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Dr. Joseph Gerson, Truthout: ''Since last year s Lisbon summit, a number of us have organized the Network for a NATO Free Future, which demands the complete withdrawal of all US and NATO forces from Afghanistan; the withdrawal of all foreign deployed US troops, bases, nuclear weapons and missile defenses; substantial reductions in US and NATO military spending; and NATO s retirement.''

http://www.truth-out.org/self-determination-all-path-war-free-future/1326483620

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About Military Spending and the Pentagon Budget
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/02/08-0



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Danny Weil, Truthout: ''For-profit colleges have been paying lavish and grotesquely huge compensation to executives, both former and current, using money from student loans and government grants for decades. For-profit college executive compensation is currently under scrutiny by Congress because nearly all revenues that constitute the exorbitant and scurrilous executive pay packages come from federal grants, such as Pell Grants and loans, and such as Stafford Loans under the Title IV program.''

http://www.truth-out.org/kaplan-university-pays-executives-quarter-billion-dollars/1326222281



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Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/16/12

The fundamental interconnectedness between war and civil liberties abuses on the one hand, and the targeting of minorities as part of those policies on the other, is, of course, nothing new. It was most eloquently emphasized in the largely forgotten, deliberately whitewashed 1967 speech about the Vietnam War by Martin Luther King, Jr. (who himself was targeted for years with abusive domestic surveillance by the FBI s J. Edgar Hoover)...

http://salon.com/a/sX865AA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/18-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/18-4



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/18-1

Greeks Worry That a Future of Austerity is No Future at All
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/14-7

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Vampire Hedge Funds Are Sucking Greece Dry

By Les Leopold

Who are the real villains on Wall Street? When it comes to institutionalized greed and corruption, nothing tops the too-big-to-fail banks like JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30295.htm



Greek rescue blocked by hedge fund greed

Financiers who bought 'distressed' Greek debt insist on making vast profits from the crisis.

http://ind.pn/zdqiJo



'Austerity disease' spreads through the West

WHAT DO Nobel Prize-winning development economist Amartya Sen and IMF chief Christine Lagarde have in common? They both oppose the prevailing orthodoxy that all heavily indebted governments must cut their way back to prosperity as soon as they can. And they are not alone.

http://bit.ly/xMnZMm



Athens Is Burning and Angela Merkel Holds the Spent Match

Athens is besieged by riots, because ordinary Greeks understand what their leaders won t admit. The reforms imposed by Angela Merkel and Greek creditors will delay but not avoid a sovereign default.

http://www.globalpolitician.com/27310-eurozone-greece-germany



Accidentally Released and Incredibly Embarrassing: Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'

By Matt Taibbi

It doesn t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31345.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Rooted in Politics, Austerity Worsens the Greek Tragedy

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: ''So now the austerity isn t market-driven, its' political, the pound of flesh official lenders are demanding for maintaining the trickle of cash. And it really is in large part about punishment; we have now seen a fairly impressive demonstration that big budget cuts in a depressed economy hardly even reduce the deficit, because they drive the economy down and tax receipts with it.''

http://www.truth-out.org/rooted-politics-austerity-worsens-greek-tragedy/1327439325

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How Goldman wired Greece for implosion
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/europe/how-goldman-wired-greece-for-implosion.html



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DHS engaged in monitoring comments on Facebook, Twitter and blogs. http://bit.ly/AbYpqk


From Information Clearing House



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According to the paper, the solders filmed raping a boy and a girl separately and showed the video to other servicemen who reported them.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/19/64141642.html



Two British soldiers 'abused kids aged ten'

The accused pair, a sergeant and a private in the Mercian Battle Group. allegedly encouraged a boy and a girl to touch them through their clothes.

http://bit.ly/xD2WSK


From Information Clearing House

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Military Sexual Abuse: A Greater Menace Than Combat

H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: ''A woman who signs up to protect her country is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire,' stated former California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman in testimony before a July 2008 House panel investigating the militarys' handling of sexual assault reports. The Congresswoman added that her 'jaw dropped' when she learned from military doctors that four of ten women in a local veterans hospital had been raped by fellow soldiers.''

http://www.truth-out.org/military-sexual-abuse-greater-menace-combat/1327533957



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'Congress Corrupt To Core'

Video

When it comes to big money in America s politics, lobbyists are the people who know exactly how it works. RT talks to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff who explains why he thinks Washington is corrupted to the core.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30283.htm



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By Buffy Sainte-Marie

''My point in the song is that the American people haven t been given a fair share at learning the true history of the American Indian.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30280.htm



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