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Campaign For Liberty
by William Astore and Tom Engelhardt

07/26/10

Consider a strange aspect of our wars since October 2001: they have yet to establish a bona fide American hero, a national household name. Two were actually ‘nominated’ early by the Bush administration — Jessica Lynch, a 19-year-old private and clerk captured by the Iraqis in the early days of the American invasion and later ‘rescued’ by Army Rangers and Navy Seals, and Pat Tillman, the former NFL safety who volunteered for service in the Army Rangers eight months after 9/11 and died under ‘enemy’ gunfire in Afghanistan. Both stories were later revealed to be put-up jobs, pure Bush-era propaganda and deceit...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1031



Government has run amok since 9/11

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

07/27/10

Those who understand the exploitative nature of big government suspected that the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks had little to do with the security of the American people and much to do with power and money. Still, the magnitude of the scam, as revealed by the Washington Post last week, is astonishing. Naturally, the politicians justify the growth in intelligence operations on national security grounds. To make sure such attacks never happen again, they said, new powers, agencies, personnel, and facilities were imperative...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1007j.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

07/26/10

I wonder what torture-memo attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee are thinking regarding the report of a U.S. sailor who was apparently taken captive by the Taliban yesterday. Time will tell whether the sailor who was killed with him was actually the lucky one. Would the Taliban torture the guy? It wouldn’t surprise anyone, but one thing is certain: the U.S. government unfortunately has no moral standing whatsoever to demand proper treatment of the soldier, given its own position and its own track record regarding torture and abuse...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-07-26.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampant sickness, equipment failures and being lied to regularly. 'Yesterday was a catastrophe,' one worker, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Truthout, 'People are waiting 2-3 hours for their paychecks to be brought to them and I know for a fact three people that didn't get paid and no reason was given.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-response-workers-report-low-morale-lack-pay-sickness61718



BP's Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Policy: The Well's Corked, but Public and Government Are Left in the Dark

Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: "Prof. Bob Bea, of UC Berkeley, a civil engineer with years of expertise in marine oil drilling, says he is concerned that during the current crisis of BP's blown-out well deep under the Gulf of Mexico, government scientists may not be getting all the information they need from the secretive oil company in order to make intelligent decisions about shutting down the gusher."

http://www.truth-out.org/bps-dont-ask-dont-tell-policy-the-wells-corked-but-public-and-government-are-left-dark61716



Our Complicity

Dahr Jamail, Dahr Jamial's Dispatches: "Not long ago we strolled along a beautiful white-sand beach in Orange Beach, Alabama, taking photos of freshly washed ashore black and brown tar balls. We watched little boys playing in the shallow surf, trying to catch minnows, as red oil boom bobbed in the waves just offshore behind them. This is the world we have all created."

http://www.truth-out.org/our-complicity61860

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Today we’re shutting down BP stations all over Central London
http://bit.ly/aNmvfn

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There is no $20 billion clean up fund
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/876.html



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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9842/

Wikileaks reveals civilian deaths caused and covered up by US military
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9843/

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Human Rights Watch (HRW): US: Confused, Alone, and in Legal Limbo
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/26-4

The End of (Military) History? The US, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/29-6

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Leakistan: The new insurgency

The New Republic
by Andrew J. Bacevich

07/25/10

The leaks are unlikely to affect the course of events on the ground. However, they may well affect the debate over the war here at home. In that regard, the effect is likely to be pernicious, intensifying the already existing inclination to focus on peripheral matters while ignoring vastly more important ones. For months on end, Washington has fixated on this question: what, oh what, are we to do about Afghanistan? Implicit in the question are at least two assumptions: first, that something must be done; and, second, that if the United States and its allies can just devise the right approach (or assign the right general), then surely something can be done. Both assumptions are highly dubious. To indulge them is to avoid the question that should rightly claim Washington’s attention: What exactly is the point of the Afghanistan war?

http://tinyurl.com/2763h2d



The WikiLeaks war logs change everything

Salon
by Dan Gillmor

07/26/10

Whatever our keepers of intelligence secrets do know, and whatever abuses they’ve done to our civil liberties to learn them, they must feel less sure today about keeping it all contained. When that many people have access to information, however compartmentalized their bosses may think they’ve made the system, some of it will get out, which leads to something else we should worry about. … The WikiLeaks war diary will absolutely spur our powerful institutions to look for increasingly draconian ways to clamp down on how we share information. What WikiLeaks represents is what governments and corporations fear: a threat to their cultures of secrecy and dominance in their domains...

http://tinyurl.com/2g7ugya


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Courage Is Contagious: Whistleblower Guidelines
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/2c588c698299fe58?hl=en

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WikiLeaks: Time to Celebrate, Time to Mourn

Jeff Cohen, Truthout: "It's a big win for Internet-based, indie media that WikiLeaks.org posted its 'Afghan War Diary,' based on 90,000 leaked US military records detailing a failing war in which US and allied forces have repeatedly killed innocent civilians. This on-the-ground material is vaster than the Daniel Ellsberg-leaked Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War and was much faster in reaching the public."

http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-time-celebrate-time-mourn61742



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis197.html

The WikiLeaks Afghanistan Leak
http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald69.html

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WikiLeaks Founder: Docs Show Everyday Brutality of War
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/26-0

Wikileaks: Massive Leak of Secret Files Exposes Truth of Occupation
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/25-3

Secret Files Reveal 'Unseen Afghan War'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/26-0

Wikileaks: A New Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/26

Rights Groups File Challenge to Targeted Killing by US
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/30-6

Secret 'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/31-6

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WikiLeaks Founder Assange Press Conference

VIDEO

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave a press conference at the Frontline Club in London Monday to address the publication of classified documents from the US government.

http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-founder-assange-press-conference-video61712

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New focus: targeted killings of Taliban

Columbus Dispatch

08/01/10

When President Barack Obama announced his new war plan for Afghanistan last year, the centerpiece of the strategy — and a big part of the rationale for sending 30,000 additional troops — was to safeguard the Afghan people, provide them with a competent government and win their allegiance. Eight months later, that counterinsurgency strategy has shown little success, as demonstrated by the flagging military and civilian operations in Marja and Kandahar and the spread of Taliban influence in other areas of the country...

http://tinyurl.com/23k5byx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US Corporate Media Downplays Pentagon's Special Commando Assassination Unit

By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff

The New York Times, Washington Post, and most other newspapers in the US are censoring or under-reporting the WikiLeaks documents that show US Task Force 373 (TF 373) is an out-of-control assassination unit responsible for the deaths of many hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26079.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/evans-pritchard32.html

Let Them Eat Losses
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente43.1.html



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On the Two Great Classes in Contemporary America
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs158.html

Bring Out Your Dead
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/galland12.1.html

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On the coming fall of the American empire

Campaign For Liberty
by Daniel McCarthy

07/23/10

Bruce Fein’s American Empire: Before the Fall is not for the faint of heart. ‘You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation’s highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds,’ the author warns. He’s not kidding. Only the most well informed constitutionalist will fail to be surprised by this book — and even that reader will come away from American Empire with a clearer understanding of the dangers facing our republic...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1028



Obama leading us down the road of ruination

Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.

07/25/10

Americans are fighting the wrong war. The greatest threat to national security is not Islamic extremism. Nor is it a Chinese military buildup, nuclear weapons in Iran or climate change. ‘I think the biggest threat we have to our national security is our debt,’ said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. How right he is...

http://tinyurl.com/2fwyz95



The year America dissolved

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

07/26/10

The Roman Empire lasted for centuries. The American one collapsed overnight. Rome’s corruption became the strength of her enemies, and the Western Empire was overrun. America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many. Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts07262010.html



Fight back against the oligarchy

AlterNet
by US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

07/25/10

While the middle class disappears and poverty increases the wealthiest people in our country are not only doing extremely well, they are using their wealth and political power to protect and expand their very privileged status at the expense of everyone else. This upper-crust of extremely wealthy families are hell-bent on destroying the democratic vision of a strong middle-class which has made the United States the envy of the world. In its place they are determined to create an oligarchy in which a small number of families control the economic and political life of our country...

http://tinyurl.com/23gl89n


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Imperial Overkill and the Death of US Empire
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/27-7

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America's Corruption Racket in Central Asia

By Scott Horton

This is the third time this summer that the United States has been slammed with credible charges of corrupting foreign governments in Central Asia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26266.htm



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Nach dem US-Vorbild sollte auch in der EU nur ein Stresstest simuliert werden, denn es ging vor allem darum, die Märkte mit passablen Ergebnissen zu beruhigen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33023/1.html

New estimates from the White House on Friday predict the budget deficit will reach a record $1.47 trillion this year. The government is borrowing 41 cents of every dollar it spends.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128725212&ft=1&f=1001


From Information Clearing House

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The Budget Deficit Chicken Hawks

Dean Baker, Truthout: "Most people are familiar with the concept of 'chicken hawks.' Chicken hawks are the politicians who are anxious to send other people to risk their lives in war, but somehow managed to avoid service when they had the opportunity to fight themselves. Former Vice-President Dick Cheney and former President George W. Bush are the leading members of the chicken hawk society."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-budget-deficit-chicken-hawks61704



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