World-News

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch: ''Oil prices are now higher than they have ever been except for a few frenzied moments before the global economic meltdown of 2008. Many immediate factors are contributing to this surge, including Iran s threats to block oil shipping in the Persian Gulf, fears of a new Middle Eastern war, and turmoil in energy-rich Nigeria.''

http://www.truth-out.org/tough-oil-world-why-twenty-first-century-oil-will-break-bank-and-planet/1331647497

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The Nigerian oil holocaust
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/energy/the-nigerian-oil-holocaust-.html



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Video

Under question from Sen. Sessions at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey indicated that ''international permission,'' rather than Congressional approval, provided a 'legal basis' for military action by the United States.

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From Information Clearing House

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GOP legislation warns Obama of impeachment over military action

The Daily Caller

03/12/12

A Republican congressman has introduced a bill that appears to warn President Obama that he could be impeached if the United States gets involved militarily in Syria without congressional approval. The bill introduced last week by North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones declares that it is an impeachable offense for a president to authorize military action against another country without consent from Congress...

http://thedc.com/A597iH


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By George Lakoff

The Republican presidential campaign is about a lot more than the campaign for the presidency. It is about guaranteeing a radical conservative future for America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30796.htm



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Allison Kilkenny, In These Times: ''This weekend marked the year anniversary of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signing disastrous anti-union plans that undermined collective bargaining rights for employees in his state. On Saturday, tens of thousands of union activists and supporters rallied at the state Capitol in Madison to mark the macabre commemoration.''

http://www.truth-out.org/60000-people-protest-governor-scott-walker/1331574854



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http://lewrockwell.com/wile/wile47.1.html

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Turning the Internet into a police state

Spiked
by Patrick Hayes

04/03/12

A government that said it d be 'strong in defence of freedom' now wants to spy on everything we do online...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/12309/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff155.html

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Welcome To The 1% Recovery

By Mike Konczal

As the 1% reap 93 percent of the income gains from the recovery, we are rapidly returning to pre-New Deal levels of inequality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30783.htm

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The Precarious Jobs Recovery

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''Jobs are coming back fast enough to blunt Republican attacks against Obama on the economy and to rob Romney of the issue he d prefer to be talking about in his primary battle against social conservatives in the GOP. But jobs aren t coming back fast enough to significantly reduce the nation's backlog of 10 million jobs.''

http://www.truth-out.org/precarious-jobs-recovery/1331563881



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By CanSpeccy

The latest poverty statistics that show the number of American families with an income of less than two dollars per person per day more than doubled between 1996 and 2011.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30765.htm



How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World

By Michael Parenti

Isn t it time that liberal critics stop thinking that the people who own so much of the world, and want to own it all, are ''incompetent'' or ''misguided'' or ''failing to see the unintended consequences of their policies''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17102.htm

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The Widening Wealth Divide, and Why We Need a Surtax on the Super Wealthy

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''Let Santorum and Romney duke it out for who will cut taxes on the wealthy the most and shred the public services everyone else depends on. The rest of us ought to be having a serious discussion about a wealth tax. Because if you really want to know what s happening to the American economy you need to look at household wealth, not just incomes.''

http://www.truth-out.org/widening-wealth-divide-and-why-we-need-surtax-super-wealthy/1331660880



How We Cured ''the Culture of Poverty,'' Not Poverty Itself

Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch: ''Fifty years later, a new discovery of poverty is long overdue. This time, we ll have to take account not only of stereotypical Skid Row residents and Appalachians, but of foreclosed-upon suburbanites, laid-off tech workers, and America s ever-growing army of the working poor. And if we look closely enough, we ll have to conclude that poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money.''

http://www.truth-out.org/how-we-cured-culture-poverty-not-poverty-itself/1331821823

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The War on the Poor
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=7024#newspost



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Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: ''Unless Ron Paul somehow wins the nomination, it looks as if a vote for the Republican presidential candidate this fall will be a vote for war with Iran. No other conclusion can be drawn from parsing the candidates' public remarks.''

http://www.truth-out.org/field-hawks/1331398935

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Will Republican convention delegates choose Ron Paul or Obama?

Nuzcom
by Neal Reynolds

03/02/12

[N]o doubt ABC, CNN and all other 'major' TV news outlets (from which most people, even in this internet era, get their news and [whether they realize it or not] opinions), will continue to imply that the only valid choices are the Romney, Santorum, or other prior 'candidates of the moment' they have previously endorsed (effectively), such as Gingrich or Perry. But most republican delegates know that any of these candidates will almost certainly lose against Obama...

http://bit.ly/xZGE8Q


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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