World-News

Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress: ''Mitt Romney has picked as his running mate Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the architect of the GOP budget, which the New York Times has described as 'the most extreme budget plan passed by a house of Congress in modern times.' [Here] are 12 things you should know about Ryan and his policies.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10837-twelve-things-you-should-know-about-vice-presidential-candidate-paul-ryan



Mitt s Many Mansions and the Foreclosure Crisis

Peter Dreier, AlterNet: ''It is time for reporters following Mitt to start asking him some questions about the crisis we face in our housing markets.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10832-mitts-many-mansions-and-the-foreclosure-crisis



Meet Paul Ryan: Climate Denier, Conspiracy Theorist, Koch Acolyte

Brad Johnson, ThinkProgress: ''Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Mitt Romney s vice-presidential pick, is a virulent denier of climate science, with a voting record to match.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10855-meet-paul-ryan-climate-denier-conspiracy-theorist-koch-acolyte



Washington Post Again Defends Romney

Robert Parry, Consortium News: ''Mitt Romney is running the most secretive presidential campaign in modern US history.... Yet, his cover-ups have found a surprising ally, the Washington Post.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10847-washington-post-again-defends-romney



Paul Ryan s Far-Right Agenda: The Media Can t Take the Truth

Dean Baker, Truthout: ''[T]o imply that Ryan is some sort of stringent free-market fundamentalist would be far too generous. Representative Ryan has never expressed any discomfort with the numerous forms of government intervention that redistribute income upward to those at the very top.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10860-rep-paul-ryans-far-right-agenda-the-media-cant-take-the-truth



In Paul Ryan, the Right at Last Has Their Man

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: ''This was never Romney s party, and without Karl Rove s shadowy money behind him, he would not have survived the primaries.... But in Paul Ryan, the Golden Boy from Janesville who schooled himself in the ideology of right-wing think tanks inside the Beltway, they finally have one of their own, a true believer for the new Gilded Age.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10874-bill-moyers-in-paul-ryan-the-right-at-last-has-their-man

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Paul Ryan Is No Ron Paul
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/aitken1.1.1.html

The Marketing of Paul Ryan
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo178.html

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''An Extreme Choice'': Embracing Ayn Rand, GOP VP Pick Paul Ryan Backs Dismantling New Deal
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/13-0

Bernie Sanders: Ryan s Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Be a 'Death Sentence' for Many Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/14

Bernie Sanders: The Deficit Hawk Hypocrites
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/15

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Defense Hawks, Rejoice-Paul Ryan s Your Man!

By Eli Lake

Romney s VP pick tilts his ticket closer to the neocons on questions about America s role in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32161.htm



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Under the guise of fighting nonexistent voter fraud, the GOP is attempting the greatest election-stealing conspiracy in US history.

http://is.gd/DLt5BB



Erasing W

By Robert Reich

The GOP is counting on America s notoriously short-term memory to blot out the last time the nation put a Republican into the Oval Office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32153.htm



Worshiping Government

Message To The Voting Cattle

Video

From early childhood most people are conditioned to listen to authority when they try to figure out what is right and what is wrong instead of listening to their own hearts, their own conscience and their own moral values. The problem is not those in power, the problem is right between your ears.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32152.htm



Voter ID laws and roll purges are the real defrauding of US ''democracy''
'Voter fraud' has made a strong Republican rallying cry. But it s a con.

http://is.gd/415p4z


From Information Clearing House

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GOP Targets Democratic Turnout With War on Early Voting
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/17

Voter-ID Election Fraud Found ''Virtually Non-Existent''
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/08/17-1

Risk of Voter Suppression Resurfaces: Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Reinstate Voter ID Law
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/24-4

ACLU of Florida: The Faces of Voter Suppression Become the Voices of Voter Empowerment at ''Let Me Vote''
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/09/10-1

Wave of Anti-Voter State Laws Detailed by GAO
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/04-8

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GOP land grab

In These Times
by Joel Bleifuss

08/25/12

Sometimes the people s will is thwarted. In 2001 and 2003, President George W. Bush ... and the Republican Congress cut taxes. According to the New York Times, between 2002 and 2009 these cuts reduced tax revenues by about $1.8 trillion. Those who benefited most from the cuts were the richest Americans. So in effect, America s millionaires had hundreds of billions of dollars deposited, through the legislative process, into their pockets. Another way resources will be redistributed, if the Republicans have their way, is the privatization of public assets...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13703/gop_land_grab


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Election fraud is an American an apple pie
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/20487.html

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A Repeat of the 2000 Election Crisis Would Be a Disaster for American Democracy

Charles M. Smith, Truthout: A review of the 2000 election suggests we could again experience a crisis election with results that call the United States' republican way of government into question and lead to a general sense that ours is a failed state.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11922-a-repeat-of-the-2000-crisis-election-would-be-disaster-for-american-democracy



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Britain s role in supplying information to an American military ''kill list'' in Afghanistan is being subjected to legal challenge amid growing international concern over targeted strikes against suspected insurgents and drug traffickers.

http://is.gd/mtY9S4


From Information Clearing House



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An Afghan police commander and several of his men killed three U.S. soldiers in the southern province of Helmand, turning guns on them after inviting them to a dinner to discuss security, Afghan officials said on Friday.

http://is.gd/HBaQfM



Three US special ops troops killed, Afghan officials say

A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American Marines, the U.S. military command said Friday. Afghan officials said the victims were American special operations forces troops.

http://is.gd/0nAkLI



US Kills 50 People In Afghanistan

About 50 militants were killed on Saturday afternoon when a NATO pilotless plane carried out an attack in Afghanistan s eastern province of Kunar, the police said.

http://is.gd/UsTiBe



Afghan Policeman Kills U.S. Service Member on Joint Patrol

A U.S. service member was killed in southern Afghanistan today on a patrol with Afghan security forces when one of the Afghans turned his weapon on the Americans, the latest in a rash of what the ISAF is now calling ''insider'' attacks on American troops.

http://is.gd/T4oy1w



Two NATO occupation force soldiers killed by Afghan army

Two NATO soldiers were killed Monday when an Afghan army soldier opened fire against coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led coalition said in a statement.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7925077.html


From Information Clearing House

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Deadly Week Continues in Afghanistan With Helicopter Crash, 11 Dead
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/16-1

Latest 'Green on Blue' Attack Leaves Two Dead in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/17-0



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By Reuters

The United States still believes that Iran is not on the verge of having a nuclear weapon and that Tehran has not made a decision to pursue one, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32132.htm



Iran to Make own WMD if Israel Delivers Airstrike: expert

By RIA Novosti

''The United States does not want this airstrike to be delivered before the presidential election. They [the U.S.] are restraining Israel.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32130.htm



Decision To Attack Iran is Almost Final: Israel TV

By Times of Israel staff

Netanyahu and Barak reason that ''we may have reached the moment of truth'' after which it would be too late to stop Iran, and that "the price of an attack is far lower than the price of inaction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32149.htm



Bomb Iran Fever

Pepe Escobar

The whole convoluted premise for an Israeli attack on Iran turns out to be bogus.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32148.htm



Israel s 'Bomb Iran' Timetable

By Ray McGovern

Obama s silence regarding a public warning speaks volumes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32158.htm



Majority of Israelis oppose strike on Iran

Forty-six percent say that Israel should not attack Tehran s nuclear plants; support for prime minister drops to 34% from 46% three months ago.

http://is.gd/g87NoI



Ex-CIA Analyst: The Real Reason Israel Wants To Strike Iran Before US Election

By Michael Kelley

McGovern believes that Israel s primary goal is to ''have Iran bloodied the same way we did to Iraq'' so that Iran "would no longer be able to support Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza, Lebanon, and elsewhere.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32190.htm



Persian Gulf States Are Telling Their Citizens To Leave Lebanon 'Immediately' As Syrian War Spills Over

The UAE received information about its nationals being targeted ''because of the difficult and sensitive circumstances in Lebanon.'' Saudi Arabia cited ''reported threats to kidnap Saudi citizens'' in Lebanon, according to BBC News.

http://is.gd/TVEqJ6



Israel to strike Iran as window of opportunity narrows?

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the country s new ambassador to China, recently discussed precise estimates of Israeli casualties, and the timeframe of a possible war with Iran. A hypothetical war with Iran would probably last a month, and include about 500 estimated Israeli casualties from Iranian missile strikes, Vilnai told Israeli newspaper Maariv on Wednesday.

https://rt.com/news/israel-strike-iran-nuclear-739/




Bibi s Secret War Plan

By Richard Silverstein

In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel s war plans against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32201.htm



Israeli 'document' on Iran attack leaked

An American journalist and blogger on Israeli affairs, says he has been given a leaked document which outlines a plan for an Israeli attack on Iran s nuclear facilities.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19271083



US Punched Bibi, Barak in the Face

By Attila Somfalvi

The US hit Israel s most sensitive nerve: The pride in its military power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32206.htm



With an attack on Iran less likely, Israel s leaders add fuel to the media s fire

Senior Haaretz analyst Amos Harel says a recent comment by the U.S. army chief made it clear that Obama has had enough of Netanyahu and Barak s antics. They, however, could still attack just to show they can.

http://is.gd/hEC8z7



Netanyahu is Preparing his Nation for War

Israel war talk fails to ignite U.S. debate

USA Today Editorial

Netanyahu s timing, speculative but logical, is that he sees the American political campaign as a moment of maximum leverage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32254.htm



War Fever As Seen From Iran

By Pepe Escobar

So it s time for something completely different and totally absent from Western corporate media; sound Iranian minds rationally analyzing what s really going on behind the drums of war regarding Iran, Turkey, the Arab world and across Eurasia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32262.htm



The March of Folly

By Uri Avnery

NOTHING COULD be more scary than the thought that this duo, Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which are incalculable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32382.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Inside Israel, Talk of Attack on Iran Grows Louder
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/14

'Not Humane': US Sanctions Prevent Iran Earthquake Aid
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/14-0

Israel s Iran War Talk Aims at Deal for Tougher US Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/16

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This weekend Netanyahu and Barak lost Israeli debate on attacking Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11159/

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An Israeli strike against Iran is bound to go nuclear
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo179.html



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By Nick Turse

Washington is now planning to rely ever more heavily on drones and special operations forces to fight scattered global enemies on the cheap. A centerpiece of this new American way of war is the outsourcing of fighting duties to local proxies around the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32139.htm



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Durch die Kämpfe zwischen Rebellen und regierungstreuen Truppen entsteht zunehmend ein Machtvakuum.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152555



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