World-News

Lewis H. Lapham, TomDispatch: ''Happily, at least for the moment, the society is rich enough to afford the staging of the fiction of democracy as a means of quieting the suspicions of a potentially riotous mob with the telling of a fairy tale.... The country is being asked to vote in November for television commercials because only in the fanciful time zone of a television commercial can the American democracy still be said to exist.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11656-feast-of-fools-how-american-democracy-became-the-property-of-a-commercial-oligarchy



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Gregory Bresiger

09/19/12

Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will continue an American empire that hurts the country and much of the rest of the world. They both believe in an interventionist, militarist foreign policy that goes back at least as far as 1945. It constitutes a grave a threat to American liberties and economic well-being...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1209n.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama s America: 2016

A Debate between Dinesh D'Souza and Chris Hedges

Audio and Transcript

The craven sort of obsequiousness on the part of the Obama administration to Wall Street. The expansion of our imperial wars. Our proxy wars in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen. I think these are pretty good criticisms of Obama.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32511.htm



Beware Those Wicked Malians

By Eric Margolis

Welcome Mali, our newest crisis! Open your maps. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32745.htm

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Are We Doomed?
http://lewrockwell.com/stockman/stockman14.1.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz55.1.html

The Tide of Power
http://lewrockwell.com/thomas-jeff/thomas-jeff9.1.1.html

The Last Failed State
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/oconnell1.1.1.html

Are You Seeing What I m Seeing?
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/seeing-what-im-seeing.html



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Taliban infiltration of the Afghan army and police is much worse than the U.S. military and NATO have admitted and was the main factor in the surprise move to limit contacts with Afghan security forces to curb insider attacks, former ranking U.S. officials in Afghanistan said.

http://is.gd/51iLmf



Banned Labour MP Paul Flynn stands by 'Afghan lies' Commons outburst

Labour MP Paul Flynn, who was suspended from the Commons for calling the government liars over the need to keep our troops in Afghanistan, has refused to back down over the outburst.

http://is.gd/xPIXMd



US Gen 'mad as h...' over insider attacks

THE top US commander in Afghanistan says he is ''mad as h...'' about insider attacks following a firefight between NATO troops and their Afghan allies that killed five people.

http://is.gd/LVdcm1


From Information Clearing House



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Die Studie eines französischen Wissenschaftler soll beweisen, was viele argwöhnen und die Industrielobby immer bestritten hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37669/1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/19-4

Monsanto s Lies and the GMO Labeling Battle
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23-9

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French Study Finds Tumors and Organ Damage in Rats Fed Monsanto Corn

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: ''Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto s genetically engineered corn or exposed to the company s popular Roundup herbicide developed tumors and suffered severe organ damage, according to a French study released on Wednesday. The study could have a big impact on the battle over a California ballot proposal that would require groceries containing genetically engineered ingredients to be labeled as such.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11639-french-study-finds-tumors-and-organ-damage-in-rats-fed-monsanto-corn



Russia Temporarily Bans Monsanto Corn Linked to Cancer in Rats

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: ''The French study, released last week by a research team led by molecular biologist Gilles-Eric Seralini, links varying levels of both the Roundup herbicide and the transgenes in Monsanto s patented NK603 corn to mammary tumors and severe liver and kidney damage.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11800-russia-temporarily-bans-monsanto-corn-linked-to-cancer-in-rats



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Mapping drone proliferation

A new US Congress report on the proliferation of drones has confirmed a huge rise in the number of countries that now have military unmanned aerial systems.

http://is.gd/flkEkZ



Drone Warfare s Deadly Civilian Toll: A Very Personal View

By James Jeffrey

I was minutes from ordering a drone strike on a Taliban insurgent, until I realised I was watching an Afghan child at play.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32498.htm



Rutherford Institute Calls on Congress to Protect ''Americans'' from Weaponized Drones and Police Spy Drone

John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, is calling on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee to protect the privacy and civil liberties of American citizens from police use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones. In the wake of the passage of the FAA Reauthorization Act.

http://is.gd/fWnsFT



US Drones Kill Way More Civilians Than CIA Admits

US drones kill innocent civilians far more than the White House is letting on, according to a scathing new report from Stanford and NYU investigating the controversial unmanned strikes in Pakistan.

http://is.gd/087pwF


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/19-7

Romney and the Radical Rich
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/19-8

?Obscene and Arrogant?: Bernie Sanders Reacts to Mitt Romney?s 47 Percent Comments
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/09/21-1

Is GE Part of Romney s 47 Percent?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/21-7

The South African Mine Strike and Monopoly Capitalism
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/09/27

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Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth

Video

Michael Parenti speaking about Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth, developments in the U.S. political scene, the occupy movement and the struggle against corporate capitalism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32493.htm



''Ten Most Wanted Corrupt US Politicians'' for 2011

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington s ''Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.'' The list, in alphabetical order, includes:

http://is.gd/C6szIC



Forbes: richest Americans' net worth reaches $1.7 trillion

The 13 percent growth in the wealth of the richest Americans far outpaced that of the economy overall, helping widen the chasm between rich and poor.

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/123737/



4,000 millionaires in Romney s '47%'

Mitt Romney s ''47%'' who pay no federal income tax include several thousand of the highest-income households in the country.

http://is.gd/bjCqRa



How Do You Take Your Poison?

By Chris Hedges

Politicians are the public face of corporate power. They are corporate employees.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32542.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Romney s ''47 Percent:'' Here s Who s Actually Not Paying Federal Taxes

Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: ''The reason ... is that more than 38 million, or roughly half of the 76 million households that paid no taxes last year, simply didn t earn enough to have a tax liability under the current tax code. [An estimated] 1400 millionaires didn t pay federal income taxes in 2009, with many likely taking advantage of foreign tax credits or charitable donations to lower their tax liability.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11628-romneys-47-percent-heres-whos-actually-not-paying-federal-taxes-and-why



Corporations Create the Problem, Co-Ops Offer the Solution

Brian Van Slyke and Taliesin Nyala, Truthout: ''Cooperatives offer a means by which to change the economic and social landscape and directly tackle issues of wealth inequality, outsourcing of jobs and high unemployment.... Change will not come from the top down, but from building over and replacing these systems with organizations that directly advance, and are responsible to, the communities they are a part of.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11618-corporations-create-the-problem-co-ops-offer-the-solution



When Bishop Romney Came to Call

Lani Gerson, Truthout: ''In 1982, the newly appointed Bishop Mitt Romney rang the doorbell to my North Cambridge home.... Romney served me with a letter, not unlike a sheriff with a summons, informing me of my trial of excommunication scheduled for the following Saturday. How could I be tried for excommunication when I had long ago quit the church?''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11610-when-bishop-romney-came-to-call



The 1 Percent and the 47 Percent

Paul Street, ZCommunications: ''If Romney and their ilk want to know why the rich bear such a large share of the nation s income tax burden to pay for 'big government' these days, they should look at how they influenced big government precisely to serve their interests to concentrate wealth and income in ever fewer hands, to downgrade the middle and working classes and to expand the ranks of the poor.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11734-the-1-and-the-47



The Power Outage Didn t Divide NYC: Income Inequality Did

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet: Income inequality runs rampant in New York, and, as Hurricane Sandy demonstrated, storms are always more dangerous for the poor.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12475-the-power-outage-didnt-divide-nyc-income-inequality-did

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What Ron Paul Might Have Said About That 47%
http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo236.html

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Romney and the 47 percent

Center for a Stateless Society
by Sheldon Richman

09/20/12

The first thing to note is that Romney is typical of the right wing of the ruling elite, which often portrays lower income beneficiaries of the welfare state as a threat to the established order. In this view, they are dependent on government; they wish to remain that way; and they see themselves as victims. Of course many people who qualify for welfare-state benefits take advantage of them, but it doesn t follow that they want to remain in that postion. ... Far less interested in independence from government are the large corporations, banks and otherwise, that exist by virtue of government contracts, guarantees, bailouts, and intellectual 'property'...

http://c4ss.org/content/12899


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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QE3 = Risk-free profits for big banks
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/central-banks/qe3--risk-free-profits-for-big-banks.html

Unraveling the QE3 Scam
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/central-banks/unraveling-the-qe3-scam.html

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The Bank Was Saved, and the People Were Ruined
http://lewrockwell.com/thomas-jeff/thomas-jeff11.1.html



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

We are daily inundated with bad news. In fact, just about every piece of news coming out of Washington, D.C., is bad. And since the mainstream media, for the most part, does absolutely nothing to truly inform the American citizenry regarding the incessant assaults against their liberties from the miscreants inside the Beltway, it is left to independent journalists and columnists to serve as modern-day Paul Reveres. This usually means......

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