World-News

Gar Alperovitz, The Democracy Collaborative: ''We often forget that it was once simply assumed the United States would move inevitably in the direction of ever greater equality. A 1963 American Economic Review article observed that 'most recent studies' of US economic history take for granted that 'since the end of the depression the nation s wealth has been redistributed and prosperity has been extended to the vast majority.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10786-drifting-away-from-our-ideals



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/08-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/08-2

Greenpeace: Romney Spokesperson Andrea Saul Linked to Climate Science Smear Campaign
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/08/08-0

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Mitt Romney: Gold Medal in Dishonesty

Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: ''Even mainstream journalists have written about Mitt taking political lying and disdain for the facts to a new art form on campaign issues ranging from his tenure at Bain to blatantly dishonest ads about his opponents, first in the Republican primaries and now about President Obama.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10481-mitt-romney-gold-medal-in-dishonesty



Pudd nhead Mitt and the Great Giveaway

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: ''The decision to add Paul Ryan to the Republican presidential campaign has, once and for all time, exposed the limp, rudderless vacancy that is the core essence of Willard Mitt Romney.... By tapping Ryan, and thus agreeing to take on the fourteen years of far-right baggage Ryan brings with him, Romney has all but announced to the world that he is folding his hand and ceding control of the party to the whacked-out denizens of his right flank.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10858-puddnhead-mitt-and-the-great-giveaway



Casino Mogul and GOP Donor Sheldon Adelson s Frontman in China Is Focus of Inquiries

Michael Luo, Neil Gough and Edward Wong, The New York Times News Service: ''When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company s 'chief Beijing representative,' a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin.... But today, Mr. Yang ... is a focus of a wide-ranging federal investigation into potential bribery of foreign officials ... The investigations are unfolding as Mr. Adelson has become an increasing presence in this year s presidential election, contributing at least $35 million to Republican groups.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10872-casino-mogul-and-gop-donor-sheldon-adelsons-frontman-in-china-is-focus-of-inquiries



Romney s Death Squad Ties: Bain Launched With Millions From Oligarchs Behind Salvadoran Atrocities

Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: ''After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain s start-up money. Some investors had extensive ties to the death squads responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands of deaths in El Salvador during the 1980s.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10876-romneys-death-squad-ties-bain-launched-with-millions-from-oligarchs-behind-salvadoran-atrocities

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Romney s Death Squad Ties: Bain Launched With Millions From Oligarchs Behind Salvadoran Atrocities

Democracy Now!

Mitt Romney is facing new scrutiny over revelations he founded the private equity firm Bain Capital with investments from Central American elites linked to death squads in El Salvador.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32144.htm

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Bain Capital s ties to Latin American 'death squads'
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/money-madness-1/bain-capitals-ties-to-latin-american-death-squads.html



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By Julio Godoy

The U.N. is not the only international institution threatened by the influence of multinational businesses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32119.htm



The Great Impostors

By George Monbiot

Commodification, economic growth, financial abstractions, corporate power: aren t these the processes driving the environmental crisis? Now we are told that to save the biosphere we need more of them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32125.htm

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Understanding Economics

A Perfect Grasp, and for Free

By Fred Reed

As soon as capitalists start making money, they buy the government, and engage in carnal intercourse with it, and pretty soon the chiefs of corporations are in government, and great motingator alpha-crats of government get on corporate boards.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32205.htm



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Die USA schwitzen, Manila versinkt, das Eis schmilzt und die US-Regierung steht immer noch nicht zu ihrer Verantwortung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37410/1.html

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Rekordschmelze im September in der Arktis erwartet

Eisforscher vom KlimaCampus, Universität Hamburg, prognostizieren für September die geringste jemals gemessene Eisbedeckung.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815881ms331



USA rücken vom Zwei-Grad-Ziel ab

Der US-Sonderbeauftragte für den Klimawandel, Todd Stern, ist vom Ziel einer Begrenzung der Erderwärmung auf zwei Grad abgerückt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815891ms331



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Delaware Libertarian
by Steve Newton

08/07/12

It never ceases to amaze me that people who will go out and become activists for better health insurance or raising/lowering our taxes apparently have absolutely no understanding of the fact that those debates are all entirely moot. What President Obama and Governor Romney have an unspoken agreement not to discuss is that fact that what is pushing our economy off the cliff, bankrupting our Treasury, and ultimately betraying the American experiment in freedom and democratic values is our foreign wars...

http://bit.ly/RmXCyT



Political elections do not choose leaders of society

Liberty For All
by William L. Anderson

08/06/12

Political elections do not choose leaders of society. Rather, they are an exercise in which groups of people choose individuals who will assist them in looting other groups of individuals, those folks who were unfortunate enough not to be able to elect their own political strongman. The process can be downright blatant, as is the case in African and Asian countries, or it can be relatively subtle as it is in the United States, where the trappings of ?constitutionality? and ?rule of law? hide many of the more nefarious goings on...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7920


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Where Will the U.S. Strike Next in Africa?

Op-Ed

Under the direction of the United States, the UN Security Council recently extended sanctions for another year against the northeast African nation of Eritrea. The country of 6 million people, nestled against the Red Sea, is on America s hit list. In the imperial double-speak of Washington.

http://is.gd/5sNcP5



The War in the Shadows

By Chris Hedges

There are hundreds of millions of people who have a tragic intimacy with the twisted and brutal soul of American imperialism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32231.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Peace Would Be All Hell
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/iron-mountain.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/matter-of-trust.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/glenn-j1.1.1.html

Ron Paul s Crimes Against the State Religion
http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/hammond3.1.1.html

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GOP Insider: Religion Destroyed My Party

By Mike Lofgren

A veteran Republican says the religious right has taken over, and turned his party into anti-intellectual nuts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32121.htm

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How Are US Religious Fundamentalists Any Different Than Middle Eastern Ones?

Shirin Sadeghi, Truthout: ''Are we to believe that a fundamentalist in a suit is less scary than a fundamentalist in a beard, even if both are spouting hatred against women?''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11068-akin-for-the-truth-how-are-us-religious-fundamentalists-any-different-than-middle-eastern-ones



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http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis300.html

Warfare, Welfare and the State
http://lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs181.html

Our Overlords Are Wrecking the Economy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff174.html

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Is Murder By Drone Moral?

By Murtaza Hussain

Low-cost, low-risk killing will mean fewer questions and less scrutiny and ever higher body counts as the number of drones in the air continues to increase exponentially.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32136.htm

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How did the US President Become the Assassin-in-Chief?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/23



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Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica: ''As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. The more than $40 billion of deals helped fuel the crash of 2008. Now, recently collected emails from bankers and a Magnetar executive involved in some of the deals appear to shed new light on how they did it.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10751-emails-give-glimpse-into-deals-that-fueled-financial-meltdown



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