World-News

By Bill Van Auken and David North

If the US government is empowered to carry out the extrajudicial execution of US citizens and noncitizens alike overseas, it is only a matter of time-that is, a matter of waiting for a carefully crafted political opportunity-before the president orders an assassination within the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33210.htm



''Legal Imperialism'' and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization

By James Petras

The empire s legal experts redefine assassinations, coercion, torture and arbitrary arrests as compatible with the 'constitutional order' by claiming imminent and constant threats to the security of the imperial state.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33208.htm



Katrina, All Over Again

By Chris Hedges

This is the new America. It is an America divided between corporate predators and their prey. It is an America that, as things unravel, increasingly sacrifices its own.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33206.htm



Perpetual war is a given and the public are the enemy

By John Pilger

To the ''national security state'', of which the US is the pioneer and model, ''perpetual war'' is a given; and the public are the enemy, not terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33227.htm



Imperial Warrior Kerry at State

By Stephen Lendman

US foreign policy isn t pretty. Permanent global wars reflect its harshness. Kerry won t change things.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33421.htm

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich Calls on Congress to Vote on Return to Rule of Law
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/04-9

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The protocols for death

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

12/06/12

The American public has become so desensitized to what its own government is doing abroad that there is only a ripple of interest when the media reports some new outrage. The assassination of expatriate American citizens by drones preceded detailed media accounts of how kill lists are drawn up by the president himself in the White House. And now there have been press reports of how the Obama administration, in the lead up to the presidential election, sought to establish 'explicit rules' for death by drone, thereby institutionalizing the practice as a component of the United States? 'defensive' strategy...

http://tinyurl.com/actcncr



The war against Bradley Manning

Antiwar.com
by John W. Whitehead

03/13/13

Thanks to the U.S. government s growing intolerance for dissidents who insist on transparency and accountability, oppose its endless wars and targeted killings of innocent civilians and terrorists alike, and demand that government officials abide by the rule of law, that list of so-called 'enemies of the state' is growing. One such 'enemy of the state' is Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who has been targeted by the Obama administration for holding up a mirror to the bloated face of American empire...

http://tinyurl.com/af7o8gn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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War on Transparency
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/war-on-transparency.html



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