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By Danny Schechter

They are threatened by a movement that is winning public support because it is also a repudiation their own elite journalism in the service of the status quo.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29526.htm

Who Are You Protecting?

Police Turn Oakland Into War Zone

Video and report

Incredible footage emerged from downtown Oakland last night - a war zone in which police shot tear gas, bean bags, wooden dowels, flash grenades, and rubber bullets at protesters..

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29520.htm

Occupy Oakland: War Veteran in Critical Condition after Police Clashes

By Adam Gabbatt

An Iraq war veteran has a fractured skull and brain swelling after allegedly being hit by a police projectile.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29529.htm

New Poll Finds a Deep Distrust of Government

Almost half of the public thinks the sentiment at the root of the Occupy movement generally reflects the views of most Americans.

http://goo.gl/zlxVm

From Information Clearing House

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Globalizing Dissent, From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/26

The 1% Enjoy 275% Wealth Increase
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/26-6

Labor and Occupy Movements Continue to Stand in Solidarity
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/26-7

Glenn Greenwald on Two-Tiered U.S. Justice System, Obama s Assassination Program, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/26-0

PFAW Commends Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Citizens United
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/01-12

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Occupy Wall Street s Battle Against American-Style Authoritarianism

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: 'The Occupy Wall Street movement is raising new questions about an emerging form of authoritarianism in the United States, one that threatens the collective survival of vast numbers of people, not through overt physical injury or worse, but through an aggressive assault on social provisions that millions of Americans depend on. For those pondering the meaning of the pedagogical and political challenges being addressed by the protesters, it might be wise to revisit a classic essay by German sociologist and philosopher Theodor Adorno titled 'Education After Auschwitz,' in which he tries to grapple with the relationship between education and morality in light of the horrors perpetrated in the name of authoritarianism and its industrialization of death.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-streets-battle-against-american-style-authoritarianism/1319570241

'We the People,' Not 'We the Corporations'

Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'A year from now, Americans will be caught in an unprecedented blizzard of presidential campaign ads. We ll be blinded by the whiteout and buried in the storm s negativity. For the first time ever, most of this ad blizzard will not come from the candidates, but from ads secretly funded by huge corporations. This is because a five-man cabal on the Supreme Court issued an edict last year that perverts nature itself. In a case titled Citizens United, the five decreed that - shazam! - lifeless corporate entities are henceforth 'persons' with more electioneering rights than ... well, us real-life persons.'

http://www.truth-out.org/we-people-not-we-corporations/1319632343

Timothy Leary on the Wall Street Occupation Movement

Dr. Timothy Francis Leary, Truthout: 'The primary function of a free society in the post-democratic age is the protection of individual freedom from politicians who attempt to limit it. This individual-freedom movement is new to human history because it is not based on geography, politics, class or religion. It has to do with changes, not in the power structure, not in who controls the police, but in the individual s mind. It is a 'head' revolution: a consciousness-raising affair.'

http://www.truth-out.org/timothy-leary-wall-street-occupation-movement/1319050501

Democratic Boundaries: Corporate Cash vs. the 99 Percent

Andrew Stelzer, in collaboration with Truthout s Mike Ludwig, Making Contact/Truthout: 'The people of the United States have seemingly awakened. People are out in the streets, demanding changes to a system in which money controls politics. Some complain the masses have no clear demands. But with little transparency, it s often unclear exactly where to point the blame. On this edition, corporations, elections and the emerging movement to reclaim democracy. In a post-Citizens United world, is it too late to save our political system?"

http://www.truth-out.org/democratic-boundaries-corporate-cash-vs-99/1319636092

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Starmail - 27. Okt, 09:35

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The End of the American Era

By Stephen M. Walt

Barring additional self-inflicted wounds, the United States is not going to fall from the ranks of the great powers at any point in the next few decades.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29521.htm

US Income Disparity, Economic Anxiety Grow: Studies

By AFP

Income for the richest Americans has grown 15 times faster than for the poor since 1979, a government study showed, as a poll out Wednesday highlighted deep anxiety over uneven wealth distribution a year ahead of US elections.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29528.htm

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The US Is Fast Becoming a Third World Police State
http://lewrockwell.com/berwick/berwick18.1.html

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Starmail - 27. Okt, 06:15

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Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2011

Next Stop Syria and Then Iran

Drone warfare is fraught with danger

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

10/24/11

One can understand why Libyans would celebrate the end of the Qaddafi dictatorship. But the American people should nonetheless be concerned about what the U.S. government did in North Africa. On the day Qaddafi was killed, the New York Times reported that 'the death ... is the latest victory for a new American approach to war: few if any troops on the ground, the heavy use of air power, including drones, and, at least in the case of Libya, a reliance on allies.' The Times noted that this minimalist strategy was not in favor a few months ago...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1110v.asp

Another potential quagmire on the horizon

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

10/21/11

Disregarding American public sentiment - weariness of years of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya and robust drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia - President Barack Obama is now involving the United States in another potential quagmire, this time in Central Africa...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3173

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Libya destroyed: next stop Syria and then Iran
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket/libya-destroyed-next-stop-syria-and-then-iran.html

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Next Stop Syria and Then Iran

Former 4-star U.S General Admits to America Foreign Policy Coup

By Wesley Clark

Former four star general and NATO commander Wesley Clark talks about the neocon plan to invade seven countries in five years. Included in the plan was an attack on Libya.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29129.htm

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Starmail - 26. Okt, 10:52

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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

10/26/11

Why is the US involved in endless war around the world? Why, for that matter, do nations - or, rather, their governments - act the way they do? The number of answers is no doubt nearly equal to the number of questioners...

http://bit.ly/w35TrQ

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=endless+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo

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Starmail - 26. Okt, 10:46

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