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Silent Summer: How Oil Disaster Impacts Biodiversity
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/21-4

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BP's Long, Bloody History of Reckless Greed

Al Hart, Truthout: "British Petroleum (now known as BP), the company responsible for the worst single-source environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, has over its 100-year history caused a number of environmental and workplace disasters. But the harm BP has caused goes further. In the early 1950s, BP and the British government convinced the U.S. to overthrow the democratic government of Iran - an action that has had disastrous consequences for Iran, the U.S., and the Middle East to this day."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-a-long-bloody-history-reckless-greed61555



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Stephen F. Rohde, The Daily Journal: "As U.S. courts grapple with the right of Guantanamo detainees to seek release through habeas corpus, understanding the history and the purpose of the Great Writ seems more important than ever. Why should foreigners, who are not citizens of the United States, held outside the United States, captured in the War on Terror but not charged or convicted of any crimes, have the right to go into a U.S. federal court to challenge their detention?"

http://www.truth-out.org/the-origins-habeas-corpus61518



In Abu Zubaydah's Case, Court Relies on Propaganda and Lies

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "In the history of the 'War on Terror,' few stories are as disturbing as that of Abu Zubaydah. Seized in Pakistan in March 2002, Zubaydah was initially regarded as a 'high-value detainee' of such significance that the Bush administration conceived its torture program specifically for use on him. But the case against him has steadily unraveled over the years, as officials - first in the Bush administration, and then under President Obama - have conceded that his significance was monstrously overstated, and that he was not a member of al-Qaeda, was not involved in planning any international terrorist attacks, and had no advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks."

http://www.truth-out.org/in-abu-zubaydahs-case-court-relies-propaganda-and-lies61547



"Our American Heroes": Why It's Wrong to Equate Military Service With Heroism

William J. Astore, TomDispatch.com: "When I was a kid in the 1970s, I loved reading accounts of American heroism from World War II. I remember being riveted by a book about the staunch Marine defenders of Wake Island and inspired by John F. Kennedy's exploits saving the sailors he commanded on PT-109. Closer to home, I had an uncle - like so many vets of that war, relatively silent on his own experiences - who had been at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, and then fought them in a brutal campaign on Guadalcanal, where he earned a Bronze Star. Such men seemed like heroes to me, so it came as something of a shock when, in 1980, I first heard Yoda's summary of war in The Empire Strikes Back. Luke Skywalker, if you remember, tells the wizened Jedi master that he seeks 'a great warrior.' 'Wars not make one great,' Yoda replies."

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Die US-Marine und Raytheon berichten von einem erfolgreichen Test einer Laserkanone.

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Part 1

by Kelleigh Nelson

It was probably about 1951 or 52 when I was just a little girl and was sitting at the kitchen table in our apartment in Chicago. My mom was reading the Chicago Tribune newspaper and often would read aloud to me as a child. I distinctly remember her reading an article to me that stated the federal government had sprayed a flu virus over the Rogers Park area of Chicago to see how the contamination worked on the........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh109.htm



American Citizens as Guinea Pigs

Part 2

by Kelleigh Nelson

Most Americans do not remember what a horror the polio epidemic was upon America. In the early 50s, over 33,000 Americans fell crippled or died slow, terrible deaths from polio each year. It was a virus spread casually that infected the lining of the intestines, then the blood stream, and finally the nervous system where it destroyed the victim’s brain stem. The search for a polio vaccine became a national scientific effort supported by very powerful political forces. As a virus, it did not respond to antibiotics as bacteria do, so a vaccine was needed to stop the crippling and killing......

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Federal Contributions from Political Action Committee of Beleaguered Oil Giant BP Slow to a Trickle

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EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/20-3

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): FDA Should Test Gulf Seafood for Dispersant Contamination
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/04

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BP testimony: Officials knew of key safety problem on rig

BP officials knew about a problem on a crucial well safety device at least three months before the catastrophic April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico but failed to repair it, according to testimony Tuesday from the company's well manager.

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Senior EPA Analyst: "Government [Agencies] Have Been Sock Puppets for BP In This Cover Up"

Corexit is one of a number of dispersants, that are toxic, that are used to atomize the oil and force it down the water column so that it's invisible to the eye. In this case, these dispersants were used in massive quantities, almost two million gallons so far, to hide the magnitude of the spill and save BP money.

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From Information Clearing House

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The truth about Corexit
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/908.html

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Stop spraying the Gulf with Corexit now
http://www.stopthespraying.org/



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War, Women, and the Taliban
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Don’t You Know There’s a War On?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/20-2

Hello, America? This is Your Wakeup Call
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/20-1

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The complexity conundrum

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/21/10

In the wake of 9/11, an entire industry was born, one that grew larger as grandstanding ‘ “tough on terrorism’ politicians threw money at our anti-terrorist efforts. For the War Party, it was a bonanza just begging to be exploited, and they did so on a grand scale. In our recessionary economy, this may be one of the very few growth industries. The second part of the Post series details the commercial aspect of all this, and the key role played by private contractors — who profit, I might add, from the very complexity that threatens to defeat us...

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Stockman: GOP policies “have crippled our economy”

The Nation
by John Nichols

08/02/10

The truth is not going to sway Republican Party stalwarts in arguments about matters economic. … No conservative worth his or her tea bags is going to accept a charge that Republicans are at fault for the fiscal dysfunction of the moment from anyone short of the Gipper’s ‘budget guru’ — the man Ronald Reagan trusted as his director of the Office of Management and Budget. Conveniently, David Stockman — the Reagan administration’s point man in the fight for supply-side economics who proved when it came to deficit issues to be even more conservative than the 40th president — has weighed in on the matter...

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Hawaii Reporter
by James W. Cox

07/19/10

For a second time in history, the government in power over Hawaii is trying to divide the people living on these small islands by race. The last time was in January 1893 when Queen Liliuokalani permanently adjourned the legislature and tried to implement a new constitution reserving suffrage solely to persons with Hawaiian blood. The result of that attempt was civil action by citizens born in Hawaii who would have been disenfranchised by the revised constitution...

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Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

07/19/10

The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual monopoly on information that the public is able to access. In Italy, Germany, and Britain the anonymous internet that most Americans are still familiar with is slowly being modified. If one goes into an internet cafe it is now legally required in most countries in the European Union to present a government issued form of identification...

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Coercion is death

Strike the Root
by B.R. Merrick

07/19/10

All governments exist upon the initiation of coercion. Each government that is or ever was has basically said, ‘We are here to protect you, to watch over you, to provide for you, to coordinate you, to rule over you. You have no choice in the matter. This is for our collective posterity. You are free to disagree and to do so as loudly as you wish, but you will obey.’ Name a single earthly government that does not, in essence, say this. You may find greater financial freedom in Singapore, but you can be whacked with a cane if you cross them...

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Shutdown of Blogging Site Sparks Dispute

By STEVE LOHR

A free blogging site, Blogetery.com, went dark less than two weeks ago, and its disappearance is stirring controversy about the obligations of Internet services and threats to free speech on the Web.

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