World-News: 30 November 2011

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McCain says American Citizens Can Be Sent to Guantanamo

By Matthew Rothschild

U.S. citizens beware: A bill being debated on the Senate floor this week is likely to pass, and if it becomes law, you could be sent to Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29857.htm

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An Open Letter to the US Congress From Members of the British Parliament About Guantanamo

Jeremy Corbyn, John Leech, Caroline Lucas and Michael Meacher, Truthout: 'As a group of elected members of Parliament (MP) from all the main parties represented at Westminster, we are outraged by the current position of the US Congress which, apparently, means that Guantanamo Bay prison will never be closed, and, of particular concern to us, that a British resident who was cleared for release more than two years ago, cannot return here.'

http://www.truth-out.org/exclusive-open-letter-us-congress/1322750125

Are Americans in Line for Gitmo?

Ray McGovern, Consortium News: 'Ambiguous but alarming new wording, which is tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and was just passed by the Senate, is reminiscent of the 'extraordinary measures' introduced by the Nazis after they took power in 1933. And the relative lack of reaction so far calls to mind the oddly calm indifference with which most Germans watched the erosion of the rights that had been guaranteed by their own Constitution.'

http://www.truth-out.org/are-americans-line-gitmo/1323021016

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Levin-McCain shows 'how degraded our political culture has become'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10721/

NDAA creates 'parallel military justice system we are all subject to'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10727/

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Ten Years of Guantanamo Demands Our Action and Our Outrage
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/02-9

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 17:36

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GOP foreign policy debate shows the party has learned nothing over the last decade

Starmail - 30. Nov, 11:03

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Kasich, Koch and Big-Industry Bucks: Why Ohio Is the Next Fracking Frontier

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: 'Fracking opponents in southern Ohio won a victory last week when the United States Forest Service (USFS) withdrew more than 3,000 acres of public lands from a federal oil and gas lease sale scheduled for December 7, 2012. The USFS announced that it needed more time to review the potential effects of fracking after receiving petitions and letters from local leaders who used the old-fashioned method of collecting signatures to catch the attention of government officials.'

http://www.truth-out.org/kasich-and-big-industry-bucks-why-ohio-next-fracking-frontier/1322500816

Thousands March on Washington State Capitol to Protest Budget Cuts

Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: 'This week, the Washington state legislature is holding a special session to deal with issues related to the state s budget. Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) has called on the legislature to cut $2 billion from the discretionary budget of $8.7 billion. Many worry that these cuts will come at the expense of the poor and middle class, and will not ask any sacrifices from those who are well-off.'

http://www.truth-out.org/thousands-march-washington-state-capitol-protest-budget-cuts/1322583404

If We End Corporate Personhood We Can Define the Terms of a New Economy

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'With the end of corporate personhood, it will be possible for the humans of the United States and every nation in the world to define the terms of a new economy. With natural persons once again in charge of government, we can redefine the rules of business so that corporations are profitable when their actions lead to sustainability and a clean environment, respond to values defined by local communities, and promote and develop renewable forms of energy.'

http://www.truth-out.org/if-we-end-corporate-personhood-we-can-define-terms-new-economy/1321986003

Vermont s Push to End Corporate Personhood

Greg Guma, Maverick Media: 'Over the last decade more than a hundred cities and towns across the country have passed ordinances putting citizens' rights ahead of corporate interests. They have banned businesses from dumping toxic sludge, building factory farms, mining, and extracting water for bottling. Some have also refused to recognize corporations as people.'

http://www.truth-out.org/vermonts-push-end-corporate-personhood/1322934280

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The one percent indifferent to indebtedness

Our Future
by Leo Gerard

11/29/11

Most Americans, the 99 percent, feel the pressure of indebtedness. ... They pay their bills, working second jobs if necessary. They meet mortgage obligations even when underwater. ... But for the majority of millionaires - the 1 percent - incurring debt does not evoke anxiety. They are numb to the feeling of responsibility that indebtedness induces in the 99 percent. They believe they owe nothing to their country or society despite all they have gained...

http://tinyurl.com/7drs2q9

US foreign arms sales reach $34.8 billion

Baltimore Sun

12/05/11

Foreign sales of U.S. weapons rose to $34.8 billion in fiscal year 2011 and should hover around $30 billion this year, the Pentagon said on Monday. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Pentagon agency that oversees foreign arms sales, said sales in the fiscal year ended September 30 topped $30 billion for the fourth consecutive year after reaching $31.6 billion in fiscal 2010...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 10:38

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Gingrich calls for bombing Iran refineries

The former House speaker opined that the US could break Iran within a year with 'cutting off the gasoline supply to Iran and then, frankly, sabotaging the only refinery they have.'

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212631.html

Evangelicals Flocking Toward Newt Gingrich: How the religious right is learning to love the adulterous, thrice-married former speaker.

http://bit.ly/tjINQh

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Newt Gingrich and his box of matches

The San Francisco Chronicle
by Debra J. Saunders

11/29/11

As a Republican congressman, Newt Gingrich filed ethics charges that led Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright to resign in 1989. Later, the House elected Gingrich speaker. Then, in 1998, Gingrich resigned after his own close encounter with an ethics probe. Wright said he didn t want to gloat, but he did compare Gingrich to 'an arsonist who sets fire to his own building without stopping to realize the flames are going to consume his own apartment'...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Newt-Onian Foreign Policy
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Newt Gingrich: Government should allow terror attacks
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Starmail - 30. Nov, 10:22

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Dark clouds of war shrouding Syria

As a latest sign of Western intervention, the nuclear aircraft-carrier USS George HW Bush has reportedly anchored off Syria. The ship is capable of carrying up to 70 aircraft, including 48 attack jets. The aircraft-carrier is escorted by a group of vessels which contains a destroyer.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2011-11/28/c_131274625.htm

Russian warships head for Syria

The Russian battle group will consist of three vessels led by the heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser, Admiral Kuznetsov.

http://rt.com/news/russian-aircraft-carrier-syria-363/

Syrian Time Bomb

By Eric Margolis

The US, France, Israel and Britain are so blinded by their anti-Iran passion, they are ready to destroy Syria to get at Great Satan Iranian.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29851.htm

600 Libyans 'Already Fighting in Syria'

By RT

The fighters have joined the Free Syria Army, the militant group carrying out attacks on government forces in Syria, reports the Egyptian news website Al-Ray Al-Arabi citing its sources. The report says the troops entered Syria through Turkish territory.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29853.htm

Syria hit with Turkey sanctions, army losses mount

Syria s biggest trade partner Turkey suspended all financial credit dealings with it on Wednesday and froze its government s assets, joining the Arab League in isolating President Bashar al-Assad over his military crackdown on opponents.

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Turkey is Ready to Invade Syria

By M K Bhadrakumar

Turkey and the western powers are desperate to create the myth of a 'Syrian resistance' force without which their blatant aggression will be in full display.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29859.htm

The Syrian Revolution Hijacked

By Peter Lee

The democratic revolution ship has sailed. What s going on today is a foreign-supported insurrection.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29863.htm

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French special ops in Turkey to secretly train Syrian deserters in urban guerrilla warfare
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Starmail - 30. Nov, 10:18

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Dead Afghan Kids Still Not Newsworthy

By Peter Hart

Back in March, we wondered when U.S. corporate news outlets would find U.S./NATO killing of Afghan kids newsworthy. Back then, it was nine children killed in a March 1 airstrike. This resulted in two network news stories on the evening or morning newscasts, and two brief references on the PBS NewsHour.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29847.htm

NATO Kills 3 Afghan Women

Three rockets were fired into civilian homes in Zhari district of Kandahar province on Monday, the dpa news agency cited provincial governor spokesman Zalmai Ayoubi as saying.

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/?id=3.1.2695214405

US general orders troops retrained after 7 Afghan civilians killed

The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan has ordered retraining of coalition forces after seven civilians were killed in a military operation last week in the southern part of the country, coalition officials said Tuesday.

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 09:32

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U.S. Intervention in the Middle East

By ICH

This partial chronology of U.S. intervention in the Middle East illustrates the lengths to which the U.S. power structure has gone to gain and maintain U.S. domination of the Middle East-a region considered key to the U.S. s standing as an imperialist world power.

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 09:23

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Mass Regime Change in Muslim World?

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Target Iran: Washington Countdown to War

By Tom Burghardt

The Iranian people know what it means to earn the enmity of the global godfather.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29838.htm

The Folly of Sanctions

By Ron Paul

We should be clear about this: sanctions against Iran are definite steps toward a US attack.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29849.htm

Sanctions are only a Small Part of the History that Makes Iranians Hate the UK

By Robert Fisk

Woodhouse brought weapons into Iran for a still non-existent 'resistance' movement and he eagerly supported the CIA s project to fund the 'bazaaris' of Tehran to stage demonstrations (in which, of course, hundreds, perhaps thousands, died) to overthrow Mossadegh.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29860.htm

'China Will Not Hesitate To Protect Iran Even With A Third World War': Video and transcript - Major General Zhang Zhaozhong, a professor from the Chinese National Defense University, said China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugq-KleU8IA&feature=player_embedded#!

All Eyes on Israel After Second Iranian Blast

By Sheera Frenkel

CLOUDS of smoke billowed above the city of Isfahan - evidence that the latest strike against Iran s alleged nuclear weapons program had hit its target.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29871.htm

The war against Iran s nuclear program has already begun

Explosions, deadly computer viruses and other sorts of 'accidents' - someone is targeting Iran s nuclear project: either the Western intelligence agencies, internal opposition groups, or both.

http://bit.ly/siRGAl

China Not Obliged To Besiege Iran

Editorial : China s Global Times

China, as well as its mammoth neighbor Russia, should keep on high alert and adopt countermeasures if necessary.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29879.htm

USrael and Iran

By William Blum

There s no letup, is there? The preparation of the American mind, the world mind, for the next gala performance of D&D - Death and Destruction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29880.htm

Preparing the Battlefield: France withdraws embassy staff from Iran

France is repatriating a number of diplomats and their families from Iran following an attack on the British embassy in Tehran.French officials said the move was a temporary security measure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16018000

From Information Clearing House

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The case against war with Iran
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/iranus-sabre-rattling/george-galloway-vs-war-mongering-parrot.html

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About those chicken-hawks

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

12/03/11

I find chicken-hawks to be an interesting group of people. They are calling on the U.S. government to wage war on Iran, just as they did with Iraq. Yet, at the same time, they steadfastly refuse to join the U.S. Armed Forces to go fight against Iran, just as they were steadfastly unwilling to do so in the war on Iraq. What gives?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-12-02.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 09:05

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The Ugly US Drone War in Pakistan

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/29-0

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US refuses to apologise for Pakistan air strike that killed 24 soldiers

Closing the border crossings will halt almost half of supplies for the Nato-led force, including British troops.

http://tgr.ph/vmAy5h

Violation of Pak sovereignty not acceptable: China, Russia

...China expressed deep shock and strong concern over the incident and extended condolences to the aggrieved families. He said that Pakistan s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected.

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Pakistan says Supply line permanently stopped: Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said the Nato supply line had not been suspended but permanently stopped, making it clear that containers that had been stopped would not be allowed to cross the Pak-Afghan border.

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/11/28/179611.html

Russia Considers Blocking NATO Supply Routes

Russia said it may not let NATO use its territory to supply troops in Afghanistan if the alliance doesn t seriously consider its objections to a U.S.-led missile shield for Europe, Russia s ambassador to NATO said Monday.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204753404577066421106592452.html

US and Pakistan Enter the Danger Zone

By M K Bhadrakumar

Washington may have seriously erred if the intention Friday night was to draw out the Pakistani military into a retaliatory mode and then to hit it with a sledgehammer and make it crawl on its knees pleading mercy. Things aren t going to work that way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29850.htm

America: The Ally From Hell

By Jordan Michael Smith

In Washington, the Pakistan-bashers are having a field day avoiding U.S. responsibility.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29855.htm

72 troops killed by NATO cross-border attacks in Pakistan over last three years: army spokesman

Major General Athar Abbas, said that the recent attacks by NATO forces on two Pakistani army checkposts in the country s northwest tribal area of Mohmand Agency, which killed 24 Pakistani troops and injured 13 others, could lead to serious consequences.

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=160494

NATO raid was deliberate: army:

The NATO attacks on border checkposts in Mohmand Agency were deliberate and were carried out in violation of coordination procedures, Director General Military Operations (DG MO), Maj Gen Ishfaq Nadeem, said on Tuesday.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\11\30\story_30-11-2011_pg1_4

Pakistan s air space may be denied to US

The government is currently reviewing the options available to it to demonstrate Pakistan s vast leverage over their war in Afghanistan to the US and other members of the International Security Force, the experts said.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=10643&Cat=13

US fanning terror, flouting international laws: China

China s top state newspaper on Tuesday accused the United States of flouting international law and fanning terrorism after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and it warned that the Islamabad s grip on security could be dangerously weakened.

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Pakistan : Video of NATO airstrike aftermath

Pakistan s military on Wednesday released footage showing what they said was the aftermath of the NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The video shows what appear to be several damaged buildings in a mountainous area and a cloud of smoke rising.

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 08:55

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