World-News

Heather Rogers, Remapping Debate: Despite projections of a rise in sea levels and more extreme storms, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is not requiring America s nuclear power plants to assess their facilities in light of these future consequences of global warming.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13514-nuclear-power-plant-flood-risk-sandy-was-just-a-warm-up



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Homelessness and poverty is on the rise, with 84 percent of US cities reporting that requests for emergency food assistance increased in 2012. Of those seeking emergency food, 51 percent were families and 37 were employed.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-food-percent-emergency-612/



Christmas food handouts double as millions face 'financial precipice'

The number of people who will turn to food banks for sustenance is expected to double this Christmas, as a new report warns that millions more families face a financial ''precipice'' due to high personal debts, flatlining wages and future interest rate rises.

http://is.gd/g2jNC2



US mayors' survey: Food insecurity, homelessness rising across the country

This month, the United States Conference of Mayors' Task Force on Hunger and Homelessness released its yearly survey, which documented a sharp rise in the two social ills throughout the country.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/27/food-d27.html


From Information Clearing House

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The State Is Our Church
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/beattie1.1.1.html

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Old, Female and Homeless

Rose Aguilar, The Nation: As the cost of living goes up around the country, so too, does the nation s homeless population, including women over 50 years of age.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/14228-old-female-and-homeless



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Last year the agency paid $437 million in retroactive benefits to the survivors of nearly 19,500 veterans who died waiting.

http://is.gd/a86nY1


From Information Clearing House



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The United States carried out more drone strikes in Afghanistan this year than it has done in all the years put together in Pakistan since it launched the covert air war there eight years ago, it has been revealed.

http://is.gd/bWbB9t



US Kills 4 People in Pakistan

A house was targeted in the Hisukhel area of Mir Ali, about 15.5 miles east of Miramshah, the main town in North Waziristan, Dawn News reported.

http://is.gd/rWCY2K



I Quit Murdering People on November 17, 2012

By Pawnstorm

I am no longer drone bombing wedding parties in Pakistan. I am no longer killing the Afghani people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33412.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Bill of Rights, R.I.P?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski291.html

Celebrating Murder in the Military
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/mason-a7.1.1.html

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US Military Needs to Leave Afghanistan and Stop Widening Drone Strikes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/21-7

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Violence Is Killing With Machines at a Distance

Dr. Timothy Francis Leary, Truthout: Although many will dispute his exclusion of other forms of aggression as violence, few will argue that Timothy Leary s assertion is more valid than ever: Violence is killing by machines at a distance.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13502-timothy-leary-violence-is-killing-with-machines-at-a-distance



There s no Money in 'Peace on Earth'

by Devvy Kidd

While none of victims of US drones and bombs were likely Christians because those are Muslim countries, do they matter less? Are their deaths not as heinous as the victims of Newtown? God rest the souls of those who died in Newtown because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. No different than all the children, women and old men murdered by US drones and bombings in the wrong place at the wrong time even......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd566.htm



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By David Alexander Reuters

The Republican-controlled House approved the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 315-107.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33406.htm



U.S. House approves sweeping $633 billion defense war spending bill

The bill also stripped out an amendment sponsored by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein and Republican Mike Lee that was designed to limit the president s power to indefinitely detain US citizens as terror suspects.

http://is.gd/oKesAB



War Addiction Default: America s Political Dysfunction at Root is an Unwillingness to Cut War Spending

By Dave Lindorff

The US spends $1.3 trillion a year on a military it does not need. Politicians won t talk about cutting it down to size.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33534.htm


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By James Petras

The religious crises, the decline in belief and institutional affiliation, is intimately related to the moral decay in US public institutions and the precipitous decline of living standards.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33392.htm



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By Michael Kelley

UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said that if there are ''secondary drone strikes on rescuers who are helping (the injured) after an initial drone attack, those further attacks are a war crime.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33394.htm



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By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

It is alleged he granted two friends astonishing access to top secret files as he ran the Afghan surge. Rajiv Chandrasekaran reveals how the volunteers won big donations from defence firms and how they pushed the army towards a far more aggressive strategy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33395.htm



US special forces veteran links General Petraeus to torture in Iraq - Video

A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq.

http://is.gd/TWxnhm

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Petraeus and the Mythology of Afghanistan

Gareth Porter, Truthout: Managing the ''war of perceptions'' in Afghanistan ultimately proved more difficult for David Petraeus than it had in Iraq.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13442-believing-his-own-myth-petraeus-in-afghanistan



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Let s Call Them and Tell Them No

The Senate is about to vote on an extension of the controversial FISA Amendments Act-the unconstitutional law that allows the NSA to warrantless spy on Americans speaking to people abroad. Yet you wouldn't know it by watching CSPAN because the Senate isn t debating it.

http://is.gd/zWmXy2


From Information Clearing House

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GOP and Feinstein Join to Fulfill Obama's Demand for Renewed Warrantless Eavesdropping
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/28

ACLU: Senate Reauthorizes Warrantless Wiretapping
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/28-0



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