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Michael Klare, TomDispatch: ''The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America s counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, soybeans, and other food staples is guaranteed to fall far short of predictions.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10738-the-hunger-wars-in-our-future-heat-drought-rising-food-costs-and-global-unrest

How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming Food Price Hikes Even Worse

Jill Richardson, AlterNet: ''All in all, the U.S. has produced an extremely efficient but fragile agricultural system. When all goes well, the U.S. produces massive amounts of incredibly cheap calories. But when something goes wrong, the system can come crashing down like a house of cards.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10819-how-huge-food-corporations-will-make-upcoming-food-price-hikes-even-worse

Virgin Galactic s Space Tourism Venture for the 1% Will Warm the Globe for the Rest of Us

Salvatore Babones, Truthout: ''Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson s space tourism venture, is charging $200,000 a seat for a few minutes of weightlessness and a view from outer space. The firm has so far taken in $70 million in deposits from 536 passengers, according to an August 1 report from Reuters. Call me old-fashioned, but I personally find it morally offensive that some people can afford to spend $200,000 on a three-minute experience when others can t afford food.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10870-rising-inequality-global-warming-and-virgin-galactic

Addressing the Food Crisis: Let s Get Our Facts Straight

Timothy A. Wise, Triple Crisis: ''Coverage of the US drought and the run-up in corn, soybean and wheat prices has been extensive and welcome. It has also been prone to the repetition of falsehoods and the perpetuation of myths about the causes of the food crisis and the solutions.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11343-addressing-the-food-crisis-lets-get-our-facts-straight

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UN Warns of 'Food Crisis' as Prices Continue Surge
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/09-0

In Drought Crisis, Company Sees Profit Opportunity
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/21-4

Not-So-Mighty Mississippi: Drought Pushes River to Lowest Level Since 1988
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/21-2

Food Crisis Looms, UN Agencies Urge Action to Avoid 'Catastrophe'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/04

Extreme Weather Hammers Global Food System
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/05

The Global Food System Casino
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/14-5

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The Coming Winter of Disconnect: Drought, Hunger and Global Unrest

While the underlying causes of the 1848 revolutions are complex, food shortages, as Darwin posited, likely triggered the ''severe struggle'' that pitted the populace against each other and their autocratic rulers.

http://ericennotamm.com/foodunrest/

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Starmail - 7. Aug, 22:23

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Obama, Romney are reckless on Iran

Starmail - 7. Aug, 08:41

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Japan Honors Anniversary of Hiroshima as Thousands Call for End to Nuclear Weapons, Power

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/06-0

From Hiroshima to Fukushima
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/06

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Caused Mutant Butterflies
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/13-4

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Did 14,000 Americans Already Die from Fukushima Radiation?

''Deaths rose 4.46 percent from 2010 to 2011 in the 14 weeks after the arrival of Japanese fallout, compared with a 2.34 percent increase in the prior 14 weeks. The number of infant deaths after Fukushima rose 1.80 percent, compared with a previous 8.37 percent decrease. Projecting these figures for the entire United States yields 13,983 total deaths and 822 infant deaths in excess of the expected.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/04/fukushima-radiation.aspx?e_cid=20120904_PRNL_art_2

Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Fukushima Mutant Butterflies Confirm Harm from Low-Dose Radiation
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Fukushima_mutant_butterflies.php

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: American High School Textbooks Perpetuate The Big Lie

By Pat Elder

Americans suffer from a misinformation campaign initially perpetrated by the Truman administration and carried on to this day by high school textbooks that continue to tell the story as if Hiroshima and Nagasaki were indispensible in ending the war and saving countless American lives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35735.htm

A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph

By Robert Scheer

August 6 marks 68 years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35770.htm

Nuclear Strikes on Syria: The Genie is Already Out of the Bottle

By Jon Snow

'The fact of the matter is, what we are seeing in both these cases is a tactical nuclear strike, probably by cruise missiles launched from aircrafts near the borders of Syria or right off the coast in the Mediterranean.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35769.htm

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Starmail - 7. Aug, 05:52

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Ruinöser Hochfrequenzhandel

Wie Knight Capital, der führende Market-Maker für US-Aktien, in einer halben Stunde 440 Mio. Dollar an automatische Handelsprogramme verlor.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37394/1.html

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Starmail - 7. Aug, 05:03

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Sonntag, 5. August 2012

Drone Attacks Only Create More Enemies for the US

Starmail - 5. Aug, 22:25

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Samstag, 4. August 2012

Human Dignity: A Casualty of War

Matt Southworth, Friends Committee on National Legislation: ''As a bright-eyed nineteen-year-old soldier in Iraq in 2004, I was faced with a crisis of conscience. I thought I was going to Iraq to help free Iraqis, but instead I was a part of a mission to put them in a different kind of prison.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10690-human-dignity-a-casualty-of-war

Handmaidens to Barbarity

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''It was science, industry and technology that made possible the 20th century s industrial killing. These forces magnified innate human barbarity. They served the immoral. And there are numerous scientists who continue to work in labs across the country on weapons systems that have the capacity to exterminate millions of human beings.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10722-handmaidens-to-barbarity

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Gore Vidal and the upside of American military prisons

CounterPunch
by Chip Gibbons

08/12/12

Only the late Gore Vidal, who the American media was almost universal in describing as iconoclastic in his obituaries, could find an upside to the torture of prisoners by American soldiers. And only Vidal could find an upside that would be at the same time deeply witty, cynical, sensationalistic, and completely factual. I say completely factual because the torture and brutality that shocked the world in American military prisons from Guantanamo bay to Bagram to Abu Ghraib closely parallels and mirrors the United States s own domestic treatment of prisoners...

http://bit.ly/MRbF15

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Preying on the Prayerful

By Charles Davis

Killings in the US are condemned, while American violence abroad is ignored or glorified.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32172.htm

Love of Country

By Fred Reed

Mostly my country seems to be a bunch of brigands in Washington who send you tax forms to get money so they can kill people in some place that never did anything to you and you probably don t know where is.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32228.htm

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Starmail - 4. Aug, 22:10

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Major Banks Help Clients Hide Trillions in Offshore Tax Havens

Starmail - 4. Aug, 09:48

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Freitag, 3. August 2012

The Emerging ''Drone'' Culture

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: ''The idea of robots acting as guardians of public order has become a staple of dystopian fantasy, 'Terminator,' 'Minority Report,' 'The Matrix.' It is our duty to keep that stuff in the movies where it belongs.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10674-the-emerging-drone-culture

Assassination Nation: From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones

Doug Noble, Counterpunch: ''This spring the US drone killing program has come out of the closet.... In fact, US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10697-assassination-nation-from-the-phoenix-program-to-predator-drones

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Starmail - 3. Aug, 22:18

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The Betrayal of the American Dream

A Once Vibrant Middle Class Is Now on the Brink: How American middle class has been impoverished and its prospects thwarted in favor of a new ruling elite.

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The Untold History of The Project for the New American Century

Video

This documentary demonstrates how the first film theaters in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War. The film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud.
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Middle Class Lost Significant Financial Ground Over Last Decade

Phillip Resse, The Sacramento Bee: ''America's middle-class earners lost significant ground during the last decade as their incomes dropped for the first extended period since World War II, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. The decade also saw a significant widening of the household income gap between the wealthy and the middle class, the old and the young, and people who are married vs. unmarried.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11073-middle-class-lost-significant-financial-ground-over-last-decade

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Starmail - 3. Aug, 07:38

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