World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/02/05

The Imaginary World of the ''War Against al-Qaeda''
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/07-9

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Memo Cites Legal Basis for Killing US Citizens in Al-Qaeda

Charlie Savage and Scott Shane, The New York Times News Service: A 16-page document released by the Obama administration on Monday asserts that it is lawful to kill a US citizen if they are a ranking figure in al-Qaeda.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14367-memo-cites-legal-basis-for-killing-us-citizens-in-al-qaeda



Drones: The Ultimate Stalkers

Thom Hartmann, The Daily Take: ''Let s all work for solid legislative restrictions on police use of these drones so that they help legitimate police work while respecting the Fourth Amendment privacy rights of us all.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14363-drones-%E2%80%93-the-ultimate-stalkers

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American exceptionalism

Poll: It's Illegal to Target Americans: Ok To Kill Foreigners

By FDU MindPoll

By a two-to-one margin (48%-24%) of American voters say they think it is illegal for the U.S. government to kill its own citizens. By a wide six-to-one margin (75%-13%) voters approve of the U.S. military using drones to carry out attacks abroad ''on people and targets deemed a threat to the U.S.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33865.htm



Tribalism And Agreed-Upon Lies

By John Scales Avery

It seems to be a part of human nature to behave with great kindness towards members of our own group. By contrast we often exhibit terrible aggression towards other groups that are perceived to be competing with or threatening our own.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33879.htm



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Video Documentary

When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions. The health of all living things and all future generations were put at risk by an infant technology.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33850.htm

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Genetic Roulette: An important documentary on genetic modified foods
http://tinyurl.com/bd4f574



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By Carey L. Biron

The United States has incarcerated far more people than any other country, today imprisoning some 716 people out of every 100,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33849.htm



When the Rule of Force Replaces the Rule of Law

By Dave Hodges

The similarities between the old Soviet Gulags and the American prison system are stunning.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33851.htm



Black men get longer prison sentences

Prison sentences of black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years, an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.

http://is.gd/fGHlVa



Incarceration Rate For African-Americans Now Six Times The National Average

By RT

The incarceration rate for American-Americans is so high that young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to go to jail than to find a job.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34053.htm



Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

By Deborah Davies

Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm



America Never Really Ended Slavery

By Jazz Hayden

The 13th Amendment states, ''involuntary servitude and slavery is abolished except for those duly convicted of a crime.'' The ''exception clause'' leaves slavery still in effect for those convicted of crimes. Today America, with 5% of the world s population, has 25% of the world s prisoners.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34111.htm



The Shame of America s Gulag

By Chris Hedges

If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, ''the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons'' then we are a nation of barbarians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34334.htm


From Information Clearing House

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ACLU: New Report Blames Failed Policies For 790% Jump in Federal Prison Population
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/02/15

Profiting From Human Misery
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/18

US: A Nation of Inmates?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/02/20-1

The Shame of America s Gulag
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/18-0

The Graphic Retelling of Race to Incarcerate
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/25-0

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Prison as social control and cheap labor
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-prison-industrial-complex/guilty-until-proven-rich.html



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By Norman Solomon

Behind a gauzy curtain, top officials engage in decision-making on war that gives democracy short shrift. For the public, crucial information that bears on the wisdom of warfare remains opaque or out of sight.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33846.htm



Colin Powell s UN Presentation on Iraq WMD

Video

February 05, 2003: ''My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.'' Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq ''1,455,590''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33852.htm

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Washington s War-Makers Aren t ''in a Bubble,'' They are in a Bunker
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/11



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Laut einem geleakten Papier wirft das Verkehrsministerum der Bahn Unzuverlässigkeit und Wirklichkeitsferne bei der Berechnung der Kosten des Projekts vor und drängt auf Neueinschätzung der Wirtschaftlichkeit und alternativer Möglichkeiten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38507/1.html



S 21: Weiterbauen, schnell Fakten schaffen

Trotz massiver Zweifel wird das Projekt 21 von der Bahn weitergeführt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38700/1.html

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Bund geht auf Distanz zu Stuttgart 21

Die Bundesregierung lehnt weitere Milliardenausgaben für Stuttgart 21 ab und dringt im Aufsichtsrat der Deutschen Bahn (DB) auf eine Prüfung von Alternativen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416817501ms357



Vom Elend der Großprojekte

Franz Alts Rede in Stuttgart gegen ''Stuttgart 21'' am 23. Februar 2013: Wir alle sind Zeugen des langsamen Sterbens von Großprojekten in Deutschland. Das war so beim Dahinsiechen des Transrapid und das ist so bei Stuttgart 21 und beim neuen Flughafen in Berlin. Warum ist die Bewegung gegen Stuttgart 21 noch immer so machtvoll, dass die Mächtigen Angst vor uns haben? Weil sich hier viele tausend Menschen nachhaltig informiert und zusammengefunden haben. Und weil wir ein Gespür dafür haben, was menschlichem Maß entspricht und was in menschlichen Größenwahn ausartet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416817646ms359.html



Der Stuttgart 21 Skandal: Monitor deckt den Merkel-Betrug auf!

Stuttgart21:Das Versagen von Aufsichtsrat und Bundesregierung.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416817658ms359.html



Ende von Stuttgart 21?

Vize-Aufsichtsratschef der Bahn, Alexander Kirchner: ''Das Projekt Stuttgart 21 ist für mich nicht alternativlos.'' Es könnte der Anfang vom Ende sein. Der stellvertretende Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende der Deutschen Bahn , der Gewerkschaftler Alexander Kirchner, hat erstmals öffentlich über Alternativen zum umstrittenen Tiefbahnhof Stuttgart 21 nachgedacht und sich skeptisch zum bisher geplanten Projekt geäußert. Franz Alt

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416817766ms360.html



Subventionsbetrug bei ''Stuttgart 21''?

Sind bei ''Stuttgart 21'' möglicherweise mehr Subventionen aus Brüssel geflossen als zulässig?

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416817804ms360.html



''Stuttgart 21 ist finanzpolitisch, verkehrspolitisch und demokratiepolitisch fatal''

Der Verkehrsexperte Professor Heiner Monheim widerspricht Wolfgang Schäubles These, wonach Stuttgart 21 aus staatspolitischen Gründen gebaut werden müsse.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416817811ms360.html



Mit Volldampf ins S21-Debakel

Peter Ramsauer will den ''schwarzen Peter'' für Stuttgart 21 an Baden-Württemberg und die Stadt Stuttgart weiterreichen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416817846ms361.html

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Sofort das Milliardengrab Stuttgart 21 stoppen!

''Das Bündnis ''Bahn für Alle'', in dem u. a. verschiedene bundesweit engagierte Umweltverbände und Gewerkschaften organisiert sind, hat sich erneut für einen sofortigen Baustopp beim Bahnprojekt Stuttgart
21 ausgesprochen. Das Bündnis betont, dass die enormen Kosten von Stuttgart 21 absehbar waren. Gleichzeitig kritisiert das Bündnis, dass mit der aktuellen Kostendiskussion von zentralen Mängeln des Projektes abgelenkt wird?'' Pressemitteilung des Bündnisses''Bahn für Alle'' vom 09.02.2013 http://www.bahn-fuer-alle.de/pages/pressemitteilungen/2013/sofort-das-milliardengrab-stuttgart-21-stoppen.php


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Februar 2013

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Stuttgarter Ordnungsamt mit Demonstrations- und Aufenthaltsverboten gegen S21-Protest: Grundrechte in Gefahr!

''Das Stuttgarter Ordnungsamt stellt erneut sein gebrochenes Verhältnis zu den Grundrechten und deren Ausübung unter Beweis: Nachdem das Amt regelmäßig antifaschistische Demonstrationen, die Montagsdemo gegen Hartz IV und andere mit rechtswidrigen, schikanösen und unsinnigen Auflagen in der Ausübung der Versammlungsfreiheit behinderte, verschärft es jetzt die Repression gegen S21-Gegner. Gegen eine symbolische Aktion der Parkschützer (angemeldete Teilnehmerzahl: 30!) im Hauptbahnhof sprach das Ordnungsamt ein Versammlungsverbot aus?'' Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung vom 15.2.2013 von Stuttgarter Bündnis für Versammlungsfreiheit und der Blockadegruppe gegen Stuttgart 21 (pdf) http://www.versammlungsrecht.info/neu/files/bdsfvfpm15022013.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Februar 2013

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Stuttgart 21 stoppen
https://www.campact.de/stuttgart21/appell/



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul844.html

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The Relentless March of the U.S. Police State

By Robert Higgs

Since 9/11, we have created the very government the framers feared.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33842.htm

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The relentless march of the US police state

Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

02/04/13

Each day, the U.S. police state grows larger, more powerful, more pervasive, and more menacing. When will the majority awaken to the realization that this threat has nothing to do with party politics, that it makes no difference whether a Republican or a Democrat occupies the presidency while our freedoms are demolished?

http://tinyurl.com/begpw72


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Give America the immigration reform it deserves
http://tinyurl.com/d8n4sq9



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