World-News

Survey
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/26-12

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Almost one in five US families were unable to buy food they needed in 2009

The Food Research and Action Center in collaboration with Gallup have been tracking what they term "food hardship" over the last two years.

https://snipurl.com/u7j3a



America Increasingly Looks Like A Developing Nation

30% Of Americans Rapidly Approach Poverty: Poverty grew at twice the rate of U.S. population growth from 2000 - 2008, and now encompasses 39.1 million Americans.

https://mikechamberslive.com/?p=4422


From Information Clearing House

https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9361/

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U.S. deeply involved in secret Yemeni strikes

U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people.

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35093060/ns/world_news-washington_post/



CIA Assassination Squads Target US Citizens

U.S. Citizen in CIA's Cross Hairs

By Greg Miller

The U.S. military, which has expanded its presence in Yemen, keeps a separate list of individuals to capture or kill. Awlaki is already on the military's list, which is maintained by the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command. Awlaki apparently survived a Dec. 24 airstrike conducted jointly by U.S. and Yemeni forces.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24545.htm


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Presidential Assassinations of U.S. Citizens
https://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald58.html



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By Josh Rogin

The State Department cannot account for more than $1 billion it paid out to contractor DynCorp to train police during the first years of the Iraq war, in just one example of management shortcomings that have put at risk $2.5 billion worth of money spent on training policemen around the world, according to a damning new report.

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By Glenn Greenwald

Even as the U.S. sunk under increasingly crippling levels of debt over the last decade, defense spending rose steadily, sometimes precipitously. That explosion occurred even as overall military spending in the rest of the world decreased, thus expanding the already-vast gap between our expenditures and the world's.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24504.htm



USA is Bankrupt, Quit Buying Bombs or We're Done

By Ron Paul

Perpetual War, Perpetual Spending
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24509.htm



Is a U.S. Default Inevitable?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

What the looming fiscal crisis of this country portends is nothing less than a test of whether this democratic republic is sustainable.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24508.htm



Rule By The Rich

By Paul Craig Roberts

Obama has reneged on every promise he made, from ending wars, to closing Gitmo, to providing health care for Americans, to curtailing the domestic police state, to putting the interests of dispossessed Americans ahead of the interests of the rich banksters who robbed Americans of their homes and pensions.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24512.htm



Obama: Counterfeit Change and No-Excuse Lies

By Dr. Goldstein

Cheers and applause broke out as Obama assured us "I will never lie to you" while Oprah cried her puddle of tears. Little did we know that Obama was just another smooth-talking politician, telling "the folks" exactly what they wanted to hear. I'll admit it: I was one of the people he suckered. Obama's lies were awesome and they got me really pumped up.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24506.htm



"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. " - Candidate Barack Obama, October 27, 2007.



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By Justin Elliott

When the Pentagon's internal think tank decided in 2004 it needed a better understanding of Al Qaeda, it turned to an unlikely source: the terrorism analyst Laurie Mylroie, who was known as the chief purveyor of the discredited idea that Saddam Hussein was behind Sept. 11 and many other attacks carried out by Al Qaeda.

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AlterNet
by Chris Hedges

01/25/10

Excerpt from Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, by Chris Hedges. “Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, armies of corporate lobbyists grease the palms of our elected officials, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia, and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, this product is duping us into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest...

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Obama doesn’t know his job description

Nolan Chart
by John Armstrong

01/25/10

This is what your President thinks his Job Description is: You know, there is a tendency in Washington to believe our job description, of elected officials, is to get reelected. That’s not our job description, Obama said. Our job description is to solve problems and to help people. — January 25, 2010. This is what your President’s Job Description actually is: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. — January 20, 2008...

https://www.nolanchart.com/article7307.html



Obama and the “hard pivot”

QandO
by Bruce McQuain

01/26/10

President Obama is about to do what the pundits love to describe as a ‘hard pivot.’ What that really means is he’s going to try to change the subject enough to divert attention from his troubles and give the impression he’s doing something for the people that they actually want. The first part of the hard pivot was his attack on banking and Wall Street. Meeting with a modicum of populist success there and in the wake of the message from Massachusetts, he’s decided it is now time to focus on jobs, the middle class and, of all things, spending. Well sort of...

https://www.qando.net/?p=6737


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cornell West Asks Obama: How Deep is Your Love for Poor and Working People?
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/26

Obama's Human Rights Policy a Disappointment
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/26-0

Obama: Cut Domestic, Increase Military
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/26-14

SEIU: For Workers, American Dream Has Become a Nightmare
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/26-2



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MSNBC

01/25/10

A pair of former Blackwater contractors charged with murdering two people in Afghanistan had checkered pasts with the military before getting hired to work overseas, according to service records disclosed in recent U.S. court hearings. The troubled backgrounds of the two men — including instances of violence, drug use and disregard for authority — are a first sign that Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater, was staffing its war-zone work force with contractors who might not be suited for the job...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Democracy Now! Exclusive: Blackwater's Youngest Victim
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/29-1



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What a disappointment!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis177.html



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