World-News: 01 September 2010

One out of every six Americans are in government anti-poverty programs, according to USA TODAY. More than 50 million Americans are in Medicaid. Forty million receive food stamps and 10 million receive unemployment benefits.

http://bit.ly/cq8cvH

Homelessness Up 50% In New York City

If you think you've been seeing more people sleep on city streets, statistics back up the perception. The homeless population living on New York City streets has gone up 50 percent in the past year, according to city statistics reported by the HellsKitchenLife.com blog.

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From Information Clearing House

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:45

The GOP's Masterplan: Obstruct, Smear, Lie, Repeat

By Mike Whitney

By the time the Republicans were swept from office in 2008, the economy was in freefall. Unemployment was rising at 750,000 per month, and all of the main economic indicators were plunging faster rate than after the Crash of '29.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26278.htm

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:38

A Speech for Endless War

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "While now trumpeting the nobility of an Iraq war effort that he'd initially disparaged as 'dumb,' Barack Obama is polishing a halo over the Afghanistan war, which he touts as very smart. In the process, the Oval Office speech declared that every US war - no matter how mendacious or horrific - is worthy of veneration ... With his commitment to war in Afghanistan, President Obama is not only on the wrong side of history. He is also now propagating an exculpatory view of any and all US war efforts - as if the immoral can become the magnificent by virtue of patriotic alchemy."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-speech-endless-war62881

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:21

Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Iraq Occupation

Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond, Truthout: "Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush's infamous 'Mission Accomplished' speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark the withdrawal of all but 50,000 combat troops from Iraq. But while thousands of US troops are marching out, thousands of additional private military contractors (PMCs) are marching in. The number of armed security contractors in Iraq will more than double in the coming months."

http://www.truth-out.org/another-false-ending-contracting-out-iraq-occupation62883

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Oval Office Lovefest

By Mike Whitney

Barack Obama kicked off campaign season in grand style last night with a celebratory "The Iraq War is Over" speech from the Oval Office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26282.htm

Obama's Re-branded Occupation Of Iraq

By Mike Ferner

A veteran's perspective makes it clear that two major points must be made in response to President Obama's announcement regarding combat troops leaving Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26284.htm

Operation Iraqi Freedom Picture Album

WARNING

These Pages Depict The Horror And Reality Of War.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2604.htm

President Bush's "Bring Them On" Picture Album

WARNING

These Pages Depict The Horror And Reality Of War.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm

Take No Prisoners

Another proud moment in U.S. Military History.

U.S. Marines execute an Iraqi to the cheers of fellow marines

-:WARNING:-

This video should only be viewed by a mature audience.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5365.htm

They're Leaving as Heroes?

By William Blum
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26280.htm

A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe.

Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War

By Simon Jenkins

The west is leaving Iraq in a pool of blood, dust and dollars. It remains wedded to Iraq's twin sister in folly, Afghanistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26277.htm

Iraqi women miss Saddam Hussein's days

Women in Iraq bear double burden, feel less secure or free following US-led invasion.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=37856

CBO: US war in Iraq costs $709bn

The cost, published in the CBO's Budget and Economic Outlook, comprises of military expenditure, including training of Iraqi forces and diplomatic operations.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/140723.html

From Information Clearing House

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Farewell to Iraq, but No Talk of Mission Accomplished
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/01

"Iraq Is a Shattered Country"–Nir Rosen on Obama Declaring an End to US Combat Mission in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/09/01-1

Obama Wants Us To Forget the Lessons of Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/01

Two Wars Don’t Make a Right
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/01-1

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US forces 'still in fight at end of combat mission'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9909/

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:16

The Pentagon's Double Envelopment of President Barack Obama

Melvin A. Goodman, Truthout: "President Obama seemed reluctant last year when he announced his decision to enlarge the US military presence in Afghanistan. He demonstrated his uncertainty by combining the decision to send an additional 30,000 soldiers and Marines with a commitment to begin discussions for withdrawal in December of this year in order to begin a withdrawal process in July 2011 ... Now, one general after another is walking away from any discussion of a major review of policy, let alone withdrawal, with on-the-record comments in support of an extended stay in Afghanistan."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-pentagons-double-envelopment-president-barack-obama62876

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:13

Tell the new prime minister of Japan: Dolphins should be protected, not hunted

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:04

Die Bundesregierung schürt Zwietracht

1. September 2010

"Das Haushaltsbegleitgesetz könnte auch von Herrn Sarrazin stammen", erklärt die Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch, zur heutigen Diskussion des Haushaltsbegleitgesetz im Bundeskabinett. Gesine Lötzsch erklärt:

Die Krisenverursacher und Krisengewinnler der Finanzkrise von 2008 werden auch im Haushalt 2011 nicht zur Kasse gebeten. Die Sanierung des Haushaltes wird auf den Schultern von 1,7 Millionen armen Kindern und schwangeren Arbeitslosen abgeladen, denen in Zukunft das Elterngeld gestrichen werden sollen. Sarrazins Buch kam für die Bundesregierung zur rechten Zeit. Keiner soll mehr über die Ackermänner reden, die Milliarden an Steuergeldern verzockt haben, alle sollen jetzt die untauglichen Vorschläge des Herrn Sarrazin diskutieren. Da macht DIE LINKE nicht mit! Wir werden weiter die Verursacher der Krise benennen und fordern, dass sie zur Kasse gebeten werden. Wenn die Banken für den Schaden, den sie angerichtet haben, selbst aufkommen müssten, dann wäre das ganze Kürzungspaket obsolet.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/die-bundesregierung-schuert-zwietracht/

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Sparpaket im Bundestag beschlossen, Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung mit Details vorgelegt

Das Sparpaket der Bundesregierung – Haushaltsbegleitungsgesetz genannt – beinhaltet zu fast 40 % Kürzungen im Sozialbereich, einer der schwerwiegendsten Eingriffe ist die Abschaffung der Rentenversicherungspflicht im SGB II, aber auch Streichung des „Armutsgewöhnungszuschlages“, die Streichung der Nichtanrechnung des Elterngeldes für SGB II-Leistungsbezieher, sowie die Kürzung des Wohngeldes nach dem Wohngeldgesetz durch Herausnahme der Heizkostenkomponente [Bewertung von Harald Thomé]. Siehe den „Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung für ein Haushaltsbegleitgesetz 2011 (HBeglG 2011)“ (pdf) http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/nn_82/DE/BMF__Startseite/Aktuelles/Aktuelle__Gesetze/Gesetzentwuerfe__Arbeitsfassungen/20100901-HHbegl__anl,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf

Mangel im Überfluss

„Ohne großes Aufsehen hat die Bundesregierung ein »Sparpaket« beschlossen, das die Ressentiments gegen die prekäre Unterschicht in Form von Gesetzen festschreibt…“ Artikel von Felix Klopotek in der Jungle World vom 9. September 2010 http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2010/36/41668.html

Aus: LabourNet, 9. September 2010

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 13:15

No surprise at Obama’s Guantanamo trial chaos

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

08/31/10

The problem in both cases is that trials by military commission are inappropriate for any of the prisoners held at Guantanamo, who are either accused of terrorist activities, and should be tried as criminals in the federal court system, or are soldiers seized in connection with their support of the Taliban, wrongly imprisoned in an experimental prison established to permit coercive interrogations, instead of being held in a prisoner of war camp in accordance with the Geneva Conventions...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1008g.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 09:59

Iraq: An end or an escalation?

Campaign For Liberty
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

08/31/10

Amid much fanfare last week, the last supposed ‘combat’ troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq War and a change in the role of the United States in that country. Considering the continued public frustration with the war effort, and with the growing laundry list of broken promises, this was merely another one of the administration’s operations in political maneuvering and semantics in order to convince an increasingly war-weary public that the Iraq War is at last ending...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1086

Acts of contrition

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

09/01/10

Now, Johnnie will come marching home — or will he? We’re told all ‘combat troops’ are being pulled out, but this is just a matter of redefining a redundancy: after all, what, exactly, are ‘non-combat troops?’ Soldiers engage in combat, and our soldiers are still there, although a great many are now ‘private’ contractors: the actual numbers haven’t gone down appreciably. It’s just a matter of word play: of finding the right phrases, the most convincing weasel words to make it all seem right...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/08/31/acts-of-contrition/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 09:42

A Closer Look at Our Basic Needs in a Time of Crisis

Jon Letman, The Hawaii Independent: "Ours is a nation obsessed with security. Two months after the bitter sting of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government formed the Transportation Security Administration and, one year later, the Department of Homeland Security ... Yet as we approach our ninth year of war and occupation in Afghanistan and our eighth in Iraq, Americans have seen security at home eroded by financial collapse, a neglected infrastructure, a hemorrhaging job market, anemic social services and public health care crisis, volatile energy and food markets, and the complex realities of climate change."

http://www.truth-out.org/in-search-real-security-part-one-a-closer-look-our-basic-needs-a-time-crisis62823

"Between the Fences": A Review

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "[Tony] Hefner has authored a book, 'Between the Fences: Before Guantanamo, There Was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center,' which details the struggles of a guard at an immigration detention facility in Texas' Rio Grande Valley to bring to light the numerous instances of sexual and physical abuse, extortion and intimidation experienced by both guards and immigrants at the facility on a regular basis."

http://www.truth-out.org/between-fences62842

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Declare 9-11 “Government Blowback Day”

Strike the Root
by Lawrence Ludlow

08/31/10

This September 11, let’s help to change the ‘meme’ that has been used by the U.S. government to terrorize Americans into submission and to cynically manipulate the grief of those who lost loved ones in the 9-11 attack of 2001. This year in your community, join hands with others who understand the meaning of the event. Carry signs and wear black armbands. Remind people that the civilian victims of September 11, 2001 were the inevitable result of blowback from the U.S. government’s policy of international meddling...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/declare-9-11-government-blowback-day

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 09:27

Entire US-Mexico Border to Be Guarded by Predator Drones

Taylor Barnes, The Christian Science Monitor: "The entire 2,000-mile US-Mexico border will be monitored by drones starting Wednesday when a new Predator drone begins flying from Corpus Christi, Texas, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. There are already three drones operating along portions of the border. Aside from the new drone launched today, money for two more was included in $600 million legislation President Barack Obama signed earlier this month, which ramps up border security ahead of midterm elections on Nov. 2 and as Mexico's heated drug war gains more attention. Meanwhile, Napolitano calls the border safer than ever."

http://www.truth-out.org/entire-us-mexico-border-be-guarded-predator-drones62844

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 09:19