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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

06/22/09

As part of a series of recent releases from Guantanamo, three Saudi prisoners were repatriated, along with Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner, an Iraqi refugee, and four Uighurs who were sent to Bermuda. As I explained in a recent article, ‘Empty Evidence: The Stories Of The Saudis Released From Guantanamo,’ all three men had been cleared for release by military review boards at Guantanamo, and, in an examination of the government’s supposed evidence against two of the men, Kahlid Saad Mohammed and Abdul Aziz al-Noofayee, I was able to demonstrate why they had been approved for release: there was, to put it bluntly, absolutely no evidence to demonstrate that either man had been involved in terrorism or any kind of militancy whatsoever...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0906j.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Freedom Politics
by Steven Greenhut

06/22/09

I am devoted to being a happy warrior for liberty, but once in a while I need to vent. Given the goings-on at the state Capitol and with the new federal administration, I hope you understand. Here goes. Sad to say, but Americans — long known for their individualism and love of freedom — have embraced a childlike faith in government. The Obama administration is taking this to new levels, as it proposes an endless series of central government plans to regulate, control and subsidize everything...

http://tinyurl.com/mqqn8h


From Information Clearing House



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How the Financial Reform Plan Protects the Status Quo

By MICHAEL HUDSON

In reaching across the aisle for Republican support - and no doubt future campaign contributions from the financial sector Pres. Obama is morphing into Joe Lieberman.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22887.htm



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Dean Baker, Truthout: "This is the time when the excrement starts hitting the fan. The lobbyists are in overdrive, rounding up members of Congress just like the cowboys of the Old West would bring in the herd. The industry groups will also have their friends in the news media working overtime hyping any possible obstacle to health care reform. And they are filling the airwaves with scary ads, warning that people will never be able to see a doctor again if meaningful health care reform passes."

http://www.truthout.org/062209R?n



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff30.1.html

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Why do they just giggle?
LewRockwell.Com
by Butler Shaffer

06/23/09

It is a curious thing to watch videos of Peter Schiff’s appearances on television interview programs. Going back from one to three years, Schiff predicts the adverse consequences that are likely to occur as a result of government economic policies. Some of the economists and investment advisors on the same shows mount no more of a response to his prognostications than to giggle. Even after Schiff’s predictions were proven correct, more recent programs generate the same guffawing when he foresees more adverse consequences. Why is this so? Why would a man who has anticipated so much of the economic dysfunction in the world — and who has provided sound, economic analysis to explain his thinking — be openly laughed at by others who, on some of these same programs, were advising investments in the banking industry? What is even worse, why does so much invective get heaped upon Schiff for being accurate?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer192.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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On the secret of state growth
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer192.html



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http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/43842


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Support Our Troops

Leslie Thatcher, Truthout, reviews Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's "Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent" and interviews the authors: "Although regular Truthout contributor, National Lawyers Guild president and Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Marjorie Cohn and longtime activist co-author Kathleen Gilberd conceived 'Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent' as 'a practical guide, not an abstract analysis' and have certainly produced a primer on the available legal and honorable means for redress of the many grievances the US military may suffer, they have also authored a deeply suggestive meditation on the military 'we have' and how it may have come to be the source of so many and such varied grievances."

http://www.truthout.org/062209A?n



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