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Information Clearing House Newsletter
News You Won't Find On CNN
May 09, 2009
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"I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody,
dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of
depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own -- and
if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the
"haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least
what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't
want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans. ": --
General David M. Shoup - Commandant of the Marine Corps 1960-63, winner of the
Congressional Medal of Honor - Source: May 14, 1966
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"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is
immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live
amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." Aquinas
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After US Strikes, Afghans Describe
"Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies"
By Jeremy Scahill
As rage spreads in Afghanistan after US bombing that killed up
to 130 people, unnamed Pentagon officials are spinning another cover-up.
Defiant Obama moves ahead with troop increase.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22578.htm
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Obama Aide Puts Israel's Nukes in the Diplomatic Mix
Analysis by Helena Cobban
That would end a 40-year period in which Washington colluded
with Israel in maintaining the fiction that Israel's nuclear weapons
capabilities were unknown, and anyway should never be openly discussed.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22576.htm
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Law's Unintended Consequences
By Paul Craig Roberts
Demands that Israel be held accountable for war crimes
committed in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, or elsewhere become acts of the hate
crime of anti-semitism.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22579.htm
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Past Masters at Torture
By Iftekhar A. Khan
American propensity for using innocuous acronyms to cover
heinous crimes is unsurpassed. Bagram (Afghanistan) torture centre renamed
Bagram Theatre Internment Facility (BTIF) reportedly is to extend by investing
$60 million. So torture as US state policy will continue and BTIF will be the
ultimate hellhole.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22583.htm
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Complicity -- and Accountability -- on Torture
By Dan Froomkin
There is anger from the left - and not just the left - about an
inexcusable Bush policy. There are demons in the closet, and shutting the door
on them won't make them go away. Better to deal with it now, when a new
president's idealism is still fresh. It will take idealism to face the torture
issue.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22582.htm
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Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?
U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailout Programs
By Mark Pittman and Bob Ivry
The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would
raise the government's commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7
trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation's home
mortgages.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22581.htm
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Depressionus Interruptus
Did Bernanke pull the economy back from the brink?
By Mike Whitney
The stock market surge doesn't help working people who get paid
by the hour and don't have the extra money to bet on equities. They can't move
numbers from one ledger to another and magically show a profit. They have to
balance their check books, show up on time, and play by the rules. For these
people--the bulk of working Americans--the future has never been grimmer and
less certain.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22580.htm
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The Patriotic Retirement Plan
"How Would You Fix the Economy?"
By St. Petersburg Times
The St. Petersburg Times Newspaper, Business Section asked
readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?" This guy nailed it!
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22585.htm
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Populism is Not a Style
It's a People's Rebellion Against Corporate Power
By Jim Hightower
A majority of folks today hold within them the live spark of
populism--which is an innate distrust of corporate tycoons and Wall Street
titans and an instinct to rebel against them. The moment can come again. As
Goodwyn tells us, "the triumph of Populism...was the belief in possibility it
injected into American political consciousness."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22584.htm
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Seeds Of Truth
By Sheila Samples
Once you opt to buy Monsanto seeds, you are no longer a farmer,
you're a "grower" -- a serf
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22577.htm
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Netanyahu: Israel will never withdraw from Golan:
A week-and-a-half out from Netanyahu's scheduled visit to
Washington, the prime minister stressed that he is ready to stand up to U.S.
President Barack Obama and that he would not give up on matters that in his
opinion are critical to Israel's security.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084194.html
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Hamas: We won't accept two-state solution:
Meshal said that Hamas rejects the two-state solution but could
still be part of a national unity government if a Palestinian state is
established based on 1967 borders.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084227.html
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Democrats were routinely briefed on Bush 'torture' techniques,
document shows:
The CIA has released a devastating document detailing the dates
and explicit details of secret Congressional briefings in which members of
Congress were told of the Bush administration's torture techniques and when
they had been used.
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UK's income gap widest since 60s:
Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at
any time since modern records began in the early 1960s, after the incomes of
the poor fell and those of the rich rose in the three years after the 2005
general election.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/08/poverty-equality-britain-incomes-poor
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Bank of England braced for third wave of financial crisis:
This week both banks again warned of sharp increases in bad
loans to British business customers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/08/bank-england-recession-economy
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Recovery? What Recovery?:
Why entrepreneurs aren't so optimistic about the economy.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/196007
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