World-News

Boston Globe
by James Carroll

05/16/11

Instead of merely authorizing the president to make war against those who 'committed or aided' the 2001 attacks, the proposed National Defense Authorization Act expands the notion of America s enemy to include forces 'associated' with named antagonists like Al Qaeda and the Taliban. According to its critics (including numerous House Democrats who asked last week that such language be dropped), this seemingly innocuous expansion would, in effect, license an open-ended bleeding of the American battle away from Iraq and Afghanistan to any location in which such vaguely defined associates operate...

http://tinyurl.com/3bmlmf8



No end to the 'war on terror,' no end to Guantanamo

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

05/13/11

With the death of Osama bin Laden, there is a perfect opportunity for the Obama administration to bring to an end the decade-long 'war on terror' by withdrawing from Afghanistan and closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The justification for both the invasion of Afghanistan (in October 2001) and the detention of prisoners in Guantanamo (which opened in January 2002) is the Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed by Congress on September 14, 2001, just three days after the 9/11 attacks...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1105i.asp



The Trouble Is, Our Government Does not Know How To Tell the Truth

The Libertarian Enterprise
by James Glaser

05/16/11

It really does not matter if we have a Democratic or Republican administration. Both political parties worry so much about that next election, they are afraid to tell us the truth about anything, until they decide what version of a story will play best with the voters.

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2011/tle619-20110515-07.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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