World-News: 08 Juni 2011

By Ann Pelo

The generals' aim is to prepare low-income children to be soldiers, trained from their youngest years to follow directions and to comply with the strictures issued by the ranking authority.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28276.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+education
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Starmail - 8. Jun, 23:17

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China Warns U.S. Debt-default Idea is 'Playing with Fire'

Starmail - 8. Jun, 23:07

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Pakistan for Sale

By Salmana

After the Raymond Davis slap in the face by the American government, we all know Americans (read Americans with diplomatic immunity, since now they probably ALL have it regardless) have no respect for the laws in other countries, especially Pakistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28277.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Raymond+Davis

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Starmail - 8. Jun, 23:04

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Libya: A Deafening Silence

By Jody McIntyre

We have been sold on a false premise, and, as Noam Chomsky would say, have allowed the manufacture of our consent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28282.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
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Starmail - 8. Jun, 23:01

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The Bernanke Scandal: Full-Frontal Cluelessness

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: 'How I wish that Ben Bernanke would get caught emailing photos of his underwear-clad groin. Otherwise we dont stand a chance of reversing this administration s economic policy, which is shaping up to be every bit as disastrous as that of its predecessor. Indeed, the Fed chairman s much anticipated remarks on Tuesday take one back to the contemptuous indifference of a Herbert Hoover to the public s suffering: Bernanke dismissed the wobbly economy with its anemic 1.8 percent first-quarter growth as merely 'somewhat slower than expected.' The rise in unemployment to 9.1 percent was 'some loss of momentum.' The problem with Bernanke is that he is utterly clueless as to the stark pain and fear endured by the 50 million Americans who have experienced, or face the prospect of, losing their homes.'

http://www.truth-out.org/bernanke-scandal-full-fronted-cluelessness/1307549746

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bernanke
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Scheer

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Starmail - 8. Jun, 22:48

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US-Gewerkschaften 'Es geht ums nackte Überleben'

Die Politik vertritt nur noch die Interessen der Wirtschaft, sagt US-Gewerkschafter Casey. Im Interview erzählt er, warum die Arbeiterbewegung in den USA so schwach ist. Das Interview von Heike Buchter in Die Zeit vom 6.6.2011 http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2011-06/gewerkschaften-usa

Aus dem Text: ?(?) ZEIT ONLINE: Die Gewerkschaften werden derzeit scharf kritisiert, weil sie nach Ansicht von Kritikern mit ihren Forderungen die angeschlagenen staatlichen Haushalte überfordern. Casey: Es gibt eine konzertierte Aktion der Republikaner am rechten Rand und von Unternehmerseite, nun auch die Macht der Gewerkschaften der öffentlichen Angestellten zu brechen. Sie haben seit dem Aufstieg der Tea Party bei den Kongresswahlen im November an Stärke gewonnen. Sollten sie Erfolg haben, dann könnte die amerikanische Arbeiterbewegung als Ganzes für Generationen zerschlagen werden. Man müsste sie komplett neu aufbauen. Besonders die Lehrergewerkschaften sind im Visier der Republikaner??

Wikileaks: US-Regierung drückt Mindestlohn in Haiti Zwei Dollar am Tag

'Textilarbeiter in Haiti erhalten Hungerlöhne - die US-Regierung soll eine Erhöhung verhindert haben. So steht es offenbar in den Botschaftsnachrichten aus Port-au-Prince, die Wikileaks bald veröffentlichen will. Demnach haben Klamottenhersteller wie die Jeans-Firma Levi s Druck gemacht, den haitianischen Mindestlohn niedrig zu halten?' Artikel von Alina Fichter in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 07.06.2011 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/wikileaks-us-regierung-drueckt-mindestlohn-in-haiti-zwei-dollar-am-tag-1.1105782

Aus: LabourNet, 8. Juni 2011

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Haiti
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mindestlohn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hungerlohn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wikileaks

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Starmail - 8. Jun, 14:18

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Jeder dritte Schüler leidet unter Cybermobbing

Ad-Hoc-News

Jeder dritte Schüler im Alter zwischen 14 und 20 Jahren war bereits Opfer einer sogenannten Cybermobbing-Attacke. Das geht aus einer am Mittwoch in...

http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/jeder-dritte-schueler-leidet-unter-cybermobbing--/de/News/22203787

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Starmail - 8. Jun, 14:09

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Ron Paul vs. the GOP Establishment

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

06/08/11

[A] wave of 'anti-government' (i.e. pro-freedom) sentiment is sweeping the country, and the realization that libertarians were the original tea-partiers - coupled with the electoral success of that populist upsurge - has the Establishment in a panic. What we re seeing is a two-pronged, left-right attack on libertarians, with the initial forays in the foreign policy realm. The main thrust of the attack is naturally directed at the leader of the libertarian movement, the man who has done the most to make libertarianism a significant political force in the modern world, and that man is Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)...

http://tinyurl.com/4xnv6fv

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
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Starmail - 8. Jun, 11:02

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Gates outlines aggressive agenda for US imperialism in Asia

In a speech given in Singapore on June 4, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates laid out plans for American military expansion in the Asian region and for heightened confrontation with China.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jun2011/sing-j07.shtml

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Gates
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperialism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=confrontation

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Starmail - 8. Jun, 10:52

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Six More Years: U.S. General Wants to Train Afghans Until '2017'

There once was a time when President Obama implied that the Afghanistan war would at least start to end in July 2011. Then that date got pushed back to 2014. Now, the general in charge of training Afghan forces to take over for departing Americans pegs that date closer to 2016 or 2017.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/six-more-years-u-s-general-wants-to-train-afghans-until-2017/

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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Starmail - 8. Jun, 10:49

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The American Empire Must Be Stopped

By Scott Horton

Scott Horton talks about how we are fighting wars of choice for profits not to spread freedom.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28268.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Scott+Horton

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Starmail - 8. Jun, 10:44

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Occupying Iraq, State Department-Style

Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: 'From that ancient debris field, recall the almost forgotten run-up to the American invasion, the now-ridiculous threats about Saddam Hussein s weapons of mass destruction, Secretary of State Colin Powell lying away his own and America s prestige at the U.N., those 'Mission-Accomplished' days when the Marines tore down Saddam s statue and conquered Baghdad, the darker times as civil society imploded and Iraq devolved into civil war, the endless rounds of purple fingers for stage-managed elections that meant little, the Surge and the ugly stalemate that followed, fading to gray as President George W. Bush negotiated a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011 and the seeming end of his dreams of a Pax Americana in the Greater Middle East. Now, with less than seven months left until that withdrawal moment, Washington debates whether to honor the agreement, or - if only we can get the Iraqi government to ask us to stay - to leave a decent-sized contingent of soldiers occupying some of the massive bases the Pentagon built hoping for permanent occupancy.'

http://www.truthout.org/occupying-iraq-state-department-style/1307460772

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$3 billion more down the toilet in Iraq

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

06/09/11

We have occupied the place for nearly 10 years and our diplomats cant even peek out from the bullet proof windows of their Green Zone fortresses without mortal fear of being blown away by a rocket propelled grenade. Now we learn that, after the $3 1/2 trillion we have already thrown into the s... quagmire of Iraq, the U.S. State Department is going to spend another $3 billion before we leave the H... hole at the end of this year to hire a security force solely for the protection of U.S. diplomats...

http://tinyurl.com/62gprms

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=occup
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pax+Americana
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pax+Americana
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Peter+Van+Buren
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Timothy+J+Taylor
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Starmail - 8. Jun, 10:19

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