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What they do in our name

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



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pentagon
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=assassin
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/09/10

The feds have figured out another way to use the war on terrorism as a way to avoid the Constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights. This time, it’s the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of effective assistance of counsel that falls by the wayside. Keep in mind that the president no longer complies with the Constitution’s requirement that Congress must declare war before the president can wage war...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-08-09.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=global+war+on+terrorism
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+of+Rights
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger

CounterPunch
by Stan Cox

08/09/10

I attribute the overwrought tone in most of the responses to that deep fear of any sort of physical discomfort that has come to permeate our society. We aren’t as tough as we used to be. And we appear to be prepared to obliterate as many coal-bearing mountains, kill as many coal miners, poison as many water tables with gas-mining chemicals, blow as many million barrels of crude oil into ocean waters, fight as many bloody wars, and occupy as many countries as necessary to keep the ‘comfort’-producing mechanisms in our homes, businesses, and vehicles powered up...

http://counterpunch.org/cox08092010.html
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America’s defunct political system

Huffington Post
by Michael Brenner

08/09/10

America no longer has a political system. In its place is a vaudeville of celebrity politics, bait-and-switch politics, spin politics. In sum, irresponsible sham politics. We still do have a system of governance, albeit a malfunctioning one whose impairment owes much to the loss of a mature political life...

http://tinyurl.com/2g5kwpm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Gulf at the Gas Station: Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/12-6



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=political+system
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bait-and-switch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mountaintop
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Stan+Cox
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Brenner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Engler

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/09-6

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Least we forget: View of Hiroshima after Atomic Bombing

Panoramic view of Hiroshima after the atmoic bomb. It is many photos forming one 360 degree rotation of the city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XIMc5BdGdU&feature=related


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Hiroshima
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Nagasaki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tad+Daley

The Forgotten Foreclosure Crisis

By Faiz Shakir

As of July 2010, one in seven mortgages is delinquent or in foreclosure. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, one in 10 homeowners missed at least one mortgage payment between January and March, which is an all-time record and a 9.1 percent increase from last year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26111.htm



Decline of the Middle Class as Metaphor for the Decline of America

By Raymond J. Learsy

'Disproportionate' is the freighted word that shackles our society. Over the past few years some two-thirds of the gain in national income has gone to the top one percent of Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26113.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=middle+class
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=homeowner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Faiz+Shakir
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Raymond+J.+Learsy

By Arno J. Mayer

Given the scale and reach of this projection of raw military power-reminiscent of the comparatively paltry gunboat diplomacy of a not-so-distant past-I was wondering, Mr. President, whether it wouldn't be wise for you to give the American people, the United Nations, and the rest of the world a reasoned statement of the need for such an oceanic display of America's naval, air, soldierly, and electronic might.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26114.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gunboat+diplomacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arno+J.+Mayer

Camillo "Mac" Bica, Truthout: "From Warrior to Warrior: Now that you have returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan and the killing and dying has ended, I wish I could tell you that your hell is over, that time will heal all wounds, even those of the mind and the spirit. I would like to give you hope that the nightmares and the memories of the horror will eventually fade and your life will be as it was before. But to do so, I believe, would be to continue the lie that has victimized you and so many others."

http://www.truth-out.org/coming-home61891



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Camillo+Bica

Liberty For All
by LP staff

08/07/10

Last week it was reported that the Obama Administration wants to give the FBI power to force internet companies to reveal information about their users’ internet activities: things like who they send email to, times and dates of emails, and maybe also information about their web browser activity. Even worse, they want the FBI to be able to demand this information without a warrant! ...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4642


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=warrant

Selbst der ehemalige US-Notenbank-Chef Greenspan zweifelt jetzt an der liberalen Theorie, dass Steuerkürzungen das Wirtschaftswachstum fördern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148148



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/american-dream-unrecognizable.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=The+American+Dream
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=ruling+class