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12 Things That The Mainstream Media Is Being Strangely Quiet About Right Now

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/12-things-that-the-mainstream-media-is-being-strangely-quiet-about-right-now


From EMR-Updates

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US Mayors Tell Congress: Bring War Dollars Home
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/20-7

Time for Mayors to Take the Lead
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20-8

President Earns Peace Prize: Redefines 'Hostilities'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20

Constitution Project: Obama Unilateral Action and Disregard for Legal Counsel Opinion on Libya Draws Condemnation
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/20-11

It Just Couldn t Be Uglier: Annals of the War on Terror
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/20-5

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Moral Degeneracy and Violence in the 'Kill Team' Photos

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: 'War, violence and death have become the organizing principle of governance and culture in the United States as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. Lacking a language for the social good, the very concept of the social as a space in which justice, equality, social protections and a responsibility to the other mediate everyday life is being refigured through a spectacle of violence and cruelty. Under such circumstances, ethical considerations and social costs are removed from market-driven policies and values just as images of human suffering are increasingly abstracted from not only their social and political contexts, but also the conditions that make such suffering possible. Moreover, as public issues collapse into privatized considerations, matters of agency, responsibility and ethics are now framed within the discourse of extreme individualism.'

http://www.truth-out.org/reveling-pain-others-moral-degeneracy-and-violence-kill-team-photos/1308333080



This Hero Didn t Stand a Chance

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: 'Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on parcels of land, including areas around eastern Utah s national parks, which were being sold off by the Bush administration to the oil and natural gas industry. As Bidder No. 70, he drove up the prices of some of the bids and won more than a dozen other parcels for $1.8 million. The government is asking Judge Benson to send DeChristopher to prison for four and a half years. His prosecution is evidence that our moral order has been turned upside down.'

http://www.truth-out.org/hero-didnt-stand-chance/1308576124



Business as Usual on Steroids

Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch: 'In the seven weeks since the killing of Osama bin Laden, pundits and experts of many stripes have concluded that his death represents a marker of genuine significance in the story of America s encounter with terrorism. Peter Bergen, a bin Laden expert, ... wrote, 'Killing bin Laden is the end of the war on terror.'... We can just sort of announce that right now.' Yet you wouldnt know it in Washington where, if anything, the Obama administration and Congress have interpreted the killing of al-Qaeda s leader as a virtual license to double down on every 'front' in the war on terror.'

http://www.truth-out.org/business-usual-steroids/1308576546

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The Truth About the Economy

Video

Robert Reich connects the dots on the economy, in less than 2 minutes and 15 seconds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28375.htm



Everything We are Doing Now Was Planned BEFORE 9/11

By Washingtons Blog

We have been told that 9/11 changed everything. Is it true? Let s look at the facts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28385.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/martenson8.1.1.html

Think 2008 Was Bad?
http://lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j145.html

The Misery Index Is at a 28-Year High
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/misery-index-28-year-high.html



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Extremism Is the New Race Card
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/mullen-t4.1.1.html

Operation Fast and Furious a Deadly Govt Failure
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/clabough3.1.1.html

Debtucation
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/debtucation.html

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The American Spring

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

06/20/11

While the neocons are hoping 'American leadership' exercised in Libya (and possibly Syria) will co-opt the Arab Spring, what they really fear is an American Spring. And just as they never foresaw the Arab awakening and the overthrow of US-supported dictators in Egypt and Tunisia, so they are blind to the coming American awakening -- a massive grassroots rebellion against the political status quo right here in this country...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/06/19/the-american-spring/



At the mercy of the state

Campaign For Liberty
by Tom Parker

06/17/11

The extraordinary rendition program run under both the Clinton and Bush administrations is a perfect example of unchecked government power run amuck. There has been no meaningful oversight and no accountability. No government employee has been punished; no government agency has been forced to make restitution to those wrongly impacted. In the absence of accountability, there is absolutely nothing to stop the government doing this again and again, every time it feels threatened...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1465



The battle over immigration is about to affect us all in a big way

Liberty For All
by Chris Calabrese

06/19/11

Despite a significant error rate, pleas from multiple sectors of American business, and the heightened risk of identity theft, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is dead-set on pushing legislation that would make the flawed E-Verify system mandatory for every U.S. worker and today [June 14] he introduced H.R. 2164, the Lawful Workforce Act, which would do just that. This initiative is one of the top Republican priorities for this Congress...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=6061



When the state breaks a man

LewRockwell.com
by William Norman Grigg

06/20/11

'How much does the State weigh?' Josef Stalin asked an underling who had been ordered to extract a confession from an enemy of his regime. Stalin understood that, given enough time, agents of State-sanctioned cruelty can break any man. Thomas J. Ball, who committed suicide by self-immolation on the steps of New Hampshire s Cheshire County Courthouse on June 15, was a man who had been broken by the State...

http://lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w219.html



Congressional duplicity and lawlessness

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

06/19/11

In Washington, hypocrisy and duplicity substitute for resolute action to obey international and constitutional law. In fact, they are mere artifacts long ago discarded to advance Americas imperium. All Washington s wars are illegal. International law permits them only in self-defense. Constitutional law only lets Congress, not the president, declare or wage them overtly, covertly or any other way for any reason unless America was attacked...

http://tinyurl.com/3jghel4



Obama s war is peace

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/17/11

Apparently bombing military forces and government facilities while taking sides in a foreign country s civil war no longer constitutes participation in hostilities. Obama apparently read Orwell s 1984 ... and learned the wrong lesson. Thus the president thumbs his nose at a lawsuit filed by several members of Congress aimed at forcing him to comply with the law...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1106r.asp



Promoting militarism, hiding bloodshed

In These Times
by David Sirota

06/18/11

In a breathless story somehow presented as a groundbreaking revelation, The New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon is - shocker! - using all sorts of media channels to market itself to the nation s children. Though the Times presents this as a brand-new development, it is nothing of the sort. The armed forces have spent the last three decades carefully constructing a child-focused Military-Entertainment Complex, which has long had the Pentagon subsidizing everything from video games to movies - most of which glorify militarism to kids...

http://tinyurl.com/6hbvz38


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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When the Respectable Become Extremists The Extremists Become Respectable

By James Petras

Extremism in all of its forms permeates Western regimes and finds its justification and rationalization in the respectable media whose job is to indoctrinate civil society and turn citizens into voluntary accomplices to extremism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31392.htm



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Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: 'The war is affecting more than just Western soldiers and their families and Afghan citizens. It has become a costly drain on our nation s treasury; the money that is being spent on the war represents resources that are being drained away from important domestic priorities in a nation with sky-high unemployment and crumbling infrastructure. Using data from the National Priorities Project, ThinkProgress calculated ten investments America could've afforded if it didn't spend $113 billion - the allotment made in Fiscal Year 2011 - on the war in Afghanistan.'

http://www.truth-out.org/113-billion-hole-ten-things-america-gave-year-pay-war-afghanistan/1308503801



Evaluating the Drug War, By the Numbers

Akiba Solomon and Stokely Baksh, Colorlines: 'At the estimated cost of $1 trillion, the War on Drugs has triggered the mass incarceration, mostly of black and brown people through harsh penalties for non-violent drug violations like simple possession... In addition, people with drug convictions (and their families) have been evicted from public housing, deemed ineligible for food stamps and college financial aid, and denied employment. This failed war has destroyed mothers, fathers, children, grandparents - whole communities. One thing it hasn t done: End the use and sale of drugs.'

http://www.truth-out.org/evaluating-drug-war-numbers/1308497442

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Just Say NO to the War On Drugs

Comedian Elon James White takes on America s failed forty-year war on drugs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqDunp0JTE&feature=player_embedded


From Information Clearing House



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Housing prices, once on the rebound, are falling again. Inventories of unsold homes mean housing prices will remain weak for years.

http://bit.ly/munHH4



How Miserable? Index Says the Worst in 28 Years

Misery, as measured in the unofficial Misery Index that simply totals the unemployment and inflation rates, is at a 28-year high, reflective of how weak the economic recovery has been and how far there is to go.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43441924



Corporations buying our lawmakers

Virginia lawmakers flying to France as part of lobbying push for uranium mining: Five legislators arrived in Paris on Wednesday to see a closed mine in Bessines, in western France. Nine others leave Tuesday on a five-day trip - expected to cost $10,000 a person - that includes about three free days in Paris.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/virginia-lawmakers-flying-to-france-as-part-of-lobbying-push-for-uranium-mining/2011/06/15/AG0BDxXH_print.html


From Information Clearing House



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'It is a violation of Yemen s sovereignty and a crime committed against the Yemeni people,' says Ahmed al-Shabwani, whose brother, former deputy governor of the Marib Governorate Jabr al-Shabwani, was accidentally killed in a May 2010 US drone strike.

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From Information Clearing House



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Government Gone Wild!

Video

Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28363.htm



Black Money

The Shadowy World of International Bribery

Video By Frontline

International bribery. It s a trillion dollars a year, with corporations on one side, heads of state on the other. And it thrives in an invisible world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28362.htm



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By Marti Hiken

European nations are refusing to participate in America s wars, and the U.S. doesn not like it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28369.htm



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Donald Cohen, Cry Wolf Project: 'Every year since 2003, the California Chamber of Commerce publishes its hit list of proposed legislation it labels 'job killers.' The list includes legislation to protect consumers, workers and the environment from irresponsible business practices, or raise revenues to fund public services, or support middle and working class families. The Chamber released their 2011 list on May 25. Topping the list of 29 so-called 'job killer bills' are restrictions on the use of Styrofoam that is filling landfills and polluting our rivers and oceans. The list includes proposed legislation to index the minimum wage, decrease greenhouse gases, and raise desperately needed revenue for local governments.'

http://www.truth-out.org/chamber-commerce-wrong-again/1308414477



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