World-News

In a stunning reversal, the U.S. Air Force said late Friday that it will no longer disclose the number of drone strikes it launches in Afghanistan. In addition, data regarding drone strikes was removed from reports from prior months that had been posted to the Air Force website.

http://is.gd/gJ3no6



Erased US data shows 1 in 4 missiles in Afghan airstrikes now fired by drone

The US military has stopped publishing data on drone use in Afghanistan, claiming missions that include drone strikes are 'the exception', just 3% of all drone flights. However, the figures themselves demonstrate the increasingly important role played by drones in airstrikes by the US and its allies in Afghanistan.

http://is.gd/hdtTmF



US drones spread fear to Afghan villages

Video

Every civilian that US drones kill by mistake is another victory for the Taliban s recruitment campaign.

http://is.gd/qkZra6


From Information Clearing House



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By JUSTIN GILLIS

Over the coming decades temperatures are likely to surpass levels not seen on the planet since before the last ice age.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34238.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Justin+Gillis
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'A Place at the Table' and 'American Winter'

By Michael Shank

Obama couldn t get the $10 billion over ten years that he wanted to improve childhood nutrition in schools. (Contrast this with the $10 billion we spend monthly on our military in Afghanistan.)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34244.htm



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Shank
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Audio

Prof Michael Hudson engages in a wide ranging analysis of the advantages to wealth that money printing and poor tax policy produce. From China to NY, Latvia to Greece, Spain to Australia this is the news we should be getting!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34246.htm



How Deregulation Resurrected American Economic Insecurity

By Paul Craig Roberts

Few people see the disconnect between the propaganda about the goodness of America and the evil that its government practices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34235.htm



How Many Billions Of Drug-Laundered Money Does It Take To Shut Down A Bank?

Video

If you are caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you are going to go to jail. if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night. Senator Elizabeth Warren.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34245.htm



Big banks take advantage of money laundering epidemic in US

The attorney general of the United States says the country s largest banks may be too big to jail, but the former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund isn t exactly convinced.

http://rt.com/usa/banks-big-us-laundering-165/



Sen. Elizabeth Warren takes on the financial industry

By Jim Puzzanghera

Elizabeth Warren, who ranks 97th out of 100 members, refuses to be just seen and not heard. She is already bashing regulators as well as big-bank executives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34905.htm


From Information Clearing House

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An unrepresentative democracy

In These Times
by David Sirota

03/08/13

Why are ideas widely supported in most of the country so often portrayed as controversial, polarizing and divisive once they are taken up by legislatures? Why does the professional political class seem like a wholly separate society that does not understand the constituents it is supposed to be representing? These are the existential questions at the root of America s political dysfunction, and a new study marshaling reams of data finally provides some concrete answers...

http://tinyurl.com/aq4bakm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Big Bank Immunity: When Do We Crack Down on Wall Street?

Dean Baker, Truthout: Instead of sheltering big banks from prosecution, we should be using anti-trust laws to break up these entities which enjoy astounding impunity from crimes like laundering money for drug dealers.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15048-big-bank-immunity-when-do-we-crack-down-on-wall-street

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Sen. Warren Continues Campaign Against 'Too Big To Jail' Banks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/14-5



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Die FDP fordert auf ihrem Bundesparteitag mehr Lohnuntergrenzen statt eines einheitlichen Mindestlohns und wirft den Grünen vor, einen Obrigkeitsstaat zu wollen, der statt mit der Pickelhaube mit Birkenstocksandalen daherkommt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38721/1.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/ron-paul-pushes-gop-reform.html

Free-Dumb: The Conservative s Definition
http://lewrockwell.com/wilson-brian/wilson-brian50.1.html

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Stand With Rand!

Campaign for Liberty
by Tim Shoemaker

03/07/13

The country is still abuzz this morning with talk of Senator Rand Paul s historic nearly 13-hour filibuster. We ll be talking more about it throughout the day, sharing headlines and commentary, as well as posting hour-by-hour (unofficial) transcripts of Senator Paul s speech... [links to videos and transcripts included]

http://www.campaignforliberty.org/national-blog/stand-with-rand/



The politics of anti-interventionism

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

The neocons are absolutely right to be fearful of the junior Senator from Kentucky. Rand Paul managed to combine the conservative critique of untrammeled state power with the distinctively libertarian critique of our interventionist foreign policy, showing how the neocon program of perpetual war abroad must at some point lead to the end of constitutional law at home. It is a powerful case that rings true with all the elements needed to forge a new national coalition, one that can wrest power from the War Party...

http://tinyurl.com/aq5ogk2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Rand Paul Exposes the Democrats

By Margaret Kimberley

The Democratic Party is not just ineffectual, it is actually a partner with the Republicans working against the aims of achieving a peaceful and just country and world.

http://is.gd/ZOBgIe



The Morality Brigade

By Robert Reich

The morality brigade worries about fetuses, but not what happens to children after they are born. They and other conservatives have been cutting funding for child nutrition, healthcare for infants and their mothers, and schools.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34421.htm


From Information Clearing House

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GOP Report Shows Party is Out of Touch With Americans on Threats to Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/03/18-8



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Janus Christians
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance325.html

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The militarization of American life

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

03/27/13

In this age of Empire, militarism pervades American culture like a poisonous fog, hypnotizing a complacent population with narratives that valorize and justify a foreign policy of perpetual war. It reaches into every corner of everyday life, from the war propaganda spewed forth by the 'mainstream' media to the movies we watch and what we learn in 'science' class. Once this kind of cultural rot sets in, it is hard to root out: this is the true meaning of decadence, of a society suffering the latter stages of a fatal hubris...

http://tinyurl.com/clasbu7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Tyranny Of The Reasonable

Popular Complacency In An Era Of Economic Exploitation And Perpetual War

By Phil Rockstroh

You cannot force truth upon the deceived.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34519.htm



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