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The Gross National Debt
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Supporters of the
Republican/[Libertarian] presidential candidate Ron Paul don't feel as if
their man is getting enough mainstream media coverage, so they're taking
the matter to their keyboards. What is amusing is the
thought that Paul is a more sought-after subject
than Paris Hilton on Technorati.
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‘Dark
Horse’ Paul Dominates MSNBC Republican Candidate Debates
(Video)
Ron
Paul Wins MSNBC Republican Post-Debate Poll
Four-Dollars,
Plus!
Modernizing
the Destruction of the Fourth Amendment
May
11, 2007
(Excerpt)
Bush
and the neocons want to deep six FISA, itself a violation of the Fourth
Amendment, not that it matters as the Fourth died an ignoble death some
time ago. But even FISA is not acceptable to the authoritarian
psychopaths running the government. Even as “the administration asks Congress to
expand its leeway under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the
White House continues to insist on the president’s inherent power to
disregard even his preferred version of that law. No
wonder J. Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence,
received a skeptical reception from Democrats on the Senate Intelligence
Committee when he testified last week in favor of ‘modernizing’ FISA,”
the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Powell's
Chief of Staff Proposes Impeachment
AfterDowningStreet.org
By David Swanson
May 10, 2007
(Excerpt)
On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson,
speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George
W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Here is the audio.
Wilkerson
is a Retired Army Colonel, the former Chief of Staff at the State
Department from 2002 to 2005 under then Secretary of State Colin Powell,
a Vietnam War veteran, the former Acting Director of the Marine Corps War
College at Quantico, and currently a teacher of national security at
William and Mary College.
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BOTTOMLESS
PIT: Troops keep comin' to
Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said yesterday that it will maintain a
heightened level of U.S. troops in Afghanistan well into 2008 by sending
elements of the 101st Airborne Division as a replacement force.
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Bombs blasting Afghan
hearts, minds
The
Australian, Australia
"The
Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office have ... written off Iraq and all
attention is now on Afghanistan," said a senior diplomat,
pointing out that within
months Afghanistan will be Britain's biggest overseas deployment.
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Civilian
Deaths Undermine War on Taliban ZERKOH, Afghanistan, May 9 — Scores of civilian
deaths over the past months from heavy American and allied reliance
on airstrikes to battle Taliban insurgents are threatening popular
support for the Afghan government and creating severe strains within the
NATO alliance.
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Britain
Fights to Curb US Afghan Onslaught There is
growing alarm over a wave of US bombing raids in which 110
civilians have died in the past two weeks. Twenty-one
people were killed last week after US special forces called in airstrikes
on the town of Sangin in Helmand province. “Sometimes you wonder whose side the Americans are on,” said a British official.
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Officials:
7 Civilians, 77 Taliban Killed in US Airstrikes
US
sponsored military partnership in the Far East and the Pacific Rim
provocatively encircles Russia and China
Global Research
5.10.05
(Excerpt)
The
creation of a parallel NATO-like organization in the Far East
and the Pacific Rim is part of the international
brinkmanship of creating a unified global military alliance. Ellen Bork, deputy executive
director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and Gary
Schmitt, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, have
advocated the creation of a military network in Asia similar to NATO
in a paper on South Korea written in December of 2006. [i][1] The PNAC is
a US think-tank whose members include Dick Cheney, George W. Bush
Jr., Richard Perle, Lewis Libby, Karl Rove, Zalmay Khalilzhad, Richard
Armitage, and Paul Wolfowitz.
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Billions
in Oil ‘Missing’ in Iraq, US Study Finds
Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq's
declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and
could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according
to a draft American government report.
Using an average of $50 a barrel, the report said the discrepancy was
valued at $5 million to $15 million daily.
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CAMP
RUN-AMUCK! CIA ‘Cited’ for Not Disclosing Covert Action
(Excerpt)
The House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence said yesterday that the CIA violated the law last year when
it failed to inform the panel of "a significant covert action
activity."
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General
Petraeus Warns U.S. Troops Against Using Torture
(Excerpt)
The
top U.S. commander in Iraq admonished his troops regarding the results of
an Army survey that found that many U.S military personnel there are
willing to tolerate some torture of suspects and unwilling to report
abuse by comrades.
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HABEAS CORPSES:
Torturing people to death is not a serious way to wage war on terrorism
Reason Magazine
(Excerpt)
The man with graying
hair had "blunt force injuries complicated by compromised
respiration," the result of a synthetic hood placed over his head
during interrogation by Navy Seals and "Other Government
Agency," which typically means the CIA. The obese 56-year-old died of
"asphyxia due to smothering and chest compression"; the
circumstances surrounding his death are classified. The 47-year-old died
gagged and shackled to a door frame; his autopsy revealed numerous rib
fractures and lung contusions.
These are a few of the
findings from 44 reports of
autopsies on U.S. detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, obtained by the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last month under a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit. Eight of the 21 deaths classed as homicides, the
ACLU concluded,
appeared to have resulted from abusive interrogation tactics, with
strangulation, asphyxiation, and blunt force injuries listed as causes of
death. Because the documents sought by the ACLU are trickling out slowly,
month by month, it is unclear how many more such reports remain to be
uncovered.
This much we know about
interrogations at the government's acknowledged prisons. But not even
Congress, let alone the ACLU, seems to know a great deal about what sort
of tactics are deployed at the Central Intelligence Agency's numerous black
sites, secret prisons that, the Washington
Post revealed earlier this
month, are used to house "high level" terror suspects in
Afghanistan and Eastern Europe.
We have at least a hint
of the unholy provenance of the tactics that might be deployed there,
however. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) prompted howls of outrage last summer
when, after reading reports detainee treatment at the government's
Guantanamo Bay facility, he suggested
that one would think they were accounts from some Soviet gulag. Durbin
was finally pressured to apologize
for the unconscionable comparison, but it turned out he'd been more
accurate than he realized. As The
New York Times revealed earlier this month,
Gitmo interrogators had mined the classified "Survival, Evasion,
Resistance, Escape" (SERE) program for techniques. Originally designed
to teach soldiers how to resist the kind of spirit-breaking tactics used
on prisoners of war by such countries as Vietnam and North Korea, SERE
was turned into a manual on those very methods.
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Because
They Can: the Logic of the Torture State by William Norman Grigg
One Man, One Vote
by Charley Reese
May 12, 2007
Original Storylink
(Excerpt)
Palestinians should give up the idea of a
two-state solution. It is as plain as a hippopotamus at a tea party that
the only kind of state the Israelis will give them, if at all, is a
politically and economically unviable collection of tiny enclaves
separated by Israeli territory.
Instead, Palestinians should demand a unified
Palestine, with one-man, one-vote democratic government and equal rights
for all.
Of course, the Israelis won't agree to that,
either. They know that while initially Palestinian Arabs would be a
minority, in a few years they would become a majority because of a larger
birthrate and a decline in Jewish immigrants.
Zionist ideology demands that Israel have a
Jewish majority and Jewish control, which is why, to this day, the
Israelis persist in various ways to try to ethnically cleanse the land of
the original majority, which was Arabs.
Great
Britain had no right to take an Arab country and present it as a gift to
European Jews. Israel is today an ethnic-based state with
discriminatory laws that would not be tolerated by the world community in
any other state.
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1. New York Times
Nonchalantly Details Israeli Ethnic Cleansing
2. German Military
Complains Israeli Military Involved in Three Incidents Off Lebanese Coast
3.
Israel’s
U.S. ‘Fifth
Column’
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More ‘Israeli’
than Israelis: Israeli MP Urges State to Boost Ties With Evangelical
Christians Erdan
(Israeli MP], who will represent the Christian Allies Caucus at the 2007 Jerusalem Prayer Banquet - an
Evangelical gathering in Beverly Hills next week organized by the New
York-based Eagles' Wings Ministries - said Evangelicals carry major
political weight in the US, and that had Israel's relations with them
taken off sooner, the US Embassy might have been moved to Jerusalem.
Former deputy prime minister Natan Sharansky is also set to attend the
event.
How
Three Million Germans Died After VE Day
The Telegraph – London
(Excerpt)
Giles
MacDonogh is a bon viveur and a historian of wine and gastronomy, but in
this book, pursuing his other consuming interest - German history - he serves
a dish to turn the strongest of stomachs. It makes particularly
uncomfortable reading for those who compare the disastrous occupation of
Iraq unfavourably to the post-war settlement of Germany and Austria.
MacDonogh
argues that the months that followed May 1945 brought no peace to the
shattered skeleton of Hitler's Reich, but suffering even
worse than the destruction wrought by the war. After the
atrocities that the Nazis had visited on Europe, some degree of justified
vengeance by their victims was inevitable, but the
appalling bestialities that MacDonogh documents so soberly went far
beyond that. The first 200 pages of his brave book are an almost
unbearable chronicle of human suffering.
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Debunking
Climate Change Hysteria
(Movie)
In
particular, note the completely and utterly shameful fear-mongering and
propaganda pedaling—and censorship of research debunking the junk science
of global warming—attributed to the United Nations’ Inter-governmental
Panel on Climate Change at 56 minutes into this excellent documentary.
Current News & Views
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MISSION
ACCOMPLISHED: Iraq Child Mortality Jumps 125% According to a new report, Iraq has
seen its child mortality rate jump 125% since 1990, a legacy of two wars
and more than a decade of U.S. inspired economic sanctions.
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In
Quotes: WMD Hysteria an invention of Clinton, not Bush The Clinton administration,
justifying small-scale bombings and the continuation of economic
sanctions, engaged in fear mongering identical to that of its successor
administration.
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Friday: 2 GIs, 77 Iraqis Killed; 87
Iraqis Wounded
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IRAQ:
Attack Kills 5 U.S. Troops, 3 feared captured
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Baghdad Bridge Bombings
Kill At Least 26 People
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Despair as Baghdad plan falters
1. Baghdad: Mapping the violence
2. Iraq violence in figures
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Car bomb explodes in Iraqi city
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US Marine 'shot unarmed Iraqis'
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Iraq
MP Majority Set to Force US Withdrawal
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Iraqi
National Security Official Urges US to Release Iranian Detainees
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Iraqi
Parliament Objects to Baghdad Wall
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Republicans
warn Bush of US ‘fatigue’ over Iraq war
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Pair
Convicted for Leaking Infamous British Memo Detailing Bush’s
Desire to Bomb Al Jazeera
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Do YOU Know Who Luis
Posada Carriles Is?
1.
The Terrorist We Tolerate by Rosa Brooks Los
Angeles Times
2.
Fighting
Terror Selectively by Marjorie Cohn
Counterpunch.org
3.
Cuba
Says US Broke Anti-Terrorism Treaties
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Bomb blast mars UN
Somalia visit
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SOMALIA: The Hidden War for Oil
by Carl Bloice
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Delhi, 1857: A Bloody Warning to Today's Imperial Occupiers
by William
Dalrymple The Guardian
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Turkey explosion injures
15
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World Bank
Board Majority Want Wolfowitz to Resign
On Carrier in
Gulf, Cheney the Chickenhawk Flaps His Wings - Threatens Iran
Who Are the
59 Democrats Who Voted Against the Iraq Withdrawal Bill?
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An extraordinarily prescient TV interview
with General Norman Schwarzkopf and Robert Gates - Deputy National
Security Advisor to Former President George Bush Sr.
Why
Invading Iraq Was A Very Stupid Idea…
(Click on blinking
dot above for video)
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