World-News

Boston Globe
by Sabin Willett

09/15/11

We are about to declare war again - did you notice? Perhaps the new war declaration escaped your view, sitting as it does on page 359 of a spending bill working its way through Congress, where only legislative aides seem to know about it. It was devised in a closed-door mark-up session of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act, now before the Senate, would let the armed forces 'detain' people who are part of or support Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or 'associated forces.' Detention is a war power. ... Osama bin Laden may be dead, but some people don t want the war to be...

http://tinyurl.com/3v7aseu



A state of permanent war

CounterPunch
by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh

09/15/11

The 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, global terrorism, and US military aggressions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere in the Muslim-Arab world can be better understood against this background: the systemic or internal dynamics of the military-industrial-security complex as an existentially-driven juggernaut to war and militarism that, in the aftermath of the Cold War era, needed all kinds of enemies and boogiemen in order to justify its continued usurpation of the lion s share of the public finance, or the US treasury...

http://tinyurl.com/453ho6w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA, Pentagon fight to keep 'Osama bin Laden' death photos secret

CIA National Clandestine Service Director wrote that the CIA has '52 unique....photographs and/or videorecordings' depicting bin Laden during or after the May operation. Bennett said all the imagery is classified 'TOP SECRET,' meaning that disclosure of the material could lead to 'exceptionally grave damage' to U.S. national security.

http://politi.co/qogc8e



Guilty even when proven innocent: Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on F.B.I. s Watch List

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government s terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according to newly released documents.

http://nyti.ms/p63GbF


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