World-News

15% of U.S. Uses Food Stamps

By Gregor MacDonald

Today, national figures for the SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) were released and, once again, hit a new record.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29588.htm



Bringing Democracy Back Home

This Time, Let s Really Crash the Party

By Andrew Levine

The democratic character of the regime under which we live has waxed and waned over the past two and a third centuries. Today, it is at an especially low ebb; and unless current trends are reversed, the situation is sure to become even worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29592.htm



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By Glenn Greenwald

Little attention is paid to the constant victims of American violence in the Muslim world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29591.htm



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Cato Institute
by John Samples

10/27/11

Since the Cold War the United States has fought three major wars. Congress authorized each of these wars. The president has also initiated several limited wars. These limited wars have not been explicitly approved by Congress as required by Article I of the Constitution... [executive summary - full paper available in HTML or as PDF download]

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13805


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/01-11

Oakland Braces for 'Occupy' General Strike
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/01-1

Tomorrow, a General Strike in Oakland
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/01-13

Occupy Wall Street: A Postcard from Amazing Times
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/01-7

World Faces Years of Social Unrest as Economies Falter
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/01-2

Congressman Kucinich: 'Take Social Security off the Table'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/01-5

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Eurozone crisis sinks Wall Street giant

US brokerage firm reveals $6.4bn of eurozone debt making it seventh-largest bankruptcy by assets in US history.

http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2011/11/20111117555642766.html



Pull Your Money Out of BofA

Goldman Sachs has become the great symbol of investment banking corruption, and other companies like AIG and Countrywide have become poster children for problems with businesses like insurance and mortgage-lending. But when it comes to commercial banking, Bank of America is as bad as it gets.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-weapon-for-ows-pull-your-money-out-of-b-of-a-20111028



Austerity Measures Responsible For Athens' 'New Poor'

By Apostolis Fotiadis

The homeless have multiplied and, despite the approaching winter chill, have gathered en masse in central squares around the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29587.htm



DC s homeless to be left in the cold this winter

Residents of the Washington DC metropolitan area make on average the largest annual income of any region in America. The nation s capital also boasts a homeless population that is unmatched by many locales from coast-to-coast.

http://rt.com/usa/news/homeless-winter-dc-city-333/



Crowd swells at peaceful Occupy Oakland general strike rally

Hundreds have gathered for a mostly peaceful rally this morning in downtown Oakland to launch the general strike called by the Occupy Oakland movement, with nary a police officer in sight.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_19246904


From Information Clearing House

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Poverty, conscientiousness, and broken families

EconLog
by Bryan Caplan

11/01/11

Right-wingers should spend a lot more time reading left-wing ethnography of the poor. It may seem strange, but when leftist social scientists actually talk to and observe the poor, they confirm the stereotypes of the harshest Victorian. Poverty isn t about money; it s a state of mind. That state of mind is low conscientiousness...

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/poverty_conscie.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Während die Militärs immer kleinere und billigere Kampf- und Kamikazedrohnen entwickeln lassen, versuchen auch islamistische Terroristen, ferngesteuerte Waffen und Fahrzeuge zu basteln.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35773/1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/11/01/231-it-is-all-blowback/

Leaving Iraq?
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul776.html



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By Luke Johnson

Members of the House and Senate have a collective net worth of $2.04 billion, up from $1.65 billion in 2008.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29579.htm



Listen Now: A Warning to the Economic and Political Elites

By Kevin Zeese

Occupying Public Space is the Beginning of an American Revolt. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29566.htm



Confront the Predators with their Victims

By Mike Davis

Listen carefully to the profoundly quiet people who have lost everything but their dignity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29570.htm



Police Use Pepper-spray and Rubber Bullets at Occupy Denver Protesters

Video

The unnecessary show of force by the Denver Police Department was not only disproportionate and inflammatory, but a vastly excessive expenditure of public funds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29573.htm



Empty Promises: David Axelrod Feels the Pain of the 99%

By Scott Cruickshank

'In the past, national conventions have too often focused on wealthy donors, corporations, and Washington lobbyists.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29575.htm



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By Janell Ross

The big banks have actually figured out a way to make unemployed workers a profit center, one that only grows as things get worse...'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29580.htm



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Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

10/29/11

Remember, Libya was supposed to be another grand humanitarian adventure, with Uncle Sam riding in to save the poor Third World peoples. In Iraq some 200,000 civilians probably have died after George W. Bush s foolish neocon crusade. In Kosovo our new allies quickly kicked out a quarter of a million people they didn t like. There isn t much humanitarianism evident in Libya either, alas...

http://tinyurl.com/3u4xzw8



NATO in Libya: Is Syria next?

The Nation Blog
by Robert Dreyfuss

10/31/11

Now that NATO is closing up shop in Libya, will it turn to Syria? Right now, the answer is no. But if the fragmented Syrian opposition -- bolstered by Turkey, a member of NATO, which is turning increasingly against Syrian President Assad - manages to set up a Benghazi-like enclave either inside Syria or across the border in Turkey, anything goes. To be sure, there are lots of differences between Libya and Syria. ... That hasn t stopped hawks from suggesting that it s time to intervene in Syria, too...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/164284/nato-libya-syria-next


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Lavrov: Russia Won t Allow Syria To Become Another Libya

The Russian foreign minister was referring to the military intervention in Libya that came to an end yesterday. 'We will not allow such things to happen again...'

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2011/November/international_November31.xml&section=international&col=



Much blood will yet be shed in Libya

Days after Gaddafi was buried, the flag of Al Qaeda is flying in Libya and sharia law has been imposed. Now, many rebel fighters fear the rise of a hardline Islamist state - and will fight to the death to stop it.

http://tinyurl.com/4yqjrd5


From Information Clearing House



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Is Capitalism Losing the Debate?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/31-3

Tax Wall Street to Heal America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/31-1

Bill Moyers on a Democracy in Shambles: 'Money First, People Second... If At All
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/31-1

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Supercommittee of the One Percent Won t Even Think of Taxing Wall Street

Dean Baker, Truthout: 'While whacking our parents and grandparents with a big cut in Social Security benefits apparently draws bipartisan support, the supercommittee will not even score a plan to tax Wall Street financial speculation. In spite of the repeated pledges that everything is on the table, taxing Wall Street speculation is absolutely off the table.'

http://www.truth-out.org/supercommittee-one-percent-wont-even-think-taxing-wall-street/1320067344



The 'Tea Party' Movement, More Hype Than Reality

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: 'Politics is the art of compromise for the betterment of all; but by being so inflexible and wedded to winning the ideological battle, in the end the American people lose. As Republicans struggle through their 'anybody but Romney' selection process, the Tea Party with the assistance of mainstream media continue to hype weak and inexperienced prospects such as Bachmann, Perry and Cain while Republican leadership continues to succumb to their madness.'

http://www.truth-out.org/tea-party-movement-more-hype-reality/1319826556



Republicans Crack Me Up

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'Upon cracking open the Washington Post home page early Tuesday morning, I counted no less than eleven stories about GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain s not good very bad day on Monday. That bad day started with a Politico article detailing two separate incidents of accused sexual harassment leveled at Cain in the 1990s. Before anyone had a chance to decide whether or not the charges had merit, Mr. Cain and his people took the report and transmogrified it into the one thing the Washington press corps loves above all else: a juicy cover-up story.'

http://www.truth-out.org/republicans-crack-me/1320173304



Occupy the Future

Noam Chomsky, Truthout: 'I have never seen anything quite like the Occupy movement in scale and character, here and worldwide. The Occupy outposts are trying to create cooperative communities that just might be the basis for the kinds of lasting organizations necessary to overcome the barriers ahead and the backlash that s already coming. That the Occupy movement is unprecedented seems appropriate because this is an unprecedented era, not just at this moment but since the 1970s.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-future/1320154096

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The class war has begun

New York Magaziine
by Frank Rich

10/30/11

The tea-party right finds the hippie-scented movement in lower Manhattan repellent, but it and Occupy Wall Street are two sides of the same coin. 'Take Back America,' the initial tea-party battle cry, would work for those in Zuccotti Park as well. The disagreement is about which America needs to be taken back, and from whom...

http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/class-war-2011-10/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Everybody Hates Capitalism
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner516.html

Herman Cain: Nein, Nein, Nein!
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo143.html



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