World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/01-8

Libya is United in Popular Revolution: Please Don't Intervene
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01-12

US 'Hypocrisy' on Libya and International Criminal Court
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/01-24

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Have Americans lost their consciences?

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/01/11

The U.S. government is now deliberating on whether to militarily intervene in Libya out of 'shock' over the brutal behavior of 40-year Libyan dictator Muommar Gaddafi. Here we go again. If the U.S. government isn?t supporting dictatorships with money and armaments, it?s invading countries to oust them...

http://www.fff.org/blog/index.asp



The political economy of the end of tyranny

Reason Reason
by Ronald Bailey

03/01/11

The history of the last 60 years is not just an unending series of coups and cyclical repression. The Freedom House Index of Freedom shows that a substantial number of countries have made the transition from dictatorship to political freedom during that time. Today, 87 out of the world?s 194 countries are free. When will a country successfully make the transition from dictatorship to democracy?

http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/01/the-political-economy-of-tyran


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Unverified Misreporting on Libya

By Stephen Lendman

America's media, Britain's state-controlled BBC, other Western sources, and Al Jazeera are spreading unverified or false reports on Libya's uprising.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27595.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/01-4

Shifting Political Power: From Citizens United to Wisconsin
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01

Not a Union Member? Why You Should Care About Wisconsin (or Ohio or Michigan)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01-11

Nurses Offer to Buy Presidents Shoes to March With Workers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01-0

Wisconsin Battle Crucial for Health and Democracy?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/01-13

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America could not deliver

CounterPunch
by Thomas Naylor

03/01/11

Is it possible that the Green Mountain state might actually help save America from itself and help save the rest of the world from America by seceding from the Union and leading the nation into peaceful disunion?

http://counterpunch.org/naylor03012011.html



Capital or community in Wisconsin

The Nation Blog
by Laura Flanders

03/01/11

It should be the sound of the other shoe dropping, but you?ll have to listen hard to Governor Scott Walker?s budget address because most media will miss most of it. It?s a funny thing about covering budgets. Cutting spending garners a whole lot more attention than cutting taxes. How many Americans know, for example, that Governor Walker gave $140 million in tax breaks to corporations -- right before he announced this fiscal year's deficit of $137 million?

http://tinyurl.com/6ywtnwp



A real conservative constitutionalist sues Governor Scott

Our Future Blog
by Bill Scher

03/01/11

Florida State Sen. Thad Altman describes himself as a 'conservative Republican' and a 'strict constitutionalist.' Unlike so many conservative Republican lawmakers and judges who claim to abide by the constitution while skipping the clauses that get in the way of their partisan agenda, Altman is walking the walk. Today, he joined a Democratic counterpart in the Florida state senate and sued Republican Gov. Rick Scott in the Florida Supreme Court for violating the state constitution when he ignored Florida law and refused federal funds for a democratically approved high-speed rail project that would create an estimated 24,000 jobs...

http://tinyurl.com/689xnzk



Budget crisis? Duh, tax the rich!

In These Times
by Robert Parry

03/01/11

A great tragedy of the United States is that the answer to many of the country?s domestic problems is obvious, even simple, but can?t be done because of a dominating political/media dynamic that rules that solution out. The solution to these many problems -- from the budget deficit to crumbling infrastructure, from mass joblessness to income inequality, from environmental degradation to educational shortfalls -- is to raise taxes on the rich and to use that money to get the United States back on track and advancing toward the future...

http://tinyurl.com/675arys



Debt approaches historic high

Liberty Unbound Liberty Unbound
by Gary Jason

02/28/11

A recent report went virtually unnoticed, given the uprisings of oppressed peoples from Libya and Egypt to Wisconsin and Indiana. (In the last two cases I refer to the uprisings of the taxpayers against the tax eaters.) It turns out that the government debt of this fabulously progressive nation now exceeds its GDP. Yes, if you add what the federal, state, and local governments owe to creditors, the sum exceeds what the county produces in a year, which is about $15.1 trillion...

http://libertyunbound.com/node/489


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul723.html



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Know Your Enemy: Cass Sunstein
http://www.lewrockwell.com/maloney/maloney32.1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/03/02/189-the-muslim-cry-for-justice-will-the-us-be-able-to-stifle-it-again/



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By Paul Craig Roberts

How we lost our economy, the Constitution, our civil liberties, and how peace lost out to war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27589.htm



How Rumsfeld Misleads and Ducks Responsibility in His New Book

By Bob Woodward

Rumsfeld's memoir is one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others -- including President Bush -- distort history, ignore the record or simply avoid discussing matters that cannot be airbrushed away. It is a travesty, and I think the rewrite job won't wash.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27591.htm



QE2 Sparks an Orgy of Speculation

By Mike Whitney

Households need to trim their debt and increase their savings, but all-the while the Fed is trying to lure them into another credit-binge by dangling low rates before their eyes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27588.htm



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Christopher Hellman, TomDispatch: "What if you went to a restaurant and found it rather pricey? Still, you ordered your meal and, when done, picked up the check only to discover that it was almost twice the menu price. Welcome to the world of the real U.S. national security budget. Normally, in media accounts, you hear about the Pentagon budget and the war-fighting supplementary funds passed by Congress for our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. That already gets you into a startling price range - close to $700 billion for 2012 - but that's barely more than half of it. If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-real-us-national-security-budget-the-figure-no-one-wants-you-see68127



Foreclosing the Foreclosers, Early-American Style

William Hogeland, new deal 2.0: "O. Max Gardner III, a patrician lawyer in Shelby, North Carolina, has started a movement for resisting home mortgage foreclosures. In what Reuters describes as 'legal jiu jitsu,' Gardner teaches techniques for using a bank's lumbering hugeness to enable people to stay in their homes long after banks want them gone. He's not alone. A foreclosure resistance movement has gained national traction in the past year."

http://www.truth-out.org/foreclosing-foreclosers-early-american-style68136



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Part 1

Lee Fang, ThinkProgress: 'Koch Industries, the international conglomerate owned by Charles and David Koch, is not only the second largest private company in America, it is the most politically active. As ThinkProgress has carefully documented over the last three years, Koch groups have spent tens of millions to influence government policy - from financing the Tea Parties, to funding junk academic studies, to undisclosed attack ads against Democrats, to groups promoting climate change denial, to a large network of state-based and national think tanks. In an opinion column for the Wall Street Journal today, Koch Industries CEO Charles Koch fired back at his critics, who have grown more vocal as it has become clear that Koch groups are providing the political muscle for Gov. Scott Walker's (R-WI) union-busting power grab.'

http://www.truth-out.org/how-koch-industries-makes-billions-by-demanding-bailouts-and-taxpayer-subsidies-part-168141



Police Defied Order to Clear Protesters From Wisconsin Capital

Lindsay Beyerstein, The Media Consortium: 'On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the Capitol building of hundreds of peaceful protesters who have been occupying the site to protest Governor Scott Walker's plan to eliminate the collective bargaining rights of public employees.'

http://www.truth-out.org/police-defy-order-clear-protesters-wisconsin-capital68137

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This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like

Silencing Dissent In Wisconsin: On Saturday, more than 100,000 Wisconsinites protested Walker's attacks on unions and his proposed power grab. So how's this all playing? Wisconsinites don't like autocrats.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/158910/not-what-democracy-looks-silencing-dissent-wisconsin


From Information Clearing House

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Tell Scott Walker, Republican Senators and Koch brothers: Stop Fracking Water and Wisconsin Workers

http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=wi_capitol_occupation



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Pictures that show how U.S. experimented on its own disabled citizens and prison inmates: Pictures have emerged providing the shocking proof that U.S. government doctors once experimented on disabled American citizens and prison inmates.

http://bit.ly/iewgkK


From Information Clearing House
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