Archive for November 23rd, 2009

*There will be more stories on America 20xy about Yesterday’s Nationwide End the Fed Protests later on… Russia Today 11/23/09
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Privacy expert voices ‘backdoor’ concerns, security researchers dismiss idea. Federal Jack/ Computer World 11/21/09 The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress. “Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of...
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Lew Rockwell 11/23/09 It’s been over fifty years since I first heard Leonard Read make the comment, “The market is analogous to a sponge. The market can absorb a lot of government mess until, like a saturated sponge, it becomes a mess too!” Looking back, it’s been almost fifty years since Leonard (he was my best...
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The Independent/ Blacklisted News 11/23/09 The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and air bases in Colombia. The development – and the reaction of Latin American leaders to it – is further...
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Herald Sun 11/23/09 COLOMBIA warned overnight that its forces were on “maximum alert” and were prepared to defend against any attack, amid rising tensions with neighbouring Venezuela. Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva issued the warning after a meeting of the country’s national security council in Arauca, a city on the eastern border with Venezuela. He said President...
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Iraqi Police Describe US Prisons as ‘Terrorist Factories’ Anti-War.com 11/23/09 By Jason Ditz Following with the trend of trying to shoehorn the dubious Iraq War strategy onto Afghanistan, the US Army says that it intends to copy its prison strategy from Iraq in Afghanistan. Brigadier General Quantock touted the Iraqi prison system as a great success, citing the relatively...
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Army Times 11/23/09 By Sean D. Naylor HUTAL, Afghanistan — The denizens of this dusty market town had never seen anything like the sight that greeted them at midday Oct. 12. The previous day, a handful of insurgents in a nearby village had made the mistake of shooting at a pair of U.S. OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters. Stryker-borne...
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The Guardian 11/22/09 By Richard Norton-Taylor Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair’s government’s attempts to mislead the public. They were so shocked by the lack of preparation for the aftermath of the invasion that they...
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9/11 Blogger/Salon 11/20/09 By Glenn Greenwald “What I’m absolutely clear about is that I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism” — Barack Obama, yesterday. “Holder said five other Guantanamo detainees would be tried by military tribunals. The five include Abd...
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Times Online 11/23/09 By Angela Jameson and Elizabeth Judge The public will not bail out the financial services sector for a second time if another global crisis blows up in four or five years time, the managing-director of the International Monetary Fund warned this morning. Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the CBI annual conference of business leaders that another huge...
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