World-News: 11 Juli 2011

- EHS Autodiagnostic Le Parisien: Leïla n'arrive plus à dormir.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS_Zone_Refuge.php

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Starmail - 11. Jul, 22:16

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In Iraq, Panetta Says US Will Maintain 'Enduring Presence'

Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times News Service: "Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta pressured Prime Minister Nuri Kamal-al Maliki of Iraq on Monday to tell the United States whether he wanted some American troops to remain in Iraq into 2012, although Mr. Panetta predicted that the United States military would have an 'enduring presence' for many years in the Middle East.'

http://www.truth-out.org/iraq-panetta-says-us-will-maintain-enduring-presence/1310403540

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Panetta Makes 9/11 Gaffe in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/11-7

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Elisabeth+Bumiller
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Starmail - 11. Jul, 21:59

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Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: 'The global recession has intensified the war on the American public, as professionals and politicians who make up a global business class now displace democracy with the call for austerity and, in doing so, produce a hidden order of politics in which the 'demand for the people s austerity hides processes of the uneven distribution of risk and vulnerability.' Under the guise of austerity, politically motivated attacks are now being waged on young people, low-skilled workers, the poor, African-Americans and the elderly.'

http://www.truth-out.org/trickle-down-cruelty-and-politics-austerity/1310134880

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+business
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Henry+A.+Giroux
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Starmail - 11. Jul, 21:52

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Nijmegen Declared GM-Free through Citizen Action

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Nijmegen_Declared_GM-Free.php

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GMOs
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Starmail - 11. Jul, 18:41

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America is declining before our very eyes

Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.

07/10/11

Three things that caught my attention this past week have me weeping for the future of American freedom. The first was a June Gallup poll that showed that about half of Americans believe the proper role of government is to take money from those who earned it and give it to those who didn't...

http://tinyurl.com/5wjvbfx

A president on the verge of a political breakdown

Our Future Blog
by Richard (RJ) Eskow

07/08/11

This isn t the first time the White House has floated the idea of Social Security cuts as part of a 'grand bargain' with Republicans, and it s not the first time there s been a groundswell of opposition. But that opposition has never crystallized so quickly into something deeper and more threatening to the President s political fortunes. Liberal pundits are turning against him and Democrats on the Hill are taking the fight directly to him. With a new poll confirming that Social Security cuts would alienate the other side's base and independents, this 'grand bargain' doesn t look like much of a bargain anymore...

http://tinyurl.com/5wua6cz

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thomas+J.+Lucente
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Eskow
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Starmail - 11. Jul, 09:23

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Killer Drones Take the Place of War

Doug Noble, Truthout: 'What is different about this latest weapon of war that we oppose so strenuously?.. The answer is this: Killer drones are not primarily weapons of war, as usually defined, but instead are automated technologies designed for convenient, targeted killing or assassination outside of war zones. As mentioned, the usual targets are in countries we aren t at war with, far from usual areas of armed conflict.'

http://www.truth-out.org/killer-drones-take-place-war/1308160067

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Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war?

By Sanjeev Miglani

The idea that the United States can arrogate to itself the right of life and death of people around the world can set off a dangerous precedent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28550.htm

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Starmail - 11. Jul, 09:07

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US drone strikes in Somalia likely to rally local support for militants

Even Somalis who are not members of the local militant group Al Shabab may see US drone strikes on the group as an unwelcome foreign intervention.

http://bit.ly/r25sA0

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Somalia
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Starmail - 11. Jul, 08:49

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Pakistan army says U.S. media reports 'direct attack' on state

In a wide-ranging interview, Major General Athar Abbas, the Pakistan army s chief spokesman, repeatedly criticised the Times' reporting and said it was part of a calculated plan by the United States to 'weaken the state'.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/pakistan-army-says-u-media-reports-direct-attack-164636427.html

With U.S. military aid cut, Pakistan eyes China

Pakistan s increasingly 'close and effective defense ties' established with China during the past decade will allow Islamabad to 'fill the gap' arising from the prospect of reduced military aid from the United States, a senior Pakistani official said on Sunday.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20078219-503543.html

From Information Clearing House

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Bungled US policy bearing fruit in rift with Pakistan
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10430/

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Next up: Pakistan

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

07/11/11

The ultimate prize for US imperialism in the Middle East - the jewel in the crown of the emerging American empire - is Iran, long the chief target of the War Party s attention. Yet they don t have either the resources or the political support for such an attack, and so the strategy, for the time being, is encirclement. First, Iraq and Afghanistan, buttressing the substantial US military presence in the Gulf - and now, Pakistan...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/07/10/next-up-pakistan/

Children of war

CounterPunch
by Missy Beattie

07/09/11

If only each of us could embrace all children as our own. If only we could ignore borders, ethnicity, religion, otherness. If only we were citizens of the world rather than supporters of American exceptionalism...

http://counterpunch.org/beattie07082011.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
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Starmail - 11. Jul, 08:43

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