World-News

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I know I should be immune to this by now, but I still find myself awestruck by the incredibly detailed, insulated fantasy world that the American conservative 'movement' has created for themselves. No lie is too big to be told, no fact is too firm to be bent around ideology, no myth is too absurd to defend to the knife. The ability to spew deliberate nonsense into the credulous ears of Fox-watching right-bent voters - and to be utterly without shame while doing it - is the core of this 'movement's' political muscle, and has been for a number of decades now."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-rich-fantasy-life67572



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- NCBI Pub-Med: Un panel de scientifiques lance une alerte santé concernant les risques des champs électromagnétiques artificiels: le consensus, les justifications et les recommandations.
- Les 10 points clés de l'ALERTE mondiale.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Database_CEM_EMF.php#1
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Wikileaks Yuma Sun

02/08/11

The man famous for leaking thousands of secret U.S. military and diplomatic documents just spent two days in court fighting extradition to Sweden and criticizing prosecutors there for allegedly leaking his name to the media in a sex crimes inquiry. No one in court acknowledged any irony in Julian Assange's efforts to seek the protection of confidentiality...

http://tinyurl.com/48egrap


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Air Force Warns Everyone Is a Criminal for Reading WikiLeaks
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/07/air-force-warns-everyone-is-a-criminal-for-reading-wikileaks/

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Data Intelligence Firms Proposed a Systematic Attack Against WikiLeaks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-6



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Henry A. Giroux, Paradigm Press: "Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we have lived through a historical period in which the United States relinquished its tenuous claim to democracy. The frames through which democracy apprehends others as human beings worthy of respect, dignity, and human rights were sacrificed to a mode of politics and culture that simply became an extension of war, both at home and abroad. At home, the punishing state increasingly replaced the welfare state, however ill conceived, as more and more individuals and groups were now treated as disposable populations, undeserving of those safety nets and basic protections that provide the conditions for living with a sense of security and dignity. Under such conditions, basic social supports were replaced by an accelerated production of prisons, the expansion of the criminal justice system into everyday life, and the further erosion of crucial civil liberties."

http://www.truth-out.org/torturing-democracy67570

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Moral negligence

Liberty For All
by Larken Rose

02/08/11

Good citizens' don?t like to hear this, but its truth should be obvious: The biggest threat to humanity, to peace, and to justice is not personal malice. It is the belief in 'authority'...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5519


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-3



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08

Obama Invokes FDR at Chamber of Commerce, But Misses Mark
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/08-0

Obama, Inc.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-2

Obama's Scary Budget: Why the Neediest People Should Be the Most Afraid
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-8

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Obama Walks in the Wrong Direction

Jim Hightower, Truthout: "As part of his odd and demeaning determination to hug up America's avaricious corporate powers, President Obama walked across Lafayette Square on Feb. 7 to enter the imperial gates of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and show deference to the business establishment. Apparently, his ongoing obsequiousness is an effort to woo corporate donors and show conservative voters how moderate he can be. But does he really think that that either of those groups is going to give any love back?"

http://www.truth-out.org/jim-hightower-obama-walks-wrong-direction67594



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Abroad, at Least
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08-2

George Bush: No Escaping Torture Charges
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-0

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George Bush Cuts and Runs From Torture Case in Switzerland

Vincent Warren, Truthout: "Apparently, former president George W. Bush does 'cut and run.' On February 7, 2011, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints for torture against Bush in Geneva. Bush was due to speak there at a charity gala on February 12. On the eve of the case filing, Bush abruptly canceled his trip, choosing instead to attend the Super Bowl in Dallas. Why would he rather be in Dallas than in Geneva? For one thing, Swiss authorities are under a legal obligation to start a preliminary criminal investigation if a torturer is on Swiss soil. But, thanks to Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to apply US law to investigate torture, Bush isn't even breaking a sweat in Dallas - or anywhere in the US, for that matter."

http://www.truth-out.org/george-bush-cuts-and-runs-torture-case-switzerland67559



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Das Verteidigungsministerium soll abgespeckt werden, aber die überzähligen Beschäftigten werden eigentlich nur in eine neue Behörde verschoben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149220



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By Greg Hunter

If unemployment was computed the way BLS did it prior to 1994, the true unemployment rate would be 22.2%.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27435.htm



When Irish Eyes Are Crying

By Michael Lewis

By the start of the new millennium, the Irish poverty rate was under 6 percent and by 2006 Ireland was one of the richest countries in the world.. How did that happen?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27436.htm



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By Gareth Porter

The entire senior Taliban leadership, meeting in Karachi, "agreed in principle to find a way for them to return to Afghanistan and abandon the fight", Gopal wrote, but the initiative was frustrated by the unwillingness of the United States and the Afghan government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27434.htm



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By Robert Fisk in Cairo


"Even in past examples where presidents have sent someone 'respected' or 'close' to a foreign leader in order to lubricate an exit," Mr Noe adds, "the envoys in question were not actually paid by the leader they were supposed to squeeze out!"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27428.htm



The Egyptian Mirror

By Glenn Greenwald

It's remarkable how self-righteously our political and media class can proclaim sympathy with the heroic populace, and such scorn for their dictator, without really reconciling our national responsibility for Mubarak's reign of terror.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27429.htm



Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

By Chris Hedges

Those who administer empire-elected officials, corporate managers, generals and the celebrity courtiers who disseminate the propaganda-become very wealthy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27433.htm



Kleptocrats at Work

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27432.htm

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Strangling Egypt: Eric Margolis on the Empire
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/2182939/12759198/134537/0/

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'Sheik al-Torture': Washington's New Man in Cairo
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08-4

U.S. Middle-East Policy: "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil -- Just Practice It, Then Act Surprised"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08

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For America, stability trumps freedom

Spiked
by Sean Collins

02/08/11

In echoing Mubarak?s call for an 'orderly transition,' the US is undermining the fight for democratic rights...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10168/



Illusions of change

CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs

02/08/11

While the drama of revolution plays out across Egypt, the capitols of former and current western imperial powers are abuzz with activity. Much of this activity is focused on preventing the success of the Egyptian uprising by replacing the man Hosni Mubarak with another agent of those powers. The top name in the hat at this time appears to be Egypt's torture chief and recently appointed vice president Omar Suleiman. As most observers of the region know (and as has been reported in media around the world) Suleiman's history includes assisting in renditions, torture and operating the Egyptian internal security apparatus...

http://counterpunch.org/jacobs02082011.html



Five reasons why Arab regimes are falling

The Christian Science Monitor
by Moataz A. Fattah

02/08/11

Public protests in Egypt are not about minor changes or grievances. President Hosni Mubarak?s regime faces a deep process of legitimacy erosion ?- the same pattern of legitimacy erosion that exists across much of the Arab region. This erosion won?t simply go away with more protests or new governments, and it will be with us in the years to come. Understanding the larger societal and demographic factors eroding these regimes is vital to understanding the unrest in the Middle East and how the Arab world can move forward...

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Ideology vs. the national interest

The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

02/07/11

Hosni Mubarak has been a loyal ally. He kept the peace with Israel and helped keep weapons out of Gaza. He fought beside us in Desert Storm and stands with us in the War on Terror. But he is also an autocrat who rules a regime where state and army are virtually one and where the opposition is squelched, when it is not imprisoned. If a democratic Egypt is America?s goal, we will push for the removal of Mubarak, for the army to go back to the barracks, and for parliamentary and presidential elections where all parties participate. But before we do this, we should be on notice what a democratic Egypt, where the government reflects the will of the people, may look like...

http://tinyurl.com/494uul6



Egypt, human rights and America

Our Future Blog
by Alan Jenkins

02/08/11

After two weeks behind the curve on the uprising in Egypt, the Obama administration seems to have found its voice, recognizing that our national interests and our national values point in the same direction ? toward democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. There are reasons to worry about the kind of regime that will emerge in Cairo. But promoting those three principles will serve our nation well in supporting the Egyptian people and engaging whatever government they ultimately choose. The same is true here at home...

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Is the US really the freest country in the world?

Fr33 Agents
by Xaq Fixx

02/07/11

Whether you take a holistic approach to freedom or analyze any number of specific categories the United States of America consistently is proven not to be the freest country. Countries in Scandinavia, Western Europe [and] the English Speaking Far East do much better comparatively when examined either way but often still prove far from ideal. Americans can and should see the assaults on their freedoms as an opportunity to improve and live up to the legend we all grew up believing...

http://tinyurl.com/4gppqkk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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"Orderly Transition" or "Nothing Burger" Reforms? Benchmarks for US Policy in Egypt

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "To the disappointment of many, the Obama administration's policy of 'orderly transition to democracy' in Egypt, which just a few days ago seemed to be embracing pro-democracy protesters' demand that Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak leave office, now seems to be backtracking to the idea that Mubarak and Vice President Omar Suleiman can lead a credible process of transition to democracy, despite the unwillingness of the US-backed Egyptian government so far to accept any concrete demands for reform."

http://www.truth-out.org/orderly-transition-or-nothing-burger-reforms-benchmarks-us-policy-egypt67593



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