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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/02-0

How ''Drill, Baby, Drill'' and ''Yes We Can'' Got Married
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/02-1



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http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts341.html

The United States? War on Terror Threatens America
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff383.html

Society s Five Stages of Economic Collapse
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/meyer-d1.1.1.html

Americans Will Need 'Black Markets' To Survive
http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/smith-br4.1.1.html

Let s Talk About Freedom
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/03/02/259-let%E2%80%99s-talk-about-freedom/

A Biblical Case for Ron Paul on Four Issues of Importance to Christians
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/eversden1.1.1.html

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America s Dangerous Game
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/03/02



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By Lawrence Davidson

And why is America exceptional? The alleged capacity to force most of the world to its will.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30694.htm



Growing Number Of Americans Can t Afford Food, Study Finds

By Alexander Eichler

About 18.6 percent of people, almost one out of every five, told Gallup pollsters that they couldn t always afford to feed everyone in their family in 2011.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30695.htm



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CounterPunch
by Andy Kroll

03/01/12

You might say that [Jonathan] Schell, a former New Yorker staff writer renowned for his work on nuclear weapons and disarmament (his 1981 book The Fate of the Earth was a best-seller and instant classic), prophesied Occupy and the Arab Spring without even knowing it. He admits to being as surprised as anyone about the wave of nonviolent action that swept the world in 2011, but those who had read Unconquerable World would have found themselves uncannily well prepared for the birth of a planet of protest whenever it happened...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-kroll/how-empires-fall-includin_b_1313095.html



Corruption and the citizen, American-style

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

03/01/12

I have long nurtured this thoroughly depressing conviction that the United States, far from being a shining city on the hill, has become one of the most corrupt of nations. Why does America have more lawyers than the rest of the world combined? It is because the corruption has been institutionalized at every level of political life and is protected by laws and procedures created precisely to enable elites to maintain dominance over the rest of us...

http://bit.ly/zXe813



Foreign aid and the empire

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/12/12

The pro-empire crowd sometimes claims that the U.S. Empire is different from other empires in history in that it doesn t try to acquire foreign lands. They fail to grasp the real nature of the U.S. Empire. It isn t about acquiring foreign lands, it s about acquiring control over foreign regimes.

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-03-12.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Protesters Nationwide Occupy Corporations, Education

Allison Kilkenny, In These Times: ''The past week has proven to be something of a resurgence for Occupy Wall Street with two major protests featuring thousands of activists unfolding in states across the country.''

http://www.truth-out.org/spring-preview-protesters-nationwide-occupy-corporations-education/1330712214



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/01-3

Journalists, Activists Challenge NDAA Law
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/30-5



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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co.: ''We haven t even turned the page on the controversy over contraceptives, health care and religious freedom, when another thorny one arises involving personal conscience and public health. A flurry of stories over the past few days coincided with seeing a movie that inspires more than passing interest in their subject.''

http://www.truth-out.org/vaccination-nation/1330612546



In World s Richest Country, the Uninsured Wait in Line Overnight for a Chance at Health Care

Rose Aguilar, Truthout: ''Stan Brock never expected to see adults and children shivering in line in the middle of the night, hoping to get free medical, dental and vision care in the wealthiest country on earth. Brock is the founder of Remote Area Medical (RAM), an all-volunteer mobile medical clinic that s been traveling to cities across the United States offering free health care since 1992. 'You can close your eyes and stick a pin on the map of the United States and go there, and you re gonna find people by the hundreds, and in many cases by the thousands, that need services,' said Brock.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8301-in-worlds-richest-country-the-uninsured-wait-in-line-overnight-for-a-chance-at-health-care



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Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: ''Autopsy reports released last year by the Department of Defense raise stark questions about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two prisoners at Guantanamo. Both deaths of Abdul Rahman Al Amri in May 2007 and Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi in June 2009 - were labeled suicides by Department of Defense (DoD) investigators.''

http://www.truth-out.org/recently-released-autopsy-reports-heighten-guantanamo-suicides-mystery/1330542864



Guantanamo Prison s True Secret

Angola 3 News, Truthout: ''[T]he truth is 'much more mundane' than 'some huge national security secret.... It s about cruelty, incompetence, embarrassment ... But above all, it s about the torture, abuse, coercion and bribery that was in Guantanamo. There was a house of cards of evidence built out of nothing except the testimony of prisoners and their fellow prisoners, who were abused or persuaded in other ways to produce what masquerades as the evidence. That s the true secret.''

http://www.truth-out.org/guantanamo-prisons-true-secret-jason-leopold-conversation-worthington/1329933967



UN Special Rapporteur ''Looking Into'' Guantanamo ''Suicides''

Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: ''Earlier this month, Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, responded to an inquiry by this reporter regarding new information on the deaths of two Guantanamo prisoners, Abdul Rahman Al Amri and Mohammad Salih Al Hanashi. According to the Department of Defense (DoD), both prisoners died of suicide in 2007 and 2009, respectively. But new details surrounding their deaths, first reported by Truthout March 1, challenged government accounts concerning what happened.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8112-citing-truthout-report-un-special-rapporteur-looking-into-guantanamo-suicides

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The Guantanamo ''War'' Crimes Tribunal Worse than a Bush-era Horror Show

By Peter Foster

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, was subjected to mock executions, simulated drowning by water-boarding, scrubbed with stiff brushes until his skin was raw, threatened with a revving power drill as he stood hooded and naked, kept in such filthy conditions his CIA interrogators smoked cigars to mask the stench,

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31062.htm



Guantanamo Judge Avoids Ruling On 'Torture' Testimony

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was tortured by the United States of America. His lawyers say so. The U.S. government has said so.

http://bit.ly/Hyc7ca



No Real Justice in Guantanamo

By Reed Brody

Nashiri s trial before the Guantanamo military commission raises problems that go far beyond the fact that he was tortured.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31127.htm



'Vomiting and Screaming' in Destroyed Waterboarding Tapes

By Peter Taylor

''Portions of the tapes, particularly those of Zubaydah being waterboarded, were extraordinarily hard to watch,'' Rizzo told me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31288.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''Over just the last year 41 states have cut spending for public higher education. That s on top of deep cuts in 2009 and 2010.... Rising tuition and fees are making up the shortfall.... The children of middle- and lower-income families are hardest hit. Remember: The median wage has been dropping since 2000, adjusted for inflation.''

http://www.truth-out.org/stop-starving-public-universities-and-shrinking-middle-class/1330614677

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The War on Teachers: Why Is the Public Watching It Happen?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/13-10

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Public Education ''Failure by Design,''

By Noam Chomsky

''There has been a shift from the belief that we as a nation benefit from higher education, to a belief that it s the people receiving the education who primarily benefit and so they should foot the bill,''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30985.htm



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Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence: ''One question Fazillah cannot answer for her son is whether anyone asked the question at all of whether to kill his father. Forbes Magazine reports that the Air Force has sixty-five to seventy thousand analysts processing drone video surveillance; a Rand review states they actually need half again that number to properly handle the data. Asked to point to the human who actually made the decision to kill her husband, she can only point to another machine.''

http://www.truth-out.org/ghost-and-machine/1330611742

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The Ghost and the Machine

By Kathy Kelly with research by the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers

Aymal s father was sitting in a garden with four other men. A weaponized drone, what we used to call an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV, was flying, unseen, overhead, and fired missiles into the garden, killing all five men.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30687.htm



Protests grow as civilian toll of Obama s drone war on terrorism is laid bare

Outcry from innocent victims' families as figures show almost a third of strikes fail to hit targets

http://ind.pn/Ai6EdM


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Drone follies

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

03/05/12

This really is the kind of state the U.S. has become: One in which there is no real expectation of privacy from the government. First they were used in wars, and then in immigration control, and now in everyday law enforcement. How many drones will fill the American skies a decade from now? Two decades? Will it seem quaint for those of us who remember when law enforcement didn t rely on such total militarization to chime in, once in a while, hearkening back to simpler days?

http://blog.independent.org/2012/03/05/drone-follies/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Ron Paul on Drugs

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: ''Rep. Ron Paul s outspoken opposition to the war on drugs and federal drug prohibition sets him far apart from his opponents in the Republican primaries and President Obama. Paul s frank libertarianism and his willingness to boldly step outside the Washington status quo has not translated to primary victories, but has earned him a legion of young followers of all political stripes who want to see a change in the Republican Party and the way government deals with drugs.''

http://www.truth-out.org/ron-paul-drugs/1330626900



Towards a Creditor State: One in Seven Americans Is Pursued by Debt Collectors

Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism: ''One of the characteristics of the new social contract ushered in by both George W. Bush and Barack Obama is the increasing power of creditors to govern outright, from tax farming by banks to the use of credit checks to access employment opportunities. There are now thousands of people legally jailed because they aren t paying their bills, ie. debtor?s prisons have returned. Occasionally elites let it slip that this is not an accident, but is their goal.''

http://www.truth-out.org/towards-creditor-state-one-seven-americans-pursued-debt-collectors/1330796809



Un-Cheating Justice: Two Years Left to Prosecute Bush

David Swanson, War Is A Crime.org: ''Legal accountability can come after many years, as in the case of various Nazis, or of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, or of the murderers of civil rights activists including Medgar Evers.... In between, for the bulk of the book, Holtzman, a former district attorney, lays out the prospects for a prosecution of Bush and others on charges of lying to Congress about the grounds for war, wiretapping Americans, and conspiring to torture."

http://www.truth-out.org/un-cheating-justice-two-years-left-prosecute-bush/1330872233



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