World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/06/29-1

Accountability for Torture: More About Courage than Consensus
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/29-9



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Swanson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lisa+Magarrell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anh-Thu+Nguyen

Brian Roa, Truthout: "For the past four years, I have observed the military occupation of the high school where I teach science. Currently, Chicago's Senn High School houses Rickover Naval Academy (RNA). I use the term 'occupation' because part of our building was taken away despite student, parent, teacher and community opposition to RNA's opening."

http://www.truthout.org/062909T?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarizing

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/44051



Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news

Jia-Rui Chong, The Los Angeles Times: "It was, back then, a joke Luis Pinto shared with his Army buddies in Iraq. As they were all eating food out of tin cans, living out of rucksacks, moving constantly from place to place, Pinto cracked, 'If I become homeless, I'm ready.' But five years later he didn't actually expect to find himself sleeping in alleys in Whittier or in friends' cars, too busy getting high to hold down a regular job. A suicide attempt on March 16 was the shock he needed to start putting his life back together."

http://www.truthout.org/062909E?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homelessness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jia-Rui+Chong

Common Dreams
by Marie Marchand

06/28/09

I’m not that young, so I possess some cynicism. But I’m not that old either, so I manage some idealism. Sure, I am used to being betrayed by my government. But I thought my days of calling the White House in tears were over. To think that Barack Obama preyed on this naive hope in me and millions like me is unforgivable...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/28


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marie+Marchand

USA Today

06/28/09

Inflation is as dead as the Wicked Witch of the West in a waterfall. The consumer price index has actually fallen 1.3% in the past 12 months. So why is everyone so worried about soaring prices? In a word: debt. The government owes the world $11.4 trillion — $37,000 for every person in the U.S. In the next fiscal year, the government will add $1.8 trillion to the deficit...

http://tinyurl.com/mnnmn5



Death by Obamanomics?

The Weekly Standard
by Irwin M. Stelzer

06/26/09

Death by a thousand cuts. Or in the case of the efficiency of the U.S. economy, by at least four: energy policy, health care policy, trade union resurgence, and fiscal madness...

http://tinyurl.com/muu4bl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=government+debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Irwin+M.+Stelzer

I'm getting so tired of these stories. I mean, what's the point? Americans are perfectly happy to stay home and watch TV while our elected officials rob us blind and we struggle along without needed health care.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/british-rum-maker-got-27-billion-payo



Mounting U.S. jobless claims force states to borrow

The lengthy recession has proved discouraging for the swelling ranks of unemployed Americans, and forced U.S. states obligated to pay them jobless benefits to pile debt on their already strained budgets.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2632992220090626


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=TARP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=jobless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski232.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kwiatkowski

By Mike Whitney

The banks created the financial crisis, and now they are its biggest beneficiaries. They don't need to worry about risk, because Bernanke has assured them that they will be bailed out regardless of the cost.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22931.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

Detained At 14, Tortured and Released At 21

Video

El-Gharani was treated with appalling brutality. After being tortured in Pakistani custody, he was sold to US forces, who flew him to a prison at Kandahar airport, where, he said, one particular soldier "would hold my penis, with scissors, and say he'd cut it off.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22926.htm



"Even Guantánamo Bay Is Better Than This"

By William Fisher

"They did things that you would not do against animals let alone to humans," said one inmate.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22925.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=El-Gharani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher