World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/30-13

Extremism Normalized: How Americans Now Acquiesce to Once Unthinkable Ideas
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/31-0

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Obama the Warrior

By Glenn Greenwald

A new NYT article sheds considerable light on the character of the Democratic Commander-in-Chief.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31454.htm



''Militants'': Media Propaganda

By Glenn Greenwald

To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-defined ''militant'' to mean ''all military-age males in a strike zone''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31460.htm



The Face of Collateral Damage

By Jefferson Morley

Photos of missile debris help trace the path of a CIA drone missile that killed a young girl.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31466.htm



Obama fights ban on indefinite detention of Americans

The White House has filed an appeal in hopes of reversing a federal judge s ruling that bans the indefinite military detention of Americans because attorneys for the president say they are justified to imprison alleged terrorists without charge.

http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-indefinite-detention-forrest-070/


From Information Clearing House

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How extremism is normalized

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

05/30/12

[O]nce something is repeated enough by government officials, we become numb to its extremism. Even in the immediate wake of 9/11, when national fear and hysteria were intense, things like the Patriot Act, military commissions, and indefinite detention were viewed as radical departures from American political tradition; now, they just endure and are constantly renewed without notice, because they have just become normalized fixtures of American political life...

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/30/how_extremism_is_normalized/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Dead Presidents Stay Dead
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner549.html

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Double Standards on Civilian Deaths

John LaForge, Consortium News: ''In the war fever being ramped up against Syria, there is broad public indignation over the massacre of more than 100 civilians in the town of Houla last weekend. Would that the U.S. diplomatic corps and the commercial press were equally outraged over our own military s atrocities.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9561-double-standards-on-civilian-deaths



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