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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/23-2

Conditions at U.S.-Funded Afghan Hospital
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/01-0

Unending War Makes Life 'Misery' for Afghans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/07

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US inspector general: Millions lost in Afghan reconstruction

Brisbane Courier-Mail [Australia]

07/30/12

Millions of dollars in US funds have been lost due to poor planning and workmanship in projects to help rebuild Afghanistan and billions more could be at risk, a US watchdog says. The report by the special inspector general for Afghanistan, John Sopko, warned that handing over security to Afghan forces as the US withdraws its troops would also likely balloon the costs of US-funded aid schemes. ... The analysis examines the Afghan Infrastructure Fund, which was authorised by Congress in 2010. Over the past two years, Congress has invested $800 million into the fund, and the State Department has committed about $1 billion of its funds to related infrastructure programs...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Mission Failure Afghanistan: A Message Written in Blood That No One Wants to Hear

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: ''If the Aurora shootings got all the attention here last week, far more Americans are dying at the hands of Afghan allies than died in James Holmes s hail of gunfire. And yet the message from the more deadly of those rampages is barely in the news and few here are paying attention.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10618-mission-failure-afghanistan-a-message-written-in-blood-that-no-one-wants-to-hear



Why Afghanistan Can t Wait

Kathy Kelly and Dr. Hakim, RootsAction: ''In small ways, real strength asserts itself, in small work, repeated a thousand fold, by people like the Afghan Peace Volunteers ... in small actions we invite the world to emulate the torrent that erodes walls, with which we build an alternative to the lie of exceptionalism, the lie of security, the lie of violence.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10783-why-afghanistan-cant-wait

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Sick of Being Occupied

Collaborators turn on their invaders.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt447.html

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NATO occupation force troops kill 4 Afghan civilians

According to local authorities in western Nimroz province of Afghanistan, a number of Afghan civilians were killed following night time military operation by coalition security forces in this province.

http://is.gd/LS4kT3


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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/23-0

'Time Running Out' to Avert Global Food Crisis: Experts
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/26-0

The World is Closer to a Food Crisis Than Most People Realize
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/26-5



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/23-2

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Obama s America and Ours
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan254.html

Security and Self-Governance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul815.html

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£13tn hoard hidden from taxman by global elite

A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore, as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together, according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network.

http://is.gd/nhEwt9



Living Paycheck To Paycheck Is Reality For Two In Five Households

According to a report from the Consumer Federation of America and the Consumer Planner Board of Standards, Inc., 38 percent of households live paycheck to paycheck. In 1997, this figure was 31 percent.

http://is.gd/AsKEjQ



Poverty in America: Why Can t We End It?

Half the jobs in the nation pay less than $34,000 a year, according to the Economic Policy Institute. A quarter pay below the poverty line for a family of four, less than $23,000 annually.

http://is.gd/fzY1pL


From Information Clearing House

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A Community on Overdose

Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, TomDispatch: ''During the two years Joe Sacco and I reported from the poorest pockets of the United States, areas that have been sacrificed before the altar of unfettered and unregulated capitalism, we found not only decayed and impoverished communities but shattered lives. There comes a moment when the pain and despair of constantly running into a huge wall, of realizing that there is no way out of poverty, crush human beings. Those who best managed to resist and bring some order to their lives almost always turned to religion and in that faith many found the power to resist and even rebel.''

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/11028-a-community-on-overdose



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