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https://amconmag.com/article/2010/apr/01/00030/

Decade Of The Drone: America’s Aerial Assassins
https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/decade-of-the-drone-americas-aerial-assassins/


Informant: Kev Hall

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One in Three Killed by US Drones in Pakistan Is a Civilian, Report Claims
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/04-1



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In den bürgerlichen Medien ist Entwarnung anempfohlen - die Krise ist vorbei. Wer gestern noch, vielleicht in Panik um die eigenen angelegten Gelder, Ratingagenturen geißelte, zitiert sie längst wieder, als wären sie eine völlig normale Erscheinung. Die Geschäfte gehen nach oben, die Banken verdienen - und die Menschen, die unter der kapitalistischen Krise leiden, interessieren sowieso nicht. Es sei denn - es handelt sich um eine ganze Region. Um eine Region zumal, die über Generationen hinweg als wirtschaftliche Lokomotive porträtiert wurde. Und die nun, innerhalb eines Jahrzehnts zweimal heftig von der allein seligmachenden Marktwirtschaft gebeutelt wurde: Erst die IT-Krise, nun die Baukrise. Der Beitrag "Strikes & Walkouts in Northern California" von Hieronymous vom 02. März 2010 wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Lage der Menschen und auf ihre Reaktion..: https://libcom.org/news/strikes-walkouts-northern-california-march-4th-2010-02032010


Aus: LabourNet, 5. März 2010

Our Own Greek Tragedy
https://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1846753/12759198/113288/0/

America, the Fragile Empire
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/ferguson-n1.html

Big Government Leads to Civil Unrest
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/greece-braces-for-violent-modernization.html

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Has the US Empire of Bases Reached Its High-Water Mark?
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/05-6



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Waterboarding Too Dangerous, Internal DoD Memo Reveals

Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: "In recent weeks, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen has been on a public relations campaign defending the efficacy of waterboarding, going so far as to say that the torture technique sanctioned by the Bush administration is not only safe, but is in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church.... On Tuesday, in an interview with 'Fox News,' John Yoo, the former Justice Department attorney who was the principal author of legal memoranda that cleared the way for CIA interrogators to waterboard 'war on terror' detainees and subject them to other brutal torture techniques, asserted that waterboarding was harmless."

https://www.truthout.org/waterboarding-too-dangerous-internal-dod-memo-reveals57372



Yoo Besmirches Legacy of Jefferson

Ray McGovern, Truthout: "Initially I was shocked at the thought of the University of Virginia (UVA) welcoming former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo to the 'Academical Village' founded by Thomas Jefferson. There was something very wrong about that picture. Was it not Jefferson who condemned tyrannical acts - including ones that fell far short of waterboarding - in the Declaration of Independence?"

https://www.truthout.org/yoo-besmirches-legacy-jefferson57722



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Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says US foreign policy is too dependent on military generals and admirals and not enough on the State Department.

https://snipurl.com/umwsg



General: Demands of Iraq, Afghan occupation hurting Army's ability to train its forces:

The Army's ability to train its forces is "increasingly at risk" because of the nation's protracted commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the general in charge of training has told the Army's chief of staff.

https://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/04/2581358/general-demands-of-iraq-afghan.html


From Information Clearing House

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Winter in America: Democracy Gone Rogue

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Democracy in the United States is experiencing both a crisis of meaning and a legitimation crisis. As the promise of an aspiring democracy is sacrificed more and more to corporate and military interests, democratic spheres have largely been commercialized and democratic practices have been reduced to market relations, stripped of their worth and subject to the narrow logics of commodification and profit making. Empowerment has little to do with providing people with the knowledge, skills and power to shape the forces and institutions that bear down on their lives and is now largely defined as under the rubric of being a savvy consumer. When not equated with the free market capitalism, democracy is reduced to the empty rituals of elections largely shaped by corporate money and indifferent to relations of power that make a mockery out of equality, democratic participation and collective deliberation."

https://www.truthout.org/winter-america-democracy-gone-rogue57353



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By Mike Whitney

The media has played a big role in fueling deficit hysteria. It's all part of a well-funded public relations campaign aimed at putting the government on a starvation diet.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24919.htm



Ideallergy

By John O'Kane

Obama's stimulus program lacks even the fumes of the Great Society anyway, certainly the parent New Deal, providing minimal funds to the states. It basically props up the existing order.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24921.htm



Ayn Rand's Excellent Proposal

By Ernest Partridge

In Ayn Rand's sprawling novel, Atlas Shrugged, ubermensch industrialist, John Galt, infuriated over the "theft" of his property by the parasitic government, calls upon his fellow "captains of industry" - the "producers of wealth" - to go on strike which, we read, brings down the entire economy.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24920.htm



In God we can only trust, but in hashish rests assurance

By Joe Bageant

Americans already know the purpose of life: to worship god and make money, which have been two sides of the same ontological coin since Alexander Hamilton, one of America's first economists -- who also happened to be one of our first lawyers too -- set about forging our system.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24913.htm



Abe Osheroff on the Struggle for a Better World

Getting Rid of Hope and Faith

By Robert Jensen

The young man said he often felt depressed, not about the circumstances of his own life but about the possibilities for change. Finally, he looked at me and asked, "Once you see what's happening -- I mean really see it -- how are you supposed to act like everything is going to be OK?"

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24918.htm



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https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17709


Informant: Alice Slater

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Push for US to act against Iran intensifying
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9451/

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US: The next USSR
https://www.brasschecktv.com/page/813.html



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CounterPunch
by Franklin C. Spinney

03/03/10

As I indicated in CounterPunch on 3 February 2010, the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) just released by the Obama Pentagon is a bad joke. That bad joke is about to be given the good housekeeping seal of approval by a special panel appointed jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the defense barons of the Armed Services committees in Congress. When this happens, rest assured, any desire to get control of the out-of-control defense budget will plunge far below its already low level. Chalk up another victory in the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex’s (MICC’s) war on the Constitution, the American taxpayer, and programs like Social Security and Medicare, which are hallmarks of civilized society...

https://counterpunch.org/spinney03032010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Freedom's Phoenix
by Bill Bonner

03/03/10

There’s good news and bad news … and a lot of news in between. Consumers spent a little more than was expected of them. And manufacturing did a little better than expected too. On the other hand, the federal government’s tax receipts plunged in the month of February … and bank lending is still contracting. Last week it shrank $33 billion — the 7th week in a row it has contracted. How does an economy expand when the banks are lending less money? Beats us. We believe the ‘expansion’ reported in the GDP figures is mostly counterfeit. It’s government spending and hot money filtering into the economy. Still, it’s amazing that the GDP figures are positive...

https://tinyurl.com/yjpkbop



A downward cycle

Adam Smith Institute
by Dr. Eamonn Butler

03/03/10

There’s a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the ebb, can land you on the rocks in short order. I am beginning to wonder whether America, Britain and other leading economies are indeed launching themselves onto the rocks. Anyone who has read their Hayek knows how it works...

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/a-downward-cycle/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/03-6



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