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TOP STORIES --- Bush's Torture Ticking Time Bomb: Sins of Commission... The MCA awarded Bush the power to label anyone on earth an enemy combatant and lock then up in perpetuity,---Americans accused of being enemy combatants can be detained indefinitely without charges and without appeal. -- Biofuels: Biodevastation, Hunger & False Carbon Credits- ISIS ... Biofuels are bad news, especially for poor Third World countries. Bioenergy crops do take up valuable land that could be used for growing food, and food security is becoming a burning issue. World grain yield has fallen for six of the past seven years, bringing reserves to the lowest in more than thirty years.  Chronic depletion of aquifers in the major bread baskets of the world, --- The pressure on land from food and bioenergy crops will certainly speed up deforestation and species extinction,---. »More Top Stories...»Yesterday's News...» Archive IRAQ --Sun Tzu & the Iraq war...When we initially posted this on August 30 2005, it got lost, rightly so, as a result of the Hurricane Katrina nightmare that was unfolding. However, the piece, whilst a year old, by using the writings of Sun Tzu predicts with frightening accuracy where the War in Iraq was heading, as borne out by the recent ISG report. It is as relevant today as it was a year ago. -- Abduction of women on the rise...by Dahr Jamail CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ: BITTER FRUIT OF OCCUPATION Imperial powers have always turned to the "divide-and-conquer" strategy to maintain their rule over occupied populations. The U.S. has drawn on this vile tradition in Iraq. »More Iraq News Asia | M.E. | Africa --Saudi Ambassador Abruptly Resigns, Leaves Washington... A bad sign -- Annan Urges U.S. to Reject Unilateralism... to shun go­it­alone diplomacy and remain committed to observing human rights as it acts to forestall terrorism. --Global jihad's new front in Africa... As Islamists take over Somalia, its Western­backed neighbor Ethiopia prepares for war. More Asia/M.E./Africa news

Other --Lawyers: DNA Not Linked to Duke Athletes... SHEERLY AVNI ON ‘BLOOD DIAMOND’ "Blood Diamonds Are Forever" -- "The movie about African diamond smugglers may be a schizophrenic mess, but it's also one of the most powerful films you'll see all year. SOCIALIST WORKER'S HOLIDAY GIFT LIST... movie and music choices for holiday gifts. --Anna Nicole Smith's Ex­Boyfriend's Paternity Suit to Go Forward More   Business --Rogers: Sell U.S. dollar, buy real and yuan: - It's only a matter of time before the beleaguered U.S. dollar loses its status as the world's reserve currency and medium of exchange---" -- Venezuela to sell USD 225 million of dollar­denominated bonds: The U.S. and China: Is a Trade War Coming? China may be violating trade agree-- but the savings­poor U.S. lacks the power to do anything about it. --60 million Americans live on less than $7 a day --So you think your 401(k) money is safe »More Business News

The Americas

-- The U.S. government hates democracy (lessons from Italy)... By Mickey Z. As far as I'm concerned, we can't put forward enough reminders of how the U.S. government--and the corporations that own it — do business. Platitudes about peace, freedom, justice, etc., aside, the land of the free is not even remotely interested in spreading democracy. There is an abundance of evidence to back up this assertion. For now, I offer the example of post­ World War II Italy. Mussolini was gone but the U.S. elites had no intention of letting Italy slip through the cracks. --Against Torture  < a href="http://tinyurl.com/y55v68"> LATIN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS PRESENT A MANIFESTO "AGAINST TORTURE"... The militarily organized practice of torture, the sexual abuse, and all other abuses of men and women, clandestine incarcerations and forced disappearances, are not new in the history of the Third World, and of Latin America in particular. It has been instead an historical constant of colonial, neo­colonial and neo­liberal domination.

--The US is finished – kaput... Our arrogant government has its imperial army stretched over 150 out of 193 countries in the world and, most remarkably, are using the entire world's resources to do it ­ while in return handing them a bunch of worthless IOUs.

--Is the USA the Center of the World?... Rumor has it our world domination is in jeopardy. Can politicians take the ego­beating?

A Healthy Dose of Anarchy-- After Katrina, nontraditional, decentralized relief steps in where big
government and big charity failed.

THE TRUTHDIG INTERVIEW: DENNIS KUCINICH ON HIS PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS
Rep. Kucinich: "Why I'm Running for President" -- The six-term Ohio congressman and 2004 presidential candidate, who has been one of Congress' most vocal and longstanding opponents of the Iraq war, tells Truthdig's Joshua Scheer why he again has his sights set on the Oval Office:
"This is a call of conscience to stand up and speak out about what’s going on. ... Someone has to rally the American people, to let them know that the money is there right now to bring our troops home."
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International

-- Government spying goes global

-- Shell strong­ armed ... $20bn gas project seized by Russia

--Putin signals end to overseas ownership of Russian energy

--CHINA HAS U.S. BY THE PURSE... A slump in the American economy is likely to be cushioned by banks and investors overseas because it could bring them down, too. What this means is that we are dependent on what others do or fail to do. Washington is actually undermining the dollar in hopes it will make our exports cheaper and thus ease the deficit. It's our way of pressuring the Chinese and try to get them lower the value of their currency. Clever? Don't be so sure. They are not fools. If China's wise men decide that propping up the dollar is not in their interest, they can move more money in euros. And then the real battle begins.

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Canada

--Ontario strips the wheels from drop­outs ... Students under the age of 18 will lose their driver's licence if they drop out of high school under a new law
--Exporters hobbled by weakening U.S. market...Canada's trade dependence on the United States has become a losing proposition, and exporters need to find new markets or figure out better ways to hang on to their American customers, economists say.
--Dana to shut down 4 plants, 2 in Ont. the auto parts maker announced Tuesday.
--Harper pulls a Bush...Blame Canada? Eh, why not? Much to the surprise of most Canadians and the world community, Canada is reneging on its international commitments under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which could weaken an international agreement to fight climate change after Kyoto expires in 2012.
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Mail

-- An Open Letter to Drug Warriors Thomas Van Wyk, Strike the Root... A literal maelstrom of debate over police tactics, use of paramilitary forces for raids, no­knock warrants, and other issues has erupted.  As is often the case in America, the wrong sorts of questions are being asked.  In this case, the concern is not whether the cops exercised their powers correctly, or whether they broke into the home under sufficient evidence, but whether they had the right in the first place to break into the private home of a citizen, and whether the drug war is a valid basis for such a usurpation of rights.  Few seem to be using the affair to question the underlying drug war that gives rise to so many tragic cases like that of Kathryn Johnston – cases that happen all too often in the United States.
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Opinion–Editorials

"Marie Cocco: Our Most Vulgar Instinct" -- The Iraq Study Group has offered its anticlimactic advice on the war, but how will we address that other quagmire in Cuba, where some 430 anonymous prisoners languish in limbo?

-- The Animal Holocaust? -- Why Factory Farming is a Serious Problem... Justin E.H. Smith, Dissident Voice  Surely we may agree with Norman Finkelstein that to insist upon the uniqueness of the Holocaust to the point of outlawing all comparison would be unscientific, and irresponsible. Nothing human beings do is completely unlike other things they do. We might then begin by noting that factory farming is not carnivorism­as­usual in much the same way that the Holocaust was not war as usual.  We might also note that both systems of mass killing can be traced back to assembly­line techniques initially developed by Henry Ford and others not for the destruction of living creatures, but for the production of machines.
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