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11. November 2011

Die Bundesregierung vermeidet selbst den Ansatz einer neuen Afghanistanpolitik, und sie ist dazu auch offensichtlich nicht in der Lage, so das Fazit des Mitgliedes im Parteivorstandes der LINKEN, Wolfgang Gehrcke:

Der ständige Druck der LINKEN und der Friedensbewegung, die Mehrheitsstimmung in der Bevölkerung und die katastrophale Lage in Afghanistan haben die Bundesregierung dazu gebracht, in der Öffentlichkeit den Eindruck erwecken zu wollen, dass mit dem Truppenabzug begonnen würde. Die eigentliche Botschaft dieser Entscheidung heißt aber: 4.400 Soldaten werden in Afghanistan bleiben. DIE LINKE fordert hingegen, dass der Einsatz der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan beendet wird und die eingesetzten Truppen unverzüglich zurückgeholt werden. Zu einer neuen Afghanistanpolitik würde eine Erklärung Deutschlands gehören, seine Beteiligung am Afghanistankrieg zu beenden und tatsächlich Selbstbestimmung für Afghanistan zu garantieren. Ebenso gehört seitens der Bundesregierung dazu, einen Endpunkt für den kompletten Truppenabzug zu nennen und nicht weiter die Fiktion zwischen dem Abzug von Kampftruppen und sonstigen Truppen aufrechtzuerhalten. Es wäre zu erwarten, dass die Bundesregierung erklärt, sofort ihre Beteiligung an gezielten Tötungen einzustellen und dass sie Auskunft über die Beteiligung deutscher Truppen bei der Verbringung von afghanischen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern in Foltergefängnisse gibt. Ebenso muss untersucht werden, inwieweit Bundeswehreinheiten an völkerrechtswidrigen Akten der Kriegsführung beteiligt waren. Ein tatsächliches Konzept für die Förderung zivilgesellschaftlichen Aufbaus und des entsprechenden Mitteleinsatzes durch die Bundesregierung liegt bis heute nicht vor. Es bleibt bei der Feststellung: Nichts ist gut in Afghanistan. Die Forderung der LINKEN, die Bundeswehr unverzüglich abzuziehen, zielt auch auf den Abzug der NATO aus Afghanistan. Die Beendigung des ausländischen Truppeneinsatzes ist der Schlüssel für Waffenstillstandsverhandlungen. So lange ausländische Truppen in Afghanistan eingesetzt sind, wird es Widerstand geben; so lange wird der Krieg nicht beendet werden. DIE LINKE fordert: Die Afghanistan-Konferenz in Bonn muss einen völlig anderen Charakter bekommen. Auf dieser Konferenz muss über den Truppenabzug und über die Selbstbestimmung der afghanischen Bevölkerung geredet werden. Was die Bundesregierung plant, ist eine Schauveranstaltung für ihre verfehlte Politik. Das wird Protest herausfordern, auch und besonders in Deutschland.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/statt-schauveranstaltung-in-bonn-braucht-deutschland-eine-neue-afghanistanpolitik/

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Sie reden von Frieden und fühen Krieg! Gemeinsam gegen die Afghanistan-Kriegs-Konferenz in Bonn

Aufruf zu den Petersberg II-Protesten vom Berliner Bündnis gegen die Kriegskonferenz bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2011/11/319451.shtml


Aufrufe und Informationen auf der Aktionsseite des Protestbündnisses gegen Petersberg II http://www.afghanistanprotest.de/


Experimentierfeld Afghanistan: Zehn Jahre Krieg und kein Ende in Sicht

Zur Unterstützung für die Proteste gegen den Petersberg-II-Gipfel Anfang Dezember hat IMI eine Broschüre erstellt, in der versucht wird, umfangreiche Hintergrundinformationen zum Krieg in Afghanistan zu liefern.

Die Broschüre (60 Seiten A4) kann für 3 Euro pro Exemplar (ab 5: 2,50) plus Porto bestellt werden. Bestellungen bitte an: imi@imi-online.de


Aus: LabourNet, 15. November 2011



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Tom Hayden, Prometheus Books: 'This work is a survey of media patterns in conflict and crisis situations. But it is clear from Armoudian s account that the 'mainstream media,' whether state or corporate controlled, have largely acted as an instrument for shielding government, corporate, or military interests. There are exceptions - for example, in the case of special investigative reporters, or for media that find niche markets with a countercultural bias - but in general, the 'mainstream media' reflect the status quo.'

http://www.truth-out.org/kill-messenger-chronicles-medias-role-conflicts-rwanda-mexico/1320858160

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Occupy the press

In These Times
by Susan J. Douglas

11/10/11

Despite the media s appalling coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement, is a more sustained and sustainable assault on the injustices of corporate capitalism gaining a foothold? With the emergence, and spread, of the Occupy movement, the first scandal was the mainstream media s ignoring the story (until the NYPD got violent). Many noted, rightly, that if the demonstration had been organized by the Tea Party, the press would have been all over it from the start...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12259/occupy_the_press


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKoLNb1Uwpk

Real democracy a blue print!

Max Keiser and Mike Gravel on Occupy Wall Street.

How to work to empower the people and work around the government!


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Whitewashing Black History Month

By Gary Younge

Arizona s suppression of Mexican American studies fits a pattern of making history serve an exclusionary nationalist mythology.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30411.htm



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Juan Cole, TomDispatch: 'Whether in Egypt or the United States, young rebels are reacting to a single stunning worldwide development: the extreme concentration of wealth in a few hands thanks to neoliberal policies of deregulation and union busting.... They are objecting to high rates of unemployment, reduced social services, blighted futures, and above all the substitution of the market for all other values as the matrix of human ethics and life.'

http://www.truth-out.org/protest-planet-how-neoliberal-shell-game-created-age-activism/1320950783

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Shootings rock Occupy encampments in Oakland, Vermont

New York Daily News

11/10/11

A man was shot Thursday outside the Oakland encampment that anti-Wall Street protesters have occupied for the last month, but an organizer for Occupy Oakland said the attack was unrelated to the ongoing protest of U.S. financial institutions. ... A shooting also rocked the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Vermont on Thursday. A 35-year-old military veteran apparently shot himself in Burlington, fellow protesters said. A hospital spokesman said later the man had died...

http://nydn.us/vcAdMJ



Occupy Fannie and Freddie

San Francisco Chronicle
by Debra J. Saunders

11/10/11

The collapse of MF Global Holdings gives Americans yet another reason not to trust Wall Street. The firm filed for bankruptcy as federal regulators were looking for $600 million missing from customer accounts. Its CEO, former Democratic New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, had bet that European leaders would bail out smallish countries that were too big to fail. His bet did not pay off. The only good news out of this story is that Washington won t be bailing out MF Global...

http://tinyurl.com/74qd6w8



Let the innocent pay the wrongdoers

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

11/13/11

Fannie Mae alone has so far sucked up $112.6 billion in funds from taxpayers since the government took full control of the firm in 2008. ... Add Freddie Mac to the mix and the total taxpayer bailout comes to more than $170 billion and counting. ... The figure could reach $193 billion and more by 2014. Who gets that $193 billion? Why, the lucky lenders, and investors of course - the ones who got an iron clad pay back guarantee courtesy of the U.S. government. It s the responsible taxpayers, homeowners and creditworthy borrowers who are getting the shaft...

http://bit.ly/tkHRne


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano28.1.html

Should Christians Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance266.html

And the Big Time Banksters Come Marching In
http://lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel142.html

Want To 'Support the Troops'? Stop all the wars
http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/poindexter2.1.1.html

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Looking at the 'big picture'

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

11/11/11

The idea that nations have some sort of collective 'national interest,' or even a 'manifest destiny,' is not realistic in any coherent sense. There is no 'national interest,' because only individuals have real interests: the 'national interest' is a floating abstraction, a ghost. American foreign policy is made by people: specific individuals who act in what they regard as their own interests...

http://bit.ly/tD603S



Corruption as political economy

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

11/10/11

On its face, it may seem counterintuitive that the halls of government are the source of the great part of society s disorder, poverty and violence. We are taught that the state, representing the interests of the people and the general welfare, is a great parapet against which indigence and crime crash and dissolve. Never is it considered - even while only a small few actually control the mechanisms of power at any given time - that elites might have an interest in perpetuating widespread want and destitution...

http://c4ss.org/content/8901


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/10-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/10-2

Next Stop, Australia: 'We are Here to Stay'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/23-0



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Die IEA legt jährlichen World Energy Outlook vor. Ein Ergebnis: Die Zeit, um den Klimawandel noch im halbwegs erträglichen Rahmen zu halten, wird äußerst knapp.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/150808

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Energiewende macht Steinkohlekraftwerke unrentabel

Wind- und Solarstrom rauben den Besitzern von Steinkohlekraftwerken den Schlaf.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814194ms302



Kohlekraft weltweit auf dem Vormarsch

Klimaschützer haben vor einer Renaissance der Kohlekraft gewarnt.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814612ms310



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The travel industry today became the latest to slam federal rules and bureaucracy, charging that tough visa rules for potential tourists have robbed the nation of $600 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs.

http://bit.ly/vH4Lll


From Information Clearing House
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By Judge Napolitano

How the government fools us with inaccurate economic measurements, sells illegal drugs to foreign cartels and why it s time to alter or abolish it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29680.htm



Undercover Cop At Occupy Oakland Condemns Police Brutality, Supports The Movement

By Zaid Jilani

Across the country, police have used undercover and/or plainsclothed police officers to monitor occupations and protests that are a part of the 99 Percent Movement. Earlier today,the Tennessean published excerpts from emails sent by the Tennessee Highway Patrol that confirmed not only that police were infiltrating Occupy Nashville but that they were hoping for the movement s demise.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29678.htm



Occupy Atlanta Encamps In Neighborhood To Save Police Officer s Home From Foreclosure

At least two dozen protesters encamped on the family's lawn, to the applause of neighbors and bystanders.

http://bit.ly/stGRPm



Occupy Atlanta leaves Gwinnett home after family evicted

The Roreys were evicted Thursday from their four-bedroom home just south of Snellville. Minutes before about a dozen protesters gathered in front of the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville to decry threats they said Gwinnett Sheriff Butch Conway made to the family.

http://bit.ly/uZbajL


From Information Clearing House

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How to Fix 30 Years of Redistribution: Tax the Rich
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/10-2

California Refuses to Accept Obama s Banking Sellout
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/10-3

Occupy Movement Demands Fresh Thinking For Our Grandchildren
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/10-6



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IAEA Errs on 'Foreign Expert' in Iran N-programme

By Vladimir Radyuhin

The latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran appears to have falsified information about a Russian scientist who allegedly helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons programme.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29674.htm



Iran Nuclear Report: Why It May Not Be A Game-changer After All

By Scott Peterson

Robert Kelley, an American nuclear engineer and former IAEA inspector who was among the first to review the original data in 2005. 'It s certainly old news; it s really quite stunning how little new information is in there.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29677.htm



Israel ay Launch Strike on Iran as Soon as Next Month

By Tim Shipman

Senior Foreign Office figure: 'We are expecting something as early as Christmas, or very early in the new year'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29679.htm



U.S.: Strike of Iran May Have Unintended Consequences

By The Associated Press and Haaretz

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says there is a possibility that an attack of Iran s enrichment centers would only delay the Islamic Republic s nuclear program by a few years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29675.htm



Dennis Ross Fired Over IAEA Dud

I have a hunch that the abrupt firing of Dennis Ross is one of the (well deserved) outcomes of the recent 'nuclear Iran' IAEA, Americn induced report dud. The NYT writes.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/11/dennis-ross-fired-over-iaea-dud.html



Obama Wants World War III

By Michael S. Rozeff

One word from Obama can stop Israel from attacking Iran. Is he saying 'No'? I don't hear it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29692.htm


From Information Clearing House

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'Extraordinary' that after Iraq media go along with warmongering against Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10678/



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