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"We need to see politics as the implementation of spiritual principles, of oneness, togetherness, tolerance of one another, and making sure that people are taken care of."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37172.htm



Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

By Phil Rockstroh

"Ecocide should be regarded with the same sense of abhorrence as genocide, for the two abominations align to the same destination: The world shattered beyond recognition; mountains of corpses looming over a hideous and forsaken valley of denial."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37175.htm

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What Will Happen When the Arrests Begin?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/bernie-suarez/what-will-happen-when-the-arrests-begin/

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Ökozid zum Verbrechen erklären

EU-Bürgerinitiative ?EndEcocide? sammelt Unterschriften für Mutter Erde.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820447ms405.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/20

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Oil more important than human life

Sudan and S Sudan agree to protect oilfields: Sudan and South Sudan agree to consider setting up a joint force to protect vital oilfields during the crisis.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/cloneofsudanese-president-juba-discuss-crisis-20-201416134227113126.html


From Information Clearing House



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Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthout: While the US and Afghan governments fail to reach a deal on the future of foreign troops in Afghanistan, no one expects anything but continuing US occupation of the impoverished country, along with its toll of civilian deaths and vanishing rights for women.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20744-obama-pursues-occupation-lite-in-afghanistan

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*Bride and Boom!*

By Tom Engelhardt

We Are Number One...In Obliterating Wedding Parties.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37177.htm



Afghanistan is a Calamity and our Leaders Must be Held to Account

By Seumas Milne

British troops haven t accomplished a single one of their missions in Afghanistan. Like Iraq and Libya, it s a disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37185.htm



This Is What Winning Looks Like

Video Documentary

A disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37216.htm



US drone kills two in eastern Afghanistan

At least two people including a child have been killed in the latest US assassination drone attack in eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/10/344790/us-drone-kills-two-in-eastern-afghanistan/



Afghanistan: US murders 7 children and one woman in airstrike

President says: As a result of bombardment by American forces last night, which was conducted...in Siahgird district of Parwan province, one woman and seven children were martyred and one civilian injured,* a statement from his office said.

http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-president-accuses-us-killing-8-civilians-airstrike-163231353.html



US airstrike killed 13 Afghan civilians in Parwan: Official

An Afghan fact-finding mission has found that a recent US airstrike has killed at least 13 civilians in the country s northeastern province of Parwan.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/17/346133/us-airstrike-killed-13-afghan-civilians/



Afghanistan: US airstrike killed at least 14 civilians, including women and children

A delegation of the Afghan officials including parliament members, who were assigned by president Karzai to investigate the US airstrike in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan, has revealed at least 14 civilians were killed in the air raid.

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2014/01/17/us-airstrike-killed-at-least-14-civilians-including-women-and-children.html



US Kills 9 people in Afghanistan

An Afghan police officer claimed on Saturday that five Pakistanis were among nine armed opponents who were killed in a US drone strike in the Kamdesh area of the eastern Nuristan province.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-28031-Afghan-police-claim-five-Pakistani-militants-killed--in-drone-strike



Hamid Karzai: 'I Saw No Good' With America s Presence In Afghanistan

By Harriet Alexander

*This whole 12 years was one of constant pleading with America to treat the lives of our civilians as lives of people,* he said, adding that he had not spoken to Mr Obama since June.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37532.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Our Afghanistan Failure Was Led by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03-3

Doctors Blame US War as Afghan Child Hunger Crisis Worsens
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/06

US Marines Shoot and Kill Four-Year-Old Afghan Boy
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/10

US Accused of Killing Woman, Seven Children in Afghanistan Airstrike
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/16-2

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Why the US wants to stay in Afghanistan

Antiwar.com
by Jack A. Smith

01/08/14

The U.S. is supposed to withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by the end of this new year. But despite public opinion polls to the contrary, President Obama is seeking to leave several thousand Special Forces troops, military trainers, CIA personnel, 'contractors' and surveillance listening posts for 10 more years in Afghanistan until the end of 2024...

http://tinyurl.com/lms957o


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How occupation is waged in Afghanistan
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket-1/how-occupation-is-waged-in-afghanistan-.html



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On Thursday Sir Peter Gibson published the findings of his aborted inquiry into the complicity of British intelligence agencies in torture. It found agents were reluctant to raise issues about the way detainees were being treated because they feared jeopardising relations with their international counterparts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/19/torture-britain-shocking-rendition_n_4472453.html



Senators: CIA 'Misleading' Public Over Secret Torture Report

U.S. senators openly castigated the Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday for delaying the release of a long-awaited report on torture and secret prisons during the Bush era.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/17/senators_cia_misleading_public_over_secret_torture_report



How the Washington Post is Backed by the CIA

Video

The potential conflict of interest between the new Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos and a recent $600 million CIA contract with his other company, Amazon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTyQDCBFMs&feature=youtu.be



Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war

President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/23/bush.iraq/



UK: Peers call for proper scrutiny of American military bases in UK used for drone strikes and mass spying

Scrutiny of American military bases in Britain could be increased dramatically for the first time in more than 60 years under cross-party proposals provoked by evidence that the installations are being used for drone strikes and mass spying activities.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-peers-call-for-proper-scrutiny-of-american-military-bases-in-uk-used-for-drone-strikes-and-mass-spying-9084126.html


From Information Clearing House

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Torture Victims Have ?Well-Founded Claim? That UK Complicit In Their Abuse, Says High Court
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/20-0

Aging Political Prisoners Suffer From Illness, Decades in Solitary Confinement
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/12/23-0

'The Only Thing We Have to Fear...' is the CIA
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/23

CIA Lawyer: Stopping Torture 'Would Have Been Easy,' But I Approved It Anyway
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/06-1



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Why Soldiers Commit Suicide?

Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja

"We should be saddened but not shocked when we see the broken men and women return from battles overseas. We should be angry with those who send them to suffer and die in unnecessary wars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37170.htm



Invest in People, Not War

By Ralph Nader

As millions of Americans struggle with inadequate health care, low wages, deteriorating public services, billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars are pouring into the coffers of the Department of Defense every year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37169.htm



Manipulations Rule The Markets

By Paul Craig Roberts

US capital markets are so manipulated, and now by the authorities themselves, that manipulation cannot stop without a crash.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37181.htm



West, Saudi Arabia Relieved at Death of Al-Majed

By Finian Cunningham

The so-called *war on terror* is just part of the deception to hide the real involvement of these governments in waging state terrorism for their geopolitical ends by using the very same groups they are supposed to be fighting against.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37308.htm



What Century Are We Living In? What Millennium? What World?

By William Blum

It would, be difficult to name a single brutal dictatorship of the second half of the 20th Century that was not supported by the United States; not only supported, but often put into power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37340.htm



Saudi Arabia: A Retrograde Rentier Dictatorship and Global Terrorism

By James Petras

The mastermind of the Saudi terror network is Bandar bin Sultan, who has longstanding and deep ties to high level US political, military and intelligence officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37353.htm



The Empire Feeds Off Of The Republic

Audio and Transcript

What the military industrial complex in the US learned from Yugoslavia was that they could fight an entire war and not lose a single soldier.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37477.htm



70 Years of Foreign Troops in UK? We Should Close The Bases

By Seumas Milne

US forces in Britain aren t defending the country but lock it into an empire in decline. It s past time for some independence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37473.htm

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The USG Colossus Is a Double-Edged Sword
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/chris-rossini/the-usg-colossus-is-a-double-edged-sword/

War, Empire, and the Military
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/laurence-m-vance/war-empire-military/

Oppose the Saudi-Israeli Cabal
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/patrick-j-buchanan/oppose-the-saudi-israeli-cabal/

Thoughts on Economics, Empires and Their Sophists
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/ira-katz/economics-and-empires/

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Saudi influence downplayed or omitted to help manufacture consent
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11795/



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Sea Shepherd Captures Video of 'Illegal' Japanese Whale Slaughter
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/06-5



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There s an Alarming Number of Deaths in US Jails
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/27-3

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The Incredible, Shrinking Presidency of Barack Obama

By Mike Whitney

Barack Obama now ranks among the least popular presidents in the last century. In fact, his approval rating is lower than Bush s was in his fifth year in office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37178.htm



The Race War of Drug Prohibition

Video Interview

Noam Chomsky speaks about the race war of drug prohibition, the prison-industrial complex, the erosion of civil liberties under Barack Obama, moral inconsistencies within government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37225.htm

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In America, Innocent Until Proven Guilty? Not for Most People Who Are Stuck in Jail

April M. Short, AlterNet: Most people in jail in the U.S. have not been convicted of any crime. That is unless poverty can be considered an automatic-lockup offense.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20914-in-america-innocent-until-proven-guilty-not-for-most-people-who-are-stuck-in-jail

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Obama vs. the Constitution

Heartland Institute
by Edmund Contoski

12/27/13

'If you like your health plan, you can keep it,' is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency, from the day he took the oath of office. With that oath, he swore to 'faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.' The Constitution states the president 'shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.' This is a duty, not a discretionary power...

http://blog.heartland.org/2013/12/obama-vs-the-constitution


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Info: Alfred Tittmann
19.12.2013



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/18-0

Human Rights Activist in Yemen Receives Death Threat for Investigating Drone Attack
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/01/10

The United States? Bloody Messes in Yemen
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/16-7

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Two suspected Qaeda militants killed in Yemen drone strike: residents

The drone aircraft fired at least one missile on a car in the al-Qatan region, completely destroying the vehicle and killing two people.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/08/us-yemen-strike-idUSBREA070PR20140108



Yemen drone strike kills farmer: witnesses

A Yemeni farmer was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Wednesday in what witnesses said was an attack apparently intended for suspected Islamist militants in southeastern Yemen.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Jan-15/244149-yemen-drone-strike-kills-farmer-witnesses.ashx



The United States' bloody messes in Yemen

U.S. killed innocent civilians in Yemen: Minister for human rights says.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hooria-mashhour-the-united-states-bloody-messes-in-yemen/2014/01/14/c21dfcec-7653-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html



U.S. kills four people in central Yemen

A U.S. drone strike hit a group of people driving a car in Yemen s central province of Marib on Thursday night, killing at least four and injuring several others, a Yemeni interior ministry official told Xinhua.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=195813


From Information Clearing House

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Drones Speak for America in Yemen

James Gundun, Truthout: The Obama administration promises to investigate drone strike casualties, the possibility of being fed false intelligence and the overall launch process of targeted strikes. Meanwhile, civilians in Yemen are dying and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is garnering new recruits.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21243-drones-speak-for-america-in-yemen



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"Am Rande der dritten TTIP-Freihandelsrunde sind brisante Details durchgesickert. Offenbar streben die Europäer die Schaffung eines ?Regulierungs-Rats? an, der die Gesetzgebung auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks koordinieren soll. Damit erhielten Multis noch mehr Macht?" Artikel vom 18. Dezember 2013 von und bei Eric Bonse http://lostineu.eu/mehr-macht-fuer-multis/

Aus: LabourNet, 19. Dezember 2013

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The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Until Republicans actually adopt progressive policies and make them their own, like Dwight D. Eisenhower did in the 1950s, there s nothing they can do to make themselves look like they are the party of everyday working people.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20698-goodies-for-the-rich-pennies-for-the-poor



Capitalism and Democracy: Year-End Lessons

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: Increases in payroll taxes, opposition to the use of eminent domain to slow foreclosures, the implementation of Detroit bankruptcy to steal from public workers' pensions and the increase of repression against those who protest capitalism s depredations indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20550-capitalism-and-democracy-year-end-lessons



The War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor in America

Ruth Rosen, openDemocracy: The US Congress is fighting over how much to cut food assistance to needy families. Everyone knows that women and their children are the poorest people in America, but strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate and have been absorbed into abstract "needy families."

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20754-the-war-on-women-the-newly-invisible-and-undeserving-poor-in-america



NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker

Jeff Faux, Foreign Policy in Focus: Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the US-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20728-nafta-at-20-state-of-the-north-american-worker



The Political Economy of Predatory Capitalism

C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: The world is returning to the predatory laissez-faire capitalism that immiserated millions in the early 20th century and is predicated on neoliberal *voodoo economics* void of empirical reference.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21138-the-political-economy-of-predatory-capitalism



And So They Fall: Unions and Workers

Rowan Wolf, Cyrano s Journal Today: The goal in the pushback against unions has been to create a borderless world for goods and finance while building fences with razor wire to keep workers in place.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21320-and-so-they-fall-unions-and-workers



Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal

Joseph Natoli, Truthout: We cannot right our upside-down ship of state as long as oppressed and oppressors share the same dark dreams and values.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21139-dark-affinities-liberal-and-neo-liberal



The Financialization of Capitalism

C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: The neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism, a stage of capitalism that cannot be reversed without developing new methods of public provision in housing, education, health, pensions and the other sources financialization has used to create profit.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21383-costas-lapavitsas-discusses-the-financialization-of-capitalism

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Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100 Billion

By shuffling his company stock in and out of more than 30 trusts, he's given at least $7.9 billion to his heirs while legally avoiding about $2.8 billion in U.S. gift taxes since 2010, according to calculations based on data in Adelson's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

http://www.moneynews.com/Personal-Finance/Accidental-Tax-Break-Wealthiest-Americans/2013/12/17/id/542255



Who Owns Your Congressman?

Here s a look at which industries have given the most to which parties.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/owns-congressman.html



Barack Obama and the Legacy of American Capitalism

By Charles Sullivan

Democracy is the antithesis of capitalism! But capitalism is the product the U.S. government, the Pentagon, and the commercial media are marketing to us as democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37205.htm



Forty Percent Of Workers Made Less Than $20,000 Last Year

By Bryce Covert

Nearly 40 percent of all workers in the country made less than $20,000 last year, more than half of all workers made less than $30,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37243.htm



Capitalism in Crisis: Who are the REAL *Takers*?

By Bernard Weiner

There s an internal time-bomb inside this dysfunctional economic system.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37276.htm



Obama Trade Deal A 'Neoliberal Assault' To Further Corporate 'Domination'

Video

*It s designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity," Chomsky said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37357.htm



FTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule

NAFTA gave multinational corporations the right to sue governments to block regulations they don t like, undermining democracy and local sovereignty.

http://fpif.org/nafta-20-model-corporate-rule/


From Information Clearing House

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America s Greediest: The 2013 Top Ten
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/18-2

The Shocking Redistribution of Wealth in the Past Five Years
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/30-0

Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich and Corporations
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/13-4

NAFTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/15-5

It s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Hikes for Working Families
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2014/01/16

27 Shocking Numbers That Reveal the True State of the Union
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/28-10

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Government of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/john-w-whitehead/government-of-the-rich-by-the-rich-for-the-rich/



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By Gary Engler

If the system you want to build begins with working people around the world taking over the reins of the economy and replacing capitalist minority rule with economic democracy, then that could happen relatively quickly.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37123.htm



Scientists Consider Extinction: Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice?

By Dahr Jamail

"Those people who think you can have a growing economy and a healthy environment are wrong. If we don t reduce our numbers, nature will do it for us."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37194.htm



Dire signs from a warming world

Global warming may be even more extreme, and potentially more catastrophic, than climate scientists had feared.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-global-warmings-impact-cant-be-ignored/2014/01/27/b5917594-8792-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html


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