Today's News

Killing the Monroe Doctrine:

President Barack Obama could swiftly improve U.S. relations with Latin America by announcing the death of the Monroe Doctrine and then presiding over its funeral. Such a statement would cost him little domestically, and win him praise and appreciation throughout Latin America and much of the world.
http://www.counterpunch.org/landau02052009.html

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Alternative Energy and the Americas: Video:

Stanford R. Ovshinsky has been called "the modern world's most important energy visionary." His career has combined path-breaking scientific work, the creation of new industries and a deep commitment to "make a better world." His work on energy and the environment has particular significance for the Americas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYxoacwuxg

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Passengers of freighter seized by Israel return home with tales of abuse:

Soldiers kicked and beat activists, journalists before setting them free.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?article_ID=99193&categ_ID=1&edition_id=1

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Corrupt Egyptian system: feeds the IDF, starves Gazans, oppresses journalists:

Once upon an alleged democracy, the Egyptian government decided a couple of days ago to try the journalist Majdi Hussein, the secretary-general of the Egyptian Labour party in a military court - even though he is a civilian - because he broke the law when he tried to "illegally enter the Gaza Strip".
http://tinyurl.com/c456g9

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Hezbollah Commander Murdewred by Mossad - Israeli Sources:

Israeli sources have revealed that Hezbollah Commander Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated by Israeli Mossad agents and aided by information gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency from Hezbollah commander Ali Moussa Daqduq, who was arrested in Iraq in January 2007.
http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=15650

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War Reporters Used To Prefer Morality Over Impartiality

By Robert Fisk

In an age when the BBC can refuse help to the suffering because of its "impartiality" - whether we still report war with the same power and passion as the men and women of an earlier generation.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21924.htm

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How Bush Threatened Britain

By Andrew Sullivan

In order to prevent any details of its torture record being publicly disseminated, the Bush administration threatened the British government with withdrawal of intelligence sharing if they allowed a court to publish the redacted evidence. Foreign secretary David Miliband denied this on Wednesday, but the letters from the US have been released by Channel 4 News. And their message is unmistakable.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21925.htm

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Britain: Foreign Office colludes with US to cover-up torture of Binyam Mohamed

By Robert Stevens

A High Court ruling by two British judges regarding the torture of a Guantánamo detainee has unleashed a major political crisis. The judges have stated that they have been pressured by the United States into concealing evidence that should be made available in any country governed by the rule of law. This took the form of threats to withdraw security cooperation, instigated under the Bush administration and continued under Barak Obama's presidency.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21926.htm

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"Yes I Am Emotional About Torture SIR!"

2 Minute Video

Shami Chakrabarti SAVAGES UK Minister Geoff "Buff" Hoon over the US attempts to BLACKMAIL Britain into silence over evidence of Torture.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21933.htm

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Change? What Change?

Joe Biden tells Munich conference: 'US will talk to Iran and ally with Russia against terror'

By Philip Sherwell

He indicated that the US would press ahead with plans for a missile defence project based in Poland and the Czech Republic, while adding riders about the cost and effectiveness of the programme. Moscow was enfuriated when the Bush administration announced the scheme, although the Kremlin has taken a more conciliatory approach since Mr Obama entered the White House.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21923.htm

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This Just In: Israel Is Indeed Our 51st State!

By Melissa Rossi

I am truly alarmed at the idea that Israel is indeed our 51st state -- falling, apparently between Indiana and Kansas -- but this idea is fairly entrenched in US foreign policy. After all, unbeknownst to most Americans, Israel -- an affluent country -- receives more US foreign aid than ANY other country in the world -- and the bulk of it goes for arms, a result of the 1979 Camp David Agreement that brought Israeli-Egyptian peace, as I note in this entry.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21922.htm

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Inflated Language and the Holocaust

By Abraham Weizfeld

The propagation of fear is the means by which the Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed for over 60 years now. Note the February 29, 2008 warning by Matan Vilnai, Israel's deputy defence minister, announced that Palestinians risked "bringing an even bigger Shoah" (the Hebrew word for Holocaust / Catastrophe / Nakba). Such an announcement is obviously intended to create a climate of fear.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21931.htm

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Rabbi Weiss: Something To Tell The World!

One Minute Video

An animated message from Rabbi Weiss, expressing what a real Jew feels towards the Arab and Muslim people of the world!
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21927.htm

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Gold Disconnects from US Dollar

by Jim Willie

This is the biggest story in England not told, the gold breakout. True to form, the gold price has seen a powerful breakout in the nation whose financial foundation has been destroyed more rapidly than any other nation on the planet, except the Untied States of America.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21934.htm

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US Must 'Save Capitalism' From the Banks: Nassim Taleb

Author of 'The Black Swann' wants banks nationalizated-and bankers punished

By James Saft

"I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21928.htm

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How to Lighten the Income Tax Load on the American Worker

Tax the Speculators!

By RALPH NADER

Let's start with a fairness point. Why should you pay a 5 to 6 percent sales tax for buying the necessities of life, when tomorrow, some speculator on Wall Street can buy $100 million worth of Exxon derivatives and not pay one penny in sales tax?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21932.htm

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Socialism Is Not a Dirty Word

By Bryan Friesen

In America, it is widely unpopular to associate oneself with a socialistic ideology. Americans use the word "socialism" to imply negative connotations to a political theory most know little about. Commonly categorized with Nazism and communism, the idea of socialism in America is derogative and unappealing.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21935.htm

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Will Obama Start the Next Trade War?

By Shamus Cooke

It is no exaggeration to say that the U.S.-China economic relationship, which is central to the functioning of the larger world economy, is already in tatters. This precarious partnership was dysfunctional from the beginning: China was to build the world's products and lend money to the U.S. so that these products would then be purchased.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21929.htm