World-News

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

We have already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: ''Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30348.htm



George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War

By John Arlidge

''The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30347.htm



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By Justin Randle

The use of unmanned aircraft belies Americas' rhetoric about its values.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30343.htm



US Drowning in Hypocrisy

By Paul Craig Roberts

As the western ''democracies'' become increasingly lawless, the mask of law that imperialism wears is stripped away and with it the sheen of morality that has been used to cloak hegemonic ambitions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30349.htm



What Kind of Christianity Is This?

By Gary G. Kohls

Christianity has justified some of the most brutal slaughters in human history, from the wars of the late Roman Empire to the Crusades to the Inquisition to world wars to genocides against ''heathens,'' Muslims and Jews.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30357.htm

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Why Peace?
http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer-br/shaffer-br11.1.html



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A Tale of Three Cases

By Glenn Greenwald

When the purpose of American justice is to shield those who with the greatest power who commit the most egregious crimes, while severely punishing those who talk publicly about those crimes, its' hard to imagine how it can get much more degraded or corrupted than that.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30342.htm

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Truth, justice and the American way

Liberty For All
by Michael Badnarik

01/24/12

When I was growing up, Superman was the ultimate hero on American television. The opening promotion proudly proclaimed that Superman was fighting for 'truth, justice, and the American way!' Unfortunately, Superman is fiction, and there is neither truth nor justice in our American courtrooms today...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7180



''Land of the Free?'' Think again

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
by Jonathan Turley

01/22/12

Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own, the 'Land of the Free.' Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence...

http://bit.ly/AbpThC


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Hawaii Reporter
by John S. Carroll

01/22/12

The bills, while purporting to protect intellectual property and attack the online piracy of things like music and movies also included language that made it possible for the government to unilaterally censor or shut down any Web operations it wanted. This blatant infringement of free speech, and affront to the U.S. Constitution was tucked into the small print...

http://tinyurl.com/6og64sw



An opportunity gone to waste

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

01/23/12

Civil Liberty, essentially the accountability of government to law that serves to protect the innocent, is the historic achievement of the English over many centuries from its beginnings with the foundation for common law established by Alfred the Great in the 9th century through Magna Carta in the 13th century to the Glorious Revolution in the 17th century. If this human achievement is lost, it is unlikely to be resurrected. If the Constitution that Bush and Obama have murdered stays in its grave one more presidential term, no one will be able to re-establish the Constitutions? authority...

http://bit.ly/yWBXN8



The American press and war

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Tim Kelly

01/12

There is a myth of an independent American press existing as a counterforce to government power. Unfortunately, the truth is less inspiring, especially with respect to the U.S. governments' wars, invasions, and foreign interventions. Rather than keeping the public well-informed, journalists and reporters have all too often served as conduits for government propaganda in the march to war...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1201l.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch: ''Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is not at all clear.... What we do right now, or fail to do, will determine what kind of world will greet that event. It is not an attractive prospect if present tendencies persist, not least, because the Great Charter is being shredded before our eyes.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10473-destroying-the-commons-how-the-magna-carta-became-a-minor-carta

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The Price of Infringement
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/larosa7.1.1.html



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Stop Internet Censorship
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul792.html

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The Rand Paul Detainment and the escalating executive dictatorship
http://lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson331.html

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Rand Paul talks about his detainment by the TSA
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/defending-civil-liberties/rand-paul-talks-about-his-detainment-by-the-tsa.html



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A fitting symbol of the American Empire

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/20/12

The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. That picture will live forever in the memories of people in the region, along with the pictures from Iraqs? Abu Ghraib prison...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1201n.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Mike Whitney

The Banks Need to Offload Millions of Unwanted Homes. Guess Whos' Going to Buy Them?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30331.htm



Obama to Use Pension Funds to Pay for Bank Mortgage ''Settlement''

By Yves Smith

Obama is apparently going to present his belated Christmas present to the banking industry as a boon to ordinary citizens.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30336.htm



Obama s Refinancing Swindle

By Mike Whitney

Barack Obama s new housing refinance plan has nothing to do with ''lowering monthly mortgage payments so responsible borrowers can stay in their homes''. That's all public relations bunkum.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30436.htm

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Critics to Obama: Stand with Homeowners, Not Big Banks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/23-2

Stand Against a Sweetheart Deal With the Big Banks
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/23-7



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By Lawrence Davidson

Disenchanting the public of official lies is what really rattles those in power. Of course, it is quite possible that most of the public, in the U.S. and elsewhere, doesn t care about the truth either, however Power is not taking any chances in this regard.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30334.htm



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Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick-Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on 'Jersey Shore.' The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.''

http://www.truth-out.org/chris-hedges-corporate-state-will-be-broken/1327331237



Shale-Shocked: Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement

Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch: ''This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: there is no life without it.... But for once, this story isn t about tragedy. It's about a resistance movement that has arisen to challenge some of the most powerful corporations in history.''

http://www.truth-out.org/shale-shocked-fracking-gets-its-own-occupy-movement/1327328955

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The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/24-1



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Wrights 2012
by R. Lee Wrights

01/21/12

Despite all the hysteria, wailing and gnashing of teeth from Washington warhawks, there are no spending cuts proposed in the defense budget nor is there any change at all in our defense policy. Typical of the frenzy was the comment by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) that the ''massive cuts'' and supposedly new strategy 'ensures American decline.' But it?s all a charade...

http://tinyurl.com/76yrg6l


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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