World-News

By ICH

This partial chronology of U.S. intervention in the Middle East illustrates the lengths to which the U.S. power structure has gone to gain and maintain U.S. domination of the Middle East-a region considered key to the U.S. s standing as an imperialist world power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6308.htm



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven


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Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream

Glenn Greenwald

It seems pretty clear to me that although we may not be doing it with as much of an overt war as the neocons would like, it s just a slightly more subtle and different means of achieving the same end.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29836.htm



Unknown Snipers and Western Backed Regime Change

Death Squads in the Service of Western Intelligence

By Gearóid Ó Colmáin

The Western powers are the masters of discourse, who own the means of communication. The Arab Spring has been the most horrifying example of the wanton abuse of this power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29840.htm



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gearóid+Ó+Colmáin
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Under the Growing Influence of the 1%, American Exceptionalism has Become American Deceptionalism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/29-4

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Darwinian Stupidity

By Richard Schwartzman

Only a warmongering nation that makes enemies needs military bases all over the globe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29845.htm



The New Authoritarianism

From Decaying Democracies to Technocratic Dictatorships and Beyond

By James Petras

We delineate a two-stage process of political regression. The first stage involves the transition from a decaying democracy to an oligarchical democracy; the second stage currently unfolding in Europe involves the transition from oligarchical democracy to colonial-technocratic dictatorship.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29848.htm



'How Could This Happen in America?'

Why Police Are Treating Americans Like Military Threats

By William Hogeland

'Disconnect: liberals see a suddenly 'militarized,' possibly federalized police force. Black people see 'the usual.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29834.htm



The End of Poverty?

Documentary

Filmmaker Philippe Diaz examines the history and impact of economic inequality in the third world, and makes the compelling argument that it s not an accident or simple bad luck that has created a growing underclass around the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29844.htm

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Setting the trap

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

11/30/11

That the authoritarian strain in American politics is coming to the fore in this time of crisis should come as no surprise. Backed up against a wall, the ruling elite is baring its teeth, and the Constitution - which has long been a mere piece of moldering parchment rather than the law of the land - is easily disposed of. Our cowardly Congress, which lives only to advance special interests and line its own pockets, is hardly a bulwark against this onslaught: indeed, they are the source of it...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/11/29/setting-the-trap/



Police state America

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

11/29/11

Section 1031 exceeds the laws of war. Its ambiguities and excesses would institute extrajudicial national security state terror. No one anywhere would be safe. It calls 'covered persons' anyone captured or detained, even unconnected to hostilities. In other words, the executive could order anyone indefinitely incarcerated on his say alone...

http://bit.ly/sy3QHY



Dictatorship codified

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

11/30/11

There is one important thing, however, that we should keep in mind about the 2012 defense authorization bill, something that Levin and McCain point out in their op-ed: We are already living in a country where the president, the military, and the CIA possess the omnipotent, dictatorial power that is granted to them in the bill. As Levin and McCain point out, the bill is simply codifying a legal situation that already exists...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-11-30.asp



30 signs that the United States of America is being turned into a giant prison

Information Liberation
by Michael Snyder

11/30/11

If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death. In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that we do. Nothing is private anymore...

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=37466


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Levin-McCain 'sets the stage for martial law in the United States'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10713/

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Fourth Estate Pleads the Fifth
http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente86.1.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Snyder

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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/29-2

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Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13 Billion

By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29837.htm



Fitch Drops U.S. Debt Outlook To Negative

By Kevin Carmichael

Fitch said a negative outlook indicates there is a 'slightly greater' than 50-per-cent chance that the U.S. credit rating will be downgraded over the next two years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29842.htm



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http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?cl=1422847045&v=11317
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http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano30.1.html

Prepare for an Economic 9/11 and Economic Martial Law
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/11/29/237-prepare-for-an-economic-911-and-economic-martial-law/

The Trickle Becomes a Flood?
http://lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers248.html

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Sen. Warns of 'Unprecedented Threat to Constitutional Liberties'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/29-8

Battlefield America: U.S. Citizens Face Indefinite Military Detention in Defense Bill Before Senate
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/29-0



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Jesse Hagopian, Truthout: 'Beyond breaking the state Constitution and Judge Erlick s recent ruling, these budget cuts are literally a matter of life and death. Should the cuts be ratified, it would result in the elimination of the state s basic health plan, ending a program that subsidizes health care for some 35,000 people living in poverty. Denying health care to the state's most vulnerable populations will undoubtedly lead to increased morbidity.'

http://www.truth-out.org/washington-state-set-slash-education-and-health-care-poor/1322493493



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff370.html

Why Young Americans Love Ron Paul

They are sick of war, empire, jingoism, and the police state, says David Sirota.
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/why-young-voters-love-ron-paul.html

Newt Gingrich vs. Ron Paul
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo145.html

Getting Serious About Ron Paul
http://lewrockwell.com/greenhut/greenhut68.1.html

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How Private Warmongers and the US Military Infiltrated American Universities

Steve Horn and Allen Ruff, Truthout: 'A matrix of closely tied university-based strategic studies ventures, the so-called Grand Strategy Programs (GSP), have cropped up on a number of elite campuses around the country, where they function to serve the national security warfare state.

http://www.truth-out.org/how-private-warmongers-and-us-military-infiltrated-american-universities/1321396333



What Country Do We Want to Keep?

Thomas Drake, Consortium News: 'It is pure sophistry to argue that the government can operate secretly with unbridled immunity and impunity - especially for such blatant illegalities as torture and wiretapping without warrants - from those it is constitutionally bound to serve and protect when providing for the common defense of the Nation - and then persecute and prosecute the very people who revealed such wrongdoing and malfeasance.'

http://www.truth-out.org/what-country-do-we-want-keep/1322512180



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thomas+Drake
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/28-4

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Secret Fed loans gave banks $13 billion undisclosed to Congress
Business Week

11/28/11

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. ... The Fed didn t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required emergency loans of a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed s below-market interest rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue...

http://bit.ly/vjdvP5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/28-7

The Democratic Promise of Occupy Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/28-1

Occupy Congress: Norman Solomon Sees a Role for Progressive Legislators
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/28-0

Protesters Hit With Taser at Occupy Protest at Washington State Capitol
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/29-4

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BP on Trial at the Occupation

Greg Palast, Greenpeace: 'This is not the first courtroom where I ve faced off against BP, British Petroleum. But this time, I was outdoors, with a patrol car s red lights spinning. Occupy Wall Street asked me to act as 'prosecutor' in the Climate Court in their relocated locale in a New York park. I have the cold, hard, documentary evidence in my hand, gathered with the help of Greenpeace and their submarine (no kidding) in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caspian Sea, in Alaska.'

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-trial-occupation/1322498020



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