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  • Obama’s Team Prepares Escalated Bloodletting In Afghanistan/Pakistan
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Patrick Martin
    24 January, 2009 WSWS.org
    In a series of meetings and public appearances Wednesday and Thursday, and with the first military strikes of his administration, President Barack Obama has given a clear signal that he plans intensified bloodshed in Afghanistan and Pakistan as the US escalates its military intervention in Central and South Asia.
    Missiles fired from unmanned Predator drones struck two targets inside Pakistan Friday morning, killing at least 18 people. As is (…)

  • We’re the Government - and You’re Not !
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    What if the U.S. government released an "educational video" to teach today’s Americans how to be good citizens?

  • Death of the American Empire: America is self-destructing & bringing the rest of the world down with it
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Death of the American Empire: America is self-destructing & bringing the rest of the world down with it
    By Tanya Cariina Hsu
    Global Research, October 23, 2008
    I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, US President; 1743 - 1826)
    America is dying. It is self-destructing and bringing the rest of the world down with it.
    Often referred to as a sub-prime mortgage collapse, this obfuscates the real reason. By (…)

  • Noam Chomsky: No change coming with OBAMA
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Prestv.com Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:14:45 GMT
    The following is a Press TV interview with respected American author, political analyst and world-renowned linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky.
    Press TV: Professor Chomsky, we better start with Pakistan. The White House not commenting on the killings of people [in cross-border drone attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan]. Richard Holbrooke, someone whom you’ve written about in the context of Yugoslavia, is the man [President Barack] Obama has (…)

  • Two US Airstrikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obama’s Pakistan Policy
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Truthout Saturday 24 January 2009
    by: R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux and Joby Warrick,Washington Post Staff Writers
    Leaders from Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area along the border with Afghanistan met with Pakistani Army officials last February. On Friday, the US launched air attacks in Pakistan within the Waziristan area in a concrete demonstration of the Obama administration’s Pakistan policy.
    Two remote U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected (…)

  • Video: Jean Athey: Guard Shouldn’t be Used as “Backdoor Draft”
    24 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2009, the “Bring the Guard Home! It’s the Law” campaign held a press conference. One of the speakers was Jean Athey of Maryland, Peace Action. She said that her group is proposing legislation to the General Assembly of Maryland that would require “the Maryland National Guard only to be called into federal service for legal purposes and that in the absence of legal authority, the Maryland National Guard should stay within the (…)

  • THE AGE OF OBAMA: THE POWER OF HOPE, THE PROMISE OF GREATNESS
    24 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    The inauguration of Barack Obama as America’s 44th president was a moving and powerful symbol of change. Every citizen and ally who allowed himself and herself to appreciate the moment felt a surge of pride that will not easily abate.
    We have elected a leader who’s every word, step and breath seems to hold the promise of greatness. Amidst everything that is wrong with our nation and our world – our homes foreclosing, our jobs lost, our banks (…)

  • Economics the Hard Way
    23 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    My father used to lament the poor mathematical performance of his children, “They struggle to get a C in math, yet they always know to the penny how much allowance they are due.” It was true enough and goes straight to the heart of the problem with numbers. We have a fundamental disconnect with the numbers that don’t affect us directly. The cheering crowd on the National Mall Tuesday, estimated to be one million plus, was truly an amazing (…)

  • Obama Re-Sworn To Office After Foiling Coup Attempt
    22 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
    A most disturbing report is circulating in the Kremlin today stating that the newly installed US President Barack Obama has survived, during his first day in office, a coup attempt designed to plunge the United States into ‘immediate’ war and threaten our World’s existence.
    According to these reports, the Bush appointed Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, ‘deliberately’ failed to (…)

  • Obama Order to Shut Gitmo, CIA Detention Centers
    22 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Mandate Also Requires U.S. Interrogators to Adhere Strictly to Army Rules
    By JAKE TAPPER and HUMA KHAN
    Following a meeting with 16 retired military officers today, President Obama signed three new executive orders, the first of which calls for shutting down the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention center "as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from now," as ABC News first reported Wednesday.
    "The president believes that what he did today will enhance the security of (…)