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The mark of the police state
Center for a Stateless Society by Darian Worden 09/07/10 The ‘papers, please’ checkpoint image is frequently invoked to convey the idea of a police state or totalitarian regime. It’s a visible reminder... ...
Racialized Memories and Class Identities - Thinking About Glenn Beck's and Rush Limbaugh's America
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Echoes of racism now present themselves in multiple forms and are spreading across the country like a highly contagious virus. This is obvious in terms of a racist cultural... ...
US to Spend $6B a Year on Afghan Troops
The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling out its own combat troops in "2011", The Associated Press has learned. http://bit.ly/aE bNzd From... ...
The true cost of war is more than a trillion dollars
Liberty For All by Wrights 2012 staff 08/29/10 The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has surpassed one trillion dollars, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While this figure is staggering,... ...
What You Will Not Hear About Iraq
By Adil E. Shamoo Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has... ...
States of Paralysis: America's Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "As the link between the media and corporate power becomes more integrated, the visual theater of terror mimics the politics of the 'official' war on terror. Echoing the discourse... ...
BP Oil Spill: Drill, Baby, Still?
http://www.commondreams.or g/video/2010/07/19-0 Amer ican Bird Conservancy: Many Gulf Spill Cleanup Efforts Ineffective and Harming, not Helping Birds http://www.commondr eams.org/newswire/2010/07/ 19-2 --------... ...
First, do no harm
The New Republic by David Rieff 07/12/10 How can anti-interventionists pay so little heed to the views of the victims? It is a fair question. I would respond first as an American: I do not want my country... ...
The Militarization of the Gulf Oil Disaster
Anne McClintock, CounterPunch: "In the Gulf, the forever spill has become the forever war. A calamity of untold magnitude is unfolding and, alongside it, a strange militarization has emerged, as the language... ...
BP Used Oil Industry Tax Break to Write Off Its Rent for Deepwater Rig
Pat Garofolo, ThinkProgress: "Transocean, the company that owns the failed Deepwater Horizon rig that caused the Gulf oil spill, used well-known tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland to lower... ...