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CounterPunch
by Robert Fisk

06/11/06

So, it's another 'mission accomplished.' The man immortalized by the Americans as the most dangerous terrorist since the last most dangerous terrorist, is killed -- by the Americans. A Jordanian corner-boy who could not even lock and load a machine gun is blown up by the US Air Force -- and Messrs Bush and Blair see fit to boast of his demise. To this have our leaders descended. And how short are our memories...

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk06102006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr

06/09/06

There are leaks from the Ship of State, and then there are leaks. There are punitive leaks, like the outing of a covert CIA officer, whose husband had offended the White House by contradicting its position on Iraq's interest in nuclear weapons. There are public-spirited leaks by whistle-blowers, lifting the veil on secret prison camps and warrantless wiretapping. And then there are leaks of bogus information, sometimes called disinformation, intended to influence public opinion in some direction. Such a leak was the planting of information that Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwan-born nuclear scientist working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, had been identified as a spy for China...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0609/p09s02-cods.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.fredoneverything.net/Athens.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

06/11/06

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says he's prepared to force telephone company executives to testify about the White House's eavesdropping program if the Bush administration doesn't fully cooperate in drafting new rules on what's allowable. 'If we don't get some results, I’m prepared to go back to demand hearings and issue subpoenas if necessary,' Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Sunday on CNN's 'Late Edition.' Specter said he was more hopeful, after talking Thursday with Vice President Dick Cheney, that committee hearings and subpoenas could be avoided... [editor's note: What is this "drafting new rules" stuff? The FIRST step is prosecuting the thugs, not trying to find a way to give them legally what they took illegally - TLK]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13262308/

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=9117


Informant: Kev Hall

Not only are America's prisons and jails largely failing the 13.5 million adults who pass through them each year, but the American public is also failing the prisons and jails, a bipartisan study group concluded in a report released Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060906O.shtml

The Case of the Missing $21 Billion
http://counterpunch.org/lindorff06072006.html



Army has to turn over Halliburton docs

A U.S. district court judge has ordered the Army to release 14 documents, including six emails, dealing with the Halliburton oil contract in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/m3b2o


From Information Clearing House

On a voice vote, the House defense appropriations subcommittee passed a $427 billion measure for the Pentagon budget year that begins Oct. 1, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,100181,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The poll, found that 59 percent of adults say the United States made a mistake in going to war in Iraq - the highest level yet in AP-Ipsos polling.

http://tinyurl.com/hy39x


From Information Clearing House

06/07/06

When they're not lying, they're obfuscating. When they're not obfuscating, there's no comment, or the information is 'classified'. All through the cast of characters that comprise the Bush administration -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Ashcroft, Gonzales, et al -- none of them have ever been open and honest about any matter of policy. And these are the people whose version of what happened on 9/11 has been accepted as the truth of the matter...

http://www.unknownnews.org/060607a-hh.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

I am a criminal

Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

06/08/06

Yes, that's right. I, R. Lee Wrights, being of sound mind and aging body, do solemnly acclaim and justly affirm that I am a criminal. And, if I do my job correctly, by the time you finish reading this you will realize that you are a criminal also; and, that something needs to be done about it. My premise is simply that government, not only at the federal level but in particular at the state and local level, has grown so gorged and bloated that it has become virtually impossible for any of us to remain 'law-abiding citizens'...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2006/may23/Criminal.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights

Some see the land - especially the sensitive ecosystems of the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona, where the majority of illegal immigrants have been crossing since the mid-1990s - as another loser in the ongoing battle between immigrants, drug traffickers and the authorities chasing them.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060706EC.shtml



From Manifest Destiny to Manifest Insanity

Roberto Rodriguez, Truthout: "As a result of several recent draconian laws, Arizona's image has taken a drubbing internationally. And yet, Arizona is but the spear. In reality, its politics are not dramatically different from those of other states, or from Washington's. More than a dozen states are waiting in the wings with copycat legislation, and the Obama administration continues to view migration through the prisms of law enforcement and military might."

http://www.truth-out.org/from-manifest-destiny-manifest-insanity60868



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=immigra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Roberto+Rodriguez

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency for 10 Northern California counties whose salmon fishing fleet has been put out of work from an anticipated paltry run of fish in the Klamath River this year. Fishermen blame federal policy for the decline.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060706EB.shtml

A former senior official at Ohio's $15 billion insurance fund for injured workers pleaded guilty to federal and state charges Wednesday, admitting that he took bribes in exchange for government investment opportunities.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060706R.shtml

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=88688


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6418


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Free Liberal
by Paul Jacob

Congress has become uncompromising, so goes the song. Legislators no longer know how to deal with each other. No give and take remains. OK: Then why do the Republicans find it so hard to accomplish their alleged goals? If the party brooks no opposition, then why does it look so much like what it opposes -- the spend, spend, spendthrift party?

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002096.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?&secc=1&item=1159&cont=show.php


Informant: Walter Lippmann

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

As with the "war on drugs," President Bush's "war on terror" is the cornerstone doctrine which allows the executive branch of the federal government to run roughshod over the Constitution and individual liberty....

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin305.htm

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Police State USA

Libertarian News Examiner
by Garry Reed

06/17/10

Seventy-eight year old veteran libertarian, Fully Informed Jury Association activist and indefatigable freedom campaigner Julian Heicklen released his jailhouse journal to his fellow Tyranny Fighters on Tuesday. Heicklen was arrested on May 25 for committing the crime of standing on public property in front of the US District Courthouse in Manhattan while peacefully giving jury rights information to individuals, sent to jail for 18 Days in New York City’s notorious Riker’s Island, and then released ‘in the interest of justice.’ Following are just a few outtakes from his journal...

http://tinyurl.com/2b5uzb7



Revitalizing America

Liberty & Power
by Charles W. Nuckolls

06/19/10

Anthropologists, like Peter Worsley, termed a ‘revitalization movement’ the attempt to restore, by ritual means, an imagined lost of age of abundance. The Seneca rel[i]gion of Handsome Lake; the Sioux ghost dance; the Melanesian cargo cults: all examples of societies near collapse making a last ditch effort through fantasy to reverse the decline reality had in store for them. One sees the same thing in the United States today in our increasingly furtive efforts to breath life back into the American Dream — a dream based on perpetual growth and unlimited, cheap fossil fuel...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/128175.html



Subtle modern tyranny at work

Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman

06/18/10

The quest for freedom is worldwide. People have been tyrannized for too long and wish relief from such tyranny that freedom would provide. Governments wish to maintain their power and control over the common folk and continue striving to keep them down and obedient in any way possible. In some countries, particularly those of lesser means, governments brutalize their citizens without a qualm. There is a multitude of examples of this happening throughout history, but these governments continue such practices even in modern times. More ‘civilized’ countries, such as those we in the Western world reside in, use far more subtle means to apply their tyranny...

http://www.fr33agents.com/3062/subtle-modern-tyranny-at-work/



Build a monument to liberty

Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner
by Kent McManigal

06/17/10

One big monument, ‘Liberty Enlightening the World,’ or ‘The Statue of Liberty,’ was built without theft, to celebrate something actually worth celebrating. Of course, it was then stolen by government and turned into a parody of itself. Unfortunately, it is now a ‘liberty-free zone’ all its own, due to the policies of the government that confiscated it. The same could be said about The Liberty Bell, which is held hostage in the statist ‘paradise’ of Philadelphia...

http://tinyurl.com/22rg53t


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/sowell7.1.1.html

Ending Tyranny Without Violence
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard78.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=fossil+fuel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/baldwin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Garry+Reed
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+W.+Nuckolls
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Szandor+Blestman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kent+McManigal
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=/sowell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/rothbard

Video

Historical account of the relationship between America and Saddam Hussein. Reveals the complicity of America in Saddam's atrocities. Forty years of secrets, incomprehension and incompetence led to the occupation of Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13512.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13510.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha

"People often remark on the perversity of popular support for estate-tax repeal. A majority wants to abolish the tax, even though only the richest 2 percent of households have ever had to pay it. Sabastian Mallaby writes, "Yet this shoot-your-own-foot weirdness is easily explained: Most people just don't know that, under the law's current provisions, a couple can bequeath $4 million without paying a penny to the government."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506P.shtml

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506J.shtml



Supporting Our Troops Over a Cliff

"We can't pretend we don't know this is happening. It's happening in broad daylight. We know that 'as the Iraqis stand up, we'll stand down' is fiction, not reality." Frank Rich writes, "We know from the Pentagon's own report to Congress last week that attacks on Americans and Iraqis alike are at their highest since American commanders started keeping count in 2004. We know that even as coalition partners like Italy and South Korea bail out, we are planning an indefinite stay of undefined parameters: the 104-acre embassy complex rising in the Green Zone is the largest in the world, and the Decider himself has said that it's up to "future presidents and future governments of Iraq" to decide our exit strategy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506L.shtml

http://www.counterpunch.org/dotson06032006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The governmental habit

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

06/02/06

In 1977 the late economic historian Jonathan R. T. Hughes published a book called The Governmental Habit (updated in 1991 as The Governmental Habit Redux). It showed how pervasive government intervention in the economy has been since colonial times. The title captures an important phenomenon. People are in the habit of looking to government -- the only agency that may legally wield or threaten force against non-aggressors -- to get what they want. While earlier generations of Americans were hesitant to ask the local, state, or national government to do certain things (although perhaps not as hesitant as we thought), few modern Americans have any such scruples...

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=519


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Terrorism: Made in the U.S.A.

By Sheldon Richman

It's a perilous world, as our so-called leaders love to remind us. And for a change they're right. It is a perilous world. But guess who is most responsible for the peril to Americans? Those very same "leaders" and a long line of predecessors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25700.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

The Federal Election Commission has determined that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's 2000 Senate campaign violated federal campaign finance laws.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206K.shtml

Cursor
by Marc W. Herold

05/30/06

A growing disconnect exists between the daily reality of war experienced by the common Afghan and how this war is represented to the American general public by the corporate media, many non-governmental organizations favoring 'humanitarian interventions' around the globe (e.g., Human Rights Watch), and the U.S. military and its defense minions. The war in Afghanistan -- as most other wars beginning with Vietnam -- is waged both on the ground there and in the living rooms here. The recent midnight assault upon the small village of Hajiyan (also called Alizi) along the Arghandab River in Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province provides a case study to explore this disconnect. No doubt many similar cases exist, but the U.S. military media strategy to contain, isolate and stonewall succeeded there. A very graphic way -- a picture is worth a thousand words -- is simply to contrast photos of how the U.S. military is portrayed with Afghan children...

http://cursor.org/stories/grabnews.html



Memo to the victims: You yourself will pay for the crimes of the ruling class

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

06/18/10

One aspect of the profoundly evil system that has been destroying us for over a hundred years — and make no mistake, it is deeply evil in design, intent and effect, if by evil we designate those actions which destroy the very possibility of thriving life — is especially awful. The authoritarian-corporatist-militarist system victimizes untold millions of individual human beings, as well as many other forms of life as we see again today, both here and abroad. That would be a momentous evil in itself, but this particular evil is unsatisfied with only this first form of destruction. Thus, the victims are targeted a second time, and they are forced to become collaborators in their own destruction...

http://tinyurl.com/26aj9zk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Kandahar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ruling+class
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marc+W.+Herold
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Arthur+Silber

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by Mary Dejevsky

06/01/06

How much more lethal can the Iraq war become? About 1,000 Iraqi deaths every month, a U.S. death toll of more than 2,000 and nine British soldiers killed in the past month. Monday's roadside bomb in Baghdad, which killed two journalists, critically injured another and took the lives of two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter, showed that being embedded with troops now offers scant protection. Hopes that an elected Parliament and transferred sovereignty would cause the violence to decline have proved vain. Five months after landmark elections, Iraq's government is still incomplete. Even if it had a full lineup of ministers, it is hard to see it restoring law and order now that conflicting interests have run amok...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/272245_iraq01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In These Times
by Silja J. A. Talvi

06/01/06

In May, I traveled to McNeil Island Corrections Center, a medium-custody men's prison in Washington state. I made the journey out there because I had been invited to experience the Native American prisoners' annual Pow Wow, which brings together spiritual elders, prisoners and their families, for a powerfully intense four-hour ceremony. The biggest challenge, as I quickly discovered, wasn't taking in all of the emotion surrounding the event, but having even the briefest moment of privacy for thinking, taking notes, or taking to prisoners. Increasingly, American prison life doesn't allow for privacy -- not even for outsiders like myself. ... I could barely endure it for the half a day I was there. Millions of Americans don't have that choice. Of course, many prisoners are indeed guilty of precisely the crimes they've been charged with -- or some version of the crime for which they've been sentenced. And some are absolutely innocent, doing time on trumped up charges, or because a snitch got out of prison time by 'rolling' on some of his friends...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2680/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/lapnv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Intellectual Conservative
by George de Poor Handlery

06/01/06

The customary reason given for the multiplication of the present's 'asymmetric wars' is that they pit a low technology force against one equipped with the means produced by an advanced economy. This definition limps a bit. Regardless of its emphasis on modernization, the Soviet Union had a third world economy fielding first world weapons. Furthermore, it is true that outfits such as al-Qaeda have currently simple tactical weapons making their activities truly 'asymmetrical.' There are, however, good reasons to assume that 'low-tech' arms will not remain characteristic of the equipment of comparable outfits...

http://tinyurl.com/jbuzw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

John Nichols discusses the Dixie Chicks' new album as they climb their way back up to number one after taking major hits for speaking out against the invasion of Iraq, ten days before the war began in 2003.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060106WA.shtml

Many Russians, don't care much for Americans these days. Like most of the rest of the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13456.htm

Bolivian President Evo Morales said the U.S. organized teams to track down and kill him, according to a note published on the Bolivian presidential Web site.

http://tinyurl.com/mxcko


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0601-04.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Basra

Washington Free Press
by Joseph Sonntag

05/06

"Almost daily there are reports in the media about group executions in Iraq. The explanations are either very vague ('who did it?') or else the violence is portayed as sectarian strife between Shiites and Sunnis. Groups of men are found with their hands tied behind their back and bullet holes in their head. Often there are signs of prior torture. Other reports tell of non-combatant groups of Iraqis, sometimes Sunnis, sometimes Shiites, who are indiscriminately killed and wounded by car-bombs. Usually the mainstream media portrays these attacks as internecine Iraqi struggles with no apparent connection to the US 'mission.' Could there be another explanation of these group assassinations and indiscriminate attacks on civilians?

http://tinyurl.com/qc3od


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.hh-online.com/?lid=24040


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