World-News: 02 Juni 2011

Bill Moyers Interviews Andrew Bacevich

Bill Moyers, The New Press: "Our finest warriors are often our most reluctant warmongers. They have seen firsthand the toll war exacts. They know better than anyone that force can be like a lobster trap that closes with each stage of descent, making escape impossible. So it was when the liberal consensus lured America into Vietnam during the '60s, and again after 9/11, when neoconservatives clamored for the invasion of Iraq.... One old warrior looked on sadly, his understanding of combat s reality tempered by twenty-three years in uniform, including service in Vietnam.... Bacevich supported Barack Obama s candidacy but believes that Obama s commitment of more troops to Afghanistan was a deadly mistake.'

'Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues' is the Truthout Progressive Pick of the Week.

http://www.truthout.org/bill-moyers-interviews-andrew-bacevich/1306971684

From Civil Disobedience to Civil Defiance

Ed Kinane, Truthout: 'Thanks in large part to court and prison witness, one grassroots organization I ve long worked with has grown by leaps and bounds. Determined to expose and close the Pentagon s School of the Americas (SOA) - aka the 'School of Assassins' - more than 200 SOA Watch activists over the years have willingly endured trial and incarceration. Inspired by them, each November, thousands from all over the country converge on Fort Benning, Georgia to protest the SOA there for fostering large-scale bloodshed and human rights abuse in Latin America. (In response to our persistent pressure, the SOA has undergone a PR makeover: it has changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, WHINSEC.)'

http://www.truthout.org/civil-disobedience-civil-defiance/1305657868

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Starmail - 2. Jun, 22:44

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Schluss mit dem Krieg in Afghanistan

2. Juni 2011

Die Vorsitzenden der Partei DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch und Klaus Ernst, sowie der Vorsitzende der Bundestagsfraktion der LINKEN, Gregor Gysi, erklären anlässlich eines weiteren Opfers der Bundeswehr im Kriegseinsatz in Afghanistan: 'Unser Mitgefühl ist bei den Angehörigen und Freunden des im Distrikt Baghlan-e-Markasi, durch einen Selbstmordanschlag getöteten deutschen Soldaten. Wir wünschen den Verletzten baldige Genesung.'

Drei Tote innerhalb einer Woche zeigen auf grausame Weise, dass jeder weitere Kriegstag die Gewaltspirale in Afghanistan eskalieren lässt. Es ist höchste Zeit, diesen Krieg zu beenden und die Bundeswehr unverzüglich aus Afghanistan abzuziehen. Der Einsatz der Bundeswehr hat alle seine Ziele verfehlt. Wer Frieden für Afghanistan will und den Aufbau demokratischer, ziviler Strukturen und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung unterstützen will, muss den Weg für Friedensverhandlungen frei machen und den Kriegseinsatz beenden. Die Bundeswehr muss endlich und unverzüglich raus aus Afghanistan. Der Abzug der Bundeswehr aus Afghanistan ist das Beste für die Sicherheit der deutschen Soldaten.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/schluss-mit-dem-krieg-in-afghanistan-1/

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Starmail - 2. Jun, 22:41

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Murdering the messenger

In These Times
by Steve Weinberg

The title of Anna Politkovskaya s new posthumous anthology, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches (Melville House, April), poses a provocative question. The answer is probably no. But freedom of speech and freedom from corruption might be worth dying for, and sometimes only journalists can make those freedoms happen. Politkovskaya, who worked as an investigative reporter for the independent Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta until she was assassinated in October 2006 at the age of 48, asked herself this question in a piece never submitted for publication...

http://tinyurl.com/44mhvez

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 2. Jun, 11:35

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Share of Population on Food Stamps Grows in Most States

After a temporary plateau in February, the number of Americans receiving food stamps ticked up again in March. Nearly 44.6 million received food stamps in March, up more than 11% from the same time a year ago, the Department of Agriculture said Tuesday.

http://on.wsj.com/iutM94

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 2. Jun, 11:11

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