World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/29-1

Citizens Struggle in the Shadow of the RNC
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/29-5

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GOP Heads Off a Ron Paul Nomination at Tampa
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/skousen-j1.1.1.html

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The Real Convention Is On Romney Yacht

By Cenk Uygur

You think Mitt Romney gives a damn what a delegate thinks? The only delegates that matter were on that yacht.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32317.htm



Romney Party Yacht Flies Cayman Islands Flag

Gov. Mitt Romney s campaign toasted its top donors Wednesday aboard a 150-foot yacht flying the flag of the Cayman Islands.

http://is.gd/pVhGS1


From Information Clearing House

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The hateful message of Rick Santorum

San Francisco Chronicle
by Jon Carroll

09/02/12

I just heard Rick Santorum speak at the Republican National Convention. I just heard a smug, self-satisfied prig spew his bile across that tiny percentage of the nation s television screens that were tuned in. I got to remember what the Republican Party really stands for in this cycle. I had forgotten to remember the people Mitt Romney is pandering to. Not that they like him, but he looks like a ticket to power. The Republicans hope he will carry their message of exclusion and privilege to larger, captive audiences around the country...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/eklat-bei-der-nominierung-von-republikaner-romney-in-tampa-a-852649.html



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The federal government s debt could hit an unprecedented $16 trillion this week while the Republican Party is holding its national convention in Tampa, Fla.

http://is.gd/cUTJkM

From Information Clearing House

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Prison, Drug War Spending Rockets While Higher Education Funding Declines
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/28-4

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Time for Major Cuts in Defense Spending

Melvin A. Goodman, The Baltimore Sun: An America that can t provide its citizens with decent health care, education, infrastructure or environmental protections cannot afford to hang itself on the military-industrial complex s ''cross of iron,'' which Eisenhower warned against almost 60 years ago.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11870-time-for-major-cuts-in-defense-spending



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By Eric London

The ''50 Wealthiest Lawmakers'' list shows that dozens of congressional politicians have amassed huge fortunes while simultaneously slashing the wages, benefits and social services of the American people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32300.htm



No Way to Avoid Global Financial Collapse, Says Predictive Software

By Susanne Posel

As the mega-banks face the controlled demolition of the US dollar, they have taken the stance of victim to the implosion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32298.htm



Average U.S. Household Has Lost 5% in Annual Income Since Economic ''Recovery'' Began

The rich are getting richer, and the poor really are getting poorer. According to a new report, Americans are earning less today on average than they were when the Great Recession, which began in December 2007, ended in June 2009.

http://is.gd/Xblu92



Bankers' profits soar on backs of home buyers

Don t you just love the bankers? The worse things get, the more money they make.

http://is.gd/RhsXiB



Why You are a Lot Poorer Than You Thought You Were

By Mike Whitney

The middle class is embroiled in a war-to-the-death with carpetbagging vermin who plan to deprive them of work, strip their assets, foreclose their homes, and leave them penniless to face old age.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32330.htm



Report Blames Big Banks For 800,000 Preventable Foreclosures

Just how many more people could have qualified under the administration s mortgage modification program if the banks had done a better job? In other words, how many people have been pushed toward foreclosure unnecessarily?

http://is.gd/3j5TFg



Wells Fargo To Foreclose On Dying Cancer Patient

Battling cancer is difficult enough without your mortgage lender deciding to foreclose on your home just weeks after saying it was trying to help. Yet that appears to be what's happening to Cindi Davis, a North Carolina woman diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.

http://is.gd/AvS5ma


From Information Clearing House

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An American Journey Across Expendable Communities and People

Chris Hedges, Nation Books: ''In a room across the street from Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where meals are provided for the homeless on Saturdays, a group of African American women bow their heads over a table and hold hands. They are led by Lallois Davis, sixty-seven, known as Lolly, a heavyset woman who radiates an indomitable spirit. 'The poor have to help the poor,' Davis says, 'because the ones who make the money are helping the people with money.'''

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/11021-days-of-siege



Money in Politics: Where Is the Outrage?

Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger, Moyers & Company: ''Money rules. And in the foul air democracy chokes and gasps, the middle class falls behind, and the poor sink from sight as political donations determine the course and speech of policies that could make the difference in the lives of ordinary people struggling in a dog-eat-dog world.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11257-money-in-politics-where-is-the-outrage



Labor Day and the Election of 2012: It's Inequality, Stupid

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: ''The most troubling economic trend facing America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top, among a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people, and the steady decline of the great American middle class. Inequality in America is at record levels. The 400 richest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11293-labor-day-and-the-election-of-2012-its-inequality-stupid



Banks Threaten Elderly Veterans With Foreclosure

Viji Sundaram, New America Media: ''According to a recent AARP study titled, 'Nightmare on Main Street: Older Americans and the Mortgage Market Crisis,' while the mortgage crisis has hit every age group, Americans who are 75-plus have been disproportionately hurt, especially those in the African-American and Hispanic communities.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11712-banks-threaten-elderly-veterans-with-foreclosure

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Politics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/05

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Bankers Love Keynesianism
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1205.html



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Press outlets protest Manning trial secrecy

More than 30 news outlets and media organizations lodged an official protest Tuesday against secrecy in the court martial of Private Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accusing of leaking hundreds of thousands of military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.

http://is.gd/LdCRTE



US preparing case against WikiLeak s Assange: lawyer

US prosecutors are secretly preparing a case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a cache of sensitive diplomatic cables, his lawyer Baltazar Garzon said Wednesday.

http://is.gd/FFuio5



Nobel Prize Winners Say Bradley Manning Deserves Americans' Support for Military Whistleblowing

By Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Thanks to WikiLeaks, US citizens are better informed about wars prosecuted in their name. We owe Manning honour, not jail time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33056.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Bradley Manning: Forgotten Man
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/bradley-manning-forgotten-man.html

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Nobel Peace Laureates Condemn U.S. Military s Prosecution of Whistle-Blower Bradley Manning
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/15-1



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Die Vollstrecker

Mit Paul Ryan und Mitt Romney hat sich ein republikanisches Dream-Team gefunden. Sollten sie ins Weiße Haus einziehen, könnten sie die Vision des republikanischen ''New Deals" vollenden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37505/1.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul819.html



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/24/12

Notice that all the talk about whether the U.S. government should attack Iran and Syria focuses on whether President Obama will order his army to attack these two countries or on whether he should do so. The process has become so natural and normal that it s easy to forget the dictatorial nature of the power that the president now wields, the omnipotent power to send the entire nation into war on his own initiative...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-08-24.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Paul rallies supporters in Tampa

New York Times

08/26/12

In a speech that was part motivational, part valedictory and at every opportunity critical of the mainstream Republican Party on the eve of its convention here this week, Representative Ron Paul declared his 'liberty movement' alive and well on Sunday before a crowd of nearly 10,000 supporters who were eager to testify to that claim. ... Paul, 77, was not scheduled to speak at the Republican convention. And in a credentials dispute, hard-bargaining party leaders left the Paul forces with only half the delegates from Maine that they had thought they had won, a blunt reminder of Mitt Romney s grip on the proceedings...

http://nyti.ms/PI95sX



The iron fist in Tampa

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

08/24/12

As the Republican convention-goers gather in Tampa, Florida, the Republican party Establishment is eager to crush any public expressions of dissent, both inside and outside the convention hall...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/08/23/tampa/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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RNC Detractors Speak Out Against Romney, 'King of the 1%'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/27-0

In Tampa, Newt Gingrich, Scott Walker Plug Supply-Side Economics
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/27-11

Romney s Dirtier, Deadlier Energy Future: Is There Another Way?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/27-4

How Romney Keeps Lying Through His Big White Teeth
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/29

Protesters Take On Bain Capital-Owned Bloomin' Brands in Tampa
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/29-0

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Mitt Romney s Tax Mysteries: A Reading Guide

Cora Currier, ProPublica: ''In a primary debate in January, Romney said he d paid 'all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more.' So what do we know about how he avoided that extra dollar?''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11219-mitt-romneys-tax-mysteries-a-reading-guide



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