World-News

Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: 'Wall Street Pit s Ron Haruni points out that as the banking industry s stocks plunged this year, with major megabanks like Bank of America facing uncertain fates, their executives have walked away with sky-high salaries.'

http://www.truth-out.org/big-bank-stocks-plunge-ceos-continue-reap-huge-salaries/1325600360



Nineteen Million Jobs for US Workers

Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Heidi Garrett-Peltier and Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Political Economy Research Institute: 'Amid the ongoing employment crisis in the US economy, US commercial banks and large corporations are sitting on huge hoards of cash and other liquid assets. The banks are carrying $1.6 trillion in cash in their accounts at the Federal Reserve while the corporations are carrying about $2 trillion in liquid assets. In combination, these holdings amount to about 23 percent of US GDP.'

http://www.truth-out.org/19-million-jobs-us-workers/1325618718

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Data Suggest Long-term Unemployment Substantially Higher than Official Level
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/05-4

'Job Creators' Aren t Doing Their Job
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-1



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Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera: 'Fallujah still bears the scars of war; skeletons continue to be pulled from the rubble of bombed buildings, and, worse, rates of birth defects and childhood malformations have skyrocketed. There is evidence of reconstruction, but shortages of electricity and clean water remain prevalent. The overall mood in the city is one of anger, hopelessness, and fear.'

http://www.truth-out.org/seven-years-after-sieges-fallujah-struggles/1325615444



Debacle! How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: 'It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be 'mission accomplished' all the way. And then, of course, it wasn t. And then, almost nine dismal years later, it was over (sorta).'

http://www.truth-out.org/debacle-how-two-wars-greater-middle-east-revealed-weakness-global-superpower/1325607241



Fallujah Babies: Birth Defects Blamed on US Weapons

Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English: ''The environment could be contaminated by chemical weapons and depleted uranium from the aftermath of the war on Iraq,' Dr. Alwachi told Al Jazeera. The US and UK militaries have sent mixed signals about the effects of depleted uranium, but Iraqi doctors like Alwachi and Alani, and along with researchers, blame the increasing cancer and birth defect rates on the weapon.''

http://www.truth-out.org/fallujah-babies-birth-defects-blamed-us-weapons/1325877537

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The Children of Fallujah

The Hospital of Horrors

By Robert Fisk

Stillbirths, disabilities, deformities too distressing to describe, what lies behind the torments in Fallujah General Hospital?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31189.htm



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Olivia Ward, The Star: 'As the coming federal election sucks all the oxygen out of America s political room, it s easy to ignore the power of the states, and the changes that are quietly taking place across the country independent of, and often hostile to the federal government. But, for understanding grassroots America, ALEC, here in God s golf country, is a good place to start.'

http://www.truth-out.org/americas-secret-political-power/1325535857



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Die Unsichtbaren der französischen Nuklearindustrie: Die 'Sklaven' der Kernenergie, die in den 19 Atommeilern ihre Gesundheit aufs Spiel setzen

'Über 22 000 nukleare 'Nomaden' zählt das französische Atomstromland, welche nicht für den staatlichen Stromkonzern EDF arbeiten, sondern für Privatunternehmen, den 'Sous-Traitant' (Auftragshersteller). Diese privaten Nukleararbeiter ziehen von Atommeiler zu Atommeiler, um gesundheitsgefährdende Wartungsarbeiten vorzunehmen?' Artikel von Nathalie Roller in telepolis vom 03.01.2012 http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36071/1.html

Aus dem Text: '?Diese 'Unsichtbaren' tauchen natürlich nicht in offiziellen Gesundheitsstudien und Statistiken auf, sind sie doch praktischerweise unsichtbar. Wie auch beweisen, dass man bei der Arbeit für eine Privatfirma in einem Atomreaktor verstrahlt wurde? Obendrein werden diese privaten Nukleararbeiter schlechter bezahlt, sind schlechter ausgebildet und haben eine schlechtere Gesundheitsversorgung als ihre EDF-Kollegen. Denn während ein privater Nukleararbeiter von ganz normalen Arbeitsmedizinern versorgt wird, erfreut sich sein EDF-Kollege einer Gesundheitsversorgung durch Mediziner, die auf die gesundheitlichen Folgen der Arbeit in einer radioaktiv verseuchten Umgebung spezialisiert sind. Schlimmer noch: Manche von der radioaktiven Belastung sichtlich überforderten Arbeitsmediziner bezeichnen die nuklearen Nomaden gar als REM-Fleisch, nach jener nicht mehr gebräuchlichen Messeinheit für die abbekommene Ionendosis, die von den Sievert abgelöst wurde. (?) Manche 'Unsichtbare' wie Philippe Billard, einer der wenigen, der es gewagt hat, Gewerkschaftsmitglied zu werden und auch prompt von seinem privaten Arbeitgeber entlassen wurde, treten nun ans Licht der Öffentlichkeit. Billard, hatte die Traute, auf seine zahlreichen verstrahlten Kollegen und die kläglichen Arbeitsbedingungen hinzuweisen. Er selbst wurde ebenfalls mehrmals verstrahlt. Wer allerdings in der Nuklearbranche arbeiten will, muss offenbar lernen, schön brav das Maul halten und sich schweigend ein klein bisschen verstrahlen lassen?'

Aus: LabourNet, 3. Januar 2012



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Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

01/02/12

Remember that great success in Iraq? A wonderful multi-ethnic democracy which would highlight American freedom values around the region? Oops! It appears that a second round of de facto ethnic cleansing is occurring. Back during the worst of the sectarian violence mixed neighborhoods largely disappeared from Baghdad. Now the few that remain are seeing an exodus of minority Sunnis...

http://tinyurl.com/6p3rky6



The final disintegration of Iraq?

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

01/02/12

Is this the final disintegration of Iraq? Is Maliki turning into a Shia version of Saddam Hussein, abandoning compromise, centralizing power and relying on force alone? Does he have the means to do so? Even with Iraq?s $100bn-a-year oil revenues, a large if chaotic state machine and security forces numbering 900,000 soldiers and policemen, it will not be that easy...

http://bit.ly/tPeon1



Iraq: The aftermath

Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau

01/01/12

I d be less worried about war with Iran if we had learned from Iraq. But we haven t. On the other hand, how much new is there for us to learn, really? The chief problems with the Iraq War were that it was a humanitarian disaster, it made nobody safer, it was unprovoked and based on lies, and it was horrendously costly. All of these things were utterly foreseeable in 2002...

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2012/01/01/14164


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The War Against the Shia

By Patrick Cockburn

It is a ferocious war waged by assassination, massacre, imprisonment and persecution that has killed tens of thousands of people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33614.htm



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Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

01/02/12

According to government officials, you may be a terrorist if you: are a Tea Party activist, an Occupy activist, store seven days of food, have missing fingers, buy flashlights, pay cash at hotels, are a Ron Paul supporter, are a libertarian, believe in conspiracies, own precious metals, guns and ammo. It s getting very difficult to keep up with...

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The real problem with the National Defense Authorization Act

LewRockwell.com
by Laurence M. Vance

01/02/12

[A]s correct and necessary as they are, the objections of civil libertarians regarding the indefinite detention of American citizens that the NDAA codifies, are not the real problem with the bill. Much more insidious is the bill itself and the $669 billion it allocates for 'defense' spending...

http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance273.html



Ron Paul, racism and conspiracy theorists

Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman

12/31/11

The Ron Paul campaign must really be doing something right. The corporate owned mainstream media is really attacking him with all guns blazing. They dredge up the fear card and accuse him of being a racist. They spin his words and try to frame the argument in a way that, in my opinion, is very dishonest to say the least...

http://bit.ly/sLqShq



The moral foundations of Occupy Wall Street

Reason
by Jonathan Haidt

01/12

From a rational perspective, joining a protest rally is like voting: a complete waste of time. The odds that your voice or your protest sign will make a difference are no better than the odds that your vote will change an election. Yet people do join protests, and people do vote. They do these things not to advance their rational self-interest but to express moral passions and moral identities...

http://tinyurl.com/7fg9s76



The road to the NDAA

CounterPunch
by Joanne Mariner

01/03/12

When future historians inquire into how the practice of indefinite military detention without trial became formally entrenched in a country with such strong constitutional safeguards and stringent criminal justice guarantees, they will find that it did not happen all at once, but rather via a series of incremental steps. President Obama is now responsible for three of them...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/03/the-road-to-the-ndaa/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Iowans, Don t Let CNN Make Up Your Minds: Support the Guy They Fear
http://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods187.html

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In 2007 Obama promised 'we do not imprison people without charge or legal remedy'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10806/

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Indefinite Detentions, Trial Today
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/03-2



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Republican Candidates Ready for First Showdown in Iowa Caucuses
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/02-0

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Super PACs, Occupy Iowa Protests and a Surging Rick Santorum: Iowa GOP Caucus Begins 2012 Race

Video

Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: 'Iowa is awash in millions of dollars of negative campaign ads funded by so-called Super PACs as voters head to their caucuses in the first real test of the 2012 election. 'If you want to see the future of politics in America, turn on the television in Iowa,' says John Nichols, correspondent for The Nation magazine.'

http://www.truth-out.org/super-pacs-occupy-iowa-protests-and-surging-rick-santorum-iowa-gop-caucus-begins-2012-race/132561539



The Roots of the Republican Party Crack-Up

Robert Reich, San Francisco Chronicle: 'The underlying conflict lies deep in the nature and structure of the Republican Party. And its roots are very old.... It s no coincidence that the states responsible for putting the most Tea Party representatives in the House are all former members of the Confederacy. Others are from border states with significant Southern populations and Southern ties.'

http://www.truth-out.org/roots-republican-party-crack/1325599928

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Mitt Romney Heckled at His Final Rally Before Iowa Caucuses
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/03-0



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US-Luftwaffe testet neue Drohne, die mehr Waffen mit sich führen kann.
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Nach ihrer Niederlage bei der Volksabstimmung Ende November haben die Gegner des Bahnprojekts Stuttgart 21 deutlich gemacht, dass sie ihren Widerstand nicht einstellen werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151142


Stuttgart 21 ist widerrechtlicher Abbau von Schieneninfrastruktur

'4 x 8 = 49' Die Sonderzeitung vom Bündnis 'Bahn für Alle' dokumentiert systematische Manipulation beim Stresstest. Siehe dazu die TAZ-Beilage Winter 2011/2012 (pdf) http://www.bahn-fuer-alle.de/media/docs/2011/TAZ-Beilage_BfA_2011_12.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Januar 2012

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''Anders als die Polizei haben S21-Projektgegner Recht und Gesetz verteidigt''. Journalisten, Fernsehreporter werden ausgeschlossen

''Durch die ''Allgemeinverfügung zur Anordnung eines Aufenthalts- und Betretungsverbots und zur Räumung des Zeltlagers für Teile der Mittleren Schloßgartenanlagen in Stuttgart'' vom 22.12.2011 werden das Grundrecht auf Versammlungsfreiheit für diesen Bereich, das Grundrecht auf Freizügigkeit und die Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit (Freiheit der Berichterstattung) vollständig außer Kraft gesetzt: Bei den unter Punkt 1.4. aufgeführten ''besonders berechtigten'' Personen, die das Areal betreten dürfen, fehlen Journalisten, Fernsehreporter etc. vollständig?'' Pressemitteilung des Stuttgarter Bündnisses für Versammlungsfreiheit vom 5.1.2012 http://www.trueten.de/archives/7544-Anders-als-die-Polizei-haben-S21-Projektgegner-Recht-und-Gesetz-verteidigt-Kommentar-des-Stuttgarter-Buendnisses-fuer-Versammlungsfreiheit.html


Polizeistrategie für Stuttgart 21: ''Wegtragen kostet 40 Euro''

''Der Streit um den geplanten Bahnhof S21 geht weiter, doch Stuttgarts Polizeipräsident Thomas Züfle sieht sich gut vorbereitet: Er rechne nicht mit gewaltsamen Protesten, sagte der dem SPIEGEL. Und wenn doch, würde die Polizei ihr schwäbischstes Mittel anwenden?'' Artikel in Der Spiegel online vom 08.01.2012 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,807867,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 9. Januar 2012



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