World-News

At the end of this column, you will know what AFRICOM is, its activities and why it is a security threat.

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From Information Clearing House



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Beatings, deprivation of food and sleep, and cultural shocks were part of the daily routine for Ghairat Bahir during six years spent in US detention centres in Afghanistan.

http://bit.ly/q64i9d



How US firms profited from torture

Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/31/us-firms-torture-flights-rendition


From Information Clearing House

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Rights chief blasts EU cooperation in renditions

Juneau Empire

09/01/11

Europe s human rights chief launched a blistering attack Thursday on European governments' counterterrorism actions, accusing them of helping the United States commit 'countless' crimes in the past 10 years. The 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is an occasion to analyze whether the official responses have been proper and effective, said Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe s rights commissioner...

http://tinyurl.com/3mzqpun


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Yemeni officials say up to 30 'suspects' dead following a drone attack in the southern Abyan province.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/09/201191125737612197.html



US kills 10 people in Yemen

A total of 10 'al-Qaida militants' were killed and dozens of others were injured on Wednesday evening when a U.S. drone struck several targets .

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/90854/7591598.html



CIA action may backfire in Yemen

On Sunday, as the West remembers the thousands killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, a group of construction workers in the Arabian Peninsula will be hard at work on a secret CIA runway.

http://bit.ly/qsrNTD


From Information Clearing House



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By Noam Chomsky

Governments acting in ways they know will increase terrorism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29000.htm



Blueprint of the PNAC Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony

By Bette Stockbauer

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3249.htm



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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: 'Of all the nonsense Texas Governor Rick Perry spews about states' rights and the tenth amendment, his dumbest is the notion that states should go it alone. 'We have got a great Union,' he said at a Tea Party rally in Austin in April 2009. 'There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that.'

http://www.truth-out.org/rick-perrys-secret-plan-save-blue-states-red-states/1314815153

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Yes, it is a Ponzi scheme

Cato Institute
by Michael D. Tanner

08/31/11

Texas governor Rick Perry is being criticized for calling Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme.' Even Mitt Romney is reportedly preparing to attack him for holding such a radical view. But if anything, Perry was being too kind...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13625


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Meet the Shady Dallas Mega-Billionaire Industrialist Pouring Money into Rick Perry s Coffers

http://www.alternet.org/story/152216/meet_the_shady_dallas_mega-billionaire_industrialist_pouring_money_into_rick_perry%27s_coffers/


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Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers: 'A US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi. The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks' website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.'

http://www.truth-out.org/iraqi-children-us-raid-shot-head-un-says/1314883725

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Facts and Myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga

By Glenn Greenwald

Many of those condemning WikiLeaks for the potential, prospective, unintentional harm to innocents caused by this leak will have nothing to say about these actual, deliberate acts of wanton slaughter by the U.S.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29014.htm



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Matthew+Schofield
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Nicht aus Afrika und schon gar nicht aus Deutschland!

IMI-Standpunkt von Christoph Marischka vom 30.8.2011 http://www.imi-online.de/2011.php?id=2342

Aus dem Text: '? Mit anderen Worten, die Länder, die eine Unterstützung der NATO-Intervention abgelehnt haben, brauchen jetzt nicht glauben, Geschäfte mit den neuen Machthabern machen zu können. Umgekehrt gilt, wer mitbombte, soll auch ausreichend die Ernte einfahren. Auffällig ist, dass dabei Deutschland keine Erwähnung findet, es gilt offensichtlich als Wackelkandidat, der gegenwärtig noch keinem der beiden Lager eindeutig zuzuordnen ist. Zahlreiche deutsche Konzerne sind bereits seit Längerem in Libyen aktiv (etwa die BASF-Tochter Wintershall, die im libyschen Ölgeschäft engagiert ist), sie werden sicher von der Bundesregierung erwarten, für den Fortbestand ihrer Profite Sorge zu tragen. Andere Firmen wittern durch die veränderte Situation Morgenluft und sehen nun Chancen, neu ins dortige Geschäft einsteigen zu können?'

Siehe dazu auch: 'Sie werden es nicht wagen, irgendwelche Verträge zu ändern'

'Der Streit um Libyens Schätze: Italien hat bereits Verträge mit dem libyschen Übergangsrat unterzeichnet. Alle anderen stehen bereit, um sich ihren Anteil zu sichern. Die libysche Bevölkerung und der Rest der Welt plagt derzeit noch die große Frage, wo der ehemalige Revolutionsführer Muammar al-Gaddafi steckt. Unterdessen sind die Führer der Anti-Gaddafi-Allianz schon deutlich weiter. Hinter den Fassaden haben bereits die ersten Verhandlungen begonnen, wie jetzt die reichen Ölvorkommen aufgeteilt werden sollen?' Artikel von Ralf Heß in telepolis vom 01.09.2011 http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35407/1.html


Die Preisträger 2011 des Aachener Friedenspreises: Jürgen Grässlin sowie die Informationsstelle Militarisierung

Die Pressemitteilung und Laudatio beim Aachener Friedenspreis e.V. http://www.aachener-friedenspreis.de/preistraeger/pt-aktuell0.html

Siehe dazu auch: Verleihung des Aachener Friedenspreises 2011 an die Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI)

IMI-Pressemitteilung vom 5.5.2011 http://www.imi-online.de/2011.php?id=2298


Aus: LabourNet, 1. September 2011



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http://www.prowildlife.de/content/beenden-sie-die-delfinjagd-japan



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The American Spectator
by Doug Bandow

08/30/11

Two years ago, Pew reported that 70 percent of humanity suffered from either government persecution of or social hostility to religion. Add more moderate restrictions of the sort which Americans would still reject and an incredible 86 percent of the world s peoples did not enjoy genuine religious liberty. That trend is growing...

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/30/a-world-spinning-backward


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

08/30/11

Implicit in Greenwald s commentary is that the Obama administration is responsible for Cheney s continued legitimacy in the debate about torture, as well as the legitimacy of the debate itself. By deciding to repudiate torture while doing everything in its power to protect the torturers, the Obama administration has succeeded in elevating not only Cheney but the idea that, in America, some torturers are too important to be punished...

http://www.slate.com/id/2302751/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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In America The Rule Of Law Is Vacated

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29005.htm



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Christian Science Monitor

08/31/11

A continued decline in union membership in the US has led to an erosion of the American middle class, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Wednesday. As the portion of the population that belongs to a union has declined, 'there has been an erosion of people that have been able to stay in the middle class. The way I see, it is that unions have helped to keep people in the middle class,' Secretary Solis said...

http://tinyurl.com/3wfn8u4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Washington Post

08/31/11

On Aug. 12, 2003, a Gulfstream IV aircraft carrying six passengers took off from Dulles International Airport .... The Gulfstream IV s itinerary, as well as the $339,228.05 price tag for the journey, are among the details of shadowy CIA flights that have emerged in a small Upstate New York courthouse in a billing dispute between contractors...

http://wapo.st/nLDyYy



Panel tallies massive waste and fraud in wartime US contracts

CNN

08/31/11

A nonpartisan panel reporting to Congress says the United States is wasting $12 million a day among contracts issued in support of American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Commission on Wartime Contracting spent the past three years documenting whether American funding went where it was supposed to. The findings show misdirected money has totaled between $31 billion and $60 billion, and that both the government and the contractors are to blame for fraud and waste...

http://tinyurl.com/43u9l6a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/big-red-panic-button.html

8 Signs That the US Government is Making It Harder for You
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/govt-making-it-harder-to-be-expat.html

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The monetary tsunami is coming

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Frank Shostak

08/31/11

In his speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on August 26, 2011, the Fed chairman disappointed most pundits. He did not promise another massive infusion of fake money, i.e., QE3. I suspect that a strengthening in bank lending is an important factor behind the Fed s decision to postpone the pushing of more money into the economy...

http://mises.org/daily/5597/The-Monetary-Tsunami-Is-Coming


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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'Mission accomplished' in Libya?

Freedom Politics
by Gene Healy

08/31/11

Mission accomplished! As Libyan rebels took Tripoli last week, liberals practically draped that banner across the nation s op-ed pages. Now was the time for all good men to come together and praise a famous victory. ... It's not clear what we have 'won' in Libya. But it is clear what we have lost: Whatever s left of the quaint notions that America should wage war only in defense of our vital interests and that presidential uses of military force can and should be constrained by law...

http://tinyurl.com/3e7a8gp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Libya And The World We Live In

By William Blum

The Holy Triumvirate - The United States, NATO and the European Union - can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like 'humanitarian'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29006.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/08/31/220-against-war-and-empire/

The 2012 Election and Sound Money
http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams96.1.html

The Return of the Smear Brigade
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo132.html

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Depreciation is nothing new

LewRockwell.com
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

In Marco Polo s great book of travels, he talks about a coin called the bezant circulating in Kublai Khan s Mongol Chinese empire. The emperor, like the vast majority of politicians, found the lure of paper money irresistible. In his case, however, it was money printed on pieces of mulberry tree bark. The same disastrous effects, seen everywhere else in history, followed...

http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul761.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Alter-Globalisierung

Alter-Globalisierung bezeichnet soziale Bewegungen für alternative Globalisierung unter dem Motto 'Eine andere Welt ist möglich'.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35402/1.html



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Die beiden Konzerne haben einen auch politisch bedeutsamen Deal über die gemeinsame Erschließung von Ölfeldern in der Arktis, im Schwarzen Meer und in den USA geschlossen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/150396



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