World-News

By Clifford A. Kiracofe

While politicians in Washington recklessly call for bombing Syria and Iran, they ignore the economic costs of failed US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A team of US academics, estimates these wars have cost between $3 trillion and $4 trillion through 2011.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31042.htm



Know Thy Enemy

By Linh Dinh

This Obama presidency has been a brilliant move by our ruling class, for this black, personable decoy has managed to pacify vast swaths of an otherwise restless constituency, while enraging others for the wrong reason.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31045.htm



Fools! A Cry of Hope!

By Jim Macdonald

We should never want to have the kind of power and prestige that the rich and powerful have. They too are fools in choosing a world where only the scattered few have the opportunity to live freely, constantly having to plot ways to stay on top of the pile.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31051.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/10/269-one-complicated-mess-of-trouble/

America s Voting System Is a Complete Farce
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo103.html



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Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: ''Last year, Citizens for Tax Justice found that 30 major corporations had made billions of dollars in profits while paying no federal income tax between 2008 and 2010. Today, CTJ updated that report to reflect the 2011 tax bill of those 30 companies, and 26 of them have still managed to pay absolutely nothing over that four year period.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8432-twenty-six-major-corporations-paid-no-corporate-income-tax-for-the-last-four-years-despite-making-billions-in-profits

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What s the deal with our current tax system?

A full 22,000 households that made more than $1 million in 2009 paid less than 15 percent of their income in income taxes and 1,470 managed to pay no federal income taxes on their million-plus-dollar incomes, according to the IRS.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/economy/buffett-rule



10 Big Companies That Pay No Taxes and Their Favorite Politicians

By Gavin Aronsen

If the companies had paid the full 35 percent corporate tax rate, they would have put more than $78 billion into government coffers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31074.htm



How To Become A Billionaire

By William K. Black

How to become a billionaire. The four necessary ingredients in the recipe for fraud.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31107.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Das Gesetz HB 56 in Alabama erlaubt Identitätskontrollen auf Verdacht. Zahlreiche kirchliche, menschenrechtliche und gewerkschaftliche Gruppen protestieren. Artikel von Dorothea Hahn in der TAZ vom 04.04.2012 http://www.taz.de/Kontrollgesetz-in-Alabama/!90934/

Aus dem Text: ''(?) Der House Bill Number 56, kurz HB 56 genannt, erlaubt der Polizei Identitätskontrollen, wann immer sie den Verdacht hat, dass ein Verstoß gegen Einwanderungsregeln vorliegt. Zudem kriminalisiert das Gesetz jede Dienstleistung für ''Illegale'': vom Transport in Fahrzeugen, über Beschäftigung, Vergabe von Sozialleistungen bis hin zur Vermietung von Wohnraum. (?) Zu den ersten Opfern des neuen Übereifers gegenüber AusländerInnen in Alabama gehörte ein Mercedes-Manager. Als er im November mit seinem Mietwagen kontrolliert wird, hat er nur seinen deutschen Ausweis dabei. Die Polizei nahm ihn sofort fest?''

Siehe dazu auch:

Rassismus in Alabama: Ein ungewöhnlicher Hilferuf

US-Gewerkschaften und Bürgerrechtsorganisationen wollen die Daimler AG dazu bewegen, sich mit ihnen gegen ein einwandererfeindliches Gesetz in Alabama einzusetzen. Artikel von Dorothea Hahn in der TAZ vom 04.04.2012 http://www.taz.de/Rassismus-in-Alabama/!90930/


Kein Sweet Home Alabama für Immigranten

Die Republikaner haben im US-Staat Alabama das ''härteste Anti-Immigrationsgesetz'' der Nation durchgesetzt und geben sich erstaunt über seine drastischen Folgen. Artikel von E. F. Kaeding auf Teleplis vom 04.12.2011 http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35971/1.html


Repeal Alabama s HB56

Weitere Informationen finden sich auf der Kampagnenseite ''Repeal Alabama's HB56''. Dort auch deutsche Texte wie z.B. ''Beschwerde zur Einreichung beim Ausschuss für Vereinigungsfreiheit'' http://www.repealhb56.org/


Aus: LabourNet, 10. April 2012

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Das Monster kehrt zurück

Über das Revival von Rassismus und Bigotterie in den USA.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37547/1.html



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The Invisible Hand Is Invisible Because It Isn t There

Elena Callahan, New Deal 2.0: ''[Economist Joseph] Stiglitz says that 'most Americans don t realize that we are no longer the country of opportunity that we think of ourselves, that America today has less equality of opportunity than any of the other advanced industrial countries ... if you are going to be judging how well an economy is doing, clearly I think the key metric that one wants to focus on is what is happening to the living standards of most citizens.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8404-the-invisible-hand-is-invisible-because-it-isnt-there



The ''Suicidal State'' and the War on Youth

Henry A Giroux, Truthout: ''The United States is one of the few countries in the world that puts children in supermax prisons, tries them as adults, incarcerates them for exceptionally long periods of time, defines them as super predators, pepper sprays them for engaging in peaceful protests and in an echo of the discourse of the war on terror describes them as 'teenage time bombs.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8421-the-suicidal-state-and-the-war-on-youth



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/09-11

EPA Allows Widespread Lead Poisoning of Wildlife to Continue
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/04/09-8



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By Chris Hedges

Medical bills already lead to 62 percent of personal bankruptcies, and nearly 80 percent of those declaring personal bankruptcy because of medical costs had insurance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31030.htm



Thousands Die Prematurely For Lack of Health Insurance

By Viji Sundaram

In 2010 alone, about 3,164 Californians between the ages of 25 and 64 died prematurely for lack of health insurance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31671.htm



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Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

04/06/12

Sometimes a step back helps to provide perspective on a matter. President Obama provided such a step with his March 16 Executive Order, National Defense Resources Preparedness. In it we see in detail how completely the government may control our lives, euphemistically called the 'industrial and technological base' if the president were to declare a national emergency. It is instructive, if tedious, reading...

http://tinyurl.com/7boy4bx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us

By Bill Quigley

Soon, police everywhere will be equipped with handheld devices to collect fingerprint, face, iris and even DNA information on the spot and have it instantly sent to national databases for comparison and storage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31036.htm



US Police Can Copy Your iPhone s Contents In Under Two Minutes

It has emerged that Michigan State Police have been using a high-tech mobile forensics device that can extract information from over 3,000 models of mobile phone, potentially grabbing all media content from your iPhone in under two minutes.

http://tnw.co/fUwMRW


From Information Clearing House

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The Food Police State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/24/272-the-food-police-state/

The Final Executive Order: Death of the Republic
http://lewrockwell.com/holland/holland65.1.html



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Chicago Spring Takes the Streets

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''Though it s been a temperate winter, things are heating up in Chicago. With only weeks to go until May Day and fewer than two months until the NATO summits, Occupy Chicago has come back out into the streets.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8433-photo-essay-chicago-spring-takes-the-streets



The Wonderful, Unpredictable Life of the Occupy Movement

Arun Gupta, Truthout: ''By enabling people to find fulfillment in all parts of their lives ... the Occupy movement is more than a movement. It is life-changing. People experience themselves as complete social beings, not just as angry, alienated protesters. The emergence of every mass movement makes sense in hindsight, but no one could have predicted hundreds of occupations and thousands of groups would pop up across the United States just weeks after a ragged encampment secured a tenuous foothold on Wall Street last September.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8444-the-wonderful-unpredictable-life-of-the-occupy-movement



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How the US Uses Sexual Humiliation as a Political Tool To Control the Masses
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/wolf-n4.1.1.html

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The Killers All Around Us

By Dave Lindorff

Do we want such justifiably outraged citizens, who are simply reacting appropriately to the shredding of their First Amendment right to protest and to petition for redress, to be blown away by police firing hollow-point bullets?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31046.htm



Drone technology, spying game consoles, and Homeland humiliation
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/offensive-technology/drone-technology-spying-game-consoles-and-homeland-humiliation.html



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