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By David Michael Green

Lately, there's been a spate of fresh revelations about some of the incredibly disastrous policies that were executed by the Bush administration.

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By William Lind

Most of the Obama administration's leading figures are merely second and third-stringers from the Clinton administration.

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Daphne Eviatar, The Washington Independent: "In a startling accusation, defense lawyers in the case of an adolescent arrested and brought to Guantanamo Bay six years ago claim the Justice Department may bring a criminal case against the young man based on testimony from witnesses paid by the U.S. government for their cooperation. Mohammed Jawad was as young as 12 when he was arrested by Afghan police in 2002 and accused of throwing a grenade at U.S. soldiers. Although he confessed to the crime after Afghan officials threatened to kill him and his family, his statements were later ruled inadmissible by two U.S. judges because they were coerced."

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National Review
by Michael Novak

08/04/09

Thus, once again, below the president’s honeyed, highfalutin ways of speaking, there is revealed a pretension that is becoming insufferable, a sense of moral and class superiority in office, which he has not yet earned. Moreover, when he is on his own, without speechwriters, Obama is surprisingly unimpressive. He is rambling, fairly boring, error-prone, evasive, and not well-informed. In addition, President Obama seems to be unable to admit error, to apologize, or to voice what all can see to be true...

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Spiked
by Rob Killick

08/04/09

At the moment, the impression that one gets from public discourse is that the recession was a relatively painful dream, a nightmare from which we are now waking up. After about half an hour of remembering how horrible it was, everyone will start talking about ‘green shoots’ and returning to ‘business as usual.’ I currently feel a little bit like Cassandra: someone who is trying to tell the truth about the recession, but who is not being believed...

https://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7226/



The recession isn’t over

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

08/04/09

There is simply no money to rekindle the orgy of consumer spending that kept the US economy afloat for so long.People can’t even borrow if they want to. Banks are not lending, because they know that the happy talk is nonsense, and they don’t want to loan money to people and businesses that are liable to go belly up as the recession continues. That’s why card companies like American Express and many Visa and MasterCard issuers, instead of just charging a late charge when card-holders miss a monthly payment deadline as in the past, are now just jacking up the interest rate they charge — in American Express’s case to 28% or over 2% a month! That’s not the action of a bank that is expecting to get repaid by a valued customer — it’s the extortionate action of a usurer that wants to extract as much money as possible from a borrower that it expects to have go bust. Banks are canceling personal and business credit lines right and left too, making a joke of the Obama administration’s claim that it bailed out the banks so that they would ’start lending again’...

https://counterpunch.org/lindorff08042009.html


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Nachdem die Aktienmärkte vor kaum drei Monaten das Ende der Welt erwartet hatten, scheint sich jetzt bereits wieder eine kräftige "Milchmädchen-Hausse" zu entwickeln.

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Dr. Michael Hudson "This is Not a Free Market"

Video Interview

The Renegade Economist goes to New York to hear Dr. Michael Hudson's views on the state of the US Economy.

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Purloining the People's Property

By Ralph Nader

The latest escapes from responsible government are called "public-private partnerships" and are designed to enable the likes of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to take over highways, meter-collecting, and public buildings in deals that are loaded with complex tax advantages for the investors.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23192.htm



Legislators For Sale

By Keith Olbermann

Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats in Congress are failing to represent their constituents in the health care fight.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23196.htm



Five More U.S. Banks Are Shut Down, Bringing 2009 Tally to 69

Banks in New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Oklahoma and Illinois were shut, pushing the toll of failed U.S. lenders to 69 this year, amid a 26-year high in unemployment and the worst economic slump since the Great Depression.

https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3KVKk_i5_cM



Biggest tax revenue drop since 1932

Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion.

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The Bastards Never Die

By Joe Bageant

Abe Lincoln feared the large corporations born of business profiteering during the U.S. Civil War -- the military industrial complex of the day -- easily constituted the greatest threat to the American republic.

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By Maggie and Mike Rivage-Seul

The Iranian absurdities and crimes have made our own absurdities and crimes clearer than ever.

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What Cheney Forfeited II

Another small example of the impact of the U.S. condoning and deploying torture. Here's an account in the August National Geographic of a reporter captured in Darfur.

https://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/08/what-cheney-forfeited-ii.html



Crazy Horse, we hear what you say

By John Trudell

Why can't white men act like human beings.
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Jeremy Scahill, The Nation: "A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince 'views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,' and that Prince's companies 'encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.'"

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In Explosive Allegations, Ex-Employees Link Blackwater Founder to Murder, Threats
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/08/05-0

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Blackwater accused of murder in 'crusade to eliminate Muslims'

By Keith Olberman and Jeremy Scahill

To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.

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