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Richard D. Wolff, Haymarket Books: In his new book, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism, Richard Wolff makes the compelling argument that modern capitalism has undermined democracy, replacing it with a plutocracy. All the props of a democracy remain intact, elections, legislatures, media, but they predominantly function at the service of the oligarchy.

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13812-when-democracy-is-trumped-by-the-excesses-of-capitalism

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The Extremist Cult of Capitalism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/21

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Why Does No One Speak of America s Oligarchs?

By Yves Smith

The time is long past to kid ourselves about the nature of the ruling class in America and start describing it accurately, as an oligarchy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34410.htm



'Oligarchic Tendencies': Study Finds Only the Wealthy Get Represented in the Senate

By Eric W. Dolan

Democrats were not any more responsive to the poor than Republicans.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35943.htm



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Video

The movie succinctly poses and addresses the question ''why is this happening in 21st century America?''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33581.htm
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Report

By Ryan Gallagher

Europeans, take note: The U.S. government has granted itself authority to secretly snoop on you.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33588.htm



Total Surveillance: NYPD places full body scanners on the streets of New York

Video

http://is.gd/leNUYb



Michael Moore asks citizens to stand up to Obama s 'dangerous' erosion of civil liberties

''We have to work and speak out against the Obama administration and everything they are doing to destroy civil liberties.''

http://is.gd/euMJLq


From Information Clearing House

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Orwell s Nightmare, the Darker Side of Modern Technology
http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey146.html

The Death of Privacy: Mass Surveillance in the Technetronic Era
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/moghul1.1.1.html

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The next generation of surveillance

Campaign For Liberty
by David Heacock

01/29/13

While these technological advances are remarkable, they signal a great threat to our civil liberties and right to privacy. Using cameras for surveillance of private property can be an effective means to protect one s freedoms; however, any mass surveillance of the population by the government should be treated with firm distrust...

http://tinyurl.com/afqe3kj



States and cities step up and resist drone surveillance

10th Amendment Center
by Joe Wolverton, II

02/12/13

We live in a country where the president has assumed the power to kill American citizens without due process and the Justice Department produces memos supporting the legality of it. Fortunately, we also live in a country where concerned citizens and their local lawmakers are waking up and defending civil liberties and the Constitution that protects them...

http://tinyurl.com/b6trtlw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Living in a Constitution-Free Zone: Drones, Surveillance Towers and Malls of the Spy State

Todd Miller, TomDispatch: While a militarized enforcement regime has long existed in the US-Mexico borderlands, the US-Canadian border is increasingly a national security hotspot watched over by drones, surveillance towers and agents of the Department of Homeland Security.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14422-living-in-a-constitution-free-zone-drones-surveillance-towers-and-malls-of-the-spy-state



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According to reports, three separate drone attacks in Pakistan s South Waziristan mountains killed at least 17 people Tuesday. The AP reported that eight suspected militants were among the dead in a separate strike in North Waziristan today.

http://is.gd/DmqgvV


From Information Clearing House

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John Brennan, Sami Al-Hajj and the Blight of Guantanamo
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/1/10/john_brennan_sami_al_hajj_and_the_blight_of_guantnamo

The Grilling that John Brennan Deserves
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/11-8


From commondreams.org



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By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans were told a packet of lies designed to win their gullible acceptance to an economy that produces high returns for Wall Street, shareholders, and corporate executives at the expense of everyone else in the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33575.htm



The US and the Privatization of El Salvador

There are countries which are still very much living under the hegemony of the United States. In El Salvador, this means subservience to Washington and international investors who seek nothing less than total control of that nation s economic destiny.

http://is.gd/II0MQC



We Have Created a World of 'Civilised Savages'

By Hussein Tahiri

A brief look at the way we human beings conduct ourselves entitles us to be seen as no more than ''civilised savages'' who have achieved modernity without the underlying moral compass of civilisation itself.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33589.htm



Violence: The American Way of Life

By John Kozy

Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33599.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Government Promises Are Hallucinatory Drugs
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1246.html



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Environmental Experts
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/09-2

Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction Impacts Future of Beluga Whales
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/09

Inconsistencies Found in Shell Story of Grounded Oil Rig
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/10

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Tell the Obama Administration to protect whales, not oil companies
http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=wBaFOUcfULtk5M3btvkgng



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/09

Obama Puts US Drone Program Back into Deadly High Gear
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/10-3

ACLU of Florida Statement Applauding Committee Passage of Drone Regulation Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/15-5

10 Questions to Ask John Brennan at his CIA Confirmation Hearing
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/05-5

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Eleven Years of Guantanamo: Brennan CIA Nomination Consolidates Drone Assassination Strategy

Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, says Obama carries on the policies of George W. Bush when it comes to issues of ''national security.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13856-eleven-years-of-guantanamo-brennan-cia-nomination-consolidates-drone-assassination-strategy

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Brennan for CIA Head: Embracing the legacy of torture

The American Prospect
by Scott Lemieux

01/14/13

Less than a month after Barack Obama was elected in 2008, John Brennan withdrew himself from consideration for head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because of opposition from liberals, which centered on his role as chief of staff to CIA director George Tenet when the Bush administration's arbitrary detention and torture programs were being developed. It is particularly depressing, then, that Obama has done as a safely re-elected incumbent what he felt he could not do in his first term: Nominate Brennan as head of the CIA. The fact that Brennan has been nominated despite his support for some of the worst abuses of the post-9/11 security state demonstrates the appalling extent to which many of these practices have become institutionalized, as well as the political weakness of defenders of civil liberties...

http://prospect.org/article/embracing-legacy-torture


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The CIA and Other Government Agencies Dominate Movies and Television
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/cia-movies-tv.html

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Prolonged detention
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/defending-civil-liberties-1/prolonged-detention--2011.html

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Obama Nominee For CIA Director, Had Detailed Knowledge Of Torture

John Brennan, President Barack Obama s nominee to head the CIA, had detailed, contemporaneous knowledge of the use of ''enhanced interrogation techniques'' on captured terrorism suspects during an earlier stint as a top spy agency official, according to multiple sources familiar with official records.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33772.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/09-1

Can Government s Latest 'Unambiguous' Report Spur Climate Action?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/11-7

Global Warming Makes the World Hot and Dry (But Also Cold and Wet)
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/11-6

'Catastrophic Mass Extinction' Likely as Temperatures Rise 6 Degrees in Next Century
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/11-5

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2012 was warmest year ever for US, second most 'extreme'

The average temperature for 2012 was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.2 degrees above normal and a full degree higher than the previous warmest year recorded 1998 NOAA said in its report Tuesday. All 48 states in the contiguous U.S. had above-average annual temperatures last year, including 19 that broke annual records.

http://is.gd/srpveU


From Information Clearing House

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Hot Enough for You?

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: We see what looks like disaster looming but don t even talk about it, because the politics of climate change are inconvenient. Future generations will curse our silence.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13872-hot-enough-for-you

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Government hypocrisy risks pushing climate past point of no return

Devastating storms and lives lost, houses destroyed, sweltering heat waves, menacing bushfires, plunging winter temperatures, droughts, floods and even snowstorms in the desert...

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416817402ms355



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Robert Wilbur and James L. Knoll IV, Truthout: Matt Howard of Iraq Veterans Against the War says that military psychiatrists frequently label veterans as suffering from personality disorders or alcoholism instead of PTSD; this makes it harder for veterans to obtain expensive health care and other benefits after discharge.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13788-ptsd-the-soldiers-private-war



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/08

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In denial over the budget crisis
by Ayn R. Key

01/27/13

The arguments being made with regards to solving the governmental budget crisis are becoming fundamentally absurd as the situation with the federal deficit and federal debt worsens. As the deficits do not shrink and as the debt continues to grow the hysteria to deny the only three solutions gets louder...

http://aynrkey.blogspot.com/2013/01/in-denial-over-budget-crisis.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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