Jane D’Arista: Democratize or replace The Fed (Parts 5-6)

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TheRealNews
November 16, 2009

Anatomy of casino capitalism Pt.5

Jane D’Arista: The Fed should be replaced by a central bank run in the public interest

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Anatomy of casino capitalism Pt.6

Shining a Light on the Roots of Terrorism By Ray McGovern

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By Ray McGovern
This item was first published at ConsortiumNews.com.
November 16, 2009 “Information Clearing House“

Media commentary on the upcoming 9/11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has raised concerns that state secrets may be divulged, including details about how the Bush administration used torture to extract evidence about al-Qaeda.

“I think that we’re going to shine a light on something that a lot of people don’t want to look at” is how American Civil Liberties Union attorney Denny LeBoeuf put it, according to the New York Times on Saturday.

No problem, says Attorney General Eric Holder, who claims to have “great confidence” that other evidence – apart from what may have been gleaned from the 183 times Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded, for example – will suffice to convict him.

New Evidence Jack Straw Guilty On Torture – A Smoking Gun by Craig Murray

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by Craig Murray
Nov. 16, 2009

Finally I have indisputable documentary evidence that the British government had a positive policy of using intelligence from torture in the War on Terror, and that the policy was personally directed by Jack Straw.

Here are the minutes of the meeting at which I was told this:

Download file (pdf)

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Minutes available as a JPEG here:
http://www.edavies.nildram.co.uk/2009/11/torture/

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Ray McGovern: Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights

Craig Murray: UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture Pt2

Craig Murray: Uzbek terror and the UK/USA + How a Torture Protest Killed a Career (updated)

Human Rights in the New Millennium by Noam Chomsky

Free The Forgotten Bird Of Paradise By John Pilger

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By John Pilger
ICH
November 16, 2009

When General Suharto, the west’s man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered “a gleam of light in Asia”, rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million “communists” was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard Nixon called “the richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest prize in South-east Asia”.

In November 1967, the booty was handed out at an extraordinary conference in a lakeside hotel in Geneva. The participants included the most powerful capitalists in the world, the likes of David Rockefeller, and senior executives of the major oil companies and banks, General Motors, British American Tobacco, Imperial Chemical Industries, American Express, Siemens, Goodyear, US Steel. The president of Time Incorporated, James Linen, opened the proceedings with this prophetic description of globalisation: “We are trying to create a new climate in which private enterprise and developing countries work together for the greater profit of the free world. The world of international enterprise is more than governments . . . It is a seamless web, which has been shaping the global environment at revolutionary speed.”

Who’s Afraid of Hiroshima? Obama’s nuclear hypocrisy by James Corbett

by James Corbett
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The Corbett Report
16 November, 2009

When the Nobel Prize committee announced their choice for this year’s Peace Prize winner, they stressed that a key factor in awarding Obama the prize had been the commitment to a nuclear-free world he had outlined in speeches such as the one he delivered in Prague earlier this year. “The committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons” said the committee chairman when announcing that Obama had won the prize.

Assuming that the committee truly believed that the Obama presidency would signal a meaningful change in American nuclear policy, they did not have long to wait for a clear refutation of that thesis. Having learned in advance that Obama would be visiting Japan ahead of last week’s APEC summit in Singapore, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki extended formal invitations for Obama to visit their cities. Had he done so, he would have become the first U.S. president to visit the cities since they were the victims of the world’s first nuclear attacks. However, Obama turned down the requests, citing scheduling concerns and offering vague promises to visit the cities sometime in the future.

Carbon Tax War – Petition for a special War Emissions Trading Scheme

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unitednatures
November 15, 2009

This video is designed to open your eyes to the fact that warfare has a carbon footprint and environmental impact and every army, military and terrorist organization, along with weapons manufacturers, should be included in any Cap and Trade (Carbon tax) or Emissions Trading Scheme. Please forward this video to your friends and sign our online petition to the United Nations for a specialized War Emissions Trading Scheme, if a carbon tax is designed to make polluting increasingly expensive then war should be priced out of existence.

http://www.carbontaxwar.org

http://www.theunitednatures.com

http://www.myspace.com/unitednaturesm…

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Friends of the Earth: Copenhagen: Demand Climate Change: Sign the petition: http://bit.ly/4AJkhu

Military use of Drones, how it will change our world by Bruce Gagnon

Climate Change and the Ventura Case Study By Nikki Alexander

“GM’s Money Trees”: Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of “Cap and Trade” System

Global Warming on Dandelion Salad

The New State Solution by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
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Truthdig
Nov. 16, 2009

The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the result of Israel’s 42-year refusal to implement a two-state solution, leaves the Palestinians no option but to unilaterally declare an independent state. Israel acted unilaterally when it announced independence in 1948. It is the Palestinians’ turn. It worked in Kosovo. It worked in Georgia. And it will work in Palestine. There are 192 member states in the United Nations and as many as 150 would recognize the state of Palestine, creating a diplomatic nightmare for Israel and its lonely ally the United States. Israel will face worldwide censure if it attempts to crush the independent state by force and very likely be subjected to the kind of divestment campaigns and boycotts that brought down the apartheid government of South Africa.

Human Rights in the New Millennium by Noam Chomsky

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by Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info/
Nov. 16, 2009

Text of lecture given at London School of Economics and Political Science [pdf], October 29, 2009

Before trying to address the current state of human rights, it is worth considering what is admitted into that sacred canon. The question constantly arises, quite concretely. For example, 10 days ago, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, when Amnesty International declared that “Poverty is the world’s worst human rights crisis.” Or two days before that, on World Food Day, when the UN food agency reported that the number of people going hungry rose to over 1 billion, while rich countries sharply cut back food aid because of the priority of bailing out banks, and Oxfam reported that 16,000 children are dying a day from hunger-related causes — that is twice Rwanda-level killing just among children, not for 100 days, but every day, and increasing. And the issues regularly arise even in the richest country in the world, where the question of whether health care is a human right is being hotly debated while some 45,000 people die a year from lack of insurance, unknown numbers from utterly inadequate insurance, in the only industrial society I know of where health care is rationed by wealth, not need.

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Noam Chomsky: Human Rights in the 21st Century (audio of above speech)

Noam Chomsky on Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox

Ray McGovern: Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights

Noam Chomsky: Afghanistan – it’s one of the most immoral acts in history!

Craig Murray: UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture Pt2

Torture on Dandelion Salad

Military use of Drones, how it will change our world by Bruce Gagnon

by Bruce Gagnon
featured writer
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Organizing Notes
November 16, 2009

Military use of Drones, how it will c…

Military use of Drones, how it will change our world from GordonSturrock on Vimeo.

43:33 mins

Bruce Gagnon speaks at St. Mark’s Church in Hood River Oregon on Friday, November 13, 2009. The event was hosted by the Columbia River Fellowship for Peace.

Dahr Jamail on Fort Hood, Iraq and Afghanistan, and soldiers’ resistance

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by Maverick Media
Dahr Jamail Interview – Nov. 9, 2009 – Ventura, CA on Vimeo
Nov. 9, 2009 – Ventura, CA

Interview with Dahr Jamail, award-winning, independent journalist and author of “Beyond The Green Zone” and his most recent book “The Will To Resist” and website “Mideast Dispatches”. Interviewed by Cindy Piester with PULSE TV. Discuss Ft. Hood, Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers’ resistance and U.S. foreign policy including Obama administration. Produced by Maverick Media and filmed at CAPS TV Channel 6 in Ventura, CA on Nov. 9, 2009.

Dahr Jamail Interview

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Dahr Jamail and Ahmed Rehab: The aftermath of Fort Hood

2nd Cup of Tea Peace Vigil, our 2nd mile of love

Fort Hood, Veterans Day And Defending America by Rick Rozoff

Reaction to Fort Hood – Stupidity Beyond Belief by Richard C. Cook

U.S.: “War Comes Home” with Ft. Hood Shootings By Dahr Jamail

Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires or just a graveyard with a pipeline running through it? by William Bowles

Matthew Hoh: Taliban is not a threat to the US, it is a threat to the Karzai Government

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Refusing to Comply – The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military By Dahr Jamail