World-News

The total cost to the United States of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the related military operations in Pakistan, is set to exceed US$4 trillion ($4.8 trillion) - more than three times the sum so far authorised by Congress in the decade since the September 11 attacks.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10735557



Russia criticizes US over human rights abuses in wars abroad

'We call on the the American side to pay adequate attention to this issue in the context of President (Barack) Obama s repeated assurances of his firm intention to deal with the legal violations committed during George W. Bush s presidency under the pretext of the 'war on terror,' Konstantin Dolgov said.

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=228029


From Information Clearing House

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The foreclosure of America

Liberty For All
by Michael Badnarik

07/05/11

As you are painfully aware, life in the United States is changing. Not the hope and change promised in the 2008 election process, but the kind of change where you watch the American economy collapse before your eyes ... helpless to do anything about it. The number of banks and financial institutions that have failed recently is dwarfed by the number of people who are worried about, or currently being threatened with, foreclosure on their homes...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=6136


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=econom+collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=cost+of+wars
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure
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