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Monday, November 10th, 2008By Ryan Singel | When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush's warrantless domestic wiretapping. Since the New York Times first revealed in 2005 that the NSA was eavesdropping on citizen's overseas phone calls and e-mails, few additional details about the massive "Terrorist Surveillance Program" have emerged. That's because the ...
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US ‘in secret overseas strikes’
Monday, November 10th, 2008The US has carried out nearly a dozen anti-terror attacks in Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere in the past four years, the New York Times has reported. The previously unreported attacks were authorised in 2004 by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Times quoted senior officials as saying. The order gave US forces permission to attack terror targets anywhere in the world without prior specific approval. The Times said the defence department declined to ...
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Undercover cops were among the unruly at DNC
Saturday, November 8th, 2008By Felisa Cardona |The Denver Post When a Jefferson County deputy deployed pepper spray into a crowd during the first night of the Democratic National Convention, he did not know that his targets were undercover Denver police officers. During a melee that occurred Aug. 25 between protesters, police and bystanders near Civic Center Park, undercover Denver detectives staged a ...
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American History X
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Commondreams | I teach American history to students in eastern Tennessee. In the narrative that makes up our nine-month journey, we encounter the broken and bleeding body of the American black dozens of times: crossing the Atlantic, sweating in the southern fields, hanging from the lynching tree, hiding from Jim Crow, dodging night-riders and sheriffs, urban sharecropping in ghettos, rioting after their leaders are shot dead, existing within a system ...
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David Rovics: Some Thoughts On Obama
Friday, November 7th, 2008By David Rovics | Friends around the world keep asking me questions. Are you excited? What do you think of Obama? Others are simply congratulating me. And I must say, it was a thrilling moment. As a teenager, in 1984, I volunteered for the Mondale/Ferraro campaign, mostly pushing bumper stickers. An anti-nuclear group was doing this, in the belief that Mondale would be less likely to cause Armageddon. I grew ...
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George Bush Plans to Push Through Agenda in Last Days in Office
Friday, November 7th, 2008President George W Bush is planning to push through a series of potentially unpopular regulation changes in his final weeks in office | By Alex Spillius | IHT.com Democrats fear the president will try to ram through new rules on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights before December 20, the deadline for changes before the new president is inaugurated a month later. The alterations could take months or years ...
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Bush: Terrorists May Attack During Transition
Friday, November 7th, 2008Antiwar.com | unprecedented effort” to help with the transition to an Obama Administration. But as the outgoing and incoming administrations prepare for as-orderly-as-possible a handover of America’s assorted wars and other foreign policy challenges, Bush warns that he sees a golden opportunity for a terrorist attack. In a speech at the White House, he said “we’re in a struggle against violent extremists determined to attack us, and they ...
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Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran
Thursday, November 6th, 2008By Peter Symonds | On the eve of the US elections, the New York Times cautiously pointed on Monday to the emergence of a bipartisan consensus in Washington for an aggressive new strategy towards Iran. While virtually nothing was said in the course of the election campaign, behind-the-scenes top advisers from the Obama and McCain camps have been discussing the rapid escalation of diplomatic pressure and punitive sanctions against ...
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Daunting Set of Crises Face First “Wartime” Transition Since 1968
Thursday, November 6th, 2008By Jason Ditz | President-elect Barack Obama will be the first United States President inaugurated during wartime since Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election in the midst of the Vietnam War. And while the Pentagon says that they are prepared to make the transition as smooth as possible, the new administration faces a myriad of challenges both foreign and domestic that won’t lend themselves to the new president ...
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NewScientist: Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans
Thursday, November 6th, 2008NewScientist | The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to provide a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" that will let packs of robots "search for and detect a non-cooperative human". One thing that really bugs defence chiefs is having their troops diverted from other duties to control robots. So having a pack of them controlled by one person makes ...
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17 US Attacks On Pakistan Since September - Media Applauds
Thursday, November 6th, 2008By Bzangy Groink | One of the issues most vexing to Pakistan is the ongoing missile strikes by US unmanned Predator drones, or UAVs, into Pakistan’s tribal areas. Since 1 September, there have been at least 17 of these strikes and, while US officials say al-Qaeda leaders are being successfully targeted, local tribesmen say scores of civilians have been killed. (Source: BBC News) Look at this picture.
Notice anything ...
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The Pentagon Is the President’s Private Army
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008By Fred Reed | The Pentagon, methinks, is out of control. We no longer have a military in service to the state, but a state in service to the military. Few notice (I suspect) because of two ingrained habits of mind. First, we think of the President as just that, the President, the country’s civilian governor who, oh yeah, is technically the Commander-in-Chief. “Technically,” because he isn’t really in the military ...
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The Dark Side of Global Credit System Redesign
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008By Geraldine Perry | With the credit bubble still deflating, “bad assets” still “unwinding” and taxpayers put on the hook for virtually every rescue scheme, the blame game has begun. Scapegoats abound, diverting public attention away from the anti-democratic fact that the current global financial/money creation system — now heavily weighted in “bad asset” derivatives or debt on debt — has grown so enormous that it has taken on a veritable ...
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Troops Have to Fight for Their Right to Vote
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Active-duty military members arguably have more to lose than anyone else in Tuesday’s election, but voting can be an obstacle course for servicemen and -women overseas. The Dallas Morning News reports that in 2006 only one-third of the absentee ballots requested by U.S. armed forces personnel abroad were counted. Dallas Morning News: For U.S. troops serving overseas, nothing comes easy. Not even voting. Military members may not have ...
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Is Paulson’s Plan Mysterious or Non-Existent?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008By Philip Mattera | Those who regard Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s bailout program as a step toward socialism should remember that such a system involves not just government ownership but also some degree of centralized economic planning. With all the twists and turns in Paulson’s actions, it is difficult to determine whether he is indeed trying to guide some aspects of U.S. business but is doing so in a way we ...
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