World-News

Barely able to walk even with a cane, Ghulam Rasool says he padlocked his front door, handed over the keys and his three cows to a neighbor and fled his mountain home in the middle of the night to escape relentless airstrikes from U.S. drones.

http://is.gd/PP1Vfq



Activists plan month of protest over Obama s 'kill' policy:

Organisers keen to build on renewed focus of president s targeted killing programme by holding series of protests in April.

http://is.gd/d3gMyg


From Information Clearing House

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Afghan Civilians Terrorized by US Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/28-2



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By Mahboob A. Khawaja

Those who dream of glory and triumph by having invincible armed forces are not new to the history. They live in a cycle of self-ingrained deceit and ultimate destruction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34447.htm



You Have the Right to Remain Silent: The United Police States of America

By Dave Lindorff

Attorney General Eric Holder, just told Congress that he had no intention of seeking criminal indictments against the nation s top bankers, despite a wide-spread conviction that they are all guilty of the most massive fraud and theft in the history of the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34443.htm



Where Bank Regulators Go to Get Rich

Mary Schapiro, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, must take us for fools.

http://is.gd/ZLQB9v



US Protest Movement against the Banksters

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

As more people see that the government represents Wall Street and concentrated wealth, instead of them, more people are becoming fearless.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34903.htm



Armed TSA teams now roam in public, conduct 'suspicionless searches' on demand

That police state you were warned of has already arrived.
http://is.gd/0bwQJw


From Information Clearing House

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The Global State of Humanity
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/04-2

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With the Universal Police State
http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers203.html



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By Shamus Cooke

Obama s Bush-like determination to overthrow the Syrian government has led him down the same path as his predecessor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34446.htm



AP: ''Master plan'' underway to help Syria rebels take Damascus with U.S.-approved airlifts of heavy weapons

A carefully prepared covert operation is arming rebels, involving Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, with the United States and other Western governments consulting.

http://is.gd/f3JKGL



US Training Rebels in Jordan: Get the Story Straight

US media are now reporting what everyone else has known for some time: American special forces are helping train Syrian rebels on Jordanian territory, despite the fact that radical jihadists have infiltrated the Syrian rebels and could turn on Jordan s monarchy the minute the dust settles in Syria.

http://is.gd/CTK7gb



Jordanian airline is shipping tons of Croatian weapons to Syrian rebels

New York Times uncovers the clandestine effort by the CIA and Arab governments to deliver military aid to rebel fighters in Syria through an airlift involving more than 160 flights of military-style cargo planes owned by Arab governments.

http://is.gd/FI7QXF


From Information Clearing House



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Who Are Freedom s Friends And Enemies?

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin746.htm

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Time to Renounce the ''War on Terror''

By Norman Solomon

The most overt attempt to call a halt to the ''war on terror'' is coming from Rep. Barbara Lee, whose bill H.R. 198 would revoke the Authorization for Use of Military Force that Congress approved three days after 9/11.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34727.htm



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By Charles McDermid

A down-to-the-nickel analysis of nine years and $60bn worth of waste, arrogance and ineptitude unequalled in American history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34438.htm



What If They Gave A War And Nobody Paid?

By David Hartsough

We cannot in good conscience pay for killing people in other parts of the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34435.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/26-2

Economics and the Twin Horsemen of the New Apocalypse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/26-0

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Incomes Of Bottom 90% Grew $59 in 40 Years

By Natasha Lennard

During the same period, average income for the top 10 percent of Americans rose by $116,071.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34436.htm



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Video

The future of obedience in a world of unfettered capitalism, globalisation, staggering inequality and environmental change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34052.htm



The corporate 'predator state'

Op-Ed

Economist James Galbraithcalls this the ''predator state,'' one in which large corporate interests rig the rules to protect their subsidies, tax dodges and monopolies. This isn t the free market; it s a rigged market.

http://is.gd/CztQWW



If I Ruled the World

By Antony Loewenstein

We have a responsibility as a connected world to not tolerate and enable injustice in one state while opposing it elsewhere.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34437.htm



Obedience is Extremely Dangerous: Three Things Young People Should Know to Save the World

By David Swanson

We should think about how not to put ourselves in positions in which we are expected to blindly obey. And we should prepare ourselves to refuse immoral instructions whenever we receive them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35203.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The Wall Street Lobby Owns DC: Crony Capitalism Prevails at Every Turn

Jeff Connaughton, Prospecta Press: DC insider Jeff Connaughton explains how a former Democratic Senator, a Wall Street point man, undercut President Bill Clinton on even a minor amendment to hold corporations accountable for intentional deceptive securities fraud.

http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/15355-a-dc-insider-explains-how-the-wall-street-lobby-owns-dc-crony-capitalism-prevails-at-every-turn



''Capitalism Never Solves Its Crisis Problems; It Moves Them Around Geographically''

Gaius Publius, America Blog: This is one of the best, and visually interesting, animations about modern capitalism and the political/economic system we have been living in for the last 50 years I have ever seen, says Gaius Publius.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15414-capitalism-never-solves-its-crisis-problems-it-moves-them-around-geographically



The Hypocrisy of Justice for All

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: Why is true justice, not just the word we recite from the Pledge of Allegiance, still unaffordable for those who need it most?

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15460-bill-moyers-essay-the-hypocrisy-of-justice-for-all



Capitalism s Costs, Capitalists' Freedom

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: Capitalists argue that relocation and outsourcing of manufacturing are essential freedoms which boost ''capitalist efficiency,'' but such efficiency is impossible to prove, as the capitalists never measure or consider the costs to the workers and communities left behind.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15443-from-detroit-to-china-to-bangladesh-capitalisms-costs-capitalists-freedom



The US Criminal (In)Justice System

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout: The prison-industrial complex is a symptom of a larger problem: economic and political systems that allow exploitation for profit.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15498-a-forest-of-poisonous-trees-the-us-criminal-injustice-system

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Modern Capitalism s Hall of Hypocrisy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/01

Capitalism as Psychosis
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/02

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The rise of the corporate state
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/chris-hedges/obey.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2013/03/26/356-empire-blood-and-banking/

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The Anti-Empire Report

Wikileaks Has Done It Again

By William Blum

I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34555.htm



Murder Is Our National Sport

By Chris Hedges

The deeper our empire sinks under the weight of its own decay and depravity, the more we kill.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34929.htm

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When Truth Becomes an Enemy of the State: Bradley Manning on Trial

Michael Ratner, Truthout: Center for Constitutional Rights president emeritus Michael Ratner, an observer at the first day of legal proceedings against Bradley Manning, writes about secret testimony, the lack of an official public record of the trial and the other grave issues at stake.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16774-when-truth-becomes-an-enemy-of-the-state-bradley-manning-on-trial



The Moral Imperative of Bradley Manning

Ray McGovern, Consortium News: Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern writes that officials want to punish Pfc. Bradley Manning because he is a prophet for exposing horrific truths and war crimes.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16753-moral-imperative-of-bradley-manning

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Leaving Truth Outside at Bradley Manning s Trial
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/04-5



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Drone war: every attack in Pakistan visualised: Graphic

Using data from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism (which we used to create this map), California-based designers Pitch Interactive have visualised every known attack by the US and Coalition military since 2004.

http://is.gd/KVtw5c


From Information Clearing House

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President Obama: The Drones Don t Work, They Just Make It Worse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/27-2



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The US Supreme Court Thinks Racism Is Dead. It Isn t
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/01

Embedded Racism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/18-1

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When Cops and Prosecutors are Criminals

By Margaret Kimberley

America s addiction to racism and violence creates outright criminality among police and prosecutors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34970.htm



75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police

Video

Michael Allison faces 75 years in prison for five counts of recording law enforcement officials without their consent in Robinson, Illinois.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34968.htm



Arizona Man Winds Up Jailed, Unemployed and Homeless After Photographing Courthouse

Raymond Michael Rodden was bored this week, so he drove to downtown Phoenix and began walking around, snapping photos of the federal courthouse and the state capitol with his iPhone. The 33-year-old man ended up jailed, unemployed and homeless; his iPhone, iPad and Macintosh laptop confiscated as ''evidence.''

http://is.gd/beszMY


From Information Clearing House



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