The vague and flowery rhetoric, the verbal tributes to Islamic culture and the equal rights of nations, constitute an adjustment of the language being used to cloak the policy of US imperialism, not a change in substance.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22774.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22774.htm
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Breaking Bibi
By Pat Buchanan
In Israel, the betting is that Barack will break Bibi because Israel cannot defy its last great friend, the lone superpower, upon whom it depends for security, weaponry and diplomatic shelter from U.N. Security Council sanctions. As Rick Wagoner of GM can tell Bibi, you take the king’s shilling, you play the king’s tune.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22772.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22772.htm
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Israel/Palestine: Two Peoples One State
By Keith Harvey
“For Israeli Jews the key goals of Zionism would be realised. If not a monopoly on power, they would have a permanent, protected, and vibrant national presence in all of Israel-Palestine, as partners and equals, not as occupiers.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22773.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22773.htm
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Securitization: The Biggest Rip-off Ever
By Mike Whitney
Is it possible to make hundreds of billions of dollars in profits on securities that are backed by nothing more than cyber-entries into a loan book? It’s not only possible; it’s been done.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22775.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22775.htm
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Time to Break Up the Banks
By Peter Rothberg
This new video, which neatly breaks down the causes and effects of the economic crisis.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22778.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22778.htm
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Everyone Should See ‘Torturing Democracy’
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
If we want to know what torture is, and what it does to human beings, we have to look at it squarely, without flinching. That’s just what a powerful and important film, seen by far too few Americans, does.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22767.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22767.htm
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Torturing Democracy
Video and Transcript
It’s all here. ‘Torturing Democracy’ should engender the same mass outrage as the 2004 photos from Abu Ghraib.” – Dahlia Lithwick, Slate: …”I really found this documentary, ‘Torturing Democracy,’ very, very disturbing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21422.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21422.htm
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian protester at Na’alin rally:
Medics said Srour was hit in the chest by a live bullet and another protester was wounded when soldiers fired at protesters.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090697.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090697.html
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1 Killed as West Bank raid sparks deadly clash:
A Palestinian policeman has been killed in an ongoing standoff between Hamas fighters and security forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in the occupied West Bank, officials have said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/20096463140665493.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/20096463140665493.html
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Israel: No policy change after Obama speech:
Israel will not heed President Barack Obama’s powerful appeal to halt all settlement activity on lands the Palestinians claim for a future state, officials said Friday
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/917/story/602881.html
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/917/story/602881.html
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In Pictures: The Illegal Israeli settlements:
Half a million Israelis still live in illegal settlements in occupied territories. But while Barack Obama has highlighted the problem of their continued expansion as one of the biggest barriers to peace in the Middle East, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu resolutely defends them.
http://snipurl.com/jiuth
http://snipurl.com/jiuth
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Obama nominee tied to CIA interrogation:
A congressional aide says the Obama administration’s pick for a top intelligence post at the Homeland Security Department has ties to the CIA’s harsh interrogation program.
http://snipurl.com/jiuxu
http://snipurl.com/jiuxu
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U.S. jobless rate hits 9.4 percent:
The BLS said the unemployment rate continued to rise, increasing to 9.4 percent from 8.9 percent. Steep job losses continued in manufacturing, while declines moderated in construction and several service-providing industries.
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/06/01/daily62.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/06/01/daily62.html
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Canada Jobless Rate Hits 11-Year High, Led by Plants :
A net 41,800 people lost their job during the month and the unemployment rate climbed more than expected to 8.4 percent, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aVsEpO8nQzak&refer=canada
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aVsEpO8nQzak&refer=canada
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Jobless Rate in Europe Rises Further:
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the 16 countries that use the euro currency rose to 9.2 percent in April, the highest rate since September 1999, from 8.9 percent in March, the Eurostat agency, the bloc’s statistics office, said Tuesday. In April 2008, the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/business/global/03euro.html?ref=world
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/business/global/03euro.html?ref=world
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Ireland’s unemployment rate hits 13-year high of 11.8 percent; welfare claims at record high:
The report said the number of people claiming jobless benefits has nearly doubled over the past year to 397,000, an unprecedented high dating back to the foundation of the Irish state in 1922.
http://snipurl.com/jiv1m
http://snipurl.com/jiv1m
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Israel praises Obama speech, but says its security paramount:
Settler leaders reacted with frustration in the wake of Obama’s speech in Cairo on Thursday, Israel Radio reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090412.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090412.html
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Hezbollah: Islamic world doesn’t need sermons from Obama:
“The Islamic world does not need moral or political sermons. It needs a fundamental change in American policy,” said Lebanon MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hezbollah, referring to United States President Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090405.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090405.html
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US objects to UN report on military killings:
The Obama administration charged Wednesday that a U.N. investigator violated his mandate by accusing the U.S. of failing to properly investigate allegations of unlawful killings by American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090603/ap_on_re_eu/un_us_military_killings
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090603/ap_on_re_eu/un_us_military_killings
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Rather: Former detainee says torture still going on at Gitmo:
Dan Rather, the former CBS anchor who now hosts a news magazine on cable channel HDNet, has done a documentary on a former Guantanamo prisoner who says he was tortured for years before being released two weeks ago.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/03/rather-former-detainee-tortured/
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/03/rather-former-detainee-tortured/
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U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says :
The U.S. economy will enter “hyperinflation” approaching the levels in Zimbabwe because the Federal Reserve will be reluctant to raise interest rates, investor Marc Faber said.
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aIeLg1djbBps
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aIeLg1djbBps
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Bankruptcy filings rise to 6,000 a day as job losses take toll:
Consumer and commercial bankruptcy filings are on pace to reach a stunning 1.5 million this year, according to a report from Automated Access to Court Electronic Records.
http://snipurl.com/jiv8b
http://snipurl.com/jiv8b
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Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankrupts: study:
More than 75 percent of these bankrupt families had health insurance but still were overwhelmed by their medical debts, the team at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University reported in the American Journal of Medicine.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5530Y020090604
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5530Y020090604
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Big Brother HAS gone too far … and that’s an ex-spy chief talking:
The former head of MI6 has hit out at ‘striking and disturbing’ invasions of privacy by the Big Brother state.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190060/Former-MI6-chief-Sir-Richard-Dearlove-warns-disturbing-surveillance-society.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190060/Former-MI6-chief-Sir-Richard-Dearlove-warns-disturbing-surveillance-society.html
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