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London's Guardian: Out in Front Exposing Lawless NSA Spying
by Stephen Lendman
Give credit when deserved. It happens all too seldom. The Guardian's an establishment publication. It's been around since 1821. It's credentials are well-known.
It published other notable scoops. It was out in front on Rupert Murdoch's News International phone hacking scandal. It caused an uproar in parliament. Related police corruption was revealed.
So did information about Murdoch, son James, as well as other News Corp executives and editors having private meetings with Prime Minister David Cameron never disclosed.
So let me get this straight, we fast track renditions but hunt down whistleblowers on presidential planes!
by chycho
“The CIA was granted permission to use rendition (to the USA of indicted terrorists) in a presidential directive signed by US President Bill Clinton in 1995, following a procedure established by US President George H. W. Bush in January 1993”. This program kicked into high-gear under Bush junior after 911 and continues to this day under the Obama administration.
“According to a US Congress report [2008], up to 14,000 people may have been victims of rendition and secret detention since 2001. Some reports estimate there have been twice as many. The US admits to have captured more than 80,000 prisoners in its ‘war on terror’.”
The Arabs And Their Spring
By Gilad Atzmon
It is not a secret that summer skipped Europe this year and some meteorologists even predict a sun eclipse for the next seven to ten years. When asked to explain this dire prediction a few experts ended up blaming the Arabs, ‘it is all because of the Arabs, they took all the spring.’
Joking aside, looking at the Arabs and their "Spring" reveals a chilling sight. It is basically an ongoing bloodbath.
A vast popular uprising in the name of "liberation," "human rights," "democracy" and other big words has matured in a very short time into regional chaos, civil wars, carnage, loss of life on a huge magnitude scale and scores of interventionist apparatuses that guarantee more havoc to come.
Obama Threatens Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
He represents the worst of rogue governance. He does so lawlessly. He serves monied interests. They own him. Whatever they want they get.
He violates core rule of law principles. He mocks democratic rule.
He's waging multiple imperial wars. He's doing so on humanity. He plans others.
He looted the nation's wealth. He handed it to Wall Street, war profiteers, and other corporate crooks.
He wrecked the economy. He lets popular needs go begging. He ignores growing poverty, unemployment, hunger, homelessness and despair.
He governs by diktat. He permits lawless torture. Global renditions persist on his watch.
He institutionalized tyranny. He authorized indefinitely detaining anyone called a national security threat without charge or trial (including US citizens).
He heads America's Murder, Inc. agenda. He prioritizes targeted assassinations anywhere. He authorized killing US citizens abroad. He deployed special forces death squads globally. They operate covertly in 120 or more countries.
America's Independence Day Hypocrisy
by Stephen Lendman
Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic's an anti-war activist. He was born on July 4, 1946. Vietnam combat left him paralyzed. He's wheelchair-bound.
His memoir titled "Born on the Fourth of July" became an Academy Award-winning film. Oliver Stone directed it. Tom Cruise played Kovic.
An updated 2005 book introduction said in part:
Vietnam's "disastrous war" changed his life. It affected countless "others of (his) generation profoundly and forever."
Back then was "a lifetime ago." He was 18. He has photos of how he looked. Recalling them shakes him badly. He can't do it without experiencing nightmares.
He can't face the uninjured young man he once was. His trauma still runs deep. His "beautiful body (was) destroyed, defiled and savaged."
His Vietnam experience left him "physically and emotionally haunted." It pursues, threatens and overwhelms him.
He still experiences "nightmares, constant anxiety attacks, severe heart palpitations, and a powerful, almost obsessive feeling that I would not live past my thirtieth birthday."
Independence Day for Serfs
Philip A Farruggio
July 4th is always ripe with the obligatory fireworks displays, picnics, barbeques, and a day off for many of our American workers… some with pay… some without. Yet, what is there to celebrate if you are one of the hundreds of millions of folks who get up each and every morning and punch out your energy for ‘the man’? The Wednesday June 26th USA Today Money section ran a lengthy piece on the proposed deal between China’s Shuanghui Meat Corp and our own Smithfield Corporation.
Big Banks Fight Glass-Steagall To End in Delaware as Bills Gain Traction in D.C.
By: Kenric Ward
DOVER, Del. — Under heavy pressure from the banking industry, Delaware state lawmakers wind up their 2013 session Sunday. Lobbyists from J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America weighed in against Senate Resolution No. 8, which would add Delaware to a lengthening list of states supporting national reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act.
The measure's fate remains unclear in Dover, but a bipartisan group of legislators, including leading Senate Democrats, remains committed to the resolution.
The Glass-Steagall campaign got a boost from New Castle County Executive Thomas Gordon, who praised the resolution sponsored by state Sens. Bruce Ennis and Robert Venables Sr., urging the U.S. Congress to restore the wall of separation between commercial and investment banking.
Surveillance, Secrecy and Control in the Age of Big Brother
by Rodrigue Tremblay
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” - George Orwell (1903-1950) - (Eric Arthur Blair), English novelist, essayist, and social critic, (author of the book “1984”)
"I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under." - Edward Snowden (1983- ), American patriot who revealed the Police State tactics of the U.S. government, (June 10, 2013)
“In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material—and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an ‘executive coup’ against the U.S. Constitution.” - Daniel Ellsberg (1931- ) American economist and military analyst. (In 1971, during the Richard Nixon administration, he released a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War)
Egypt in Search of Political Change
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
The land of Pharaohs, magic and fantasy appears to be intermingled with in-house fireballs generated conflicts of hopes and expectations. The Generals are becoming restless with Tahrir Square’s shouting matches, crumbling economic affairs, emotional outbursts of the emotionally charged people and their aspirations, domestic strife and people wanting overnight results of their long political struggle.
This paints an unimaginative and short-sighted picture that politically responsible government under President Morsi could deliver unthinkable goods and amenities of life out of the besieged Egyptian socio-economic context. Society at best becomes productive when there is peace, freedom of thoughts and movement and collaborative endeavors for change and development. Egypt faces complex and critical situations.
Hemingway and Salinger Died For Your Sins: An Independence Day Exchange
By Gary Corseri and Adam Engel
Engel (in media res): …nobody gives a damn what authors do or do not do, outside "our crowd" of hopelessly romantic lefties!
Corseri: Don't agree w/ that! I don't think we're "hopelessly romantic lefties" and more and more Americanos are disenchanted w/ life here, dream of abroad-dom. Authors settling and writing about life abroad and seeing US from aerie of expatriation--could be important to spur others. It's a venutre I am considering myself w/in the next couple of yrs.
E: Speaking of disenchantment with the odd and sundry farcical, though ultimately tragic, masks of Empire… I just read this biography of Salinger that blew my mind. J.D. Salinger: a Life, by Kenneth Slawenski.
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