Facts and Myths about Obama's Preventive Detention Proposal
By Glenn Greenwald
In the wake of Obama's speech yesterday, there are vast numbers of new
converts who now support indefinite "preventive detention." It thus seems
constructive to have as dispassionate and fact-based discussion as possible
of the implications of "preventive detention" and Obama's related detention
proposals (military commissions).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22688.htm
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Indefinite Detention? Shame on you... President Obama
By Rachel Maddow | Don't miss this 7 minute video.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22690.htm
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Slouching Towards Balkanization
By Pepe Escobar
Happy Days are here again. It's as if the George W Bush years in
Afghanistan had never left, with Washington still wallowing in an
intelligence-free environment. A surge is coming to town - just like the one
General David Petraeus engineered in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22681.htm
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How The US Lost the War on Terror And The Islamists Won
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
America and Britain appear lost, not knowing how to come out of the
self-engineered defeat in wars against Islam. Masses have sympathies with
the true believers and the Islamists appear to have lost nothing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22682.htm
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While opposing certain actions of the Bush administration,
Obama is careful to avoid challenging the central political lie out of which
all its crimes developed.
The Obama-Cheney "debate" and the threat of dictatorship in America
By Joe Kishore
Kishore 22 May 2009 Whatever his criticisms of the Bush administration's
policies, Obama defends its basic aims. On domestic policy, he is continuing
the massive handouts to the banks and Wall Street investors. On military
policy, he is continuing the occupation of Iraq, while expanding the war in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. His argument for legality is undermined by the
fact that his administration has restarted military commissions, refused to
publish torture photos, and in general maintained the anti-democratic
measures of his predecessor. Whatever verbal warnings Obama may make about
the erosion of democracy in the United States, the actions of his
administration facilitate and accelerate its breakdown. It is impossible to
combine imperialist war with democracy. The latter cannot survive without
opposing the former.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/pers-m22.shtml
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Obama's Preventive Detention Plans Face Scrutiny
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124302633236948169.html
Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention For Suspects Deemed 'National
Security Threat' --'The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the
Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.html
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