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After 'Citizens United': The Attack of the Super PACs
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/20-2

Two Years After ''Citizens United,'' Amending the Constitution is Essential
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/20-10

The Age of the Super PAC
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/21-1

What Citizens Can Do to Fight Citizens United
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/27-2

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Thanks to Citizens United, Multinational Mega Lobbyist Firm Salivates Over $4 Billion in Campaign Cash

Lee Fang, AlterNet: ''For the WPP Group, which owns firms involved in the influence game from top to bottom, the more corporate money in elections the better. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with its state affiliates like the Michigan and California Chamber of Commerce, will probably spend tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying and running ads this year. We now have parties embracing SuperPACs and begging wealthy donors to cash. Obama s campaign has pledged to raise $1 billion.''

http://www.truth-out.org/thanks-citizens-united-multinational-mega-lobbyist-firm-salivates-over-4-billion-campaign-cash/13270



Citizens United: A Tsunami of Secret Corporate Cash Is Drowning Our Democracy

Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future: ''Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Since then, our democracy has been drowning in a tsunami of corporate special interest money. Our government is under the thumb of the Koch brothers and other corporate moguls instead of the hands of the people. And citizens are uniting in their disgust.''

http://www.truth-out.org/citizens-united-tsunami-secret-corporate-campaign-cash-drowning-our-democracy/1327156427



Mandate Transparency on the Anniversary

Lisa Gilbert, Huffington Post: ''Mandating transparency is well within the SECs' authority, and there is no time like the 2 year anniversary of this game changing decision to set the wheels in motion. The SEC should shine a light on corporate spending in politics and enable the public and shareholders to hold CEOs' accountable when they spend in politics. Otherwise, I fear the recap I will be giving of this election at next years' anniversary.''

http://www.truth-out.org/mandate-transparency-anniversary/1327163730



The Nitty-Gritty on the Amendment Movement to Defeat Citizens United

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: ''Hundreds of protests across the country over the past weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Courts' controversial ruling on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission... which unleashed unlimited independent campaign spending and gave rise to the now-infamous super PACs.... A recent poll shows that 62 percent of voters oppose the Citizens United decision ... More than half of those polled said they would support a constitutional amendment to reverse the ruling.''

http://www.truth-out.org/activist-primer-nitty-gritty-amendment-movement-defeat-citizens-united/1327521533



Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood

Bill Moyers, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.: ''Citizens United is but the latest battle in the class war waged for thirty years from the top down by the corporate and political right. Corporations were endowed with the rights of 'personhood' but exempted from the responsibilities of citizenship. Thats' the doctrine picked up and dusted off by the John Roberts Court in its ruling on Citizens United.''

http://www.truth-out.org/bill-moyers-fighting-back/1327630978



Corporations Are Not People

Thom Hartmann, Truthout: ''Most Americans don t realize that the idea that 'corporations are people' and 'money is speech' are concepts that were never, ever considered or promoted or even passed by any legislature in the history of America. Jeff Clements, a former assistant attorney general for Massachusetts, has written a brilliant and very accessible guide to the 2010 US Supreme Court Citizens United decision, how it came about and what can be done about it.''

http://www.truth-out.org/corporations-are-not-people/1328107954



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VIDEO

Romney was walking the rope line outside of his headquarters in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday when a person off camera asked, ''What would you do to support the 99 percent, seeing as how you are part of the 1 percent?''

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From Information Clearing House



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The Army also reported a sharp increase, nearly 30 percent, in violent sex crimes last year by active-duty troops. More than half of the victims were active-duty female soldiers ages 18 to 21.

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Suicides Outpacing War Deaths for Troops

Timothy Williams, The New York Times News Service: ''The suicide rate among the nation s active-duty military personnel has spiked this year, eclipsing the number of troops dying in battle and on pace to set a record annual high since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan more than a decade ago, the Pentagon said Friday. Suicides have increased even as the United States military has withdrawn from Iraq and stepped up efforts to provide mental health, drug and alcohol, and financial counseling services.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9690-suicides-outpacing-war-deaths-for-troops



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Marianne Gingrich, a self-described conservative Republican, said she is coming forward now so voters can know what she knows about Gingrich.

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Gingrich attacks 'vicious' media in US debate

US Republican presidential hopeful denies during South Carolina debate that he asked second wife for an ''open marriage''.

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Gingrich Surges With Old, Familiar Ploy: Racist Attacks on Poor People

Seth Freed Wessler, ColorLines.com: ''Newt Gingrich has done as much to wreck the federal safety net and translate the Southern Strategy into the post-racial era as anyone in Washington. His chances of gaining the Republican nomination are slim, but the war against poor people that Gingrich has lead is well entrenched. Regardless of who wins the GOP nomination, Gingrichs' legacy will carry on.''

http://www.truth-out.org/gingrich-surges-old-familiar-ploy-racist-attacks-poor-people/1327161678



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Both are legally prohibited but speciously justified by the White House. The difference? Obama s policy kills innocent bystanders.

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From Information Clearing House

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ACLU Suit Demands Release of US Government s 'Assassination Memos'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/02-4

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Tell President Obama: We need transparency about the government s targeted killing program
http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=6D-A5MvMeR6gYustXKqOkA



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By John Pilger

That the most numerous victims of terrorism, western terrorism, are Muslims is unsayable, if it is known.

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The CIA s Cassandras

By Gabriel Kolko

Paying people to whom one pays scant attention, is merely an overhead charge of the essential hypocrisy which is an integral part of American life and a dimension of its ethos.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30310.htm



''We the People,'' not ''We the Corporation''

By Ralph Nader

This year, Congress will spend well over $3 billion on its own expenses to do nothing of significance other than shift more debt to individual taxpayers by depleting the social security payroll tax by over $100 billion so both parties can say they enacted a tax cut!

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Ölpreis könnte durch Spannungen am Golf erheblich steigen, warnen südkoreanische Ökonomen.

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Capitalism s Real Gravediggers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/19-9

2012 s Civil Liberties Apocalypse Has Already Happened
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/19-10

Working and Poor in the USA
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/19-4



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Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Named One of 10 U.S. Species Most Threatened by Fossil Fuel Development
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Senator, Environmental Groups Call to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
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