World-News

Antonia Darder, Truthout: 'As the uprisings are spreading around the world and in the United States, there are many who feel fear, reticence and intense skittishness about what is transpiring. Yet, this anxiety, rather than surprising, is well cultivated by the contemporary hegemonic forces that govern our lives. What is most important for us to understand is that we, as a people, are most conditioned to fear when populations reclaim their social agency and collective power and rise up against the unjust policies of the state.'

http://truthout.org/it-fear-uprisings-or-altruistic-punishment



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Paul Bucheit, Truthout: 'PayUpNow.org is an online effort to 'uncut' the cutbacks by promoting boycotts of corporations who pay little or no federal income tax... Some of the worst offenders include General Electric (GE), which had $10 billion in profits and received a tax rebate; Bank of America, whose financial statements, according to a Bloomberg report, were 'so delusional that they invite laughter'; oil giant Exxon, which paid no US taxes; and Citigroup, with an astounding 427 foreign tax havens.'

http://www.truth-out.org/pay-now-corporations-were-organized-aware-your-tax-havens-and-ready-boycott

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Taxes Avoided by the Rich Could Pay Off the Deficit
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/27



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Michael Winship, Truthout: 'For all their talk of the Founding Fathers, the Constitution and core principles, you d have thought that the current freshman class of Congress, the sprouted seed of Tea Partiers and the 2010 midterms, would have made a similar tour their first priority on arrival... But for some, the siren song of cash and influence has proven stronger, already luring them onto the rocks of privilege and corruption that lurk just inside the Beltway. They?ve made a beeline not for the hallowed shrines of patriots? pride but the elegant suites of K Street lobbyists, where the closest its residents have been to Lincoln is the bearded face peering from the five-dollar bill - chump change.'

http://www.truth-out.org/congress-teaching-new-dogs-old-tricks/1303573537



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/22-3

The Obama-Gates Maneuver on Military Spending
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/22-0

Shunning the Word 'Permanent'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/22

Stripmining America - Unpatriotically
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/22-9

Pennsylvania: The 'Ground Zero' of the US Shale Gas Drilling Boom
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/22-4

PFAW: The ?Green Dragon? Slayers: How the Religious Right and the Corporate Right are Joining Forces to Fight Environmental Protection
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/04/22



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff350.html

How Will the Empire End?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory211.html

Con Games and Currency Destruction
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north971.html

Budget Cuts are Meaningless Without Fed Transparency
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul736.html

Martial Law in the Land of Confusion
http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett32.1.html

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Velkommen to Banktopia

By Mike Whitney

The dollar is getting hammered by design, because the Fed wants a weaker currency to boost exports and lower the real burden of debt on the banks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27943.htm



As Offshoring Continues, US Public Peeved at 'Free Market'

By Roger Bybee

Many Americans increasingly feel like a trap door has suddenly dropped them into economic quicksand, with major corporations and their government allies pulling them further away from the middle-class security they once had.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27948.htm



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Rose Aguilar, Truthout: 'Gulf Coast resident Foytlin marked the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster by walking 1,243 miles from New Orleans to Washington, DC, to remind the country that even though the Obama administration and BP claim that life in the Gulf is back to normal, facts on the ground prove otherwise. She says people are experiencing everything from kidney damage to skin lesions, wildlife is dying, the economic devastation continues and the ecosystem has forever been damaged. Foytlin arrived in DC on April 14 after 34 days of rainstorms, heat exhaustion, tornadoes and countless blisters. She says it was worth it.'

http://www.truthout.org/dissent-continues-one-year-after-bp-disaster/1303411936



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Fed on the Ropes?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem47.1.html

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How corporations avoid paying income taxes

The San Francisco Chronicle
by Kathleen Pender

04/21/11

With all the talk about how companies like General Electric and Cisco pay no or very low U.S. taxes, reader Hal Helfan of Oakland wants to know why cant there be an alternative minimum tax for corporations like there is for individuals, to make sure that companies cant use loopholes to wipe out their tax burden. 'If the AMT rate were set appropriately, it would probably be easier to lower the corporate tax rate and would definitely be a boon to small corporations that dont get much benefit from tax credits,' he writes. In fact there is a corporate AMT, and it works very much like the individual AMT...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Contours of Global Order
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/21-3

Dont Get Fooled Again: Writing Our Own Economic Future
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/21-2

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The Mad Genius of Donald Trump

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'Stick your nose into the air and smell the panic emanating from RNC headquarters. It is bad enough that they have to contend with potential presidential runs by the likes of Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich. Now they're staring down the barrel of a full-fledged freak storm, a demented slapstick comedy starring The Donald as The Donald in 'The Donald.'

http://www.truth-out.org/mad-genius-donald-trump



GOP Begins New Push to Delay EPA Rules on Toxic Power Plant Emissions

Lisa Song, SolveClimate News: 'The rules in question are EPA s air toxics standards to control mercury and other poisonous substances from power plants, as well as the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards that govern hazardous emissions from boilers and cement plants. EPA released the nation s first regulations for toxic power plant emissions on March 16. The boiler rules were announced in February 2011 and the cement standards in August 2010. All of the policies are mandated by the 1990 amendment to the Clean Air Act and originally set to be finalized in 2000.'

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-begins-new-push-delay-epa-rules-toxic-power-plant-emissions/1303275600



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By Matthew Norman

The real biggest issue that faces America today is that America, despite a recovering economy, is broke, dispirited, bamboozled and petrified.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27929.htm



The Contours of Global Order

By Noam Chomsky

Support for democracy is the province of ideologists and propagandists. In the real world, elite dislike of democracy is the norm.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27937.htm



US risks creating uneducated 'underclass': study

The United States will create a new Hispanic underclass unless it improves immigrant children s access to education, a report released Wednesday warned.

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From Information Clearing House



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By Jean-Paul Pougala

The American sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote in 1956 that American democracy was a 'dictatorship of the elite'. According to Mills, the USA is not a democracy because it is money that talks during elections and not the people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27936.htm



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