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Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, Truthout: "In a speech earlier this year, former Vice President Dick Cheney said waterboarding and other brutal torture techniques were only used on detainees of the highest intelligence value - the so-called worst of the worst. But Cheney's claims are untrue."

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Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

09/26/09

A recent New York City Cardozo School of Law Immigration Justice Clinic (IJC) study titled ‘Constitution on Ice: A Report on Immigration Home Raid Operations’ examined the problem in New York, New Jersey, and Long Island from 2006-2008 and included other examples in California, Texas, Massachusetts, Georgia and elsewhere. Researchers documented a nationwide assault on poor immigrant workers, the great majority being Latinos. Many times ICE broke into homes, seizing all occupants ‘without legal basis.’ IJC discovered a systematic pattern of misconduct ’suggest(ing it) may be a widespread national phenomenon reaching beyond’ the areas studied. It involves: — illegal ICE agent entries with no legal authority; — illegally arresting people randomly, including innocent ones in their bedrooms; — conducting lawless searches and seizures in violation of the Fourth Amendment; and — making arrests based on ethnicity, race, appearance, and English proficiency. These police state tactics have no place in a democracy, yet ICE (on its web site) lists dozens of monthly swat-type raids, often against innocent people and their families in their homes...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Arizona Republic

09/28/09

Big job losses and a spike in early-retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes the next two years — the first time that has happened since the 1980s. The deficits — $10 billion in 2010 and $9 billion in 2011 — will not affect payments to retirees because Social Security has accumulated surpluses from previous years totaling $2.5 trillion. But they will add to the federal deficit. Applications for retirement benefits are 23 percent higher than last year, while disability claims have risen by about 20 percent. Social Security officials had expected applications to increase from the growing number of Baby Boomers reaching retirement, but they did not expect the increase to be so large. What happened? The recession hit, and many older workers suddenly found themselves laid off, with no place to turn but Social Security...

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The Future Will Be Very Bleak
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Arundhati Roy, TomDispatch.com: "While we're still arguing about whether there's life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By 'democracy' I don't mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the working model: Western liberal democracy, and its variants, such as they are."

https://www.truthout.org/092809E?n

 

Toward a Breakdown of the Capitalist Subject?

Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, Le Monde: "Perhaps the economic catastrophe is dissipating the most glaring illusions about the self-regulating market, making global capitalism's doctrinarians a bit less arrogant, provoking the spectacular conversions of some 'leaders' who would urgently like to make us forget their previous blindness. But the catastrophe has not yet brought about the blockage of all the apparatuses, all the discourses, all the policies that constitute the present mode of governing men and societies. This mode has a name: capitalism."

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Afghanistan war resister Travis Bishop has been held largely 'incommunicado' in the Northwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Lewis, Washington ... By holding Bishop incommunicado, the military violated Bishop's legal right to counsel, a violation of the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution, according to his civil defense attorney James Branum."

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Lt. Ehren Watada Allowed to Resign

Gregg K. Kakesako, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin: "First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned military officer to refuse deployment to Iraq because he believed it was an illegal war, has won his three-year legal battle with the Army."

https://www.truthout.org/092709R?n

 

US Seeing More Female Homeless Veterans

Thom Patterson, CNN: "When Iraq war veteran Angela Peacock is in the shower, she sometimes closes her eyes and can't help reliving the day in Baghdad in 2003 that pushed her closer to the edge."

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Job losses, early retirements hurt Social Security

Yuma Sun

09/27/09

Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes the next two years, the first time that’s happened since the 1980s. The deficits — $10 billion in 2010 and $9 billion in 2011 — won’t affect payments to retirees because Social Security has accumulated surpluses from previous years totaling $2.5 trillion. But they will add to the overall federal deficit...

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The system is broken

Liberty Unbound
by Jon Harrison

The speculative excess in housing that began after about 2000 was, of course, a nationwide phenomenon, albeit more frenzied in some parts of the country than others. It constituted a classic bubble, reminiscent of tulips in Holland in the 1630s and the South Sea boom and bust of 1719-20. As in those earlier bubbles, the reckless speculation that led to disaster was enabled by government. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 was relatively harmless in and of itself. But when it was harnessed by the Clinton administration to ratchet up the percentage of Americans who owned their own homes, the storm began to brew. It should have been obvious that no-down-payment mortgages, interest-only monthly payments, and adjustable rates (the instruments that allowed ’subprime’ borrowers to become homeowners) were recipes for delinquency, foreclosure, and an eventual collapse of prices. It is hard to believe that the private sector didn’t realize this, at least intuitively, but apparently it convinced itself that risk could be safely managed through the use of credit derivatives, specifically credit default swaps (CDSs) and collateralized debt obligations... (for publication 10/09)

https://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=418

 

Public schooling is like the Army

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

09/25/09

The Right is in an uproar over a video that has surfaced on YouTube showing schoolchildren at a public elementary school in New Jersey being trained to sing a paean to President Barack Obama. Conservatives say that the song is no different than what schoolchildren were trained to do in Nazi Germany and Maoist China and which is still being done in North Korea. � What the Left and the Right fail to recognize, however, is that the fundamental problem of public (i.e., government) schooling is not so much the indoctrination that inevitably takes place during the 18 years that children are attending...

https://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-09-25.asp

 

Obama and the Afghan abyss

Reason
by Terry Michael

09/26/09

Mr. President, your decision about Afghanistan is not a political choice. This isn’t a highway appropriations bill or even your healthcare reform plan, open to tinkering here and marginally adjusting there. There are potentially thousands of young lives at stake, individuals who you will send to die and be maimed. And the choice of stepping up this horror — rather than drawing it down — will engender bitter hatred from Afghans caught in the crossfire...

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