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Starmail - 21. Dez, 09:52

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Obama Orders US Troops to South Sudan

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/20

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Oil more important than human life

Sudan and S Sudan agree to protect oilfields: Sudan and South Sudan agree to consider setting up a joint force to protect vital oilfields during the crisis.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/cloneofsudanese-president-juba-discuss-crisis-20-201416134227113126.html

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Starmail - 21. Dez, 05:38

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Freitag, 20. Dezember 2013

Britain s Involvement In Torture And Kidnap 'Truly Shocking'

Starmail - 20. Dez, 09:22

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The Global War on Terrorism is Killing Mankind

Starmail - 20. Dez, 09:12

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Obama Wrongs the Bill of Rights

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-1

There s an Alarming Number of Deaths in US Jails
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/27-3

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The Incredible, Shrinking Presidency of Barack Obama

By Mike Whitney

Barack Obama now ranks among the least popular presidents in the last century. In fact, his approval rating is lower than Bush s was in his fifth year in office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37178.htm

The Race War of Drug Prohibition

Video Interview

Noam Chomsky speaks about the race war of drug prohibition, the prison-industrial complex, the erosion of civil liberties under Barack Obama, moral inconsistencies within government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37225.htm

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In America, Innocent Until Proven Guilty? Not for Most People Who Are Stuck in Jail

April M. Short, AlterNet: Most people in jail in the U.S. have not been convicted of any crime. That is unless poverty can be considered an automatic-lockup offense.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20914-in-america-innocent-until-proven-guilty-not-for-most-people-who-are-stuck-in-jail

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Obama vs. the Constitution

Heartland Institute
by Edmund Contoski

12/27/13

'If you like your health plan, you can keep it,' is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency, from the day he took the oath of office. With that oath, he swore to 'faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.' The Constitution states the president 'shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.' This is a duty, not a discretionary power...

http://blog.heartland.org/2013/12/obama-vs-the-constitution

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 20. Dez, 05:59

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Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2013

Goodies for the Rich, Pennies for the Poor

Starmail - 18. Dez, 09:23

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Freitag, 13. Dezember 2013

Merry Christmas: Millions to lose jobless benefits

UK MPs to receive 11% pay rise amid rise in malnutrition and mental health cuts

British MPs are set to receive an 11 percent raise, taking their annual salaries up to more than $120,000 a year, effective from May 2015. The news comes alongside a simultaneous foreign aid budget increase and in the fallout of ongoing cuts.

http://rt.com/news/uk-mp-wage-increase-145/

Merry Christmas: Millions to lose jobless benefits

Nesbitt is one of the 1.3 million people likely to be left with no unemployment benefits just three days after Christmas.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101243324

Retired GM workers just lost $450 million in benefits

A federal judge said General Motors is not required to pay $450 million to cover medical benefits for retirees, in a defeat for the United Auto Workers union.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101265411

Poverty Nation: How America Created a Low-wage Work Swamp

By Joan Walsh

A quarter of people who have jobs today make so little money that they also receive some form of public assistance, or welfare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37132.htm

Budget Deal: Does the Pentagon Really Need An Extra $20 Billion?

By William D. Hartung

The Congress and the president should rethink the need to give the Pentagon over $20 billion more in fiscal 2014.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37113.htm

America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet: Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way?

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

What would it be like if people in the U.S. knew they had these rights?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37134.htm

Poverty in America Is Mainstream

Contrary to popular belief, the percentage of the population that directly encounters poverty is exceedingly high. My research indicates that nearly 40 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 60 will experience at least one year below the official poverty line

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/poverty-in-america-is-mainstream/

I work 4 jobs and I am still struggling

Bingham is 37 years old and has a college degree, but like many Americans, is stuck working many hours in low wage, part-time jobs.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/12/news/economy/4-low-wage-part-time-jobs/index.html?hpt=hp_t5

High Stakes for Families Losing Jobless Benefits: 'We Could End Up Homeless'

The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.

http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Unemployment-Benefits-Jobs-Labor/2013/12/28/id/544181

I am One of the 22,000 Homeless Kids Living in New York

It s impossible to succeed unless you can escape being homeless. My grades went kaputz when I lived in the shelters.

http://www.alternet.org/im-one-22000-homeless-kids-living-new-york

40 percent of jobless youth facing mental illness symptoms with one-in-three contemplating suicide

Young people who have been unemployed in the long-term are also more than twice as likely as their peers to believe they have nothing to live for, the study said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/40-percent-of-jobless-youth-facing-mental-illness-symptoms-with-one-in-three-contemplating-suicide/

The Year of the Great Redistribution

By Robert Reich

American corporations made their big bucks mostly by reducing their costs, especially their biggest single cost: wages.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37305.htm

Deregulation, Privatization, and Cheap Labor: Obama s Corporate Plantations

By Mike Whitney

The man that helped push through the multi-trillion dollar Wall Street bailouts is not going to give one red cent to the nation s poorest and most needy people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37341.htm

No Jobs For Americans

By Paul Craig Roberts

In America the unemployment rate is a deception just like everything else.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37352.htm

Defense contractors spend millions lobbying Congress, get billions in new budget

According to lobbying information released Monday, major defense contractors spent more than $65 million influencing Congress during 2013, with much of that effort likely aimed at rolling back the sequester cuts.

http://watchdog.org/124909/defense-spending/

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US Budget Deal: The Good, Bad and Stupid
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-0

Cruelty, Corporations, Congress, and Christmas: Unhappy Holidays for the Poor and Unemployed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/24-0

'Nothing to Live For': Youth Unemployment, Depression, and Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/02-1

50 Years Later, A New Hunger for National Anti-Poverty Agenda
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/08-11

How Wall Street Won the War (And What Happens Next)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/21-3

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Unemployed Americans Speak Out as Benefits Are Slashed at Christmas

John Dodds, Truthout: Unless Congress acts to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program, millions of Americans will be left with no benefits to support their families in an economy where there are still three unemployed workers for every job and the average length of unemployment is more than 37 weeks.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20722-voices-of-unemployed-americans-as-benefits-are-slashed-at-christmas

Corporations Control Our Lives

Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: Corporate power has a stranglehold on the entire American existence, and it has turned our entire lives into a profit-making venture. We must regain our power by declaring that corporations are not people and money is not speech.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21021-corporations-control-our-lives

Shame on Congress for Its Criminal Neglect of the Jobless

Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America s Future: The same Republicans who complained that people should be getting jobs instead of unemployment checks also boxed Congress into passing a budget that will essentially guarantee that the long-term unemployed will continue struggling to find work.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21313-shame-on-congress-for-its-criminal-neglect-of-the-jobless

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Starmail - 13. Dez, 09:35

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The Great American Class War: Plutocracy vs. Democracy

Bill Moyers, TomDispatch: There is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20583-the-great-american-class-war-plutocracy-vs-democracy

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Gunfighter Nation
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/12/13-0

As Congress Targets Food Stamps, Working Poor Get Whacked Again
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/28-0

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Global Leadership: It s Broke and it Needs Fixing

By Anthony Evans

We are constantly brainwashed by our trusted leaders with the illusions of freedom.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37122.htm

Is America becoming a plutocracy?

More than half of all members of Congress are millionaires. While the US is faced with unprecedented issues surrounding unemployment, food stamps, social assistance and minimum wage rates, it begs the question: has the US turned into a plutocracy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3VA2pTI5KE

Freedom is Something to Use or Lose

We Must Fight the Antisocial Behaviour Bill

By George Monbiot

Consumerism s petty liberties have made us inhumanly passive. We've forgotten what freedom is, and how easily it is lost.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37425.htm

The Global Plutocracy

By Andre Damon and Barry Grey

The people of the world are confronted with the question: What is to be done with this anti-social and criminal layer that is strangling the planet?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37429.htm

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. s Solution to Poverty

By Jordan Weissmann

In his final book, the civil rights leader laid out his vision for a universal basic income that would raise all Americans into the middle class.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37423.htm

Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps in 2013

The USDA says that there were 23,052,388 households on food stamps in the average month of fiscal 2013, an increase of 722,675 from fiscal year 2012, when there were 22,329,713 households on food stamps in the average month.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/record-20-households-food-stamps-2013

The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans

In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps, a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOOD_STAMPS_INCOME_INEQUALITY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-26-10-54-18

House passes bill cutting $8 billion from 'food stamps' program

The US House approved a five-year, nearly $1 trillion farm bill Wednesday reforming the federal government s crop subsidy system but cutting food stamps to pare the deficit.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/29/house-passes-bill-cutting-8-billion-from-food-stamps-program/

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When Happiness Died in America...

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: For hundreds of years, we have stood by the idea that through hard work and perseverance, and given the right opportunities, anyone can be happy in America and achieve the American Dream. But today, the American Dream is on life support, and happiness is more elusive than ever before.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20671-when-happiness-died-in-america

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Welcome to the American plutocracy

The Progressive

01/27/14

Relatively few of us have even begun to understand how compromised by corporate greed and power our system of government has truly become. Even those who recognize the problem and take to the streets to speak out against Wall Street and the big banks only address the tip of this massive, opaque iceberg we have crashed into. The truth is, the United States no longer has a government of, by and for the people. We are ruled by amoral multinational corporations that exercise their dictates by purchasing our government and flexing its muscle against the only thing that threatens their vast wealth and opulence: the people. Welcome to the American plutocracy...

http://progressive.org/welcome-to-the-american-plutocracy

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 13. Dez, 07:54

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Samstag, 7. Dezember 2013

Radioactive Fukushima Water Headed for US West Coast

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Freitag, 6. Dezember 2013

Nelson Mandela, the Conscience of the World

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Wake Up: The Time Is Now

Obama Orders US Troops to South Sudan

Freitag, 20. Dezember 2013

Britain s Involvement In Torture And Kidnap 'Truly Shocking'

The Global War on Terrorism is Killing Mankind

Obama Wrongs the Bill of Rights

Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2013

Goodies for the Rich, Pennies for the Poor

Freitag, 13. Dezember 2013

Merry Christmas: Millions to lose jobless benefits

The Great American Class War: Plutocracy vs. Democracy

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Radioactive Fukushima Water Headed for US West Coast

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