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Der Frieden setzt den Krieg voraus. Das ist die Botschaft, die US-Präsident Barack Obama der Weltöffentlichkeit bei der Entgegennahme des Friedensnobelpreises am Donnerstag in Oslo mitzuteilen hatte. Zugleich leugnete er jegliche Verantwortung Washingtons für den Krieg in Afghanistan. Diesen hätten die Vereinigten Staaten sich nicht ausgesucht, behauptete er. Kommentar von Uli Schwemin in der Tageszeitung "Junge Welt". https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741687533ms185



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Obama has substituted words for action on issues surrounding torture since his first days in office nearly one year ago. That’s the point the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) made shortly after Obama’s acceptance Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Officials from the civil rights organization issued a withering indictment of the Obama administration’s handling of clear-cut cases of Bush-era war crimes."

https://www.truthout.org/12110911



The America Where They Do Prosecute Torture

Sam Ferguson, Truthout: "Last week, 15 men entered a courthouse facing, amongst other crimes, 181 counts of torture. Their story, tragically, is familiar: in a fight against terrorism, the men allegedly kidnapped and held detainees in unknown black sites. They subjected the prisoners to brutal forms of interrogation, such as waterboarding, sensory deprivation and simulated executions. They denied the detainees all legal recourse, and they defended their secret practices as essential to combating an elusive enemy who refused to play by the rules."

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By Alan Bjerga

A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report.

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"Quit Feeding Stray Animals"

By Amanda Terkel

SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov't help to 'Stray Animals' who 'breed' because they don't know better.

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More Families Using Food Stamps to Feed Kids

David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: "The United States has more poor children now than it did a year ago. As recession-hammered families increase, more are using food stamps to feed their kids, according to a study by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan child advocacy group."

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Once stigmatized, food stamps find acceptance

MSNBC

02/10/10

A decade ago, New York City officials were so reluctant to give out food stamps, they made people register one day and return the next just to get an application. The welfare commissioner said the program caused dependency and the poor were ‘better off’ without it. Now the city urges the needy to seek aid (in languages from Albanian to Yiddish). Neighborhood groups recruit clients at churches and grocery stores, with materials that all but proclaim a civic duty to apply — to ‘help New York farmers, grocers, and businesses’...

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By Tom Burghardt

That the American people have been kept in the dark when it comes to this and other affairs of state, remain among the most closely-guarded open secrets of what has euphemistically been called the "NSA spying scandal."

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By Carl Herman

WMD treaty violations and inspection refusal for biological, nuclear, chemical weapons. Iran? No, US.

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Sound Familiar? US Refuses to Allow UN Inspectors to Investigate its WMDs

By Agence France-Presse

The United States said Wednesday that it remained opposed to international inspections of biological weapon sites.

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US refuses to allow UN inspectors to investigate its WMDs

The United States said Wednesday that it remained opposed to international inspections of biological weapon sites, even though it stressed its commitment to a UN treaty covering such arms and invaded Iraq in part over its alleged stalling of -- UN weapons inspectors.

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Anthrax War

Video Documentary

In tracing the 2001 bio-terror attacks in the U.S. to the heart of the U.S. bio-defense program, this film raises an alarm. These attacks that helped prepare a country for war have also spawned a multi-billion dollar bio-defense boom. The line between bio-offense and bio-defense is becoming extremely thin.

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Looternomics: Make that Obamanomics
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For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries
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Barack promised change and sure enough, things changed for the worse

By Joe Bageant

Many who voted for Obama out of disgust for the Bush regime are now listening to the Republicans again on their car radios as they drive around looking for a suitable place to hide their vehicles from the repo man.

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Turley: Obama bags Peace Prize while his lawyers are 'gutting' Nuremberg

Turley pointed out that several legal advisors to Germany's Ministry of Justice were convicted during the Nuremberg trials held after World War II for providing the legal advice that justified Nazi war crimes. Now the Obama administration, in its desire to uphold executive privilege at any cost, is willing to toss that principle aside.

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President Obama 'creating torture impunity'

Director of ACLU's National Security Project Jameel Jaffer said "the Bush administration constructed a legal framework for torture and now the Obama administration is constructing a legal framework for impunity."

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The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "Many people are troubled that Barack Obama flew to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize so soon after escalating the war in Afghanistan. He is now more than doubling the number of troops there when George W. Bush left office."

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The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address
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Congressman Kucinich's Response to President Obama's "Just War" Doctrine
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Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
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Rep. Kucinich: "These Wars Are Corrupting...our Nation! ...



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Christian Science Monitor
by John Hughes

12/10/09

She’s smart. She speaks her mind. A lot of people love her and think she should be president. Sarah Palin? No, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Secretary of State Clinton, Washington’s No. 1 diplomatic salesperson, is fast becoming the foreign-policy hawk in a Democratic administration, while President Obama seems to be slow moving. Both believe in engagement with foreign adversaries, but Clinton believes in engaging from a position of strength. By contrast, Mr. Obama is now being faulted for engaging from a platform of weakness, if not appeasement. Clinton seems to be replicating as secretary of State the technique she employed when she became a senator...

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