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Ronnie Cummins, AlterNet: ''For nearly two decades, Monsanto and corporate agribusiness have exercised near-dictatorial control over American agriculture, aided and abetted by indentured politicians and regulatory agencies, supermarket chains, giant food processors, and the so-called 'natural' products industry. Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry s contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We are fighting back.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8501-millions-against-monsanto-the-food-fight-of-our-lives

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Fungal Threats for Biodiversity, Food Supply at 'Unprecedented' Levels
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/13-6

Modern Farming Puts India s Biodiversity at Risk
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/10/18



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David Swanson, War Is A Crime: ''The Vermont State Senate voted today calling for an amendment to the Constitution that would make clear that corporations are not people and money is not speech and can be regulated in political campaigns. The vote was 26-3. State Senator Virginia Lyons spearheaded the effort, working with Move to Amend in 2011 to introduce a resolution that came back this year.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8517-vermont-senate-resolves-to-abolish-corporate-personhood



GOP Presidential Contenders' Goofy Greed

Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate: ''But who needs actual voters to be a presidential player these days? Gingrich s entire campaign consists of six men: Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Kennedy, Scalia and Thomas of the Supreme Court, and Sheldon Adelson of the Sands Casino empire in Las Vegas. The five Supremes are the ones who unleashed the plague of democracy-destroying corporate cash on our elections, and Adelson is the multibillionaire Republican extremist who has taken rich advantage of the Court s 2010 ruling and foisted Newt upon us.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8497-gop-presidential-contenders-goofy-greed

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What If the Government Rejects the Constitution?
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano49.1.html



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According to the most recent surveys, more than 22 percent of the population is officially below the poverty line. Nationally, one in every three children lives in poverty. In some areas, child poverty is between 40 and 50 percent.

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From Information Clearing House

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Democracy Brings Poverty and Tyranny
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/karsten2.1.1.html



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Credit card lenders gave out 1.1 million new cards to borrowers with damaged credit in December. These borrowers accounted for 23 percent of new auto loans in the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 17 percent in the same period of 2009, Experian, a credit scoring firm, said.

http://nyti.ms/IGeb6o



Jobless Claims in U.S. Rose Last Week to Two-Month High Economy

More Americans than forecast filed applications for jobless benefits last week, reinforcing concern among Federal Reserve policy makers that the labor-market recovery will be slow to develop.

http://bloom.bg/IXwhM2


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Treasury Snubs Struggling Homeowners
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/12-1

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The Fed: Mend It or End It?
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul806.html



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Just six countries export a whopping 74 percent of the world s weapons, with the US making up 35 percent of the global total.

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From Information Clearing House



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The Wealth Defense Industry Protects the Richest of the Rich.

By Jeffrey A. Winters

Mitt Romney, who in 2010 paid 13.9 percent of his $21.6 million income in taxes that year, the same tax rate as an individual who earned a mere $8,500 to $34,500.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31064.htm



How did Mitt Make so Much Money and Pay so Little in Taxes?

By Robert Reich

The magic of private equity reveals a lot about how and why our economic system has become so distorted and lopsided, why all the gains are going to the very top while the rest of us aren t going anywhere.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31063.htm

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Watch Us Move Our Millions
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/12-5

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The Rich Are Different From You and Me: They Pay Fewer Taxes

Michael Winship and Bill Moyers, Truthout: ''So, what do these big moneyed nabobs have to complain about? Why are they whining about reform? And why are they funneling cash to super PACs aimed at bringing down Barack Obama, who many of them supported four years ago? Because, writes Alec MacGillis in The New Republic the president wants to raise their taxes. That s right, while ordinary Americans are taxed at a top rate of 35 percent on their income, Congress allows hedge fund and private equity tycoons to pay only 15 percent of their compensation.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8502-the-rich-are-different-from-you-and-me-they-pay-fewer-taxes



The Oligarchy s Rule of Law: From Russia to Oklahoma

Mark Ames, The Daily Banter: ''At the end of the 1990s, the unprecedented collapse of Russia s economy and its capital markets, the wholesale looting, the quiet extermination of millions of Russians from the shock and destitution, the terrible consequences of imposing radical libertarian free-market ideas on an alien culture, turned out worse than any worst-case-scenario imagined by the free-market true-believers.... Publicly-traded companies have been and can be transformed into elaborate schemes to loot and steal from the public and enrich a tiny handful of oligarchs.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9409-the-oligarchys-rule-of-law-from-russian-to-oklahoma

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Worst of All Possible Worlds
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/14/270-worst-of-all-possible-worlds/



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By Simon Jenkins

Every student agitator is a terrorist, every internet hacker, cafeteria dissident, freedom fighter and insurgent leader.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31067.htm



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Russia Planning Troops Deployment On Iran s Northern Border

By F. Michael Maloof

The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31069.htm



The Irrationality of the Case against Iran s Nuclear Program

By Gary Leupp

What is the logic of offering Iran a ''last chance'' to stop doing what it is legally entitled to do?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31065.htm



How Neocons Sank Iran Nuke Deal

Two years ago, Washington s influential neoconservatives, both inside and outside government, shot down a possible resolution to the Iranian nuclear dispute because they wanted a confrontation with Tehran that some hoped would lead to their long-held dream of ''regime change.''

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Uranium Double-Standard: The U.S., Kazakhstan and Iran

Kazakhstan s booming uranium mining and expanding nuclear industry, a massive effort involving U.S. multinational corporations and an authoritarian regime increasingly tied to Washington.

http://bit.ly/IatnmB



A Rare Admission From Israel

By Teymoor Nabili

Israel s Deputy Prime Minister acknowledged that Iran didn t say they will wipe Israel off the map.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31072.htm



The Babylonian Captivity of Washington

By Philip Giraldi

Instead of presidential wannabes declaring their subservience to Tel Aviv, they should perhaps begin emphasizing that they will only act in the future in the interests of the American people. To do so would exclude an unnecessary war against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31085.htm



Leave Us Out of Another Middle East War

By James Abourezk

The media and the politicians are so inured to laying off criticism of Israel that no one can bring themselves to identify what is hurting us and our economy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31086.htm



Israeli TV report shows air force gearing up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near

The report, screened on the main evening news of Channel 10, was remarkable both in terms of the access granted to the reporter, who said he had spent weeks with the pilots and other personnel he interviewed, and in the fact that his assessments on a strike were cleared by the military censor.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iaf-plans-for-iran-attack/



How We are Footing the Bill for Violent Crackdowns in the Middle East

By Anna Lekas Miller

Instead of financing affordable healthcare, housing and education, our government is using our money to finesse an international reputation as the power that violently crushes resistance to repression.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31122.htm



Ready to hit Iran if ordered: Israel military chief

Israeli forces are carrying out more special operations beyond the country s borders and will be ready to attack Iran s nuclear sites if ordered, the chief-of-staff said in an interview on Sunday.

http://bit.ly/I5viu8


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War on Iran: America s Next Catastrophe in the Middle East?

Emanuel Stoakes, Truthout: ''Little has been said about how a war with Iran, at present seemingly urged into near outbreak by Binyamin Netanyahu and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), could be averted, with the Islamic Republic s nuclear program completely halted in 2003. We can thank the architects of the Iraq war for rejecting this wasted opportunity ... Also underreported have been statements made by former senior figures at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) alleging 'pro-western bias, over-reliance on unverified intelligence' at the organization.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8475-war-on-iran-americas-next-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east

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Iran Nuclear Crisis Needs Disruptive Diplomacy, Not Shock and Awe
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/13-2

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Netanyahu s Dilemma and Obama s
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan231.html

A Chance for Peace With Iran
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo169.html



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