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Politics protects the garrison state

By Steve Chapman

Romney and Obama may pretend they represent stark differences in America s approach to national security and world affairs. But in this realm, there is no Democratic or Republican party. There is only the war party.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31261.htm



American Atrocities: Not Who We Are? Really?

By Dan DeWalt

Our supposed innocence of the crimes of Empire and rapacious capitalism can be accepted for only so long. Eventually, we too must share the blame for the actions of our government and our economic culture.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31262.htm



The American Character

By Glenn Greenwald

Here we have one of America s most conventional pundits correctly warning of America s soon-to-be-irreversible transformation into a limitless domestic Surveillance State.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31265.htm



Expanding Empire: U.S. Seeks Faster Deployment

U.S. military leaders have developed new proposals to speed the deployment of elite American special-operations forces to a growing number of the world s trouble spots, advancing the Obama administration's emerging approach to armed involvement abroad.

http://on.wsj.com/KGl5o6


From Information Clearing House

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Last Words to an America in Decline
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/07-0

Surveillance State Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/07-4

Outraged Over Atrocities, Unless They Are Ours
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/30-9

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Violence, USA: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux

Michael Slate and Henry A. Giroux, The Michael Slate Show: ''... [T]he United States is not only obsessed with military values shaping foreign policy, but war and militarism have become a mediating force that begins to seep into almost every aspect of daily life. That is we see war and its dynamics of cruelty and punishment seeping into a whole range of institutions.... [W]e see schools as being modeled increasingly after prisons. We see police forces being paramilitarized. We see popular culture endlessly celebrating the spectacle of violence, and so it goes.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8956-violence-usa-an-interview-with-henry-a-giroux



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By Chris McGreal in Washington

A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31256.htm
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Wormser Zeitung

Angst hatten die beiden Referenten des Bündnisses gegen Cybermobbing den Zuhörern bei der ersten öffentlichen Veranstaltung der Wormser Soroptimisten sicher nicht machen wollen, aber aufrütteln wollten sie zweifellos. Denn das Problem hat Dimensionen...

http://www.wormser-zeitung.de/region/worms/meldungen/11942401.htm



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President Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/scheuer/scheuer14.1.html

Ron Paul Dominates Maine, Nevada State Conventions
http://lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem59.1.html

Rationally Defending Ron Paul: Detractors and Supporters Beware
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/sparks1.1.1.html

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Paul posts GOP delegate wins in Maine, Nevada

Christian Science Monitor

05/06/12

Ron Paul s presidential strategy is working, at least it did in Maine and Nevada Sunday, where he won the most number of delegates at state party conventions. ... Over the weekend, his supporters took control of the Maine Republican Convention, electing a majority slate of delegates. In Nevada Paul forces did likewise, winning their man 22 delegates, compared to three for Romney...

http://bit.ly/J4B2H0


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Federal Court Enjoins NDAA

Judge Rules Indefinite Detention Provisions Likely Violate the 1st and 5th Amendments

By Glenn Greenwald

This afternoon s ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by seven dissident plaintiffs, including Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir, alleging that the NDAA violates ''both their free speech and associational rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31349.htm



Congressmen Seek To Lift U.S. Propaganda Ban

By Michael Hastings

An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31378.htm

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Activists Win Preliminary Injunction Blocking Enforcement of NDAA s Military Detention Provision

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''Seven journalists and activists who sued President Barack Obama earlier this year over the controversial indefinite detention provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) were handed a surprise victory Wednesday by a federal court judge who issued a preliminary injunction blocking its enforcement. Congress may go a step further. An amendment to the 2013 NDAA introduced by Reps. Adam Smith (D-Washington) and Justin Amash (R-Michigan) would eliminate the provision in the bill that authorizes indefinite military detention without trial for those captured in the US.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9197-journalists-activists-who-sued-obama-over-ndaa-provision-win-preliminary-injunction-blocking-its-enforcement



Kucinich: NDAA Authorizes War Against Iran

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, The Office of Dennis Kucinich: ''This week, Congress is considering two pieces of legislation relating to Iran. The first undermines a diplomatic solution with Iran and lowers the bar for war. The former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell has stated that this resolution 'reads like the same sheet of music that got us into the Iraq war.' The second authorizes a war of choice against Iran and begins military preparations for it. A plain reading of these provisions in H.R. 4310 taken together with H.R. 568 makes it clear: Congress is setting the stage for war with Iran.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9206-kucinich-ndaa-authorizes-war-against-iran

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NDAA s 'Indefinite Detention' Unconstitutional, says Court
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/17



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Die Demonstranten verstehen sich als Opposition gegen die herrschenden Regierungen in Israel und Iran und fordern eine atomwaffenfreie Region.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151942



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