The Middle East, the unipolar world ends and economic crisis deepens

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April 14, 2010 — Warschawski On the border Pt8 – The Middle East and the next decade – the unipolar world ends and economic crisis deepens

Jane D’Arista: Can the US dollar collapse? + Can US dollar remain world’s currency?

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April 14, 2010 — D’Arista: US dollar as world’s reserve currency is great if you own a bank; not much good for Main St.

Kazakhstan: U.S., NATO Seek Military Outpost Between Russia And China by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
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Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
April 14, 2010

On April 11, the day before the two-day Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington, DC, U.S. President Barack Obama met with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev and their deliberations resulted in the U.S. obtaining the right to fly troops and military equipment over (and later directly into) the territory of Kazakhstan for the escalating war in Afghanistan.

Michael McFaul, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and senior director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the United States National Security Council, “told reporters in a conference call that the agreement will allow troops to fly directly from the United States over the North Pole to the region.”

Palast, Live from Hell

by Greg Palast
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Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
April 14, 2010

“The CBS logo isn’t an eyeball, it’s actually just a pimple on the rectum of Viacom Corporation.”

Hear Greg Palast live with This is Hell radio host Chuck Mertz. In this 90 minute head-to-head, Greg goes in-depth about some of his run-ins with American Mainstream Media, stories about “getting the story,” and the true value of unbiased investigative journalism.

“Talk about hell: I trained with Fox TV News for 2 days… They asked me, ‘So what do I think? and I said, ‘I think I’m leaving the country.’ So I went to England to work for BBC.”

Col. Morris Davis Defends the Rule of Law, Calls for Prosecution for Torturers

by Andy Worthington
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Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
14 April, 2010

Yesterday, I was delighted to receive an email from Morris Davis, the retired Air Force colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantánamo Bay, who asked if I had a contact at the Huffington Post for an op-ed he had just written defending the importance of the rule of law — and how it applies to everyone — written in a blistering style that America needs more of.

Moe also pulled no punches when it came to explaining why torture is a criminal offense, and why those who authorize it must be prosecuted — an unsurprising, but important opinion, given that he resigned as chief prosecutor when placed in a chain of command under Pentagon counsel Jim Haynes, who, as he explained in December 2007, had been involved in “authorizing the use of the aggressive interrogation techniques” — in other words, torture — which conflicted with his own insistence that prosecutors in the Military Commissions “would not offer any evidence derived by waterboarding, one of the aggressive interrogation techniques the [Bush] administration … sanctioned.”

Cindy Sheehan: Banned in Scranton (video no longer available)

by Cindy Sheehan
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Dandelion Salad
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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
April 14, 2010

Essential Dissent

Elizabeth Warren: Oversight of Financial Crisis

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C-SPAN Video Library
April 14, 2010

Elizabeth Warren talked about the new report from the Congressional Oversight Panel on preventing home foreclosures. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.

We Are All in this Together By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
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liberalpro.blogspot.com
April 14, 2010

I’ve heard from many people since I wrote my last two articles which were “We are all Accountable” and “The U.S. is at a Precipice”. I was astonished at the feedback that I received, not only from “liberal/progressives” but from those that support the “tea-party movement”. In thinking about the things I have been told by others, I’m convinced that Americans of all political persuasions are seeing beyond what the media reports and what our government wants us to believe.  It’s extremely difficult to compare the rhetoric of President Obama and most members of Congress and the reality in today’s America.