World-News

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''Today, legislators and companies including Pfizer, Bank of America and Walmart, that benefit from the American Legislative Exchange Council s (ALEC) power in the legislative system will be the target of demonstrations, direct actions and various public shows of anger across the country under the banner of Shut Down the Corporations. 'The public is never informed that a group representing the most privileged people in America are drafting the legislation that disempowers the most vulnerable,' said David Osborn with Occupy Portland.''

http://www.truth-out.org/shut-down-corporations-action-takes-aim-alec/1330540090



C. Wright Mills Would Have Loved Occupy Wall Street

Peter Dreier, Truthout: ''C. Wright Mills, the radical Columbia University sociologist who died 50 years ... would have loved Occupy Wall Street. Mills challenged the widely held belief that American society, having triumphed over the fundamental problems of the 20th century (depression, war and fascism) had become a model of economic success, political democracy and social well-being. At a time when social scientists and journalists were extolling America s post-World War II prosperity, Mills warned about the dangers of the growing concentration of wealth and power.''

http://www.truth-out.org/tribute-one-occupy-wall-streets-intellectual-predecessors/1330454564



WikiLeaks Exposes Department of Homeland Security Spying on Occupy Movement

Allison Kilkenny, In These Times: ''[Department of Homeland Security] document appears to be more concerned with protecting the mechanisms of the financial sector than in ensuring the safety of citizens who are exercising their First Amendment rights. They talk about threats to 'critical infrastructure' and this fear that these protests are going to ... make commerce difficult and people are going to start losing money. There is a kind of bottom line in analysis to what they are talking about.''

http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-exposes-dhs-spying-occupy-movement/1330533841



Occupy Wall Street Rallies Monitored by Dow Chemical

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''Wikileaks revealed a massive trove of e-mails from the firm Stratfor. The e-mails show that the company, working on behalf of chemical giant Dow Chemical, closely monitored news coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Stratfor relayed the activities of people seeking redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, which resulted in the death of thousands and lasting environmental damage.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-street-rallies-monitored-dow-chemical/1330533118



A Tale of Two Protests: Shut Down the Corporations in Portland and Tucson

Alissa Bohling and Mike Ludwig, Truthout: ''Protesters in Portland, Oregon, and Tucson, Arizona, faced very different weather when they hit the streets yesterday, but they had one thing in common: they were among 70 cities nationwide where Occupy activists and others spoke out against members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), whose decades-long history of authoring and pushing pro-corporate legislation through the nation s statehouses has been criticized for strangling political and economic participation across the country.''

http://www.truth-out.org/tale-two-protests-shut-down-corporations-portland-and-tucson/1330637897

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Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not Its Messenger
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/01-4



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Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: ''If educators and others are to counter global capitalism s increased ability to separate the traditional nation-state-based space of politics from the transnational reach of power, it is crucial to develop educational approaches that reject a collapse of the distinction between market liberties and civil liberties, a market economy and a market society. This suggests developing forms of critical pedagogy capable of challenging neoliberalism and other anti-democratic traditions, such as the emerging religious fundamentalism in the United States, while resurrecting a radical democratic project that provides the basis for imagining a life beyond the 'dream world' of capitalism.''

http://www.truth-out.org/dangerous-pedagogy-age-casino-capitalism-and-religious-fundamentalism/1330459170



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Campaign For Liberty
by Stephen Gnoza

02/26/12

There is unrest in Syria and the war-drums keep beating to the tune of an attack on Iran. Is some sort of military intervention or war inevitable? If the Constitution is ignored, then more likely so. If the Constitution is respected as the Supreme Law of the Land, war may be avoided, or at least only undertaken with careful consideration, appropriate debate, and the representation of the people...

http://www.campaignforliberty.org/profile/4085/blog/2012/02/26/truth-about-war-powers-resolution


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Our Future
by Stan Collender

02/28/12

Congressional Republicans so far have been adamant that reductions in the projected spending assumed in the federal budget baseline for projected continuing military activities in Afghanistan must not be used to offset the cost of anything. They are not wrong in making this line-in-the-sand stand. They are, however, being astounding, perhaps even top-10 all-time, hypocrites in the process...

http://tinyurl.com/88k78mp



Our permanent war economy

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/21/12

In an era of unrestrained federal spending and debt, one of the most ludicrous arguments made by statists is that reducing the military budget would be harmful to the economy. Their suggestion is that military spending is beneficial to the economy -- that it creates jobs. Reducing military spending, they say, would result in laying off troops and downsizing of firms that supply uniforms, guns, etc. to the military...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-03-21.asp



Republican stubbornness on military spending

Downsize DC
by James Wilson

04/02/12

Republicans won the 2010 House elections by pledging deficit reductions and smaller government. Were they serious? After all, they undermine their own argument by refusing to make cuts in Defense Spending. This diminishes their credibility. And if we pretend they are serious about reducing the deficit, we can also see that their hard line on defense weakens their negotiating position...

http://bit.ly/HGSgv5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How Bush-era corporate welfare ran up the deficit

By Michael Scherer

A classic case study of how the tax code became a slush fund for corporate America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31032.htm

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Death, Taxes, and the Continued Insanity of US Military Spending
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/18-10



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By Christopher Williams

People got rich because of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Now, swords are being sharpened for Iran. How many players in the Middle East and elsewhere are interested in seeing this happen? All they need to do is pick up the phone or write a check, and it gets closer every day.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30671.htm



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A Look At The World s Most Powerful Mercenary Armies

Security giant G4S is the second-largest private employer on earth.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bi-mercenary-armies-2012-2?op=1


From Information Clearing House



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In These Times
by Jeffrey A. Winters
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02/27/12

In 2005, Citigroup offered its high net-worth clients in the United States a concise statement of the threats they and their money faced. The report told them they were the leaders of a 'plutonomy,' an economy driven by the spending of its ultra-rich citizens. 'At the heart of plutonomy is income inequality,' which is made possible by 'capitalist-friendly governments and tax regimes.' The danger, according to Citigroup?s analysts, is that 'personal taxation rates could rise, dividends, capital gains, and inheritance taxes would hurt the plutonomy...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12698/oligarchy_in_the_u.s.a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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