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Robert Reich, Truthout: Anyone who wants to understand the intensifying divisions in the United States needs to see how dramatically we are segregating geographically by income and wealth.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15803-the-dis-uniting-of-america



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The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: We need to get the bought-and-paid-for politicians out of the way and get our press to actually cover the horrors of tar sands oil and the reality of climate change.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15825-time-to-step-up-and-speak-out-against-big-oil

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Canadian Official Proposes Yet Another Tar Sands Pipeline
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/26-5

Documents Show Exxon Lied in Aftermath of Tar Sands Pipeline Rupture
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/22-6



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The report reveals a staggering level of child poverty in the ''developed'' world, with the standards of living in the United States, which has the highest gross domestic product, ranking near the bottom on all metrics.

http://is.gd/dU4Q9X



High student debt is dragging down the U.S. economy

Nowadays, younger Americans are becoming less likely to take out loans to buy a house or a car. One possible reason? They are too overloaded with student debt.

http://is.gd/I0Gr5f


From Information Clearing House



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The report revealed that, as in recent decades, the world s biggest military spender by far was the U.S. government, whose expenditures for war and preparations for war amounted to $682 billion, 39 percent of the global total.

http://is.gd/TLdv2z



Click on the map to view information on the top 15 military expenditure spenders for 2012: Interactive map.

http://is.gd/xQUtgD


From Information Clearing House



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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

04/17/13

The symbiosis of conservative militarists calling for more guns, and liberals calling for more butter, is today complete: the log-rolling continues apace. The War Party pushes for more intervention, more threat-inflation, and more 'defense' spending, while the 'progressives' campaign for deficit spending, monetary inflation, and more domestic spending. These two factions happily coexist, egging each other on, and therein lies the road to bankruptcy and endless war...

http://tinyurl.com/d2z3roo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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It s a 'Race to Insanity'
http://lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j184.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/17-8

'Cooking the Books and the Planet': Report Slams State Dept. KXL Findings
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/17-0

Stalling on a Burning Planet: World s Energy as Dirty as it Was 20 Years Ago
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/17-2

KXL, 'Climate Hypocrisy' and Obama s Big Time Coal Problem
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/25-9



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By Kate Randall

More than 14 percent of the estimated 25 million part-time workers currently in the labor force are classified as working poor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34649.htm



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Max Eternity, Truthout: On key foreign and domestic policies, the continuity between the Bush and Obama administrations is evidence of a new American confederacy: a conspiracy against the American people.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15612-the-new-american-confederacy

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He Is Comfortable with Bush s Inferno
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/20-4

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The Three Party System: Left, Right, and Reality
http://lewrockwell.com/orig14/gucciardi8.1.1.html

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The Grand Charade

By Philip A Farruggio

When will the working stiffs out there realize that it is all a charade? Anyone, no matter how noble a person, becomes corrupted once they align themselves with either of these two parties.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35220.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/16-5

America s Guilty Secret about Convicting Innocents
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/19-1

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United States Engaged in the Practice of Torture: Report

By Jesselyn Radack

The Justice Department has declined to prosecute any of the government officials who ordered torture, the doctors who supervised it, the lawyers who justified it, or the agents who actually tortured people. Shame on the Obama administration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34640.htm



US Torture 'Indisputable', CNN s Humiliation, and Iran Sanctions

By Glenn Greenwald

The disgrace of the American torture regime falls on Bush officials and secondarily the media and political institutions that acquiesced to it, but the full-scale protection of those war crimes (and the denial of justice to their victims) falls squarely on the Obama administration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34669.htm



Did Muslims Attack America on 9/11?

By Ibn e Abdul Haq

The stage has been set for a massive ploy of psychological and media war to be unleashed on the unsuspecting minds of the masses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34775.htm

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Bipartisan Panel Finds ''Indisputable'' Evidence US Tortured Under Bush

Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: The 11-member Task Force on Detainee Treatment was convened by The Constitution Project after President Obama chose not to support a national commission to investigate the counterterrorism programs.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15820-after-obama-shuns-probe-bipartisan-panel-finds-indisputable-evidence-us-tortured-under-bush

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The high crime of torture

CounterPunch
by Rob Urie

04/20/13

Confirmation by the Constitution Project nearly a decade late that the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military and ?intelligence? services committed acts of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere appears a Rorschach test for the ?sentiments? of the American people. However, sentiments aside, formal indictments of culpable officials on war crimes charges and the start of impeachment proceedings against current President Barack Obama are the only relevant responses to the report. Torture is a crime under laws to which the U.S. is signatory. And with his war on Iraq George W. Bush and his administration murdered, or caused the premature deaths of, more than a million people and substantially destroyed a modern nation state...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/19/the-crime-of-torture/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

What should shock and outrage us is that as the top 1 percent has grown extremely rich, the effective tax rates they pay have markedly decreased.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34633.htm

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Majority in the US: Redistribute Wealth, Enact 'Robin Hood Tax'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/18-9



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