World-News

Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''One thing the Afghan war policy hasn t lost: the GOP leadership. That was demonstrated Wednesday night when the GOP leadership blocked consideration in the House of a bipartisan amendment offered by Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) and Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) that would have nailed to the wall the current, slippery 'timetable' for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. There you have it. The reason that the amendment couldn t be allowed to come to a vote was because it could pass.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9241-how-house-gop-leaders-silenced-support-for-amendment-solidifying-afghanistan-withdrawal-timeline

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Congress, Standing Against Public Majority, Votes for More War in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18

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NATO summit to define enduring presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014

One of the major topics in the NATO summit is to ''establish a vision for our enduring presence in Afghanistan,'' said General John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO force in Afghanistan, as American Forces Press Service reported.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-05/17/c_131593250.htm


From Information Clearing House

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What To Expect at the GOP Convention in Tampa
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/05/25/279-what-to-expect-at-the-gop-convention-in-tampa/



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http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1139.html

End of the Nation-State
http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey123.html

Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts349.html

From Meltdown to Mayhem
http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente99.1.html

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NATO Summit Highlights Neo-con/neo-liberal Overlap

By Paul Rosenberg

Neither the neo-cons nor the neo-liberals have any intention to realistically face up to the facts of imperial decline or the damage America s empire does to its own democracy, much less anyone else s.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31483.htm

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An imperial presidency

Orange County Register
by Matthew Spalding

06/22/12

The United States was born when rebellious colonists declared their independence from an imperial ruler who had vastly overstepped his bounds. 'The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States,' they wrote in their Declaration of Independence. Today's presidency lacks the regal air of George III. But imperialism is back, in a big way...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/president-360282-congress-laws.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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While all eyes are focused on Greece (and contagiously Spain), they have forgotten that two far weaker countries still exits and combined have the power to do as much (if not more) damage than Spain. Portugal and Ireland have moved back into the Red-Zone of risk in Europe s credit markets.

http://bit.ly/LkaEwW



25 Signs That The Smart Money Has Completely Written Off Southern Europe

Some large corporations are now pulling the money that they make in Greece during the day out of the country every single night. It is becoming increasingly clear that the upper crust of the financial world considers a Greek exit from the euro to be ''inevitable''.

http://tinyurl.com/c4pq27a



Ireland: Cromwell would have been proud

Op-Ed

The hammering of young people in the Budget suggests that they constitute the most reviled demographic in Ireland. How else to explain why those aged under 26 are being used as sacrificial lambs to pay for a banking collapse for which they had no culpability?

http://www.independent.ie/business/budget/colette-browne-to-hell-or-canada-for-our-youth-cromwell-wouldve-been-proud-29662855.html



The Bank Guarantee that Bankrupted Ireland

By Ellen Hodgson Brown

Five years of austerity has not restored confidence in Ireland s banks. In fact the banks themselves are packing up and leaving.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36729.htm



Young and unemployed of Ireland are encouraged to emigrate by government: Max Keiser

Video
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From Information Clearing House



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The Bank of England has warned that as UK lenders are hit by higher borrowing costs families should prepare to pay more as the increase is passed down to consumers.

http://m.dailymail.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-2146247/More-100-000-people-lose-homes-mortgage-payments-rise-just-20-month.html


From Information Clearing House



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Bernie Sanders ''The Truth Is Wall Street Regulates Congress''.

Video
http://bit.ly/KzKBk1


From Information Clearing House



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The Uprising Has Begun

By John Nichols

There s a dawning recognition that it is neither morally nor fiscally prudent to sacrifice human needs in order to pay for wars-or to redistribute more of the wealth upward.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31367.htm



The Politics of Language and the Language of Political Regression

By James Petras

The capitalist class has cultivated a crop of economists and journalists who peddle brutal policies in bland, evasive and deceptive language in order to neutralize popular opposition.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31373.htm

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War, Peace, and the State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard26.html

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The Austerity Agenda
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/01-0

US Austerity Is Here, We Just Don t Talk About It Enough
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/07



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By Jose Luis Magaua

An attempt to strike down any provisions allowing for the US military to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge from next year s National Defense Authorization Act was shot down Friday morning in the House of Representatives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31370.htm



Indefinite Imprisonment Without Charge Or Trial

The Case Against 'Indefinite Detention'

By Rep. Adam Smith and Rep. Justin Amash

The federal government now has the power to detain indefinitely any person-including U.S. citizens-arrested on U.S. soil, indefinitely, without charging them with a crime or proving their guilt.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31359.htm



House GOP Kills Proposal to Block Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

By Adam Serwer

At least it s on the record: Most House Republicans support the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31363.htm



The Shameful Index of Prison Rape

By Amy Fettig and Jennifer Wedekind

Number of people imprisoned in the United States: 2.3 million. Number of victims of rape or sexual abuse in U.S. prison, jails and juvenile detention facilities in the past year according to the Justice Department: 216,600.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31371.htm



Evidence of U.S. Torture: CIA Can Withhold Detainee Photo, Waterboarding Cables

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) doesn t have to release a photo of an alleged al-Qaida operative following a session of enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT), reports The Associated Press.

http://bit.ly/L33mLT


From Information Clearing House

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US Congress Endorses 'Indefinite Detention' Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18-2

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Obama Might Want to Look Forward in 2012, but America s Torture Legacy Will Keep Staring Back

Maria LaHood, Truthout: ''Forward to what? A country where government officials can carry out these barbaric acts and never face justice? In advance of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights has joined Amnesty International, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows and over 60,000 individuals in calling on President Obama to acknowledge the wrong done to Arar in a public apology and provide other forms of redress.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9239-obama-might-want-to-look-forward-in-2012-but-americas-torture-legacy-will-keep-staring-back



Department of Defense Declassifies Report on Alleged Drugging of Detainees

Jeffrey Kaye and Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''Detainees in custody of the US military were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other medications that 'could impair an individual s ability to provide accurate information,' according to a declassified Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general s report that probed the alleged use of 'mind altering drugs' during interrogations.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10248-exclusive-department-of-defense-declassifies-report-on-alleged-drugging-of-detainees

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Torture and the CIA

The American Conservative
by Philip Giraldi

05/23/12

Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives is largely a defense of [author Jose] Rodriguez s role in the CIA s use of torture on suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11. Rodriguez argues that what he describes as 'enhanced interrogation techniques' were necessary to obtain information on terrorist activities. His employment of the euphemism underscores his argument that these procedures were found to be legal by Bush administration lawyers and that they do not constitute torture, which is a war crime...

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/torture-and-the-cia/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Reuters

''At some point such actions which undermine state sovereignty may lead to a full-scale regional war, even, although I do not want to frighten anyone, with the use of nuclear weapons,'' Medvedev said. ''Everyone should bear this in mind.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31362.htm



Joseph Lieberman Says US To Topple Syrian Regime

In an article the Washington Post published on Friday, the US Senator Joseph Liebrman wrote that the [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad regime should be toppled by any means possible, be it foreign intervention or even ''airstrikes''.

http://bit.ly/Lfjgib



Regime Change: U.S. tells G8 Syria s Assad must go, cites Yemen as model

U.S. President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there, the White House said on Saturday.

http://cour.at/MvLOJN


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Goldman-Anwälte machen versehentlich peinliche Dokumente zugänglich.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36957/1.html



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Der Sozialist Hollande setzt mit der 30prozentigen Kürzung ebenso ein Zeichen wie die konservative Kanzlerin mit der 5,7prozentigen Erhöhung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152023



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