan eight years ago...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Campaign to Get the Facts out on Guantánamo
http://actions.humanrightsfirst.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2275

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Human rights for Guantánamo's Omar Khadr
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=lhKRJUOwEbLQIbI&s=4dLFINOjH6IDJRNqFjF&m=7fKGISNzFjKML2I

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Guantánamo: A Prison That Stains US Moral Authority
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/13-5



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