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A painful part two of the slump looks set to unfold: Many more U.S. homeowners face the prospect of losing their homes this year as banks pick up the pace of foreclosures.

http://reut.rs/I2WrjH



New attacks on unemployment benefits in the US:

While the Obama administration trumpets the allegedly good news that the official US jobless rate has fallen to 8.3 percent, millions of unemployed workers are facing new attacks on their unemployment benefits, in the form of tightened eligibility standards and cuts in the duration of benefits.

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/unem-a05.shtml



Report estimates 8 million children hurt by foreclosures

One in 10 U.S. children has been or will be affected by the nation s surge in foreclosures, a new report says.

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Wells Fargo Insiders Detail Foreclosure Fraud Practices

'It s Exactly Like An Assembly Line': The nation s largest mortgage servicer often improperly foreclosed on homeowners who weren t past due or owed little interest while pushing the files out the door as fast as possible.

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From Information Clearing House

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Austerity USA Decimating Health, Safety, and Education
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/05-0

Where Are Our Jobs Going to Come From?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/06-4

Wells Fargo Profiting From For-Profit Prisons
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/21

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88 Million (That s One in Three Americans) Are Invisible to Government Employment Statistics
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo104.html



Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where Is the Task Force?

Dean Baker, Truthout: ''A serious investigation would start at the bottom and work up. It would find offices where many of the especially bad mortgages were issued. The investigators would question the mortgage agents about how so much false information ended up on loan forms. After scaring some number of mortgage agents into talking, they would then talk to the branch managers ... This practice could lead to the top levels of the bank.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9277-mortgage-and-securitization-fraud-where-is-the-task-force



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/05/268-ron-paul-has-won-the-future/



An Open Letter to Ron Paul
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo167.html



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When Western forces helped topple Libya s Moamer Kadhafi they forced hundreds of well-armed Tuareg fighters to flee home to Mali, tipping another fragile African state into chaos, experts say.

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Bosnia to Libya: 20 years of NATO 'peacemaking'

The war eventually saw NATO s first-ever peace mission in its history, setting a template for incursions into foreign troublespots. Anti-NATO activist Rick Rozoff believes the Alliance s current interventions make it hard for nations to resolve their conflict themselves.

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U.S. Hands Off Mali!

Recent developments in the West African Republic of Mali are raising serious concerns about the possibility of yet another U.S. intervention.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2012/mali050412.html


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By Robert W. Merry

Does the United States interfere in the internal affairs of nations to subvert regimes by using NGOs to funnel cash to the opposition to foment uprisings or affect elections?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30989.htm



The United States as Number Two

By Dean Baker

Political leaders in the U.S. will no doubt catch up with the reality of the new U.S. position in the world, probably about the time that they accept global warming and evolution.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30993.htm



Standing Up to the Dream Killers

By Van Jones

The mortgage crisis and the growing numbers of indentured students undermine what s left of the American dream. In the spirit of Dr. King, we cannot allow this to stand.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31000.htm



American Homicide Abroad

Petition to All Pastors

In the name of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we ask that you forthrightly and unequivocally condemn this blowing apart of our brothers and sisters and their children all around the world just as King condemned it.

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By Cynthia L. Cooper

Lying to the U.S. Congress is a federal crime under Section 1001 of the federal code, and working in concert with others to lie to Congress is prohibited by conspiracy laws under Section 371.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30996.htm



Newly Declassified 2006 State Dept Memo Says Bush Interrogation Program Violated Convention Against Torture

Yesterday the National Security Archive released a newly declassified February, 2006 memo from then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice s top aide, Philip D. Zelikow. ''All copies of the memo...were thought to have been destroyed,'' the Archive writes.

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''Merchant of Death'' Sentenced to 25 Years; Trial Ignored His Ties to U.S., Dick Cheney

By Democracy Now!

Former United Nations arms trafficking investigator Kathi Lynn Austin, says the case allowed American companies to avoid exposure of their collusion with with the U.S. government and private companies linked to Dick Cheney during the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31031.htm



The Unclassified Zelikow Torture Memo as Evidence of Crimes

By Michael Collins

Zelikow s charge that the Bush administration hid and tried to destroy his memo shows a conspiracy to withhold evidence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31054.htm



Declassified document contradicts Cheney s claim of Iraqi connection to 9/11

A document declassified this week by the National Security Archive reveals that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered a briefing to the Bush administration which directly contradicts former Vice President Dick Cheney s claim that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta visited an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31655.htm


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The lawless roads: America s ever-expanding torture matrix

Empire Burlesque
by Chris Floyd

04/07/12

''Obama has adamantly refused to prosecute clear, credible and copious allegations of war crimes by his predecessor. He is now applying acknowledged torture techniques to the general American population ... Obama is still carrying out torture on a massive, systematic scale in the gulag he commands, despite the pervasive progressive myth that he has formally ended 'torture' in the American system...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Adele Stan, AlterNet: ''Mitt Romney won the Wisconsin Republican presidential primary by a mere 4-point margin over Rick Santorum ... He outspent Santorum on television ads by a margin of 4-to-1 during the Wisconsin, all for a weak finish. And of Romney s top Wisconsin endorsers, four are solid allies of the state s muscular Koch machine, a political apparatus comprising a particularly aggressive state chapter of the Koch-founded Americans For Prosperity, as well as a handful of think tanks and associations.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8325-did-the-koch-machine-put-romney-over-the-top-in-wisconsin



The Choice in 2012: Social Darwinism or a Decent Society

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''[Obama] kicked off his 2012 campaign against Mitt Romney with a hard-hitting speech centered on the House Republicans' budget plan which Romney has enthusiastically endorsed. That plan, by the way, is the most radical reverse-Robin Hood proposal propounded by any political party in modern America. It would save millionaires at least $150,000 a year in taxes while gutting Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps, transportation, child nutrition, college aid, and almost everything else average and lower-income Americans depend on.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8323-the-choice-in-2012-social-darwinism-or-a-decent-society



Why the Kochs Matter

Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava, Brave New Foundation: ''Let s say everything that we progressives say about these guys is true. Is there anything that can or should be done about two men participating in the political process? When it comes to the kind of influence the Koch brothers wield, the answer is yes.... The Kochs, who use their wealth to perpetuate and expand their own fortunes, aren t just exercising their rights as humble citizens; they are keeping others from doing the same.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8161-why-the-kochs-matter



Filmmaker Robert Greenwald Tells Truthout How the Koch Brothers Endanger Democracy and Our Health

Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''BuzzFlash at Truthout first got to know Robert Greenwald when he and Earl Katz were trying to get a film about the theft of the 2000 presidential election, 'Unprecedented,' off the ground. Greenwald went on to form the extraordinarily innovative Brave New Films. Most recently, Greenwald launched the distribution of 'Koch Brothers Exposed,' a DVD that features the best of Brave New Films' videos, revealing the dark side of the Koch family empire.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8479-filmmaker-robert-greenwald-tells-truthout-how-the-koch-brothers-endanger-democracy-and-our-health



Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC

Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: ''With the recent publication of additional American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents, new questions are being raised about the source of certain provisions in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker s controversial collective bargaining legislation. Some of those provisions may be adopted by ALEC for introduction in other states.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8884-koch-funded-mackinac-center-brings-wisconsin-act-10-provisions-to-alec

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Obama by Default

By Robert Scheer

With Ron Paul out of it and warmongering hedge fund hustler Mitt Romney the likely Republican nominee, the GOP has defined itself indelibly as the party of moneyed greed and unfettered imperialism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31004.htm

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Mitt Romney Flip-Flops His Way to the Top
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/06-3

Countering the Rightwing Policy Machine with a Deeper Progressive Bench
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/10-9

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Why are the Kochs after Cato?

National Review
by Gene Healy and Jerry Taylor

04/09/12

Five weeks ago, Charles and David Koch filed suit against the Cato Institute, seeking to gain majority control of the institute under a shareholders? agreement that had lain dormant for nearly three decades. Immediately all hell broke loose. Did the Kochs have a moral right to commandeer the Cato Institute? Could an institute literally owned by Charles and David Koch have any credibility with the general public? Did the Kochs intend to plug Cato into a vertically integrated, right-wing political machine? Those questions persist because the Kochs have offered shifting and contradictory rationales for their lawsuit, rationales that have increased the heat without adding much light...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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An eyewitness report on the Koch-Crane power opera
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/napolitano-cato.html

The Think-Tank Mentality
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As the currency weakens many countries that use the dollar are searching for alternatives. China is expected to be the top world economy in a matter of years. To add insult to injury, the BRICS countries have decided to lose the dollar and use their own currencies. So what does this mean for the US dollar?

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Invisible Empire

A New World Order Defined.
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