News You Won't Find On CNN http://www.informationclearinghouse.info News Information Clearing House http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:35:33 -0800 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:35:30 -0800 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.0.4) http://www.feedforall.com Iraq’s government will “embrace a long-term U.S. troop presence in return for U.S. security guarantees [referred to in another business as a protection racket] as part of a strategic partnership…an enduring relationship in military, economic and political terms.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18782.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:34:43 -0800 The dollar was savaged by the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. The Fed's policies were designed to coincide with Bush's Middle East Crusade. They were supposed to work like two wheels on the same axle http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18781.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:34:09 -0800 Hubris and arrogance are too ensconced in Washington for policymakers to be aware of the economic policy trap in which they have placed the US economy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18787.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:33:40 -0800 Everything about America is done to the max—super sized—including ourselves. Americans are fond of excess, fond of glitz and glitter, the bright beads and trinkets of capitalism; the symbols of conspicuous consumption. Millions of us live in McMansions, drive fast cars and hulking tanks and work at high stress glamorous jobs that provide enormous financial reward but leave us spiritually empty. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18785.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:33:07 -0800 In new books writers as disparate as Naomi Wolf and Pat Buchanan conclude that America as we know her is disappearing. Both writers hope, but are not confident, that enough Americans will catch on in time to find the leadership to pull America back from the brink http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18784.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:32:36 -0800 Civil libertarians are worried that a little-known anti-terrorism bill now making its way through the U.S. Congress with virtually no debate could be planting the seeds of another USA Patriot Act, which was hurriedly enacted into law after the al Qaeda attacks of Sep. 11, 2001 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18779.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:31:41 -0800 It is Pelosi who now represents Cheney-Bush’s most powerful and effective enabler and supporter. Pelosi is now a vital part of the Cheney-Bush crime machine. She is an accessory before, during and after the fact. And she assuredly supports the AIPAC/Cheney-Bush crime machine’s intended and unwarranted, unconstitutional invasion of Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18786.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:31:13 -0800 In their frantic drive to pave the way for a military strike against Iran, leading figures in the neoconservative pro-Israel lobby have embarked on a vicious campaign of demonizing that country by comparing it with the early years of Nazi Germany and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with Hitler. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18788.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:30:45 -0800 "We’ve got to teach these boys to shoot and look away, and they wouldn’t be so bothered by what they did.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18789.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:30:17 -0800 On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which will influence the referendum this Sunday (December 2, 2007). http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18783.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:29:48 -0800 In October 2002 he opposed the notion of a war then being debated. For those of us at home and in harm's way from disease, he co-wrote HR 676, a bill that would insure all of us within Medicare, just as if we were citizens of a truly civilized nation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18790.htm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:26:28 -0800