Three wars uncompleted, the price unpaid
CounterPunch
by Vijay Prashad
06/13/10
On May 30, at 10:06am, the United States exchequer turned over its trillionth dollar to the U. S. armed forces for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A trillion dollars is a lot of money. As my friends at the National Priorities Project put it, if I made a $1 million a year, it would take me a million years to earn a trillion dollars. The U. S. government expended the same amount in nine years, fighting two wars. So what did our trillion tax dollars buy?
http://counterpunch.org/prashad06112010.html
It’s time to start minding our own business
Campaign For Liberty
by Jack Hunter
06/12/10
If I had my druthers, the never-ending conflict between Israel and Palestine would be but a small news brief in American newspapers. But since we police the world, we must always monitor our global police scanner, where not only Israel’s conflicts, but those of North and South Korea, the nation of Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and pretty much everywhere else is the United States’ business because we insist on making it so...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=932
In America, dissent and exposing ugly truths a crime
Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman
06/14/10
On April 16, journalist John Cole wrote: ‘The message is clear — you torture people and then destroy the evidence, and you get off without so much as a sternly worded letter. If you are a whistle blower outlining criminal behavior by the government, you get prosecuted.’ In fact, it’s worse. Under Bush, torture was official policy. It remains so under Obama who absolved CIA torturers, despite unequivocal evidence of their guilt. But leaking it risks criminal prosecution for revealing state secrets and endangering national security...
http://tinyurl.com/2by6gwx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Targeting Whistleblowers: Truth Telling Endangered
By Stephen Lendman
It's beautiful and horrifying. (The documents describe) almost criminal political back dealings. (They belong) in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark corner in Washington, DC. (Our government is involved in) incredible things, awful things.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25716.htm
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vijay+Prashad
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jack+Hunter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
by Vijay Prashad
06/13/10
On May 30, at 10:06am, the United States exchequer turned over its trillionth dollar to the U. S. armed forces for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A trillion dollars is a lot of money. As my friends at the National Priorities Project put it, if I made a $1 million a year, it would take me a million years to earn a trillion dollars. The U. S. government expended the same amount in nine years, fighting two wars. So what did our trillion tax dollars buy?
http://counterpunch.org/prashad06112010.html
It’s time to start minding our own business
Campaign For Liberty
by Jack Hunter
06/12/10
If I had my druthers, the never-ending conflict between Israel and Palestine would be but a small news brief in American newspapers. But since we police the world, we must always monitor our global police scanner, where not only Israel’s conflicts, but those of North and South Korea, the nation of Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and pretty much everywhere else is the United States’ business because we insist on making it so...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=932
In America, dissent and exposing ugly truths a crime
Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman
06/14/10
On April 16, journalist John Cole wrote: ‘The message is clear — you torture people and then destroy the evidence, and you get off without so much as a sternly worded letter. If you are a whistle blower outlining criminal behavior by the government, you get prosecuted.’ In fact, it’s worse. Under Bush, torture was official policy. It remains so under Obama who absolved CIA torturers, despite unequivocal evidence of their guilt. But leaking it risks criminal prosecution for revealing state secrets and endangering national security...
http://tinyurl.com/2by6gwx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Targeting Whistleblowers: Truth Telling Endangered
By Stephen Lendman
It's beautiful and horrifying. (The documents describe) almost criminal political back dealings. (They belong) in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark corner in Washington, DC. (Our government is involved in) incredible things, awful things.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25716.htm
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vijay+Prashad
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jack+Hunter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
rudkla - 14. Jun, 08:54
