World-News

Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies: 'A powerful coalition of US-based global companies is lobbying hard for a 'tax holiday' on offshore profits. Companies like Google, Apple, Pfizer, and General Electric have parked huge amounts of profits - a stash totaling more than $1.4 trillion - in offshore tax havens. They have stowed those funds abroad primarily to avoid having to pay federal taxes on that income.'

http://www.truth-out.org/uncle-sam-should-support-built-last-companies-not-built-loot-enterprises/1317738103



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http://lewrockwell.com/bauman/bauman-b13.1.html



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By William Blum

Is history getting too close for comfort for the fragile little American heart and mind? Their schools and their favorite media have done an excellent job of keeping them ignorant of what their favorite country has done to the rest of the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29292.htm



US plotted to change world political map:

'If the war does not significantly change the world s political map, the US will not achieve its aim,' the memo on US strategy, dated September 30, 2001, from Rumsfeld to former President George W. Bush.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202769.html



Rumsfeld in Heated Conversation with Al Jazeera

Video

Al Jazeera s Abderrahim Foukara asks the former US defense secretary whether he made adequate preparations to avoid the thousands of lives lost in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29314.htm


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/04

Nonviolent Wall St. Protestors Face Mass Arrest
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/04-0

Occupy Wall Street: Why So Many Demands for Demands?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/04-10

Occupy Wall Street Ends Capitalism s Alibi
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/04-3

Can the #Occupy Movement Be a Turning Point?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/04-4

It s Easy to Mock, but This Is How Real Change Begins
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/04-8

Why Environmentalists Should Occupy Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/04-13

Can We Be the 100 Percent?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/04-14

CODEPINK Occupies City Squares to Mark 10th Anniversary of Afghanistan War
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/10/04-2

What Do They Want? Justice
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/06-2

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Class Warfare Accelerating, Democracy Losing Grip

By Paul B. Farrell

Warning: Inequalities are at the heart of all revolutions. Today, inequities are at 1929 levels.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29297.htm



Exclusive 'Occupy Wall Street' Unaired Fox Footage

Video

Jesse LaGreca from Occupy Wall Street talks to Fox News...this clip never made it to air. The reason should be obvious pretty quickly.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29301.htm



Occupy Detroit: Fighting Foreclosures, Evictions
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/occupy-detroit:-fighting-foreclosures,-evictions-20111003



Occupy Wall Street is a tea party with brains

They want jobs. They want the generation in power to acknowledge them. They want political change. They want responsibility in a culture that abdicates it. They want a decent future of opportunity. If that isn t American, then what is?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/occupy-wall-street-is-a-tea-party-with-brains-2011-10-04



Reagan Called For An End To 'Crazy' Tax Loopholes

By Pat Garofalo

If calling for an end to millionaires having lower tax rates than their secretaries is class warfare, Obama is only the latest class warrior to occupy the Oval Office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29305.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Top Five Reasons Why the Occupy Wall Street Protests Embody Values of the Real Boston Tea Party

Lee Fang, ThinkProgress: 'In recent years, the Boston Tea Party has been associated with a right-wing movement that supports policies favoring powerful corporations and the wealthy. As ThinkProgress has reported, lobbyists and Republican front groups have driven the current manifestation of the Tea Party to push for giveaways to oil companies and big businesses.'

http://www.truth-out.org/top-five-reasons-why-occupy-wall-street-protests-embody-values-real-boston-tea-party/1317739240



Something Big Is Happening: Occupy Together

Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'To paraphrase one of Bob Dylan s songs of youthful protest, 'Something's happening here, and you don t know what it is, do you Ms. Bellafante?' A New York Times writer, Ginia Bellafante, is but one of many establishment reporters and pundits who have been covering the fledgling 'Occupy Wall Street' movement - but completely missing the story. Instead of really digging into what s 'happening here,' they have resorted to fuddy-duddy mockery of an important populist protest that has sprouted right in Wall Street s own neighborhood.'

http://www.truth-out.org/something-big-happening-occupy-together/1317837367



Van Jones on America s Uprising: It s Going to Be an Epic Battle

Adele M. Stan and Don Hazen, AlterNet: 'As the grassroots sit-ins and marches that originated as Occupy Wall Street spread to other cities, Van Jones, lead evangelist for the American Dream movement, took the stage Monday at a Washington, DC hotel where organizers of the institutional element of the progressive movement converged at Take Back the American Dream.'

http://www.truth-out.org/van-jones-americas-uprising-its-going-be-epic-battle/1317822661



Occupy Boston: Day One

Mark Provost, Truthout: 'The $64 trillion dollar question, 'When will Americans hit the streets like people in other countries?' has been answered. Over the last several days, occupations have spread from Wall Street, and erupted in more than 50 cities across America. The '99 percent' are rising to voice their grievances against an economic and political system which has disenfranchised them for too long. We share painful stories and common concerns, and want profound changes to how this country is governed - and for whom it is governed'.

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-boston-day-one/1317911627

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Thousands of Tea Party Voters Think Are Conservative
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1044.html



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The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President

Greg Palast, Truthout: 'Hedge fund magnate Paul Singer likes to breakfast on decayed carcasses. What he chews down is sickening, but just as nausea-inducing are his new tablemates: billionaires Ken Langone and the Koch Brothers, Charles and David. Singer has called together the billionaire boys' club for the purpose of picking our next president for us. The old-fashioned way of choosing presidents - democracy and counting ballots and all that...'

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vvy5nzrmKlUDMNqgBPUpO69jNnr4hYn4



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Audit Bernanke
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul769.html



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Campaign For Liberty
by Tim Shoemaker

09/30/11

This morning, news broke in the US that a drone strike killed 'radical cleric' Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen living in Yemen. This is disturbing for multiple reasons, namely that the executive branch now has successfully subverted the 5th Amendment in a way that likely would have made George W. Bush and Dick Cheney s legal counsel blush. This Presidential assassination now establishes the executive branch as judge, jury, and executioner of any American they deem a 'threat' to national security...

http://tinyurl.com/3p9dsts



The progressive policy of imperial murder

Empire Burlesque
by Chris Floyd

09/30/11

The whole point of these high-profile murders was to establish, yet again, the 'right' - and the power - of the U.S. president to kill anyone on earth, including American citizens, at his arbitrary command. .... The murders of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan are simply more public confirmations of this firmly established truth...

http://bit.ly/qoHs6C



Assassinating Awlaki

CounterPunch
by Michael Brenner
10/03/11

The Awlaki killing can only be interpreted and assayed meaningfully if placed in the context of the ?War On Terror.? For America today is not the same country that it was before 9/11. Our ethical standards, our sense of danger and vulnerability, our understanding of right and wrong, our readiness to place enormous discretionary power in the hands of our rulers - all have been qualitatively altered...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/03/assassinating-awlaki/



We were warned

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/03/11

In a Fourth of July message to Congress, John Quincy Adams suggested that if America were ever to embrace the principles of empire and militarism, she would become a dictatress of the world. What better evidence of Adams? wisdom than President Obama s assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, a state-sanctioned murder, one without any judicial process whatsoever?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-10-03.asp



Is it legal?

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

10/02/11

All I know is this: If it is legal for our government to kill people labeled 'terrorist' without due process, then it is perfectly legal for our enemies to label Americans as terrorists and kill us legally anywhere in the world...

http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-it-legal_723.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Awlaki killing shows US now in 'State of Exception'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10576/

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The Due-Process-Free Assassination of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/due-process-free-assassination.html

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Lethal Autonomy (Killer Flying Robots to Think For Themselves)
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/5188.html

Murder From the Skies on a Budget
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/offensive-technology/murder-from-the-skies-on-a-budget.html

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Awlaki is first hit for new drone base

The military, under the Joint Special Operations Command, has patrolled the airspace over Yemen with its own drones for much of the past year. Those aircraft are flown out of a base in Djibouti. The military has also operated drones out a base on the Seychelles and is establishing an airstrip in Ethi­o­pia.

http://wapo.st/qAoWu2



U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say

The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said.

http://wapo.st/nQUWru



The 'War on Terror' rages in the Philippines

In 2002, the US launched Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines; nine years later, the campaign there continues.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/inpictures/2011/10/2011104145947651645.html


From Information Clearing House



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Andy Worthington, Truthout: 'For nine and a half years - almost as long as the 'war on terror' has been providing an excuse for paranoia about Muslims in general - the case of US citizen Jose Padilla has demonstrated, to those wiling to pay attention, that something has gone horribly wrong in the United States of America. A former gang member and a convert to Islam, Padilla was arrested at Chicago s O'Hare Airport, in connection with an alleged 'dirty bomb plot' that never existed.... '

http://www.truth-out.org/it-could-be-you-sad-story-jose-padilla-tortured-and-denied-justice/1317399537

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12-year-Old To Be Jailed For Life?

By Change.org

Cristian Fernandez is only 12 years old. And if Florida prosecutor Angela Corey has her way, he will never leave jail again.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29296.htm



Nearly 12,000 Prisoners Join California Hunger Strike To End Torture Conditions

By Jeffrey Kaye

California prisons are a stinking mess, a scandal of gigantic proportions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29295.htm



Mother of tortured U.S. citizen appeals case to Supreme Court

On Monday, the mother of a U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, who was tortured at a naval base in Charleston asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other government officials on behalf of her son.

http://bit.ly/K3sg9D



Mother of American Torture Victim José Padilla Brings Case Before International Human Rights Tribunal

By ACLU

''The U.S. justice system denied a day in court to a U.S. citizen who was arrested and then tortured on U.S. soil by his own government...''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33289.htm



José Padilla Torture Case Brought Before Human Rights Tribunal

By Deborah Francois, Sheng Li, and Alaina Varvaloucas

Padilla is the only American citizen to have been seized on U.S. soil, detained as an enemy combatant, kept in incommunicado military detention, and tortured.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33299.htm


From Information Clearing House

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ACLU in Appeals Court to Hold Officials Accountable For Torture of Jose Padilla
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/10/26-1



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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: 'The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, is one of the most efficient, effective, penny-pinching programs in today s government-scape. Food stamps have cushioned the recession s blow for the 45 million Americans that depend on them for daily meals. And we are not talking government-subsidized caviar: On average, food stamp recipients can expect an allotment of $30 per week. Plus, it s a dream of a stimulus - every $5 in SNAP benefits generates nearly double that in economic activity. However, as the race to 2012 builds and the crazies get crazier, the top GOP presidential hopefuls have turned on this all-star program with a vengeance.'

http://www.truth-out.org/pro-hunger-lobby-gop-frontrunners-fight-aid-starving-americans/1317148242

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Romney: century of American dominance ahead

Romney said he would boost the number of Navy ships and pour more money into defense, outlining proposals to strengthen the military while rejecting multilateral institutions like the United Nations when necessary.

http://bo.st/p7qI0o


From Information Clearing House



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Chickening Out in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/03



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