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By Robert S. Becker

Between victory and governance, Obama "reform" switched from promises to make government serve people to insure government serves business.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25494.htm



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Killing wanted militants is simply "easier" than capturing them, said an official, who like most interviewed for this story support the stepped-up program and asked not to be identified. Another official added: "It is increasingly the preferred option."

https://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212302282.shtml?ref=rss



Border officials seek to expand Texas drone's range

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said Thursday that border officials have broadened their request to fly an unmanned aircraft in Texas to allow the drone to cruise along the Gulf of Mexico as well as the Rio Grande.

https://tinyurl.com/2gyc44y


From Information Clearing House

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Droning on and on

CounterPunch
by Joanne Mariner

05/19/10

I’m struck by contrasting public views on the US drone warfare program. In the United States, where the public has long been aware of the program, drone strikes have received increased critical attention in recent months because of the disclosure that an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, has been targeted for attack. Al-Awlaki, a radical cleric now based in Yemen, is alleged to have helped al-Qaeda organize terrorist plots against the US...

https://counterpunch.org/mariner05192010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US police beginning to use drones
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9612/

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Obama's Drone Blitz

They Seek Them Here, They Bomb Them There ...

By Brian Cloughley

Let us imagine that Spain invaded Mexico in similar fashion to the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 because Madrid suffered a terrorist atrocity that was planned by a Saudi Arabian fanatic living in Chihuahua.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25518.htm



America's Exalted Capacity for Murder

By Pankaj Mishra

The west's war now stretches from Waziristan to Connecticut. There will be no victors in this desert of bewilderment.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25520.htm



Obama Wins the Right to Detain People with no Habeas Review

By Glenn Greenwald

Few issues highlight Barack Obama's extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25517.htm



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By Mike Lux

I am always puzzled by how people who claim to be followers of the Jesus I read about in the Bible can be political conservatives.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25490.htm



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Every terrorist incident provides fresh opportunities for tyranny.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald64.html



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The Other Foreclosure Menace
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One in Ten Mortgage Borrowers Will Lose Their Home To The Bank

New Observations is forecasting that a minimum of one in ten homes with a mortgage today will be lost to foreclosure in the next two years and that this loss represents a staggering five-million-unit addition to inventory-for-sale.

https://blog.ml-implode.com/2010/05/one-in-ten-mortgage-borrowers-will-lose-their-home-to-the-bank/


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Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch: "Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in staggering quantities could prove one of the great ecological disasters of human history. Think of it, though, as just the prelude to the Age of Tough Oil, a time of ever increasing reliance on problematic, hard-to-reach energy sources. Make no mistake: we're entering the danger zone. And brace yourself, the fate of the planet could be at stake."

https://www.truthout.org/michael-t-klare-a-new-oil-rush-endangers-gulf-mexico-and-planet59639



Gulf Oil Spill May Be 19 Times Bigger Than Originally Thought

Renee Schoof and Lauren French, McClatchy Newspapers: "The latest glimpse of video footage of the oil spill deep under the Gulf of Mexico indicates that around 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons, a day of crude oil may be spewing from the leaking wellhead, 19 times the previous estimate, an engineering professor told Congress Wednesday."

https://www.truthout.org/gulf-oil-spill-may-be-19-times-bigger-than-originally-thought59681

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Africa's Oil Spills Are Far From U.S. Media Glare
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BP Withholds Oil Spill Facts and Government Lets It
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Kucinich: Our Survival Depends Upon Reconciliation With, Not Exploitation of, the Natural World
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/05/19-4

EPA to BP: Dispersant We OK'd Actually Too Toxic
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Nightmare Scene of Oil Unfolding in Wetlands
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Human Health Tragedy in the Making: Gulf Response Failing to Protect People
https://act.commondreams.org/go/714?akid=64.124981.jWkO2I&t=30

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First heavy oil hits wetlands as Purdue researcher pegs spill rate at 95,000 barrels a day
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9607/

US failure to study Gulf Disaster a symptom of corporatocracy
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9610/

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Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit

By Amy Goodman

Twenty-nine miners died in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion. Eleven workers died on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which is owned by Transocean, working under contract for BP. There are state laws that govern manslaughter as well, and special language given for maritime deaths. So why aren't the executives of these companies behind bars?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25489.htm



Oil spill to reach Florida in 6 days: ESA

Scientists at European Space Agency (ESA) say satellite images show that the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is finding its way to Florida.

https://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=126995&sectionid=3510203



Coast Guard: Despite BP efforts, Gulf oil spill is getting worse

The Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, said that despite the siphoning, the spilled oil is spreading and now stretches from western Louisiana to Florida's Key West. The extent of the spill was straining even the substantial resources deployed for one of the worst ecological disasters in recent history, he said.

https://snipurl.com/wjdrm



BP told feds it could handle oil spill 60 times larger than Deepwater Horizon

In its 2009 exploration plan for the Deepwater Horizon well, BP PLC states that the company could handle a spill involving as much as 12.6 million gallons of oil per day, a number 60 times higher than its current estimate of the ongoing Gulf disaster.

https://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_told_feds_it_could_handle_o.html



Gulf oil spill videos

This video, shows the previously unseen second leak just above the Deepwater Horizon's dysfunctional blowout preventer. No efforts have been made to stop this leak.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/18/94387/gulf-oil-spill-videos-see-all.html


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Chris Hume, Truthout: "America's fossil fuel fetish continues - in spite of horrendous crimes against the earth. Travel into the belly of West Virginia, and get a front row seat in the fight against one of the worst environmental atrocities of all: Mountaintop Removal Coal Extraction."

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Greg Guma, Truthout: "It was a fairy-tale premise: Once upon a time, a charismatic prince appeared magically and gave an inspiring, instantly famous speech. Four years later, he was leading the most powerful kingdom in the world from the brink of disaster."

https://www.truthout.org/obama-myths-and-realities59514

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President should nominate justices who respect the Constitution

Liberty For All
by Brian Irving

05/18/10

The bitter battles now routine for every U.S. Supreme Court nomination go beyond the issue of the qualifications or political views of the specific nominee. They expose a more fundamental problem with the federal government: the legislative and executive branches simply refuse to take the Constitution seriously...

https://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4332



Time to save the middle class

In These Times
by US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

05/18/10

Now is the time for President Barack Obama and Congress to take the bold steps necessary to reverse our economic decline and to strengthen and expand the struggling middle class. As part of this effort, we need to pass a strong financial reform bill and a robust jobs bill that puts Americans back to work at decent-paying jobs. We must never forget that this economic crisis was caused by the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of a handful of executives on Wall Street. If we are going to get the economy back on track, we have to fundamentally change the way Wall Street does business. Wall Street must invest in the job-creating productive economy instead of engaging in the casino-style risk-taking that led to the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. history...

https://tinyurl.com/2fuvf56



Obama and the myth of the public opinion excuse

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

05/18/10

Presidents often insist on polices which public opinion rejects. Bush continued and even escalated in Iraq when large majorities opposed the war, and Obama has done the same in Afghanistan (with less pervasive though, at least at times, substantial majoritarian opposition). Obama fought for passage of a health care reform bill in the face of overwhelming public sentiment against it, and he favored the Wall Street bailout under the same circumstances. Obama has strongly condemned, and threatened to take action against, the Arizona immigration law despite widespread public support for it. Clearly, when a President believes a policy is sufficiently important, he’ll insist on it (often successfully) despite public opposition; conversely, when he genuinely opposes a policy, he’ll reject it despite public sentiment in favor. That, I believe, is called leadership. … if Presidents do nothing more than slavishly follow public opinion, then what difference do elections make? If majority sentiment dictates policy outcomes, then who cares who does the implementing?

https://tinyurl.com/2vkplcp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Fact vs. Fiction on Today’s Economy
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/galland7.1.1.html

Science in the Age of Obama
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/oil-spill-scientist-fired.html



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