World-News

Orange County Register
by Elizabeth Goitein

12/31/12

A little-known presidential advisory committee recently issued recommendations for transforming the way government officials classify national security information. The goal is to rein in the growing problem of over-classification, the classification of information that poses no threat to national security. ... President Barack Obama can, and should, go further. Last year alone, there were 92 million decisions to classify information, and top military and intelligence officials agree that between 50 percent and 90 percent of such material could safely be released. Such massive over-classification threatens national security rather than enhancing it...

http://tinyurl.com/bjloab3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Worse Than Nixon': Pentagon Papers Lawyer on Obama, Secrecy and Press Freedoms
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/20-3



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The killed people were a 16-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man who had been engaged in hunting birds along the nearby hillside in the district, the eyewitness said.

http://is.gd/gozmo5


From Information Clearing House

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Obama s Lawless, Secretive Drone War Continues Over Pakistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/03-0

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Drone denial syndrome

CounterPunch
by Michael Brenner

01/03/13

"The greatest illogicality of this drone based approach, and the one with the gravest consequences, is that it is counter-productive. These widespread and often misdirected attacks are the radicals? best recruiting tool. Entire villages and clans are turned against the United States and its local allies by the killing of innocents...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/03/drone-denial-syndrome/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski292.html

Wealth Among the Ruins?
http://lewrockwell.com/goyette/goyette53.1.html

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Everything We Tell Ourselves About America and the World Is Wrong

By Charles Eisenstein

More and more people in the West no longer believe that civilization is fundamentally on the right track.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33513.htm

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The Incredible Debt Spider: It s Time to End the Private Fed

By Rand Clifford

$454,393,280,417.03...for the year 2011, that's how much Americans paid a consortium of twelve private banks for creating dollars out of nothing, and loaning them to the government at interest.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33643.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/02-3



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/02-6

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Envisioning a Frightening New Normal in ''Post-Racial'' America of Austerity, Insecurity for All But the Very Rich

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: When you connect the dots in a supposedly ''post-racial America,'' you find a frightening possibility that the new normal may well be decades of austerity for a new ''precariat class,'' with insecure jobs and vanishing civil liberties.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14195-envisioning-a-frightening-new-normal-in-post-racial-america-of-austerity-insecurity-for-all-but-the-very-richest



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/02-9

A Wake Up Call from Vandana Shiva
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/02/11-0



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/02-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/02-8

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Illegal Occupation of Iraq: US-UK Crimes against Humanity

By Felicity Arbuthnot

I write to draw your attention to just a few of the the chilling events currently taking place in Iraq under the US-UK's despotic, imposed, puppet Prime Minister.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33553.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/02-7

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Renditions Continue Under Obama

By Craig Whitlock

The latest example of how the Obama administration has embraced rendition, the practice of holding and interrogating terrorism suspects in other countries without due process.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33508.htm



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Europa und die Kluft zwischen Gläubigern und Schuldnern.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38275/1.html



Demokratie in der Krise

Vor noch nicht allzu langer Zeit wurde der weltweite Siegeszug der liberalen Demokratie verkündet. Gut zwanzig Jahre später schaut es aus, als ob sie ihre Zukunft bereits hinter sich hätte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/153459



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