World-News: 21 Dezember 2011

America s most senior military official has indicated that the country is ready to engage in a conflict with Iran, if President Barack Obama were to give the signal.

http://tgr.ph/tzkVcE

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
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Starmail - 21. Dez, 23:16

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Gilani stresses 'no drone, no Abbottabad-like incidents' as new rules of Pak-US engagement

He stressed that the drone attacks must be stopped, which were causing collateral damage and were grossly detrimental to the government s efforts to isolate terrorists from local population.

http://bit.ly/tI4jXy

Pakistan Needs to Declare Its Independence

By Yasmeen Ali

Pakistan lies ravaged, with her economy destroyed, thanks to the country s deep involvement in the 'War on Terror.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30055.htm

Girl, four, left with horrific burns after U.S. drone attack in Pakistan is brought to America to receive surgery

A girl who was burned beyond recognition by a U.S. drone and left for dead in a trashcan is about to undergo reconstructive surgery.

http://bit.ly/uPvnjY

700m cut, but US still owes $6bn to Pakistan

It s very unfortunate that the US never treated Pakistan as an ally, friend or partner. We were always considered or treated like subservient state which is working only for dollars. But the fact is that no country on earth has suffered more than Pakistan from its own ally in last 60 years.

http://bit.ly/rtQmYa

US kills four people in Pakistan: Officials

Two missiles destroyed a ''militant'' compound in Pakistan s tribal area near the Afghan border, killing four ''militants'' late on Tuesday, security officials said.

http://bit.ly/zNLbeD

From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan Army Rejects US Findings on Border Attack
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/23-6

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US Prepares for a Curtailed Relationship With Pakistan

Eric Schmitt, The New York Times: 'With the United States facing the reality that its broad security partnership with Pakistan is over, American officials are seeking to salvage a more limited counterterrorism alliance that they acknowledge will complicate their ability to launch attacks against extremists and move supplies into Afghanistan.'

http://www.truth-out.org/us-prepares-curtailed-relationship-pakistan/1324914437

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Pakistan disputes US findings on deadly airstrike

CNN

12/26/11

Pakistan s government has formally disputed the findings of a U.S. investigation into a November airstrike that killed 24 Pakistanis, saying the bombardment went on long after it reported its troops were under fire. In a letter to the U.S. Congress, Pakistan said its troops came under fire at well-identified border posts and that NATO commanders knew helicopter gunships were firing on Pakistani forces 'within the first fifteen minutes', yet the attack continued for more than another hour...

http://bit.ly/skP6vG

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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Starmail - 21. Dez, 23:11

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NATO Depraved Disregard for Libyan Civilian Casualties

By Glen Ford

'NATO carried out a plan designed for no other purpose than to hide the killing of civilians, to methodically suppress all evidence of war crimes.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30048.htm

Firehose Of Your Tax Money Gushes to Libya

So, how is that violent liberation working out for 'ya?

By Tom H. Hastings

After wasting that $1.1 billion+ on violently getting rid of Gadhaffi, the US is going to pay untold $ millions to buy up weapons from the insurgents. You can t make up stuff like this.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30069.htm

Al-Qaida figures said infiltrating Libya

Several senior al-Qaida figures have made their way to Libya, raising fears North Africa could become a new mujahedin center.

http://bit.ly/vAcJKT

Libyan society falling apart without anti-Gaddafi glue

As the immediate post-revolutionary excitement fades, the different factions of the former rebels are turning on each other in what may become a competition for power.

http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-militia-society-unity-893/

US-NATO war crimes in Libya

A report released last week by Middle East human rights groups presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy ''rebel'' forces during last years' war, which brought down the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/pers-j23.shtml

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
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Starmail - 21. Dez, 23:02

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Other Victims: US Soldiers

Jason Leopold, Truthout: 'The Iraq war isn t over. For tens of thousands of soldiers returning from the battlefield, it never will be. Some of these men and women will turn to alcohol and drugs to ease their mental injuries; some will end up homeless, unemployed and divorced ... Most will be forgotten. Fortunately, there are journalists like Joshua Phillips who have taken great pains to preserve the memories of a handful of veterans whose lives have been ravaged by the war.'

http://www.truth-out.org/tortures-other-victims/1322783647

Can a Montana Program to Reduce Veteran Suicide Succeed at the National Level?

Eric Newhouse, Truthout: 'As America closes out its mission in Iraq, the Pentagon is gearing up to provide hundreds of thousands of returning soldiers with a new safeguard: intensive screenings for mental and emotional problems caused by combat. But military suicides, on average, one soldier has taken his or her own life every 36 hours between 2005 and 2010, aren t slowing down yet, according to an alarming new report.'

http://www.truth-out.org/can-montana-program-reduce-veteran-suicide-succeed-national-level/1324394752

Truthout s Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About Increase in Veterans' Suicides

Jason Leopold, RT: 'With the thousands of lives lost in Iraq, more US soldiers are dying of suicide then dying in battle. In 2010, 468 US troops committed suicide and an average of 18 US soldiers per day die. Many feel that the trauma of war is too much for soldiers handle when returning to civilian life. Jason Leopold, deputy managing editor for TruthOut.Org, joins us to explore the situation.'

http://www.truth-out.org/truthouts-jason-leopold-speaks-rt-about-increase-veterans-suicides/1324666825

The Death of Pvt. Danny Chen: Military Admits Chen Was Target of Race-Based Hazing on Daily Basis

Video

Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: ''U.S. Army investigators have released explosive new details about the death of Private Danny Chen, who allegedly took his own life just weeks after he was deployed to Afghanistan last October. The family of the 19-year-old Chinese-American soldier says the Army told them Chen had been abused by comrades on an almost daily basis ...''

http://www.truth-out.org/death-private-danny-chen-military-admits-chen-was-target-race-based-hazing-daily-basis/1326137910

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Iraq: War Woe: Suicide Kills More US Soldiers Than Combat

Video By RT

As U.S. soldiers return home for Christmas, the mood is far from joyful among veterans struggling to deal with the personal aftermath of the war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30063.htm

Another face of the U.S. recession: homeless children

As her mother sat in a homeless shelter in downtown Miami, talking about her economic struggles and loss of faith in the U.S. political system, 3-year-old Aeisha Touray blurted out what sounded like a new slogan for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.

http://reut.rs/uJgZTi

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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Starmail - 21. Dez, 22:26

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Why Is the Media Lying About New NDAA Power for Indefinite Military Detention of Americans?

Ralph Lopez, War Is a Crime: 'What is becoming more worrisome than what Anonymous calls this 'outright declaration of WAR against the American People,' is the fact that the Congress, the president, and their media minions are working so hard to conceal it. If you need to overthrow the Constitution in order to fight terrorists, why not just say so? Why the guilty, criminal frame of mind?

http://www.truth-out.org/why-media-lying-about-new-ndaa-power-indefinite-military-detention-americans/1324397022

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A broad swelling chorus is denouncing NDAA as 'legalizing martial law'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10770/

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The United Police States of America: The criminalization of living in America

Poli-Tea
by d.Eris

12/19/11

In their ongoing war against the Constitution and people of the United States, the Democratic and Republican parties have amply demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice fundamental rights and liberties for the empty promise of security over the last ten years...

http://bit.ly/vqVwtV

It s not hyperbole to say we have become a police state

Freedom s Phoenix
by Mencken s Ghost

12/19/11

There are about 138,000 federal law-enforcement officers, or 2,760 per state. Even the Dept of Education has some. There has been nothing in the presidential debates about this. I fear that the only solution is to shutter all agencies, repeal the laws that established them, go back to the Constitution, and start over...

http://bit.ly/sPYCop

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How an American born outside the U.S. responds to the National Defense Authorization Act

By Pubali Ray Chaudhuri

It continues to be okay to talk of Iraqis and Afghans like they are not quite human, and their deaths regrettable, but definitely nowhere near as apoplexy-inducing as a threat to a real human being-an American citizen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30046.htm

If America is the battleground, nobody has any rights

Last Thursday, which happened to be the 220th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the Senate passed a defense bill that demonstrates just how cavalier Congress can be with our fundamental liberties.

http://bit.ly/vfLjFb

From Information Clearing House

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Journalism That Doesn t Pass the Smell Test
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/12/22

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How To Avoid Living in a Police State
http://lewrockwell.com/black-s/black-s99.1.html

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Starmail - 21. Dez, 09:51

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Spending billions on Cold War weapons systems

The Defining Issue: Not Government s Size, but Who It s For

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: 'So we keep spending billions on Cold War weapons systems like nuclear attack submarines, aircraft carriers, and manned combat fighters that pump up the bottom lines of Bechtel, Martin-Marietta, and their ilk, but have nothing to do with 21st-century combat. Declining tax receipts are also driving the deficit. That s partly because most Americans have less income to tax these days.'

http://www.truth-out.org/defining-issue-not-governments-size-who-its/1324394357

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bechtel
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Starmail - 21. Dez, 09:41

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Why We All Need to Experience Occupy Wall Street

Preston Elrod, Truthout: 'What the Occupy movement makes evident, as most of us are painfully aware, is that the current political economy does not work for most Americans, nor does it work for our brothers and sisters around the world. Yet, it does not tell us what to think. Instead, it encourages us to think and to learn through the countless discussions that take place each day at occupation sites around the country and abroad.'

http://www.truth-out.org/why-we-all-need-experience-occupy-wall-street/1323445491

Why Faculty Should Join Occupy Movement Protesters on College Campuses

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: 'The Occupy Wall Street protests refuse a notion of society that embraces a definition of agency in which people are viewed only as commodities, bound together in a Darwinian nightmare that celebrates the logic of greed, unchecked individualism and a disdain for democratic values. Joining with students in the Occupy movement is not merely a career choice; it is a choice about what kind of society we all want to live in.'

http://www.truth-out.org/why-faculty-should-join-occupy-movement-protesters-college-campuses/1324328832

Occupy Chanukah and Christmas

Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun: 'Every political, economic, legal, and educational institution must be rebuilt with a New Bottom Line that judges efficiency, productivity and rationality based on how much they help develop in us our capacities to be loving and caring, kind and generous, ethically and ecologically sensitive, and responding with awe, wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur and mystery of the universe.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-chanukah-and-christmas/1324403400

Our Photographer and His Lens Busted at Occupy

Greg Palast, Truthout: 'On Saturday, our [photographer] ... along with a bishop of the Episcopalian Church and three ministers of various faiths ... were pushed face-first into the dirt at Duarte Park, handcuffed and hauled off in a police van to the lockup in Lower Manhattan ... [Police] weren t impressed by Bishop George Packard s red robes. His excellency was handcuffed and charged along with ... another newsman for trespassing on the property owned by the bishop s own church, Trinity.'

http://www.truth-out.org/our-photographer-and-his-lens-busted-occupy/1324416856

'The Protester' Becomes Time s Person of the Year, Wants More

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: 'This year s 'Protester' was not protesting government paralysis. Governments are not the primary bearers of power in the geopolitical landscape. Bigger things are at work, and the biggest of these is the globalization of capital ... 'The Protester' is focused on something bigger than Time Magazine s cover, bigger even than governments. 'The Protester' in 2011 is focused on saving the world by turning it over to the people who live here.'

http://www.truth-out.org/protester-becomes-times-person-year-wants-more/1324408608

With the Long Revolution Underway, We Need to Think Big

David Palumbo-Liu, Truthout: 'I attended the demonstration in Oxford, which drew the largest crowd in the southwestern part of the United Kingdom. I heard things one could never have imagined before at a labor strike ... The message overall was that it was time to think big - this global crisis demands a global response, and the suffering of one population in one spot on the globe connects intimately with that of others."

http://www.truth-out.org/long-revolution-underway-we-need-think-big/1324418230

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Plundering the American Dream: College Students Demonstrate the Idiocy of Our Education System
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo86.1.html

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The Careerists

By Chris Hedges

The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31969.htm

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Starmail - 21. Dez, 09:29

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