World-News

Patrick Cockburn

One of the most important changes in world politics over the past decade is that the US has failed to win two wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan, despite deploying large and vastly expensive land armies. Equally telling, these failures were against relatively puny forces of guerrillas.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32886.htm



US Detention of Imran Khan Part of Trend to Harass Anti-drone Advocates

By Glenn Greenwald

The vindictive humiliation of Pakistan s most popular politician shows the US government s intolerance for dissent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32885.htm



US drones are killing many civilians

Op-Ed

When we are told that 16 militants have been killed in a drone strike, it usually turns out that, for example, four of these militants were children and seven were women.

http://is.gd/mFs25t


From Information Clearing House

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Drone-Murders of Americans ?Totally Right, Totally Constitutional?: Homeland Security Chairperson
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/drone-murders-of-americans.html

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Do you want murders done in your name?

Downsize DC
by James Wilson

10/29/12

The President uses drones to kill some terrorists and lots of innocents. Revenge, in turn, creates more terrorists. He bases his murderous power on the 2001 'Authorization to Use Military Force.' Please tell Congress to repeal it...

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/do-you-want-murders-done-in-your-name



Kill lists will continue

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

11/08/12

We are seeing a series of wars unprecedented in scope that are carefully being disguised as non-wars, or, at best, limited objective constabulary actions, while the definition of terrorist has become increasingly elastic, permitting the listing of anyone who supports in any way or condones the activities of any group viewed as threatening to American interests. The CIA, which has recently requested a sharp increase in the number of drones it operates, is being transformed from an intelligence service into a paramilitary organization...

http://tinyurl.com/d2u74z3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/berwick/berwick67.1.html

The Powers-That-Be Are Really Frightened
http://www.lewrockwell.com/burris/burris31.1.html

Land of the Free?
http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey141.html

'Ron Paul: The Film' by Infowars Provides Backup to Liberty or Tyranny
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/ron-paul-the-film.html

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How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

Charles Pierce, Anchor Books: The classic ''Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free'' remains a defining and wry look at how culturally and politically much of the United States has come to value ignorance over knowledge.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13281-idiot-america-how-stupidity-became-a-virtue-in-the-land-of-the-free



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By Bill Van Auken

The erosion of democratic rights within the United States is far more advanced than most people realize.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32876.htm



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Nomi Prins, AlterNet: Four debates later, and it s clear that Big Finance will continue to drive our economy. Banks trump citizens, and absent severe reconstruction of the banking system, the cycle will absolutely, unequivocally continue.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12358-how-wall-street-won-the-election-long-before-the-first-vote-was-cast



Paying Taxes to Your Boss: A Step Toward 21st Century Feudalism

Tim Price, Next New Deal: Employers collecting taxes from their workers for the privilege of having a job is already legal in 19 states. Did I forget to mention that these employers aren t even required to tell their workers that this is how their ''income taxes'' are being used?

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12366-paying-taxes-to-your-boss-a-step-toward-21st-century-feudalism



A Part-Time Life, as Hours Shrink and Shift

Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times News Service: The new American job is part-time work, part-time pay and part-time living standard. The retail and wholesale sector has cut a million full-time jobs since 2006.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12368-a-part-time-life-as-hours-shrink-and-shift



The Electoral College: Another Front in the War Against Labor

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: Historically, the Electoral College was established to protect cheap labor, such as slavery. Today, it s still about preserving cheap labor in America, and it s still all about giving more power and influence to the barons of the cheap-labor states.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12452-the-electoral-college-another-front-in-the-war-against-labor



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/obama-romney-foreign-policy-identical.html

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''State of the Struggle''

Video

Michael Parenti, Savvina Chowdhury, Sarah Regan.

''What people believe the U.S. is doing in the world and what the U.S. really is doing, is one of the great propaganda feats of modern time.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32877.htm

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The Foreign Policy of a New American Administration

William Pfaff, WilliamPfaff.com: What is now offered by a renewed Obama administration, or a Romney government? We have learned from the campaign that the priority of Democratic as well as Republican contenders for the presidency is to keep the United States ''number one'' in the world.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12373-the-foreign-policy-of-a-new-american-administration

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Americans should reject Obama-Romney foreign policy

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

10/26/12

If we needed evidence of the impoverishment of American politics, the so-called debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney gave us all we could ask for. We normally expect a debate to highlight some disagreement, but in American politics disagreement is reserved for minor matters...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1210v.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo125.html

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Food stamp nation

Demon.Ocracy
by staff

10/12

America has over 44 million people on Food Stamps. The food stamps program's real name is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The Food Stamp program is 'hidden' from view through Electronic Benefit Transfer Cards that work just as credit cards. This article visualizes the size of the program and the vast amounts of people participating...

http://tinyurl.com/92uwayy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/26

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UN To Investigate Civilian Deaths From US Drone Strikes

Emmerson singled out both President Obama and the Republican challenger Mitt Romney for criticism. ''It is perhaps surprising that the position of the two candidates on this issue has not even featured during their presidential elections campaigns, and got no mention at all in Monday night s foreign policy debate.

http://is.gd/bwk7Io



More Evidence That Drones Are Targeting Civilian Rescuers In Afghanistan

New research from the NYU School of Law and Stanford Law School details how U.S. drones employ a tactic, known as the ''double tap,'' that is considered to be a terrorist act by the U.S. government.

http://is.gd/mv2bDx



UN Official: Aspects Of US Drone Program Clearly 'War Crimes'

The Human Rights Council at the UN will likely initiate an investigation into civilian deaths caused by the CIA and US military s use of drones and other targeted killing programs, and said that if certain allegations against the US prove true, he considers them serious enough to call ''war crimes''.

http://is.gd/rU6XQl


From Information Clearing House



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Für die nächsten Jahre wird im Weißen Haus als Ersatz für ''kill lists'' eine ''Dispositionsmatrix'' für die weltweite Jagd auf verdächtige Militante entwickelt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37886/1.html



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Paul Street, Z Communications: Many Americans tend to focus on election funding alone when discussing how the nation s political system is unduly controlled by concentrated wealth. However, campaign finance is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how big corporations and financial institutions dominate US politics and policy.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12337-money-talks-in-many-ways-election-season-reflections-on-how-the-ruling-class-rules



Lies of Plutocracy: Exploding Five Myths that Dehumanize the Poor

Jeff Nall, Truthout: If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been sadly misled. Prepare to be astonished by numbers that tell a very different story.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12264-lies-of-plutocracy-exploding-five-myths-that-dehumanize-the-poor



It s Time for the Poor to Come Out of the Plutocracy s Closet of Shame

Jeff Nall, Truthout: We must resist the dominant cultural shaming of the poor and poverty: Here are some ways to begin.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12457-time-for-the-poor-to-come-out-of-the-plutocracys-closet-of-shame



Why We Fight to Prevent Stolen Elections in 2012 and Beyond

Joan Brunwasser, Sally Castleman, Victoria Collier, Bob Fitrakis, Lori Grace, Emily Levy, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press: Which candidate gets your vote is not our concern here. As Americans, we agree on one thing: All citizens must have their right to a ballot and to have it counted.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12492-why-we-fight-to-prevent-stolen-elections-in-2012-and-beyond



The Corporate Masters of the Universe

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: In 2010, as austerity hit Greece hard, we elected a caucus of Republicans h...-bent on doing the bidding of American corporate masters and bringing austerity to the United States.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12512-the-corporate-masters-of-the-universe

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Ten Numbers the Rich Would Like Fudged
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/19-3



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