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In These Times
by David Sirota

09/10/10

In simplistic, Lexus-and-Olive-Tree terms, the neoliberal economic argument goes like this: Tariff-free trade policies are great because they increase commerce, and we can mitigate those policies’ negative effects on the blue-collar job market by upgrading our education system to cultivate more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) specialists for the white-collar sector. Known as the bipartisan Washington Consensus, this deceptive theory projects the illusion of logic. After all, if the domestic economy’s future is in STEM-driven innovation, then it stands to reason that trade policies shedding ‘low-tech’ work and education policies promoting high-tech skills could guarantee success. Of course, 30 years into the neoliberal experiment, the Great Recession is exposing the flaws of the Washington Consensus. But rather than admit any mistakes, neoliberals now defend themselves with yet more bait-and-switch sophistry — this time in the form of the Great Education Myth...

http://tinyurl.com/2ef7erv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bush, Obama, and the Nine-Year 'Emergency'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tennant/tennant38.1.html

50 Mind Blowing Facts About America That Our Founding Fathers Never Would Have Believed

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep/50-mind-blowing-facts-about-america.html

Mosques, Book Burnings, Collectivism and War Worship
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory201.html

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Gunning for Islam

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

09/13/10

Maybe [Geert] Wilders has been smoking too much of that strong Dutch weed, but to argue that we’re too tolerant to tolerate the intolerant seems a bit odd. Then again, Dutch neo-fascism no doubt suffers in translation. Wilders, [Pamela] Geller, and ‘Jihad Watch’ anti-Islam guru Robert Spencer want to import Europe’s Muslim-hating racist fringe to America: their thesis is that Islam is not a religion, but a political conspiracy to impose Sharia law on non-Muslims. They raise the specter of an Islamic States of America, with American women draped in the chador and mandatory mosque attendance — a scenario that doesn’t even qualify as credible science fiction...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/09/12/gunning-for-islam/



America’s jihad on America

Mother Jones
by Adam Weinstein

09/10/10

In that moment, we could have redoubled our faith in the America that is New York. We could have affirmed the sentiment offered us by 60,000 solemn Iranians (Iranians!) observing a minute of silence in Tehran’s largest soccer stadium — a sentiment epitomized in Le Monde’s September 12 front-page headline: ‘Nous sommes tous Americains.’ We could have ushered in a new era of cosmopolitanism, not only abroad, but on United States territory, from Guam to the newly-christened Ground Zero. We could have. But we didn’t. We needed war — for, as journalist Chris Hedges wrote, war is a force that gives us meaning. And it continues to, not just abroad, but at Ground Zero...

http://tinyurl.com/25hunp8



The problem is empire, not Islam

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

09/10/10

I suspect that the reason that so many Americans have gone off on the anti-Islamic kick is their steadfast refusal to confront the fact that the 9/11 attacks were the direct consequence of the bad things their federal government had been doing to Muslims in the Middle East prior to 9/11. It’s as if people perceive the federal government to be a sacred god, one that is all-knowing and all-good...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-09-10.asp



American history, American war, American empire

Campaign For Liberty
by David Gordon

09/10/10

It is hardly news that George Bush’s Iraq War has been a disastrous failure and that Barack Obama, learning nothing from his predecessor, has renewed and expanded our crusade in Afghanistan. Criticisms of recent American policy have not been slow in coming, and Bruce Fein, in this excellent book, has given us one of the best of these. But he does more than this. He embeds his criticism of our current military misadventures within a full-scale account of the history of American foreign policy...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1108



When will the bad dream end?

LewRockwell.Com
by Anthony Gregory

09/11/10

In a normal country, war is front-page news. … The United States is not a normal country. If it ever was one, it certainly isn’t now. Its imperial foreign policy has long made it special, and now that it’s the world’s lone superpower — with an effective monopoly on aerial warfare, calling the shots as to who can have nukes, claiming the unilateral right to start wars against anyone — the U.S. government has become so belligerent, and especially in remote lands, that American wars have become routine, its casualties relegated to the back page...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory202.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Ground Zero mosque Imam blames Sarah Palin for 'growing Islamophobia':

The Muslim cleric behind plans to build a mosque close to the Ground Zero site has blamed politicians such as Sarah Palin for fuelling a "growing Islamophobia" that led to the burning of Korans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

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Watch Activist Daniel Ellsberg On WikiLeaks
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Courage to Resist: Daniel Ellsberg Calls for Release of Wikileaks “Whistleblower” Army Pfc. Bradley Manning

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/09/14

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Accused of Telling the Truth

A Campaign to Free Bradley Manning

By Ann Wright

He now faces decades in prison for letting Americans see the truth about our wars on Iraq and Afghanistan by allegedly leaking the "Collateral Murder" videos -- of two Reuters' journalists being shot and killed by a U.S. helicopter -- to WikiLeaks.

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In a 6-5 ruling issued this afternoon, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Obama administration a major victory in its efforts to shield Bush crimes from judicial review, when the court upheld the Obama DOJ's argument that Bush's rendition program, used to send victims to be tortured, are "state secrets" and its legality thus cannot be adjudicated by courts.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/08/obama/index.html



Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

http://bit.ly/15ccfD



CIA papers reveal it ran prison facilities in Poland

AT LEAST one secret CIA prison operated on Polish territory between 2001 and 2003, according to a newly published internal document of the intelligence agency. An account of the document by the Associated Press (AP) agency suggests prisoners were not only held there but tortured. The Polish authorities have refused to confirm the story.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0910/1224278568454.html


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Bush's Rendition Program Remains Unchecked
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Witness Against Torture: Anti-Torture Activists Denounce the Denial of Due Process and Justice for the Victims of US Torture
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At some point the economy shrinks so much as to invalidate the financial assumptions on which it is based, making it impossible to continue importing oil on credit.

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By Simon Jenkins

It is wrecking the government of Mexico. It is financing the Taliban in Afghanistan. It is throwing 11,000 Britons into jail. It is corrupting democracy throughout Latin America. - It is the biggest man-made blight on the face of the earth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26339.htm



Mexico's Drugs War: A Crime Writer's Perspective

BBC Interview with Paco Ignacio Taibo

"The president of Mexico ... he started, 3 years ago, a war against "narco"... 28,000 people have been killed in these 3 years".

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By Ted Koppel

Bin Laden needed our unwitting collaboration, and we have provided it -- more than $1 trillion spent on two wars, more than 5,000 of our troops killed, tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans dead.

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We should stand up for Assange: Geoffrey Robertson QC
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Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets

Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of an Afghan war memoir they say contains intelligence secrets, according to two people familiar with the dispute.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/us/10books.html?_r=2&ref=world


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