Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Subject: ICH: The Oscar for Denial --
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Where Is The Outrage?
Disappeared in the Name of US National Security
By Mohamed Farag Bashmilah
The American public needs to face what has happened to those of
us who were disappeared and mistreated in the name of their national security.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22092.htm
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The Oscar for Denial
And the winner is - The American People
By James McEnteer
"We know, deep inside us we know--[just] as the Germans who
kept their heads down and tried to lead 'normal' lives as genocide exploded all
around them, in their name, by their own government knew--that our government
has committed terrible atrocities at home and abroad. If we do nothing to bring
these crimes to light and their perpetrators to justice, then we are as guilty
and worthy of moral condemnation as the war generation of silent Germans ..."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22095.htm
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A Practical Proposal for Real Change
Open Letter to President Obama
By Carmen Yarrusso
Thoreau wrote, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of
evil to one who is striking at the root." Mr. President, real change won't
happen unless we the American people strike at the root-our intellectually
dishonest political system.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22096.htm
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Freeing Up Resources... For More War
By Norman Solomon
In his first speech to Congress, the new president threw down a
90-month-old gauntlet, reaffirming the notion that committing to war halfway
around the world -- in Afghanistan and now in Pakistan too -- will make
Americans safer. With drumrolls like that, the mission could outlive all of us.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22098.htm
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Cut the Military Budget
By Barney Frank
Those organizations, editorial boards and individuals who talk
about the need for fiscal responsibility should be challenged to begin with the
area where our spending has been the most irresponsible and has produced the
least good for the dollars expended--our military budget.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22099.htm
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I.O.U.S.A.
Wake up, America!
Video
Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military,
increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and
debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must
mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22100.htm
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It's Time to Break up the Big Banks
By Mike Whitney
Timothy Geithner is putting the finishing touches on a plan
that will dump $1 trillion of toxic assets onto the US taxpayer.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22093.htm
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Nationalization: It's Not Scary, It's All Around You
By David Sirota
Amidst the punditocracy's handwringing about the supposedly
unprecedented possibility of nationalization in America, Paul Krugman this week
reminded his New York Times readers that nationalization is "as American as
apple pie."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22097.htm
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A Planet at the Brink
Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?
By Michael T. Klare
The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures,
bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year,
leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But another perilous
consequence of the crash of 2008 has only recently made its appearance:
increased civil unrest and ethnic strife. Someday, perhaps, war may follow.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22091.htm
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How Can U.S. Recover Without Manufacturing Capacity?
By Glen Ford
"You can't put people to work in American factories that don't
exist."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22101.htm
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Robert Fisk on Gaza and the Media
By Stefan Christoff
"The international press allowed for their own humiliation:
Israel told the press that they couldn't go into Gaza and they didn't really
try to, so the press sat outside Gaza and pontificated from two miles away."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22094.htm
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Pakistani Taliban unite against U.S:
The top Pakistani Taliban commander, Baitullah Mehsud, and two
rival Taliban chiefs, Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Maulvi Nazeer, met at an
undisclosed location recently and settled their differences to unite against
U.S. and Pakistani government operations in the region.
http://onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=141408
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UK: This is a recipe for creating terrorists:
New Labour's sins in the war on terror are catching up with it,
but ministers want to shift blame on to the Muslim community
http://tinyurl.com/av4hug
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more here:
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"... as all history informs us, there has been in every
State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed:
the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And
this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either
in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the
ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing,
and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more
the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the
prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that
are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is
scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of
Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make
them and their children servants for ever ..." -- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) US Founding Father - Source: before the Constitutional Convention,
(June 2, 1787)
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