World-News: 14 Juni 2011

Kölnische Rundschau

Die Zahlen sind für viele Eltern schockierend: Fast jeder dritte Schüler zwischen 14 und 20 Jahren (32 Prozent) war schon einmal Opfer von Cybermobbing. rundschau-online zeigt, wie man Kinder schützen kann. Eltern sollten ihre Kinder vor Cybermobbing ...

http://www.rundschau-online.de/html/artikel/1307702848615.shtml

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 12:51

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How Bankers are using the Debt Crisis to Roll Back the Progressive Era

The Financial Road to Serfdom

By Michael Hudson

Financial strategists do not intend to let today s debt crisis go to waste. Foreclosure time has arrived. That means revolution - or more accurately, a counter-revolution to roll back the 20th century s gains made by social democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28319.htm

Are We Entering an Economic 'Ice Age'?

By Mike Whitney

Check out this brief summary of Republican proposals by the Tax Policy Center. It helps to reveal the hidden risks of austerity measures.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28317.htm

American Banks 'High' On Drug Money

By Clarence Walker

A fraud investigator helped expose the shocking world of multi-billion dollar drug laundering by American banks and the surprising lack of oversight by the Feds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28314.htm

Richest Americans Get $1.4 Million Tax Cut in Pawlenty Plan

The top 0.1 percent of U.S. taxpayers would save an average of $1.4 million in taxes under the economic plan of Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, according to an independent analysis.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-10/pawlenty-to-give-richest-a-1-4-million-tax-cut.html

Number of the Week: Average Household Still Needs to Trim $26,172 in Debt

$26,172: Amount of debt the average U.S. household would need to cut to bring balance sheets back to 1990s levels.

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 09:00

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US Military 'Rape Victim' Shares Her Pain

Video

1 in 3 Female Soldiers are Raped or Sexually Assaulted by Fellow US Servicemen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28318.htm

Pentagon Study Finds 26,000 Military Sexual Assaults Last Year

A shocking new report by the Pentagon has found that 70 sexual assaults may be taking place within the U.S. military every day.

http://is.gd/EJ2fp1

From Information Clearing House

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Addressing the Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/09

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 08:54

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Children and War

By Cindy Sheehan

Mr. Burns was wondering why the U.S. is bombing Libya, but not Syria, because Syria is, 'torturing and killing children,' and Mr. Burns didn t know how the people of the world could stand by and watch this happen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28324.htm

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 08:50

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Libyan Resource Nationalism

Why the NATO Powers are Trying to Assassinate Moammar Gaddafi

By Brian Becker

Wikileaks-released State Department cables from November 2007 and afterwards show the real reason for the mounting U.S. hostility to the Libyan government prior to the current civil war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28323.htm

Just 26% Favor Continued Military Action in Libya

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters feel the United States should continue its military actions in Libya. Forty-two percent (42%) are opposed and 32% are undecided.

http://bit.ly/iF0Q53

From Information Clearing House

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War costs soar, yet more war than we bargained for

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

06/09/11

Those hoping Obama would have been even slightly less belligerent than the last president must be truly disappointed now. I know I am. First, we learn the Libya war, where airstrikes have again intensified, is costing more than previously estimated. Not really much of a surprise. But the earlier Pentagon projection of $40 million a month was off by at least $20 million...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 08:44

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Biggest Threat to Tropical Forest Now Comes From Global Demand For Food Products

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/13-9

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The New Politics of Food Scarcity
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_New_Politics_of_Food_Scarcity.php

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 08:29

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Drones Soar in US Plans for Future Aircraft Purchases

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/13-6

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 08:20

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Suppressing the Vote in Wisconsin

Michael Berkowitz, Truthout: 'Fred Risser is a veteran Wisconsin state senator. Actually, he is the longest-serving state legislator in American political history. Bald and bearded, quick to laugh, he is the genial grandfather at the family picnic. But Risser was not feeling genial, lately. May 19 he had been recognized to speak and was making a point on the floor of the Wisconsin State Senate. Risser was questioning the constitutionality and ethics of the Republican-sponsored voter suppression bill, AB7. However, State Senate President Mike Ellis, the new majority leader, cut him off - loudly, practically screaming, talking right over him - instead of considering Risser s important legal questions. In over 50 years of serving in the legislature, Risser said that he hadn t seen anything like it.'

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 08:07

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Auditors Says Missing Money Meant for Iraq May Have Been Stolen

Paul Richter, The Los Angeles Times: 'After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born. Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time. This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash - enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.'

http://www.truth-out.org/auditors-says-missing-money-meant-iraq-may-have-been-stolen/1307988606

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U.S. Charged With War Crimes

The Evidence File
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3450.htm

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 08:02

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Ninety Percent of Petraeus' 'Taliban' Captures Were Civilians

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: 'During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces: in a 90-day period from May through July, SOF units had captured 1,355 rank and file Taliban, killed another 1,031, and killed or captured 365 middle or high-ranking Taliban. But it turns out that more than 80 percent of those called captured Taliban fighters were released within days of having been picked up, because they were found to have been innocent civilians, according to official U.S. military data.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ninety-percent-petraeuss-taliban-captures-were-civilians/1307972220

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Secret US/Afghan Talks Could See Troops Stay for Decades
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/13-8

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The Afghan war is lost. So now who will take the blame?

There is no single villain. The military did the disastrous deed, but it was civilians who created and defined the mission.

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From Information Clearing House

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Time to get out of Afghanistan

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow
06/13/11

After September 11 the U.S. intervened in Afghanistan to kill Osama bin Laden, dismantle al-Qaeda, and punish the Taliban. Washington finally has succeeded at all three tasks. It is time for American forces to come home. For many people Afghanistan started out as the good war. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda turned Taliban-ruled Afghanistan into a sanctuary as they plotted the death of thousands of Americans. The Central Asian state - in contrast to Iraq - was an appropriate target for military retaliation...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1460

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 07:51

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GOP-Style Democrats Moving to Sell Out Poor, Liberals: Lessons From the DC Budget Fight

Art Levine, Truthout: 'It s been less than two weeks since a guerilla campaign by local activists managed to restore about 20 percent of $131 million in budget cuts targeting Washington, DC's, neediest residents - with little help from the mainstream media, which essentially ignored a looming shutdown of the city's shelter, poor and disabled aid services that could have thrown thousands into the street. The city s reluctant Democratic leadership only bowed at the last minute to under-the-radar pressure to reverse some of the most obvious, draconian cuts with $27 million in restorations, especially services to the homeless. Other sources familiar with the lobbying to restore homeless funding point out that some leaders in the local downtown business community were concerned about the impact on the city s image and tourism.'

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Starmail - 14. Jun, 07:44

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