World-News

By Robert Reich

Imagine a plot to undermine the government of the United States, to destroy much of its capacity to do the public s business, and to sow distrust among the population.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34139.htm



Spending cuts set to start as Obama, Congress reach no accord

''These cuts will hurt our economy, they will cost us jobs,'' Obama said after meeting with congressional leaders for a little less than an hour to discuss what is known as '#the sequester.''

http://is.gd/wMZEsR



Laundering $881 Million Is Now Acceptable

Senator Elizabeth Warren grills regulators (again) for failing to yank banking charters or criminally prosecute banking executives for their transgressions.

http://is.gd/MKA6rL



Alan Grayson, Florida Congressman: Replace Sequester Cuts With Ending Afghanistan War

VIDEO

''We are facing a nine percent cut in the food stamps program, a nine percent cut in home heating oil programs, nine percent cut in civil aeronautics and we d save the same amount of money if we simply ended the war in Afghanistan now,'' Grayson told HuffPost Live host Alyona Minkovski.

http://is.gd/2Yp0pa



Don t Fall For Pentagon Spin

How the military industrial complex avoided calamity

By Ben Freeman

If you believe the hype, sequestration is going to deal a catastrophic blow to the politically powerful defense industry.

http://is.gd/g0wg8Z


From Information Clearing House

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Media Fails, Tea Party Wins as ''Sequestration'' Begins
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/01-0

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The Sequester 'Crisis' and What Should Be Done
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul849.html

Bankrupting the System To Save It?
http://lewrockwell.com/goodwin/goodwin27.1.html

Sequester Hysteria
http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski293.html

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The Sequester is Good for You, and Other GOP Lies

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: The sequester is ''brought to you by your friends in the GOP, who tell us that we are broke, and can t afford nice things anymore...but whatever you do, don t look at all the ways we throw billions at our friends through the money laundering process of warfare and militarization.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14983-the-sequester-is-good-for-you-and-other-gop-lies



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