World-News

By David Michael Green

Democrats are inept, the public knows it, and that will be a major part of their undoing in the next two election cycles.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24319.htm



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Yemen Dismisses Al Qaeda Threat as 'Exaggerated'

By Borzou Daragahi

Yemeni officials on Sunday dismissed the threat posed by Al Qaeda in their country as "exaggerated" and downplayed the possibility of cooperating closely with the United States in fighting Islamic militants.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24318.htm



U.S. Kicks Hornet's Nest in Yemen

By Eric Margolis

Just before the Detroit air incident, U.S. warplanes killed 50-100 Yemeni tribesmen fighting the American-backed regime. U.S. special forces, warplanes and killer drones have been active since 2001, assassinating Yemeni militants and anti-government tribal leaders. It was only a matter of time before Yemeni jihadists struck back at the U.S.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24322.htm



'Orchard of fighters' grows out of poverty and mistrust in Yemen

"A US intervention, will provoke a backlash" among normal Yemenis, a conservative and poorly educated population distrustful of what they considered to be an aggressive West, Saeed al-Jemhi, the author of AlQaeda in Yemen, said. "This can only work in al-Qaeda's favour."

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6974719.ece



Yemen seizes 'Israel-linked' cell

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7656807.stm



The $30bn pair of underpants

Will the US ramp up its efforts in a new country each time there is an attempted attack, putting US "boots on the ground" against an enemy that is impossible to defeat? Such a policy would fulfill al-Qaeda's wildest dreams, as the US suffers death by a thousand cuts, bleeding out in an ever wider web of interconnected and unsustainable global conflicts.

https://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/01/20101391534922682.html



Insouciant Americans

By Paul Craig Roberts

The Underwear Bomber case indicates that whoever is behind these bomb scares is laughing at our gullibility.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24380.htm


From Information Clearing House

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2010: A Peace Odyssey?

Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "Another year brings another war, so it would seem. Already in the works beforehand, but now hastened by the Christmas 'underwear bomber,' we are swiftly moving down a road that could lead straight to another front in the generational war without end. The al-Qaeda bogeyman rears its head, and we respond like clockwork. All aboard folks - next stop, Yemen."

https://www.truthout.org/105092



In Yemen, Locals Worry About Obama Policy on Al-Qaeda

Michael Horton, The Christian Science Monitor: "Amid an intensifying US effort to curb Al Qaeda activity in Yemen, locals in this impoverished country are worried that a focus on military aid alone could backfire - spawning a more robust militant movement and potentially drawing the US into an Afghanistan-like war."

https://www.truthout.org/105094

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National security: The big fraud

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/12/10

The handwringing about the would-be Christmas Day airplane bomber and the politicians’ tiresome declarations that it will never happen again miss the point: As long as the U.S. government pursues its imperial program of invasion, regime change, occupation, and sponsorship of corrupt governments in the Muslim world, Americans will be targets for avengers. This does not excuse the killing of innocents — it merely points out an inevitable chain of events. It’s either foreign intervention and retaliatory terrorism or nonintervention and security. There’s no third way...

https://www.fff.org/comment/com1001d.asp



The problem is aggression, not government

Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner
by Kent McManigal

01/12/10

Coercion, aggression, and theft are the issues. The only reason government actions are targeted as much as they are by those who love and understand liberty is that the state is the focus of these evil forces. Using coercion, aggression, and theft wielded on your behalf by the biggest gang of thugs to deal with a threatening individual is simply wrong and pathetic...

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Warning: War is unjust, gory and tragic

Liberty For All
by Kevin Joseph Tull

01/12/10

War is death and destruction and at its best it may be a necessary evil. It is losing a fellow soldier you have come to love as dearly as a brother. It is seeing mothers holding the dead and disfigured bloody corpses of their children and screaming in anguish for the loss. It is wondering how you can ever live again in a civilized society after having the brains of your best friend splatter across your chest and face. It is killing with extreme prejudice, drilled into you by your leaders, the enemy who you can no longer imagine as human, but instead some horrific animal whose last breath must be shot, crushed and beaten out of him. Somehow knowing this, men can sit calmly, in safety, far from war and make rules pertaining to the proper conduct of war. These same men who would order boys to carry out the atrocities of war while denying them so much as a shot of whisky before the carnage...

https://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3664



Government is no friend of peace

Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

01/11/10

While there are many reasons for people to be discontented, a major problem is that the state invades their liberty and social and economic authority further restrict them. Peace and unity under the state are unsatisfactory at best, and murderous lies at worst. Because the guiding logic of statism is control, there never has been a peaceable state and there never will be. A primary function of the state is directing the use of resources and labor in ways those in charge consider beneficial. The individuals who produce what authority takes are left out of decisions as much as leaders dare. So immediately the operation of the state creates conflict...

https://c4ss.org/content/1684



Spinning the War on Terror

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

01/27/10

Both the attempted underwear bombing on Christmas Day and Osama bin Laden’s subsequent propaganda tape taking credit for the attack are evidence of al-Qaeda’s operational decline since September 11. Al-Qaeda has proved to be its own worst enemy when it comes to justifying its existence — a recent study showed that only 15 percent of al-Qaeda’s victims have been foreigners, meaning that the vast majority of those killed have been Muslims. But recent terror-related incidents point to the importance that terrorist narratives, when they resonate, have in inspiring or radicalizing the disillusioned, even in the United States...

https://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=spinning_the_war_on_terror



American jihadis: Blame violence-prone boys, not Islam

Christian Science Monitor
by Alia Malek

04/02/10

The recent arrest in Yemen of Somali-American Sharif Mobley, accused of being a member of an Al Qaeda affiliated group, raises the question: Why are young American men abandoning this country’s promise and opportunities to pursue jihad in foreign countries with groups rooted in anti-Americanism? From concerned citizens to journalists to think tank panels to Capitol Hill, everyone seems to think that the key to understanding ‘why’ these men have turned against America lies in the pathology of Islam. But they’re missing something big. … By focusing on religion, the discussion about the radicalization of Muslim American youth ignores the more salient factors: gender and an American acceptance of violence. The literature on masculinity, boys, and violence is well developed, yet seemingly disregarded in examinations of these Muslim Americans...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The First Anniversary of Hope and Change
https://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory194.html

Foreign Aggression
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/tannehill1.html



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Shadow elite: How the world’s new power brokers are up-ending our democracy

AlterNet
by Janine Wedel

02/04/10

This new breed of players is the product of an unprecedented confluence of four transformational developments that arose in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the redesign of governing, spawned by the rising tide of government outsourcing and deregulation under a ‘neoliberal’ regime, and the rise of executive power; the end of the Cold War — of relations dominated by two competing alliances — which intensified the first development and created new, sparsely governed, arenas; the advent of evermore complex technologies, especially information and communication technologies; and the embrace of ‘truthiness,’ which allows people to play with how they present themselves to the world, regardless of fact or track record...

https://tinyurl.com/ylmayb7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Greater Threat Than Terrorism

Outsourcing the American Economy

By Paul Craig Roberts

In effect, the US is giving away its technology, which is rapidly being captured, while US firms reduce themselves to a brand name with a sales force.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25250.htm



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Keynesian Economics: A Halfwit’s Guide to Monetary Inflation
https://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo32.1.html

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All Hell Could Break Loose Because of the Huge Government Debt

The ultimate insider, Robert Rubin, who is a former secretary of the Treasury (1995-99) and now serves as co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, in a Newseek opinion piece had this to say: https://snipurl.com/tz44y



US Pending Home Sales Plunge the Most on Record

Looking into the initial breakdown, the regional readings all reported declines. The Northwest and Midwest paced the slump with matching 25.7 percent plunges for the month; the Southern sector of the United States saw a 15 percent drop in sales.

https://snipurl.com/tz451



US job satisfaction has hit 22-year low, survey says

An annual survey suggets that Americans who still have a job are less satisfied with their work than at any time in the last two decades.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8440630.stm


From Information Clearing House

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Robert Rubin: Why Won't He Go Away?

Dean Baker, Truthout: "As Treasury secretary, Robert Rubin put in place all the pieces that set up the economy for the disaster that we are now living through. He pushed legislation that weakened regulation of the financial sector; he cheered on a stock bubble that eventually grew to $10 trillion and he established an overvalued dollar as a matter of official policy."

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Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market?

By Mike Whitney

Policymakers seem to believe that blanket government guarantees and stock market manipulation are enough to forestall another disaster. But critics think that a day of reckoning is fast approaching.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24311.htm



An Introspective Look at the Future of America

By Craig Harris

Late in 2008 and throughout 2009, events have happened in the US which would have been labeled unfathomable just a few short years ago, and yet already these monumental changes are expected to be filed into the memory hole and Americans are expected to believe nothing has changed.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24316.htm



Which Way to the Bastille?

By David Glenn Cox

Who do we throw our shoes at now? Does Wal-Mart have everyday low low prices on torches and pitchforks? Made in China of course, but the question is a serious one, what are we going to do, in this country, about a government that refuses to acknowledge our distress?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24665.htm

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What next?

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

01/01/10

Today there are few inhibitions on using government — yes, force — to solve economic problems. This is not something that developed over the last year. It’s been true for a long while, regardless of which political party was in power. But any remaining inhibitions weaken during perceived crises, as Robert Higgs shows in his classic, Crisis and Leviathan. When White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said in the early days of the Obama administration that the economic crisis should not be ‘wasted,’ he was simply verbalizing what politicians and social engineers have long understood: When people are insecure, they are more willing to take orders...

https://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/what-next/#



What I learned this decade

The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson

12/31/09

Apathy isn’t what ruined America. The people who were into Britney Spears gossip didn’t start wars or get us into the sub-prime mortgage mess. The people who coveted LaDanian Tomlinson for their fantasy football team didn’t write memos justifying torture and warrantless surveillance. It is, rather, the opinion makers and partisan followers of both sides, who believed the President can redeem a nation, who have supported the policies that have destroyed America’s freedom, power, good will, and prosperity in the space of a decade. THEY are, and always will be, the problem...

https://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3390



The degrading effects of terrorism fears

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/02/10

This is what inevitably happens to a citizenry that is fed a steady diet of fear and terror for years. It regresses into pure childhood. The 5-year-old laying awake in bed, frightened by monsters in the closet, who then crawls into his parents’ bed to feel Protected and Safe, is the same as a citizenry planted in front of the television, petrified by endless imagery of scary Muslim monsters, who then collectively crawl to Government and demand that they take more power and control in order to keep them Protected and Safe. A citizenry drowning in fear and fixated on Safety to the exclusion of other competing values can only be degraded and depraved...

https://tinyurl.com/ygotw4g



Free eBook: It’s The End of the World as we Know it

Survivalist Blog
by MD Creekmore

12/31/09

Yes it’s true! I’ve put together an E Book on how to survive the end of the world as we know it! And it’s available for sale today! Don’t miss this chance to grab your copy at the special price of zero dollars! That’s right! My E Book is absolutely FREE!

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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An American World of War: What to Watch for in 2010

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don't name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin ... Although our country delivers war regularly to distant lands in the name of our 'safety,' we don't really consider ourselves at war (despite the endless talk of 'supporting our troops'), and the money that has simply poured into Pentagon coffers, and then into weaponry and conflicts is, with rare exceptions, never linked to economic distress in this country."

https://www.truthout.org/topstories/10410vh4

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America's Unhappy New Year
https://www.lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas30.1.html



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5 Myths about Keeping America Safe from Terrorism

By Stephen Flynn

The greatest threat isn't posed by the direct harm terrorists could inflict; it comes from what we do to ourselves when we are spooked. It is how we react -- or more precisely, how we overreact -- to the threat of terrorism that makes it an appealing tool for our adversaries.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24313.htm



US General Urges Strip Search of Muslim Men

By Press TV

A retired US general and member of Iran Policy Committee (IPC) says all 18 to 28 years old Muslim men should be strip searched at airports as "one of these bombers" will explode an airliner in the coming days.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24312.htm



Al-Qaida Uses U.S., U.S. Plays Along

By William Pfaff

It is not widely understood that the policy objective of al-Qaida is not to attack the Western countries, an objective that would accomplish nothing for the cause. - The ultimate purpose of al-Qaida is to bring about an upheaval in the Islamic world in which Islam can be rescued from corrupted governments and degenerate practices.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24337.htm

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The myth of national security

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

01/04/10

With the most powerful and expensive government security apparatus in the world, the federal government can’t even protect the president’s home. This is the same security apparatus that failed to protect its military headquarters on 9/11, to say nothing of its citizens. So when Obama talks about the ’systemic failure’ of the Christmas lap bomber and his administration fastens on a new set of onerous security precautions onto airline passengers — including ones that are just inherently incoherent (would you really want passengers not to be walking around and armed with blankets if there is a threat of sitting terrorists starting fires on planes?) — we must remember that the national security state is a myth...

https://www.independent.org/blog/?p=4639



The “Long War:” Who’s winning?

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/06/10

It has been eight years since al-Qaeda attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon: eight long years in which the ‘war on terrorism’ — begun by George W. Bush in a blaze of righteousness, and since carried on by his successor, in Afghanistan and Pakistan — has been waged on several fronts. So, how are we doing? No one can honestly say we are winning, or anywhere close to it. Osama bin Laden and the top leadership of al-Qaeda are still at large, still issuing messages mocking their pursuers and vowing fresh terrorist attacks to come. One of those messages, communicated by bin Laden himself in the days before the 2004 presidential election, effectively demonstrates not only our ongoing defeat but also the reason for it …”

https://tinyurl.com/yh9bzjf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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