World-News

Campaign For Liberty
by Tim Shoemaker

09/30/11

This morning, news broke in the US that a drone strike killed 'radical cleric' Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen living in Yemen. This is disturbing for multiple reasons, namely that the executive branch now has successfully subverted the 5th Amendment in a way that likely would have made George W. Bush and Dick Cheney s legal counsel blush. This Presidential assassination now establishes the executive branch as judge, jury, and executioner of any American they deem a 'threat' to national security...

http://tinyurl.com/3p9dsts



The progressive policy of imperial murder

Empire Burlesque
by Chris Floyd

09/30/11

The whole point of these high-profile murders was to establish, yet again, the 'right' - and the power - of the U.S. president to kill anyone on earth, including American citizens, at his arbitrary command. .... The murders of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan are simply more public confirmations of this firmly established truth...

http://bit.ly/qoHs6C



Assassinating Awlaki

CounterPunch
by Michael Brenner
10/03/11

The Awlaki killing can only be interpreted and assayed meaningfully if placed in the context of the ?War On Terror.? For America today is not the same country that it was before 9/11. Our ethical standards, our sense of danger and vulnerability, our understanding of right and wrong, our readiness to place enormous discretionary power in the hands of our rulers - all have been qualitatively altered...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/03/assassinating-awlaki/



We were warned

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/03/11

In a Fourth of July message to Congress, John Quincy Adams suggested that if America were ever to embrace the principles of empire and militarism, she would become a dictatress of the world. What better evidence of Adams? wisdom than President Obama s assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, a state-sanctioned murder, one without any judicial process whatsoever?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-10-03.asp



Is it legal?

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

10/02/11

All I know is this: If it is legal for our government to kill people labeled 'terrorist' without due process, then it is perfectly legal for our enemies to label Americans as terrorists and kill us legally anywhere in the world...

http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-it-legal_723.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Awlaki killing shows US now in 'State of Exception'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10576/

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The Due-Process-Free Assassination of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/due-process-free-assassination.html

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Lethal Autonomy (Killer Flying Robots to Think For Themselves)
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/5188.html

Murder From the Skies on a Budget
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/offensive-technology/murder-from-the-skies-on-a-budget.html

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Awlaki is first hit for new drone base

The military, under the Joint Special Operations Command, has patrolled the airspace over Yemen with its own drones for much of the past year. Those aircraft are flown out of a base in Djibouti. The military has also operated drones out a base on the Seychelles and is establishing an airstrip in Ethi­o­pia.

http://wapo.st/qAoWu2



U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say

The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said.

http://wapo.st/nQUWru



The 'War on Terror' rages in the Philippines

In 2002, the US launched Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines; nine years later, the campaign there continues.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/inpictures/2011/10/2011104145947651645.html


From Information Clearing House



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