World-News

Fault Lines, Al Jazeera: ''In January 2012, two controversial pieces of legislation were making their way through the US Congress. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted on request of the content industry, Hollywood studios and major record labels.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10895-controlling-the-web-are-us-authorities-increasingly-trying-to-limit-user-freedom-on-the-internet-in-the-name-of-national-security

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Bogus justifications for the national security state

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/21/12

Interventionists justify the existence of the vast military and intelligence establishment in America by telling us that there are 'radical Islamic elements' in the world. But the question is: Should that be a justification for continuing the U.S. national security state i.e., a permanent military and intelligence establishment that was brought into existence in 1947?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-08-21.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How Dare You Question the Word of Government Authorities
http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz53.1.html



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Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: ''This crisis is not going away. Officially begun late in 2007, nearly five years later, no end is in sight. Trillions in government-funded bailouts and interventions failed to do the trick. The private sector s hyped resilience disappeared. 'Recoveries' proved weak, uneven and short-lived. The president who rode the crisis into power risks being ridden out by its persistence.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10805-five-reasons-why-crisis-persists

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Economic Recovery Is Weakest Since World War II

Economic growth has never been weaker in a postwar recovery. Consumer spending has never been so slack. Only once has job growth been slower.

http://is.gd/QDYgPJ


From Information Clearing House

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Life and Death in a Cruel Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/16-0



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By Tangerine Bolen

I am one of the lead plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the president the power to hold any US citizen anywhere for as long as he wants, without charge or trial.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32160.htm

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The Battle Over NDAA s Police-State Provisions Continues in Court

Jake Olzen, Waging Nonviolence: ''On August 6, Department of Justice lawyers filed an appeal in federal court against a recent ruling that temporarily enjoined section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which gives powers to the military to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens on U.S. soil without charge or trial. The case, and the organizing that surrounds it, will have profound implications for basic constitutional rights, though it has been largely ignored by the mainstream media.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11124-the-battle-over-ndaas-police-state-provisions-continues-in-court



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jake+Olzen
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By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32162.htm



Democracies Don t Start Wars, But Fake Democracies Sure Do

By Dave Lindorff

Clearly the reason we have seen the US starting so many wars is that the US is and has not for a very long time been anything approaching a democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32181.htm



NBC s War for Fun and Profit

By Glenn Greenwald

A new reality show of soldiers and celebrities playing war games showcases our national religion: military worship.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32183.htm



The American Way

By Stephen Lendman

Past and present leaders reveal the soul of their nations. Arguably America never had one. Current domestic and foreign policies provide convincing evidence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32204.htm

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Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad: How Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life

Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch: ''After a decade of fiery public debate and bare-knuckle partisan brawling, the United States has stumbled toward an ad hoc bipartisan compromise over the issue of torture that rests on two unsustainable policies: impunity at home and rendition abroad.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10891-impunity-at-home-rendition-abroad-how-two-administrations-and-both-parties-made-illegality-the-american-way-of-life

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How Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/cia-outsources-harsh-interrogations-to-its-allies-.html



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By Reuters

Russian Foreign Ministry warns new sanctions could harm bilateral relations between the two powers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32166.htm



Killing Iran s Children

Are the Sanctions ''Worth It?''

By Dave Lindorff

Iranians suffering from cancer, MS, kidney disease or other diseases. many of them children, are reportedly being prevented from getting needed medicines because of US sanctions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32167.htm



Inventing an Iranian Threat

By Stephen Lendman

Washington and Israel target the Islamic Republic relentlessly. Longstanding war plans await implementation. Media scoundrels and right-wing think tanks support it. They are paid to endorse ravaging one country after another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32291.htm



Plot to Provoke War with Iran Thwarted by Navy Analyst

By Juan Cole

The Neocons have glommed onto Mitt Romney and will come to power if he does, and they still desperately want a war on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32285.htm

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Israel s Iran threats: Blackmail by suicide?

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

08/22/12

Israel, along with its American partisans, is trying to get what it wants by threatening to commit suicide. Israel, nearly everyone agrees, would have to crazy to attack Iran. And Israel, nearly everyone also agrees, isn t crazy. There s a kind of Catch 22 involved here, which is why the chance that Israel will bomb Iran s nuclear facilities is as close to absolute zero as things can get in politics. The Catch 22: only a crazy prime minister would order Israel to bomb Iran, and Netanyahu isn t crazy. So Netanyahu must have something else in mind. After all, bombing Iran would be a catastrophe for Israel...

http://tinyurl.com/8gnf5fn



Baiting the bear

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

08/23/12

I confess that I cannot quite understand the campaign by the neoconservatives and also a number of leading Democrats to vilify Russia and confront it at every opportunity. The Cold War has been over for more than 20 years, but some appear to want to revive it...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/08/22/baiting-the-bear/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Brandon Smith

The mainstream media, once tasked with the job of investigating government corruption and keeping elitists in line, has now become nothing more than a public relations firm for corrupt officials and their Globalist handlers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32163.htm



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Brzezinski und seine neuen ''Strategic Visions''.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37418/1.html



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Die Opposition fordert eine Flugverbotszone, die US-Regierung gibt sich noch bedeckt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152571



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