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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: ''Detainees at ... Guantanamo Bay launched a hunger strike today marking the prison's 10th anniversary, inspired in part by U.S. activists who have called for a national day of action.... And they're always very moved by the fact that Americans stand in solidarity with what they're going through and what their families are experiencing.''

http://www.truth-out.org/guantanamo-detainees-launch-hunger-strike-protest-prisonss-10th-anniversary/1326299739



Live From Guantanamo

J. Wells Dixon, The Center for Constitutional Rights: ''Today marks ten years since the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.... There is no visible recognition of today s anniversary, except an oblique reference in the local paper to marking 'ten years of progress.' Progress toward what? Perfection of lawlessness? Indifference to human suffering? ... Guantanamo Bay has been open for ten years too long. It is illegal and its continued existence demeans us. It must be closed.''

http://www.truth-out.org/live-guantanamo/1326310599

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Human Rights Watch: US: Make Guantanamo s 10th Anniversary Its Last
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/11-2

Guantanamo 10 Years On: So Much for Closure
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/01/12



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Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: ''According to an analysis by Citizens for Tax Justice, the average tax cuts received by the richest 1 percent of Americans under the Republican plans would be 270 times as large as the cut received by the middle class ... Even the meager tax cuts that would go to low-income and middle-income taxpayers under these plans would almost surely be offset by the huge cuts in public services that would become necessary as a result.''

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-candidates-tax-cuts-rich-are-270-times-larger/1326290934



Romney Looks Like the Nominee, but His Flaws Could Hurt Come Fall

Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers: ''[Romney] has received an often-tepid response from Republicans, even in his own New England backyard.... And he s shown a tendency to utter politically tone-deaf quotes that signal difficulty connecting with working-class voters who appear ripe for the picking from the Democrats.... 'Very few people actually like Romney,' said Tim Fortier, a car salesman from Hollis. 'If he s the nominee, people will hold their nose and vote for him, but you would be amazed how little enthusiasm there is for the guy.''

http://www.truth-out.org/romney-looks-nominee-his-flaws-could-hurt-come-fall/1326291391

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Romney and McCain: The GOP frenemies? club

Freedom Politics
by Michelle Malkin

01/10/12

Michael Corleone said to 'keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.' But what, pray tell, do we do with our frenemies? This is the awful election-year quandary of movement conservatives. And everything you need to know about our heartache can be summed up in one image: 2008 presidential election loser John McCain and Mitt Romney together on the campaign trail...

http://tinyurl.com/85aenqe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Did Romney and Bain Capital Profit at the Expense of Bain s Employees?
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1088.html

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Ask Mitt anything and get two different answers
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/campaign-2012/a-tale-of-two-mitts.html



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Anti-Wall Street demonstrators return to Manhattan square for first time in two months after barricades are torn down.

http://bit.ly/ySM2Da


From Information Clearing House

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Bill Moyers, Truthout: ''The lack of civility and common sense that has paralyzed our democracy, the vast economic and social inequality that sends both left and right raging into the streets, the corrosive influence of money in politics, we are in a tailspin with little hope for a course correction from our elected leadership or corporate-dominated media. The need for voices of reason, simple and eloquent, has rarely been stronger.''

http://www.truth-out.org/bill-moyers/1326216330



In 2012, the Real Conversation Will Be in the Occupations, While Corporate Candidates Have a False Conversation

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, October2011.org: ''Already, the Occupy Movement it showing its political independence: protesting candidates from both parties who are part of corrupt money-based elections. The irrelevance of the political debate, primarily between two-corporate approved candidates, will become more evident as the voices of the people grow.... The main job of the Occupy Movement during this election year will be to change the conversation from a mostly irrelevant debate between two corporate approved candidates to one relevant to the American people.''

http://www.truth-out.org/2012-real-conversation-will-be-occupations/1326292915

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Occupiers Return to Zuccotti Park
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/11-3

Grandparents, Unite! Your Grandchildren s Future is at Stake
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/11-6



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Nearly one in three American military aircraft is a drone, according to a congressional report, a 40-fold increase in the drone army from just a few years ago. From tiny man-portable flying wings to behemoth strike planes, unmanned aircraft now make up 31 percent of the military s air power.

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From Information Clearing House

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Skynet: One in Three U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot; 7,494 Drones and Counting
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo89.1.html

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The (Remote-Controlled) War at Home
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/13-9



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By Andre Evans

People are taught to live in a simulated reality, with pre determined goals, aspirations, and false expectations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30220.htm
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Still Unfair, Still Unjust, Still Unbalanced

By Richard RJ Eskow

The Obama White House continues to push for a settlement that would let bankers avoid being punished, or even investigated, for a wave of mortgage-related crimes that includes perjury, tax evasion, and several types of fraud.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30212.htm



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By Michael T. Klare

Welcome to an edgy world where a single incident at an energy ''chokepoint'' could set a region aflame, provoking bloody encounters, boosting oil prices, and putting the global economy at risk.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30217.htm



Boom And Doom: Revisiting Prophecies Of Collapse

By Debora MacKenzie

At the beginning of the 1970s, a group of young scientists set out to explore our future. Their findings shook a generation and may be even more relevant than ever today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30216.htm



The Perils of 2012

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

By 2011, the savings of those who had lost their jobs in 2008 or 2009 had been spent. Unemployment checks had run out. Headlines announcing new hiring, still not enough to keep pace with the number of those who would normally have entered the labor force, meant little to the 50 year olds with little hope of ever holding a job again.

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By Gil Scott-Heron

You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, because the revolution will not be televised.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30203.htm

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Occupy Wall Street: Why Now? What s Next?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/10-1



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