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On The Killing of Children and Others, Domestic and Foreign

By Lawrence Davidson

Too many Americans see themselves as exceptional: blessed by God, expert practitioners of free enterprise, and the people who really know what freedom and rights are all about.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33449.htm




American Politics and the Innocent Children Killed

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD

Americans need to realize how their hallowed capitalist ideology of the putative American Dream is in practice nothing but the destruction of communities and millions of individuals on the altar of elite profit-making.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33505.htm



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Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: If the Democratic Party doesn t hold Billionaire-istan accountable with new wealth taxes and protections for workers, then they will accomplish their all-out looting of America.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13581-republicans-are-the-ruling-party-of-billionaire-istan



Why Republicans Don t Care What the Nation Thinks

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: Are House Republicans, now summoned back to Washington by Speaker John Boehner, about to succumb to public pressure and save the nation from the fiscal cliff? Don t bet on it.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13587-cliff-hanger-why-republicans-dont-care-what-the-nation-thinks



More Theft Under the Guise of the Fiscal Cliff

Kevin Zeese, Its Our Economy: The fiscal cliff is a self-created bi-partisan drama that demonstrates the failure of traditional politics and the need for mobilized resistance and a new independent poltical movement.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13619-more-theft-under-the-guise-of-the-fiscal-cliff



The Case Against Billionaires

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: It s time to start funneling the riches produced by the American economy to the real job creators: working class people who are spending money.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13698-the-case-against-billionaires

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America s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff

By Michael Hudson

Holding the bottom 99% in debt, the top 1% are now in the process of subsidizing a deceptive economic theory to persuade voters to pursue policies that benefit the financial sector at the expense of labor, industry, and democratic government as we know it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33471.htm



Net worth of world s richest rose by $241B in 2012

The richest people on the planet got richer in 2012, adding $241 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world s 100 wealthiest individuals.

http://is.gd/ZYvbqT


From Information Clearing House

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'Aggressive' New Phase of Anti-Worker Campaign Underway
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/14-0

Corpocrisy: The Systematic Betrayal of American Workers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/04-7



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Sam Sacks, The Big Picture: Sam Sacks speaks with Truthout's Lead Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold about what newly released documents reveal about the FBI s surveillance of the Occupy movement.

http://truth-out.org/video/item/13577-fbi-on-wrong-side-of-history

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FBI Monitored Occupy Wall Street and Treated the Movement as a Potential Terrorist Threat

By Democracy Now!

Counterterrorism agents were used to track Occupy activities despite the internal acknowledgment that the movement opposed violent tactics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33454.htm



Revealed: How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy

By Naomi Wolf

New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33477.htm



Inside the FBI s 'Terror factory'

Video

The FBI has been heavily criticized for preying on individuals who are on the fringes of society and Trevor Aaronson, author of ''The Terror Factory,'' analyzes the FBI s devious tactics in his new book.

http://is.gd/ITR47H



FBI Celebrates Duping Another Mentally Ill Man Into Fake Terror Plot

By Alex Newman

Burst of fantastical headlines about ''foiled'' so-called ''terror plots'' helps to keep paranoia alive among gullible citizens while ensuring that the taxpayer money continues flowing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33959.htm



Feds execute another terror sting

The FBI s use of sting operations in terror cases has been sharply criticized by activists and scholars who claim law enforcement is helping individuals with mental problems and/or little individual perseverance pursue plots they would be unable or unlikely to complete on their own.

http://is.gd/ZsYqUY



Oakland, California: FBI foils another fake terror plot

The charges filed against Matthew Llaneza, 28, stem from a months-long operation staged by the FBI s South Bay Joint Terrorism Task Force. The event is the latest in a long series of bogus terror plots hatched or otherwise encouraged by the federal government.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/20/oakl-f20


From Information Clearing House

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Senate Votes to Extend Sweeping Surveillance Powers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/28

Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/20

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What s Wrong With the Surveillance State?
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff398.html



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Domestic Tyrants, Not Foreign
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams151.html

The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead68.1.html

The Institutionalization of Tyranny
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts386.html

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There Is No American Left

Salvatore Babones, Truthout: Babones argues American politics have swung violently to the right. Once a social disease to be cured, poverty is now an individual crime to be punished. Put it down to individualism, conservatism, neoliberalism or whatever -ism you want, America is now the world s greatest reactionary force.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13567-there-is-no-american-left



Twenty-First Century Populism

Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press: The various present impediments to progressive reform are likely to foster a radicalized politics, a 21st century populism that promises individual fulfillment in the context of community.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13561-twenty-first-century-populism



US is Faced With a Feverish Populism of Anger and Hatred

Michael Kimmel, Nation Books: In an excerpt from his book Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era, Michael Kimmell examines the angry white male as a major force in the ferocious efforts to return the United States to a patriarchal society.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20211-united-states-is-faced-with-a-feverish-populism-of-anger-and-hatred

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How an Astounding New Right-Wing Lie About the Economy Was Born

By Joshua Holland

Conservatives are being told that the United States is now spending vast fortunes combating poverty-more than we dedicate to national defense, Social Security and Medicare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33459.htm



Agenda Prevails Over Truth

By Paul Craig Roberts

The American left is the enabler of the police state, and the American right is its progenitor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33472.htm

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The institutionalization of tyranny

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

01/21/13

Republicans and conservative Americans are still fighting Big Government in its welfare state form. Apparently, they have never heard of the militarized police state form of Big Government, or, if they have, they are comfortable with it and have no objection...

http://tinyurl.com/aexs5e4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The State of Phony Populism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/29-8



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