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Richard D. Wolff, Haymarket Books: In his new book, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism, Richard Wolff makes the compelling argument that modern capitalism has undermined democracy, replacing it with a plutocracy. All the props of a democracy remain intact, elections, legislatures, media, but they predominantly function at the service of the oligarchy.

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13812-when-democracy-is-trumped-by-the-excesses-of-capitalism

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The Extremist Cult of Capitalism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/21

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Why Does No One Speak of America s Oligarchs?

By Yves Smith

The time is long past to kid ourselves about the nature of the ruling class in America and start describing it accurately, as an oligarchy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34410.htm



'Oligarchic Tendencies': Study Finds Only the Wealthy Get Represented in the Senate

By Eric W. Dolan

Democrats were not any more responsive to the poor than Republicans.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35943.htm



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http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Steinbrueck-hinter-Westerwelle-article9926081.html

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Steinbrücks Umfragetief belastet SPD
http://www.zeit.de/news/2013-01/11/parteien-steinbruecks-umfragetief-belastet-spd-11102203



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Iraq War Poll Finds Most Americans Think War Was ''Mistake''

According to the survey, 52 percent of Americans think it was a mistake for the U.S. to send troops to Iraq in 2003, while 31 percent say it was not. In addition, 55 percent of respondents said the war was not worth fighting, and only 27 percent said it was.

http://is.gd/zrifpr



Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide

By Felicity Arbuthnot

Incredibly it is twenty two years to the day since the telephone rang in the early hours and a friend said: ''They are bombing Baghdad.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33657.htm


From Information Clearing House

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500,000 Iraqi children killed
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/500000-iraqi-children-killed.html



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Iraq War Poll Finds Most Americans Think War Was ''Mistake''

According to the survey, 52 percent of Americans think it was a mistake for the U.S. to send troops to Iraq in 2003, while 31 percent say it was not. In addition, 55 percent of respondents said the war was not worth fighting, and only 27 percent said it was.

http://is.gd/zrifpr


From Information Clearing House



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Iraq War Poll Finds Most Americans Think War Was ''Mistake''

According to the survey, 52 percent of Americans think it was a mistake for the U.S. to send troops to Iraq in 2003, while 31 percent say it was not. In addition, 55 percent of respondents said the war was not worth fighting, and only 27 percent said it was.

http://is.gd/zrifpr


From Information Clearing House



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Video

The movie succinctly poses and addresses the question ''why is this happening in 21st century America?''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33581.htm
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Report

By Ryan Gallagher

Europeans, take note: The U.S. government has granted itself authority to secretly snoop on you.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33588.htm



Total Surveillance: NYPD places full body scanners on the streets of New York

Video

http://is.gd/leNUYb



Michael Moore asks citizens to stand up to Obama s 'dangerous' erosion of civil liberties

''We have to work and speak out against the Obama administration and everything they are doing to destroy civil liberties.''

http://is.gd/euMJLq


From Information Clearing House

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Orwell s Nightmare, the Darker Side of Modern Technology
http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey146.html

The Death of Privacy: Mass Surveillance in the Technetronic Era
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/moghul1.1.1.html

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The next generation of surveillance

Campaign For Liberty
by David Heacock

01/29/13

While these technological advances are remarkable, they signal a great threat to our civil liberties and right to privacy. Using cameras for surveillance of private property can be an effective means to protect one s freedoms; however, any mass surveillance of the population by the government should be treated with firm distrust...

http://tinyurl.com/afqe3kj



States and cities step up and resist drone surveillance

10th Amendment Center
by Joe Wolverton, II

02/12/13

We live in a country where the president has assumed the power to kill American citizens without due process and the Justice Department produces memos supporting the legality of it. Fortunately, we also live in a country where concerned citizens and their local lawmakers are waking up and defending civil liberties and the Constitution that protects them...

http://tinyurl.com/b6trtlw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Living in a Constitution-Free Zone: Drones, Surveillance Towers and Malls of the Spy State

Todd Miller, TomDispatch: While a militarized enforcement regime has long existed in the US-Mexico borderlands, the US-Canadian border is increasingly a national security hotspot watched over by drones, surveillance towers and agents of the Department of Homeland Security.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14422-living-in-a-constitution-free-zone-drones-surveillance-towers-and-malls-of-the-spy-state



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Der oberste Atomaufseher Gerald Hennenhöfer gilt als Inbegriff des Drehtür-Lobbyisten was er im Ministerium macht, geht das Parlament aber nichts an, sagt die Regierung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/153503

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Atommüll-Exporte finden bereits statt

Atom-Lobbyist Hennenhöfer leitet das Verfahren.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416817277ms353



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