World-News

Scott Keyes, ThinkProgress: ''Eight in 10 Americans believe that there is too much money in American politics, and only 17 percent agree with the Supreme Court that corporations should be allowed to spend unlimited money to try to influence elections. Yet top Republicans are coalescing around the idea that current campaign finance laws, which still prohibit corporations and wealthy individuals from giving unlimited money directly to campaigns, are actually too restrictive.''

http://www.truth-out.org/republicans-start-unite-around-call-allow-billionaires-and-corporations-directly-fund-campaigns/1328



Grand, Old Psychos

Steve King, Truthout: ''I used to love Republican politics. I have always admired the Republican primary process for the way its leaders and frontrunners, unlike the Democratic primary candidates, seem to draw energy, support and money by being less politically correct than the next guy?. However, over the last several years, Republican political rhetoric has mutated into a kind of trickle-down insanity that has more and more translated itself in random acts of violence.''

http://www.truth-out.org/grand-old-psychos/1328197593



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By John Pilger

Washington s enemy is not ''terrorism'' but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30410.htm



Group Says FBI Snoops on Wikileaks Supporters

A nonprofit government watchdog claims the FBI refuses to release information on ''the government s identification and surveillance of individuals who have demonstrated support for or interest in WikiLeaks.''

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/31/43485.htm



You May Already Be an FBI Terror Suspect: 85 Things Not to Do

By Allan MacDonell

The FBI and DOJ have launched the ''Communities Against Terrorism'' program. The campaign seeks assistance from workers in 25 industries to spy on their fellow citizens ferret out the terrorists among us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30579.htm


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/02/01-3

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Nobel peace prize jury under investigation

USA Today

02/01/12

Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize s original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed Wednesday. The investigation comes after persistent complaints by a Norwegian peace researcher that the original purpose of the prize was to diminish the role of military power in international relations...

http://tinyurl.com/88w5wg7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/01-5



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Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: ''The UK action charity Reprieve, whose attorneys represent over a dozen prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, reports that former Guantanamo prisoner, Algerian citizen Abdul Aziz Naji, has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria.''

http://www.truth-out.org/former-guantanamo-prisoner-who-alleged-us-torture/1328025045



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/31

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One Million Killed

By Danny Lucia

OVER A million Iraqis are dead from America s war. That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people s immediate reaction is, ''That can t be right,'' because the United States couldn t do that.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30399.htm



Drones Over Iraq: When is a Pullout not a Pullout?

By Felicity Arbuthnot

It seems the world is sold a withdrawal from Iraq which was not quite what it seemed as presented by the Panetta-Obama-fest in the Baghdad, Fort Bragg speeches of just six weeks ago.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30402.htm



Aggression Born of American 'Exceptionalism'

By Hiroaki Sato

I thought American exceptionalism was debunked and dying. I was wrong.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30394.htm



Who is Responsible for War?

By Buffy Sainte Marie

His orders come from far away no more, They come from here and there and you and me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30404.htm



Economics Lesson 1

By Paul Craig Roberts

The consequences of a dead economy when the government is wasting trillions of dollars in wars of naked aggression and in bailouts of fraudulent financial institutions is a government budget that can only be financed by printing money.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30397.htm



The Impending Undeclared Default Of 5 Major US Banks

By Jim Sinclair

Jim Sinclair reveals an impending undeclared default of 5 major US banks this week.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30395.htm



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With Its Deadly Drones, the US is Fighting a Coward s War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/31-1

Amnesty International: USA Urged to Clarify Basis for Drone Killings in Pakistan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/31-2

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Hundreds of slaughtered civilians isn t a 'huge number' for Obama

Those drone attacks, carried out by unmanned aircraft controlled thousands of miles away, don t do a lot of harm, said the president.

http://rt.com/usa/news/drones-civilian-death-obama-187/


From Information Clearing House



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Foreclosure Auction Shutdown by Singing Activists
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Ben Bernanke: The Official Counterfeiter
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1093.html

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Immobility Nation: The Fable of the 'Land of Opportunity'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/31-2

A Journey To The End Of Empire: It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/01-0

Immigration Enforcement Results in Widespread and Systemic Human Rights Abuses, says New Amnesty International Report.
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/03/28-6

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Why Is Our Nation So Divided?

Video

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''Politics is an alternative to fratricide but it s no pacifier of our conflicts over issues that touch our deepest emotions, like: taxes, abortion, immigration, sexuality, you name it. The ambition for power and especially the control of government brings out the martial spirit that in our better days we manage to subdue, for the sake of sure survival.''

http://www.truth-out.org/why-our-nation-so-divided/1328023776

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Why the state will fail

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

01/31/12

There are only two possible outcomes in the present struggle between the authoritarian institutions of state and corporation, and the emergent society of self-organized networks and other voluntary associations of free people: The state will fail, and be replaced by a society in which people are free to pool their cooperative labor and skills as they see fit, and to exchange the products of their labor with their equals. Or, the state will succeed and create a technofascist empire that reduces humanity to serfdom and takes the biosphere down in flames...

http://c4ss.org/content/9613



No matter who wins, Americans lose

Nolan Chart
by Joel S. Hirschhorn

01/30/12

For Americans fed up with both major parties and their presidential candidates there is something smart, patriotic and courageous to do...

http://bit.ly/zvSDJ9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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