World-News

By Spencer Ackerman

You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it s worse than you have heard.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28193.htm

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Sen. Rand Paul responds to accusation of supporting terrorists

Republican Senator Rand Paul (KY) said in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday that questioning the constitutionality of the PATRIOT Act was not equivalent to supporting terrorists.

http://bit.ly/irQlh0

From Information Clearing House

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The Political Doctrine of Statism
http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/political-doctrine-of-statism180.html

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Where d the Patriot Act?s malcontents go?

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

05/25/11

During the Bush years, the Patriot Act was seen as a symbol of all that was wrong with a lawless and predatory administration. The left regarded it as the embodiment of the presidential overreach and big-brother tactics of the Republicans. There are still many who are somewhat critical of the Act, but where is the urgency and outrage? Part of it can be explained in terms of pure partisanship and political priorities...

http://tinyurl.com/442zqu2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Video - Full Movie

The global economic crisis of 2008 cost tens of millions of people their savings, their jobs, and their homes. This is how it happened.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28189.htm



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Barack Obama hat die Weichen gestellt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34805/1.html



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Richard D. Wolff, Richard D. Wolff's Blog: *The current capitalist global crisis began with the severe contraction in the housing markets in mid-2007. Therefore welcome to Year Five. This inventory of where things stand may begin with the good news: the major banks, the stock market, and corporate profits have largely or completely 'recovered' from the lows they reached early in 2009. The US dollar has fallen sharply against many currencies of countries with which the US trades and that has enabled US exports to rebound from their crisis lows.'

http://www.truthout.org/crisis-enters-year-five/1306337883



Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution

Michael Pirsch, Truthout: 'Our country is in tatters. While more and more of us plunge into official poverty status, our elected leaders, who are in service to the wealthy elite, argue about how much to cut from programs that 'promote the general welfare.' They squander our exhaustible resources on illegal wars. The rich have stolen so much from us that they comprise the wealthiest 1 percent in well over 100 years, and they are supported in all this by their pet pundits, who dominate the corporate media. And none of our elected leaders from either of the two parties question the morality of shredding the most basic programs 'to promote the general welfare.'

http://www.truthout.org/talkin-about-revolution/1306268992



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24-7

Constitution Project Urges Congress to Reform Patriot Act Now, Not to Simply Reauthorize Expiring Provisions
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/24-6



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Asserting War Powers, House Moves To End Afghanistan, Libya Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/27-6



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The government s use of paid, untrained informants, concocted plots and racial profiling of Muslim communities in its frantic effort to stop so-called homegrown terrorism has raised serious human and civil rights concerns.

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/05/manufactured_threats_of_homegrown_terrorism.html


From Information Clearing House



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On Patriotism
http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed206.html

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America s real deficit is a moral one

Our Future Blog
by Richard Trumka

05/24/11

Politicians in Wisconsin, Ohio and a dozen other states are trying to take away workers' right to organize and bargain for a better life. But that s not all. In state after state, politicians are attacking voting rights by imposing ID requirements, shortening early voting periods, blocking young people from voting because they are too 'liberal' and even levying criminal penalties and fines for breaking arbitrary rules in the voter registration process...

http://tinyurl.com/3lgk37g



How about an 'American Spring?'

San Francisco Chronicle
by Deepak Chopra

05/23/11

Anyone who has admired President Obama s idealism all along should come away inspired by the high-mindedness of his 'Arab spring' speech. It served to reassure his liberal base that he wasn't solely continuing the Bush policy in the Middle East (i.e., kill every terrorist, ignore human rights...

http://tinyurl.com/3trec6r



What Americans want

In These Times
by David Moberg

05/23/11

A national budget tells a lot more about a country and its politics than simply where the government s money comes from and where it goes. As President Obama rightly stressed, it is also 'about the kind of future we want ? [and] the kind of country we believe in.' But as happens so often in the United States, the political and media establishments distort the public debate by accepting the right-wing s framing. In this case that means the issue is simply deficits and spending cuts, not national needs and adequate revenue...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7333/what_americans_want



The resistance in Obama Time

CounterPunch
by Bill Quigley

05/24/11

Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009. These figures certainly underestimate the number actually arrested as arrests in US protests are rarely covered by the mainstream media outlets which focus so intently on arrests of protestors in other countries. Arrests at protest have been increasing each year since 2009...

http://counterpunch.org/quigley05242011.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Mark Provost, Truthout: 'Christina Romer, former member of President Obama s Council of Economic Advisors, accuses the administration of 'shamefully ignoring' the unemployed. Paul Krugman echoes her concerns, observing that Washington has lost interest in 'the forgotten millions.' America's unemployed have been ignored and forgotten, but they are far from superfluous. Over the last two years, out-of-work Americans have played a critical role in helping the richest one percent recover trillions in financial wealth.'

http://www.truthout.org/why-rich-love-high-unemployment/1305061465



Ten Reasons Protecting Unions Is a Life-and-Death Issue

Eric Mann, Truthout: 'In Wisconsin, tens of thousands of public-sector workers were going to work every day, helping the people in the DMV, hospitals, health care centers, public transportation: teachers, fire fighters, clerical workers, among others. Then, on February 11, 2011, Republican Gov. Scott Walker introduced a bill, with a Republican majority in the legislature, which would virtually eliminate public-sector unions as we know them. The bill opposed collective bargaining rights, required annual votes to ask workers if they wanted the unions to represent them and prevented unions from collecting dues automatically out of workers' paychecks. The anti-union movement is spreading to Ohio and many other states, and we have to develop a plan to beat back the pro-corporate, anti-union forces.'

http://www.truthout.org/ten-reasons-protecting-unions-life-and-death-issue/1306177706



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