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By Gordon Duff

The word is out: Our "invasion" that combined Afghani forces with American and British has not gone after Taliban strongholds at all but rather attacked areas controlled by Karzai opponents who were ready to negotiate a legitimate government.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24677.htm



U.S. Forces Kill Children, Other Civilians in Marjah, Afghanistan, with "Precision" Weapons

By Derrick Crowe

An errant American rocket strike on Sunday hit a compound crowded with Afghan civilians in the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province, killing at least 10 people, including 5 children, military officials said.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24684.htm



"A Night Of Killing"

Civilian Deaths Anger Iraqis

Video Report

US and Iraqi troops have been accused of killing several civilians during a military operation in Iraq's Maysan province, on the border with Iran.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24693.htm



"A massacre in every sense of the word"

US troops and their proxy Iraqi security forces killed at least five people on Friday during a raid on Ali ash Sharqi, a village near the Iranian border in Maysan province, about 265 kilometres south-east of Baghdad.

https://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/iraq-f15.shtml



Offensive in Marja Directed at US Public Opinion

By Real News

Porter: The attack on Marja is meant to prepare Americans to accept negotiations with Taliban.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24716.htm



All out for the March 20th March on Washington!

People from all over the country are organizing to converge on Washington, D.C., to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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5 more Afghan civilians killed by NATO bombs

Twenty five people are known dead and many injured in a NATO air raid on a target in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan. According to the local government, the fatalities include 5 civilians.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24748.htm



Taliban resistance slows coalition forces in Marja, Afghanistan

Lt. Col. Cal Worth, who commands one of two Marine battalions leading the offensive against Taliban fighters here, set off at 7 a.m. Wednesday for the return journey to his battalion headquarters from a combat outpost less than four miles away.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24782.htm



Occupation force air strike kills seven Afghan police: ministry

A NATO air strike mistakenly killed seven Afghan police and wounded two others on Thursday, hospital and government officials said, adding to strains on the alliance.

https://snipurl.com/ufkls


From Information Clearing House

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NATO bombs Afghan police as NYT publishes piece calling for more airstrikes
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9428/

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The Great Helmand PR Stunt

Fr33 Agents
by Ziggy Encaoua

NATO is calling the latest offensive in Helmand ‘Operation Moshtarak’ but really it should be called ‘The Great Helmand PR Stunt’ or ‘’The Great Helmand PR Swindle.’ It’s not like this is the first military offensive NATO has orchestrated against the Taliban in Helmand Province, and I suspect this will be no different to the previous ones. Each time the same crap occurs: it looks as if NATO forces have defeated the Taliban but all that happens is that the Taliban disperse and blend into the landscape, only to later regroup and counter with a vengeance. The problem for NATO forces is that NATO governments are now under pressure from people, taxpayers, and voters over the NATO occupation of Afghanistan. More and more people are questioning what precisely NATO is doing in Afghanistan. The real reason for ‘Operation Moshtarak’ is merely a publicity stunt to show that NATO is doing something in an attempt to defeat the Taliban...

https://www.fr33agents.com/2303/the-great-helmand-pr-stunt/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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While fighting terror on other side of world, US gov't hit at home by one of its own citizens

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The CIA's Drug War
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The Pentagon and the drug war are wrecking Mexico
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How the war on drugs gave birth to a permanent American undercaste

AlterNet
by Michelle Alexander

03/08/10

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas have been labeled felons for life. (In the Chicago area, the figure is nearly 80%.) These men are part of a growing undercaste — not class, caste — permanently relegated, by law, to a second-class status. They can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits, much as their grandparents and great-grandparents were during the Jim Crow era...

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The war on drugs: Persisting in failure

Downsize DC
by James Leroy Wilson

03/25/10

87% of drug studies found that drug law enforcement was associated with increasing levels of drug-market violence …. this is no surprise in Mexico, where 18,000 have died in three years of war between the government and drug cartels …. which is expanding to once-calm cities …. But the Administration’s response is to pour more aid into Mexico’s unwinnable war. … Even ’success’ leads to failure...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Hillary's Drug War

"It's Just Strengthening the Biggest Cartel"

By Mike Whitney

Al Jazeera has put together a 3-minute video which asks whether the Mexican government is "favoring" the country's most powerful drug gang, the Sinoloa Cartel. After watching the video, you'll wonder who's really running the country?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25093.htm

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Drug Wars - The Politics Of Big Business

Big Pharma spends millions every year buying influence in Canberra, Australia [Ed. Note: and everywhere else for that matter]. An investigation by Weekend Business has revealed that the health industry, which spans everything from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, pharmacy chains, general practitioners and health insurance companies, spends millions of dollars a year buying political access and influence, through lobbying, hiring former government staffers both internally and externally, issuing ads and making grassroots campaign contributions. Jerrold Cripps, QC, who recently ended his five-year term at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, made a parting shot that political donations and lobbying by former MPs and ministers ''are activities that are unmistakably conducive to corrupt conduct''. Drug pushing is a high-risk game.

Staff Writer, The Sydney Morning Herald

Related Links:

* Dosed Up On Donations And Addicted To Drug Money
Sue Dunlevy, The Daily Telegraph Australia

* Ties To GlaxoSmithKline Led To Favorable Killer Avandia Drug Studies
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot



Flu Vaccines Cost A Fortune And Don't Work

Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist with the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration, which has headquarters in Britain, has published several systematic reviews of existing studies on the efficacy of influenza vaccines. Weighing the data, they conclude that there is insufficient evidence to indicate that flu vaccines reduce infection rates or mortality, even in the elderly. We have studies that claim up to 90% effectiveness against death from all causes [in inoculated patients compared with the non-vaccinated]. If you were to believe that evidence, you would believe that flu vaccine is effective against death not only from influenza, but also from heart attack, stroke, hypothermia, accidents and all other common causes of death among the elderly. That is quite clearly nonsense. In a separate study we looked at the science that policy makers use, and it's disturbing how large the gap is between policy and evidence.

Eben Harrell, Time Magazine

Related Links:

* New Research Shows Annual Flu Vaccine Complete Waste Of Money
Jenny Hope, Daily Mail

* Influenza Vaccines: Poor Evidence for Effectiveness in Elderly
Press Release, Science Daily

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More Proof Flu Shots Don't Work

Yet another meta analysis of five flu studies conclude flu vaccinations are a waste, as they do not reduce illness or mortality in the elderly.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/08/more-proof-flu-shots-dont-work.aspx



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McClatchy Newspapers reports that Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to limit and often derail Democrats' initiatives, paralyzing the Senate and making it nearly impossible to accomplish even the most routine matters," a strategy GOP lawmakers believe voters "will reward them for in November."

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On the Case for Busting the Filibuster
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Video Interview with Paul Craig Roberts

The US now has a list of Americans that the country can now murder abroad if they are fraternizing with terror groups. Paul Craig Roberts says that all of this points to a sign that the United States has become a police state.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24664.htm



Man Up, Obama, or Make Way for President Palin

By David Reilly

Obama needs to ditch his professorial, community-organizer mien and start cracking some heads. Unless, that is, he is intent on paving the way for a Palin presidency in 2013.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24666.htm



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By Prof John Kozy

If the Court has the final say, then democracy in America is a sham. It simply does not exist and the Constitution has been subverted.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24663.htm



Fighting the Subversion of Our People's Sovereignty

By Jim Hightower

With their ruling, five unelected guys in black robes have subverted our people's sovereignty with a semantical perversion that twists special-interest things into "people" and money into "speech."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24858.htm



Corporations Aren't Persons

By Matthew Rothschild

Make no mistake about it: The court's ruling in Citizens United, if left to stand, will destroy whatever hope we may ever have had of democracy in this country. It will entrench corporate power as never before. And the promise of America will be dashed.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25245.htm



The Death Penalty for Murderous 'Corporate Persons'

By Len Hart

If corporations are 'people', as SCOTUS has said they are, then, by law, a corporation committing murder should be executed! A corporation like Dow or Union Carbide perpetrating mass murder should be tried and when found guilty put to death! Because corporations are now 'people', the same criminal penalties must apply to them as well as to the rest of us.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25309.htm

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A Supreme injustice

In These Times
by Theo Anderson

02/15/10

January’s Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC stirred passionate and opposing responses. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that laws designed to curb corporate influence in politics violate the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. The ruling hinged on the idea that corporations are ‘persons’ entitled to the same constitutional protections as individuals. Left-leaning groups assailed the decision for tearing down a barrier that has protected American political life from overwhelming corporate influence...

https://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5559/a_supreme_injustice



Eight words that could save our country

AlterNet
by David Morris

05/01/10

‘Corporations are not people. Money is not speech.’ These are fundamental truths that our nation needs to remember — and add to the Constitution...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Walmart: The Inhuman Essence of a Corporate 'Person'
https://act.commondreams.org/go/53?akid=9.124981.XaYMDd&t=24

Wake-Up Wal-Mart: Walmart Sam's Club Lowering Worker and Community Standards
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/25-7

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Corporations Are Not The People

This may well be the most important week ever in progressive policy advocacy.

As a first step to mitigating the terrible damage done by the edict of a rogue Supreme Court bare majority to give giant selfish interest corporations free rein in our elections, we must force full disclosure of what they are up to, by having Congress pass the Disclose Act.

So please submit the action page which will send real time faxes to all your members of Congress on this, just by clicking a mouse one time for the form below, where you will find more info on this bill.

Pass The Disclose Act action page: https://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1045.php

In the meantime, we have been gearing up for this initiative by printing to have ready now tens of thousands of the "Corporations Are Not The People" bumper stickers. We need to give this issue maximum visibility, and we need your help to get these bumper stickers distributed and out there.

So please after you submit the action page above, consider picking one of the bulk packs of 25, for just a modest donation from the return page after you submit the form. Or you can go directly to the bulk order page here.

Bulk Corporations Are Not The People bumper stickers: https://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers_bulk.php

We have already given away tens of thousands of these ourselves, mailed singly, most entirely for free not even charging for postage, and we want to keep doing it. So if you can make a donation and pick up a bulk pack, that's what makes it possible for us to send free individual bumper stickers to anyone who cannot make a donation right now.

And absolutely, if you have not requested one for yourself, please go to the single sticker order page at the next link below, where we will continue to give them away to anyone who wants one.

Free Single Bumper Stickers: https://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers.php

As the monumental damage being done by the underwater oil eruption in the Gulf is starting to come home to those who have managed to stay in denial this long, with help of the police under the control of BP keeping the news media away from the real story, and trying to hide the scale of the "leak" by driving the massive quantities of crude oil under water with toxic dispersants, we all know what the real problem is.

The real problem is that for the longest time no law has passed out of Congress without the express permission and intervention of the special interest corporations it presumptively was supposed to regulate. That is why there was an ridiculously low liability cap inserted into the bill that was supposed to prevent another Exxon Valdez oil spill. That is why BP felt they could take such experimental risks in the first place, because they had put in place a law that said they could get away with it for a token cost if things went drastically wrong as they now have.

That is why the environmental review process was limited to 30 days, to make sure it would never amount to anything more than a once over lightly if at all. President Obama now says that any laws that need to be changed to make sure this does not happen again will be changes.

Well, they ALL have to be changed. Every single law on the books has got to be totally revamped to stop giving self-serving corporations a pass when it comes to public safety and the public interest. It's time to stop letting criminal corporations like BP essentially regulate themselves like they could actually be trusted, with industry cronies installed in all administrative positions. And that goes for Wall Street, the medical care industry, and on and on right on down the line.

But the first step is to put the brakes on the outlaw Supreme Court's corporate coup, by passing the Disclose Act to shine the light of day on what is really going on with faceless corporations dominating our election process. So please submit the action page above. And get some bumpers stickers to pass out to all your friends, your political groups and let's get them out there where people can see them.

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Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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Whistle-Blowers: A Conversation with Ellsberg and Dean

Video

The Pentagon Papers revealed that the government knew early on that the Vietnam War was not likely winnable and would lead to many times more casualties than ever admitted. After failing to persuade a few U.S. Senators to release the papers on the Senate floor, Ellsberg decided to risk prison and leaked the documents to the New York Times.

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