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Plötzlich wurde Waterboarding ab 2002 in den US-Medien nicht mehr wie zuvor Jahrzehnte lang als Folter bezeichnet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32893/1.html



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Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act

Kathy Kelly, Truthout: "An old clich says that anyone who has herself for a lawyer has a fool for a client. Nevertheless, going to trial in Washington, DC, I and 23 other defendants prepared a pro se defense. Acting as our own lawyers in court, we aimed to defend a population that finds little voice in our society at all, and to bring a sort of prosecution against their persecutors."

http://www.truth-out.org/witnessing-against-torture-why-we-must-act60765

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When it Comes to Waterboarding, Labels Matter

By Dan Kennedy

The press's failure to call waterboarding torture impedes honest discussion of the darkest years of the Bush presidency.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25886.htm



“Freedom agenda” failures and failed states

The American Conservative
by Daniel Larison

07/05/10

There is something obviously wrong when Fred Hiatt, friend of warmongers and torture apologists, holds forth on the dangers to liberty around the world. Here was the line that was the most jarring to me: ‘Taking advantage of their control of television, they mobilized ideologies of nationalism and anti-terrorism to undermine the rhetoric of freedom.’ Of course, Hiatt is referring here to various authoritarian states, but he seems to have no notion that apart from the reference to television that statement could just as easily be applied to his own op-ed pages and the politicians he has defended over the last decade. For that matter, the measures he and his allies have favored haven’t just undermined the rhetoric of freedom, but have seriously undermined the limits on government power and significantly damaged the substance of American liberty and the liberty of people in other nations as well. More perversely, they did all of this while pretending to celebrate American freedoms. One might ask why Hiatt expects freedom to be flourishing elsewhere in the world when our own authoritarians have worked so hard to harm it here at home with security measures, power grabs and grossly illegal activities...

http://tinyurl.com/26cgg35


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Huffington Post
by Doug Bandow

07/01/10

No doubt, some terrorists hope to reestablish the caliphate or knock Madonna off of television. But most anti-American terrorists appear to be motivated by something much more mundane: responding to U.S. government depredations in their own nations and other Muslim lands. Unfortunately, the Obama administration appears to be as clueless as its predecessor. After Shahzad’s arrest U.S. officials raced to Islamabad to urge Pakistan to do more to stop terrorism. But Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said simply: ‘This is a blowback. This is a reaction. And you could expect that’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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And It's One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For?

Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "It was 1967, and the world was on fire. War at home and abroad demonstrably began to rear its head, and long-held American values of moral exceptionalism and widespread prosperity were rapidly destabilizing. A Democratic president escalated warfare half a world away, and the generals offered red-herring rationales about resource control and the necessity of finishing the job in order to defeat evil."

http://www.truth-out.org/and-its-one-two-three-what-are-we-fighting-for60885



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AlterNet
by Adele M. Stan

07/01/10

The impulse to dismiss the Tea Party movement is understandable, especially given the kook factor (something that every grassroots movement has). The wacky signs, the crazy rhetoric about health care as some form of tyranny: How could this add up to a force able to defeat the massive coalition that led to President Obama’s election? Charles P. Pierce, writing at Esquire’s blog, expresses this view with his claim that the Tea Party movement isn’t really a movement at all, but rather ‘the kind of noisy paranoid lunacy that used to be stapled to lampposts, or hollered about by people you would avoid in the public parks.’ Some of that is true, but it also feeds an attendant denial of the kind a damage such a movement — or non-movement, in Pierce’s view — can do...

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The Palin-ization of politics

Mother Jones
by Kevin Drum

07/13/10

Palin is, in some sense, sui generis. And yet, I wonder if her press strategy is really such a unique consequence of her celebrity-hood or rather a sign of things to come? There’s no question that she’s pulled off her particular schtick better than anyone else in American politics, but there are others who have gone a ways down this road too. One is Barack Obama, who restricted press access to a startling degree during his presidential campaign. Keeping presidential campaign reporters on a tight leash is a trend that’s been building for years, with every campaign more tightly controlled than the last, but still, Obama pretty clearly took this to a new level. The other example who comes to mind (since I live in California), is Meg Whitman, who just ran a high-profile primary campaign in a big state with virtually no interaction with the mainstream press. She gave speeches, she ran ads (boy did she run ads), and she spoke to friendly reporters occasionally, but that was about it. And guess what? It worked. She proved that you really don’t need the press anymore to run a successful campaign...

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/07/palin-ization-politics



The tea party’s march madness

Mother Jones
by Stephanie Mencimer

07/23/10

The tea party movement is not just a political juggernaut — it’s also become a big business. That quickly became clear following last September’s unexpectedly enormous rally in Washington organized by Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, the event that helped put the movement on the map. With crowd estimates ranging from 75,000 to 2 million, the rally was such a hit that conservative activists are planning a sequel this year. A bunch of them actually. And these competing events have led to confusion and infighting among the tea party faithful...

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/07/tea-partys-march-madness


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Palin, Paul Expose Rift in Tea Party
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/paul-palin-split-in-tea-party.html

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Protofascism Comes to America: The Rise of the Tea Party

By Ted Rall

Tea Partiers haven't called for extralegal solutions to the problems they cite--but neither did the National Socialists prior to 1933. Then again, they're not in power yet. Wait.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25994.htm



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Wired
by David Kravets

06/29/10

Welcome to the surveillance society. That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals ‘for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights’...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/aclu-surveillance/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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FBI defends guidelines for domestic surveillance

Under fire from civil liberties groups, the FBI is defending domestic surveillance guidelines that critics fear could unfairly target innocent Muslims in terrorism and other criminal investigations.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100728/D9H7TGC01.html


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World Business Academy, Truthout: "How many crises will it take? The recent destruction wrought by Big Finance and Big Oil will pale in comparison to the destruction wrought by Big Nuclear if we do not use the Gulf disaster as an opportunity to end our dangerous addiction to dirty fuels and to reject the illusion that any industry will 'regulate' itself."

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Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "A congressional commission pressed Goldman Sachs executives Wednesday to spell out how much their company has earned from its exotic bets against the housing market, including $20 billion in wagers that helped force a $162 billion taxpayer bailout of the American International Group."

http://www.truth-out.org/goldman-cant-say-how-much-it-made-housing-crash60946

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How Goldman Gambled on Starvation
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/02-1



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The case against fluoride.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/mercola45.1.html



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Scrap dollar as sole reserve currency: U.N. report

A new United Nations report released on Tuesday calls for abandoning the U.S. dollar as the main global reserve currency, saying it has been unable to safeguard value.

http://tinyurl.com/28asvk9



National debt soars to highest level since WWII

The federal debt will represent 62% of the nation's economy by the end of this year, the highest percentage since just after World War II, according to a long-term budget outlook released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

http://tinyurl.com/236dml9



New jobless claims rise in sign of weak job market

Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose last week for the second time in three weeks. At the same time, more than a million people have lost benefits and more could be cut off now that Congress has failed to extend federal jobless aid.

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More Red Flags for the Economy

By Mike Whitney

"We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression....And this third depression will be primarily a failure of policy. Around the world ... governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending. ..."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25879.htm



Dow Repeats Great Depression Pattern: Charts

By CNBC.com

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is repeating a pattern that appeared just before markets fell during the Great Depression, Daryl Guppy, CEO at Guppytraders.com, told CNBC Monday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25874.htm



A Stock Market Forecast that Says 'Take Cover'

By Jeff Sommer

With the stock market lurching again, plenty of investors are nervous, and some are downright bearish. Then there's Robert Prechter, the market forecaster and social theorist, who is in another league entirely. Prechter is convinced we have entered a market decline of staggering proportions - perhaps the biggest of the last 300 years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25876.htm


From Information Clearing House

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1.3 Million Unemployed Won't Get Benefits Restored After Senate Fails to Overcome Filibuster

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/01

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Americans Are Hanging on by Their Fingertips
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/01-13

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR): U.S. Experiencing Worst Episode of Prolonged Unemployment Since Great Depression
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/01-15

US Experiencing Worst Episode of Prolonged Unemployment Since Great Depression
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/02-5

Fears Grow as Millions Lose Jobless Benefits
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/14-0

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US Dollar Unreliable Global Reserve Currency
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente39.1.html

With the US Trapped in Depression, This Really Is Starting to Feel Like 1932
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/evans-pritchard31.html



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By Alex Newman

New revelations in the suspicious "suicide" death of whistle-blower Dr. David Kelly point even more strongly to the possibility of murder and a subsequent cover-up.

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