World-News

By Adam Curtis

Even if ones instincts are to help those fighting Gadaffi, it is no longer enough just to see it as a struggle of goodies against baddies. For it is precisely that simplification that has led to unreal fantasies about who we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27818.htm



This Is What Resistance Looks Like

By Chris Hedges

The phrase consent of the governed has been turned into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27824.htm

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Libya: West showcases new weapons for sale

MSNBC

04/04/11

Almost every modern conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo has served as a test of air power. But the Libyan operation to enforce U.N. resolution 1973 coincides with a new arms race - a surge of demand in the $60 billion a year global fighter market and the arrival of a new generation of equipment in the air and at sea. For the countries and companies behind those planes and weapons, theres no better sales tool than real combat. For air forces facing cuts, it is a strike for the value of air power itself...

http://tinyurl.com/3lhknfv



The benefit of Obamas war on Libya

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

04/04/11

Lost within the 'humanitarian' rationale that President Obama and his liberal cohorts have provided for the U.S. Empires war on Libya is one of the principal benefits of the Libyan War, at least from the standpoint of U.S. officials: the indefinite continuation of the U.S. governments anti-terrorist powers that have accompanied its decade-long 'war on terrorism'...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-04-04.asp



Defining 'terrorism' down

Foundation for Economic Education Foundation for Economic Education

by William L. Anderson

03/30/11

In this politicized age, government officials are constantly expanding the meaning of 'terrorism.' Once upon a time a 'terrorist' was someone who killed or attempted to kill unarmed civilians in a surprise attack that was meant to make a political statement or to undermine a political regime...

http://tinyurl.com/4a8p8fm



Obamas war of choice

Reason Reason
by Steve Chapman

Remember when a crusading president, acting on dubious intelligence, insufficient information, and exaggerated fears, took the nation into a Middle Eastern war of choice? That was George W. Bush in 2003, invading Iraq. But its also Barack Obama in 2011, attacking Libya...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/04/obamas-war-of-choice



High costs may not be the worst aspect of the attack on Libya

Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

03/30/11

As if getting enmeshed in a third simultaneous war - with costs soaring in a time of economic peril, yawning budget deficits, and national debt - when no vital national interest was at stake wasnt bad enough, that is not the worst of it...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3020


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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