World-News

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: 'More and more, we hear that nothing can be done to tax major corporations because of the threat of how they would respond. Likewise, we cannot stop their price gouging or even the government subsidies and tax loopholes they enjoy. For example, as the oil majors reap stunning profits from high oil and gas prices, we are told it is impossible to tax their windfall profits or stop the billions they get in government subsidies and tax loopholes. There appears to be no way for the government to secure lower energy prices or seriously impose and enforce environmental protection laws. Likewise, despite high and fast rising drug and medicine prices, we are told that it is impossible to raise taxes on pharmaceutical companies or have the government secure lower pharmaceutical prices. And so on.'

http://www.truthout.org/threats-business-and-business-threats/1305039044

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End Taxpayer-funded Subsidies for Big Oil
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6761



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NATO carried out missile strikes on targets in the Tripoli area on Tuesday that appeared to include Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's compound, witnesses said.

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At least five people were killed and another seven wounded Tuesday when a US drone fired missiles at a vehicle in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan tribal area in northwest Pakistan, local sources said.

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Predator Drones Strike: Over 957 Pakistanis killed in 2010

In 2010 alone the US has killed in excess of 957 without accountability and injured hundreds more in the tribal region of Pakistan. And this is only from the 134 drone strikes that the media managed to report.

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Pakistan PM Warns of 'Full Force' Response to Future U.S.. Raids

'Pakistan reserves the right to retaliate with full force. No one should underestimate the resolve and capability of our nation and armed forces to defend our sacred homeland,' Gilani said.

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Osama bin Laden raid team was prepared to fight Pakistani forces

Barack Obama ordered assault team be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if necessary, newspaper reveals.

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Pakistani Supreme Court Moved Against US Raid

A petition seeking constitution of a high-powered commission to investigate the US military operation in Abbottabad killing Osama bin Laden was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday.

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US Kills 5 People In Pakistan

US missiles killed at least five alleged militants on Thursday in a tribal region along the Afghan border - the third such drone attack since the US killing of Osama bin Laden, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

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Continuing to work with US may imperil Pak govt: Gilani

'I am not an army dictator, I am a public figure...If public opinion is against you (referring to his US allies) then I cannot risk it to stand with you. I have to go with public opinion,' he said in an interview to Time magazine

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Protests against US, Zardari in Abbottabad

The marchers in the garrison town shouted 'Go, America Go', 'Down with (US President Barack) Obama' and 'Down with (Pakistani President Asif Ali) Zardari,' waving the green flags of Sharif s Pakistan Muslim League-N party.

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NATO and Afghan raid kills girl, cop

NATO says its troops and Afghan forces mistakenly killed a young girl and a man who turned out to be a police officer during an overnight raid in eastern Afghanistan.

http://arabnews.com/world/article397452.ece


From Information Clearing House



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PEER: EPA Halts Heightened Monitoring of Fukushima Fallout
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/09-0

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Tortured logic

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

05/08/11

How do we know that it was torture that led to bin Laden s discovery and demise? We willll never know. We know only what we are told. How many false leads did the torture produce? There must have been plenty over 9 1/2 long years. That s because torture too often yields unreliable information...

http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2011/05/tortured-logic.html



How perverted have we become?

LewRockwell.com
by Butler Shaffer

05/09/11

The official story of how bin Laden was killed has changed so many times that it remains uncertain what actually occurred. What can be distilled, at this point, is that Navy SEALs were brought to bin Laden s residence by helicopter; he was unarmed and put up no resistance; and, having been captured, was then shot and killed, and his body dumped into the sea. It borders on the psychotic for Americans to cheer, as 'heroes,' men who, not defending themselves from gunfire, and having captured a now helpless old man, would then commit such a cold-blooded atrocity...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer235.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Manning paying for busting US 'illegal, stupid foreign policy'
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How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/09-0

How Do Wrong Economic Ideas Become Conventional Wisdom?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/09-13

Defend CEO-Worker Pay Disclosure Law from Conservative Attack
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/09-15

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CEO Bonuses Rose by Nearly 20 Percent in 2010, While Average Worker Saw Income Stagnate

Marie Diamond, ThinkProgress: 'Corporate profits may be at sky-high levels, but they are not translating into shared prosperity for all. Median household income has fallen nearly 5% over the past decade and in 2010 was $50,221. The lack of wage growth has made it difficult for average Americans to keep up with rising prices on everything from gas to food. This latest report is further evidence that the gap between the rich and everyone else is widening, with economic inequality in the US at its highest levels since the Great Depression.'

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Killing Is Your Life Work
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance242.html

Osama Strikes at the Heart of the U.S. Empire Again
http://www.lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas37.1.html

On the Elimination of Osama bin Laden
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Meanwhile, in America ...

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'It was a tremendous week in these United States. A segment of the population reveled in unabashed frenzy over the death of Bin Laden. A segment of the population celebrated in more restrained fashion. A segment of the population called into question the cold-blooded manner of the terrorist mastermind s dispatch, and, of course, a segment of the population simply refused to believe it had happened at all. Through it all, however, was a sense that the terrible drift we have been experiencing as a nation came to a sudden stop. Something had been done, and it felt like we were once again in control of events, instead of events being in control of us. The manner in which we arrived at the moment may have been unworthy, as some have suggested, but the facts of aftermath remain for all to see.'

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It s all about empire

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/04/11

Just as I suggested last Monday, the killing of Osama bin Laden isn t going to change a thing. The war on terrorism will continue, along with the invasions, bombings, occupations, sanctions, embargoes, kangaroo tribunals, torture and abuse, assassinations, indefinite detention, foreign aid, support of dictatorships, and, of course, the out-of-control federal spending and ever-growing infringements on the freedom and privacy of the American people...

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Making myths in fog of war

The Boston Globe
by James Carroll

05/09/11

That the first accounts of last week s raid in Abbottabad turned out to be at variance from the facts is significant but not surprising. More than the so-called 'fog of war? was at work when the brief resistance of one gunman was characterized as a prolonged, constant, and multi-party 'firefight,? and when bin Laden himself was described as firing back and using his wife as a human shield. It soon became known that bin Laden was unarmed, and that, while being rushed, he did not even avail himself of weapons near at hand. The discrepancies gave the Obama administration a perceptions headache of its own making, prompting some to ask whether the killing of bin Laden amounted to extra-judicial assassination...

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The Targeted Assassination of Osama Bin Laden

By Marjorie Cohn

Targeted assassinations violate well-established principles of international law. Also called political assassinations, they are extrajudicial executions. These are unlawful and deliberate killings carried out by order of, or with the acquiescence of, a government, outside any judicial framework.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28067.htm



War On Humanity

By Luke Hiken

Following up on the murder of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration today announced the formation of a joint Military/Domestic Police Force (MDPF) to carry out a War on Humanity.

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Says Landmark IPCC Study
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UN officials call for political will to put world on path to green economy

United Nations officials today appealed for greater political will in both developed and developing countries to make the transition to the 'green economy' for sustainable development to protect humanity from environmental disaster and economic ruin which might result from current dependence on non-renewable energy.

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Aus Hartz IV soll ChaföG werden

Die unsägliche Arbeitsmarktreform Hartz IV wurde nach dem (Mit-) Erfinder und verurteiltem VW-Ex-Manager Peter Hartz benannt. Schon seit längerer Zeit ist den PR-Strategen der Bundesregierung das Wort Hartz IV ein Dorn im Auge. Bundesarbeitsministerin Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) hatte erst im Herbst letzten Jahres vorgeschlagen, 'Hartz IV' in 'Basisgeld' umzubenennen. Doch schon dieser Versuch scheiterte, weil Hartz IV eben vordergründig eine Wortschöpfung des Volkes selbst ist. Mit Hartz IV wird nicht etwa nur der Bezug des Arbeitslosengeldes II bezeichnet, sondern auch eine ganze Palette von Ungerechtigkeiten des Systems.. Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel:

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Die Konservativen in den USA und die für die Einführung der 'harten Verhörtechniken' Verantwortlichen, treten nach der Tötung von Bin Laden für die Wiedereinführung von Folter ein.

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