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Following a cooperation deal with Colombia last year, the United States military this week announced plans to further expand its influence throughout Latin America, using agreements with various governments including Brazil and Peru.

https://snipurl.com/vjfzy

From Information Clearing House

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Latin+America

rudkla - 17. Apr, 06:08

Afghans 'abused at secret prison' at Bagram airbase

Afghan prisoners are being abused in a "secret jail" at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented. The abuses are all said to have taken place since US President Barack Obama was elected, promising to end torture.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8621973.stm

From Information Clearing House

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Inviting Torture to Appease the Right Wing

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "On Friday, the administration conceded yet another political defeat by withdrawing the nomination of Dawn Johnsen, Obama's first nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel - the government agency made infamous by the likes of John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and other lawyers who authorized torture under the Bush administration."

https://www.truthout.org/an-administration-on-its-heels-inviting-torture-to-appease-the-right-wing58636

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Johnsen, Constitution Both Denied Role in Obama Administration
https://act.commondreams.org/go/469?akid=48.124981.xYPIZQ&t=30

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dawn+Johnsen
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Yoo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jay+Bybee
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prison
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bagram
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shahid+Buttar

rudkla - 17. Apr, 05:58

The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging

Making A Killing?

A Documentary - Video

Documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched money-making machine.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25231.htm

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drugging
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=psychotropic

rudkla - 17. Apr, 05:50

Can US Dollar Remain World's Currency?

By Real News

US dollar as world's reserve currency is great if you own a bank; not much good for Main Street.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25237.htm

What Do We Get For Our US Tax Dollars?

By Steven Hill

We like to think of Europeans as poor overtaxed serfs but the benefits they receive show the shortcomings of the US system.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25236.htm

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=reserve+currency
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Main+Street
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer

rudkla - 17. Apr, 05:25

Housing Crash Update: There's A World of Pain Ahead

By Mike Whitney

8 million homeowners are behind on their payments! And, that's not all; mortgage applications dropped 9.6 per cent last week while the Refinance Index (refis) fell 9 per cent in the same period. So, mortgage apps are down even though the Firsttime Homebuyer Tax Credit is still in effect (it ends in two weeks) and, even though this is the "peak season" for home sales.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25230.htm

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Short the delusion

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Doug French

04/20/10

Ask the average guy on the street — Main or Wall — about what caused the meltdown on Wall Street in 2008, and you might get ‘greed,’ or ‘arrogance,’ or ‘too much leverage,’ or ‘too little regulation,’ or a blank stare. After all, the arcane world of mortgage securities was new. After the dot-com bust, Wall Street needed products to make money on. And with middle Americans figuring they could collectively get rich just by taking title to a home with no money down and watching the value climb to the heavens (extracting money to maintain their lifestyles along the way), well, that’s what Wall Street’s all about: something for nothing...

https://mises.org/daily/4283

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Main+Street
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homeowner
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+French

rudkla - 17. Apr, 05:20

Recovering From Empathy

By Robert C. Koehler

I remain stuck, churning in my own outrage and despair just as I have -- and so many millions of Americans have -- since the war on terror was launched amid all its lies and cowardly righteousness in 2001. For God's sake, we're killing people. We're doing so in large numbers, with high-tech savagery. We aren't even defending ourselves.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25234.htm

Withdraw Your Consent?

By James Ostrowski

The American people hold the keys to their own jail cells between their ears and can leave the prison of tyranny any time a sufficient number of them choose to be free.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25238.htm

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A dash of tyranny

Campaign For Liberty
by Stephanie Murphy

05/01/10

Eighty years ago, the British colonial government of India imposed strict controls on the manufacturing and sale of salt, inspiring Gandhi and thousands of others to participate in the salt satyagraha. Now, it appears that salt has once again become an implement of control — this time, to be used by the American government against the people...

https://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=818

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+war+on+terror
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+C.+Koehler
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Ostrowski
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephanie+Murphy

rudkla - 17. Apr, 05:16