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17 Percent of America in Anti-Poverty Programs

One out of every six Americans are in government anti-poverty programs, according to USA TODAY. More than 50 million Americans are in Medicaid. Forty million receive food stamps and 10 million receive unemployment benefits.

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Homelessness Up 50% In New York City

If you think you've been seeing more people sleep on city streets, statistics back up the perception. The homeless population living on New York City streets has gone up 50 percent in the past year, according to city statistics reported by the HellsKitchenLife.com blog.

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From Information Clearing House

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:45

The GOP's Masterplan: Obstruct, Smear, Lie, Repeat

By Mike Whitney

By the time the Republicans were swept from office in 2008, the economy was in freefall. Unemployment was rising at 750,000 per month, and all of the main economic indicators were plunging faster rate than after the Crash of '29.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26278.htm

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:38

A Speech for Endless War

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "While now trumpeting the nobility of an Iraq war effort that he'd initially disparaged as 'dumb,' Barack Obama is polishing a halo over the Afghanistan war, which he touts as very smart. In the process, the Oval Office speech declared that every US war - no matter how mendacious or horrific - is worthy of veneration ... With his commitment to war in Afghanistan, President Obama is not only on the wrong side of history. He is also now propagating an exculpatory view of any and all US war efforts - as if the immoral can become the magnificent by virtue of patriotic alchemy."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-speech-endless-war62881

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 22:21

No surprise at Obama’s Guantanamo trial chaos

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

08/31/10

The problem in both cases is that trials by military commission are inappropriate for any of the prisoners held at Guantanamo, who are either accused of terrorist activities, and should be tried as criminals in the federal court system, or are soldiers seized in connection with their support of the Taliban, wrongly imprisoned in an experimental prison established to permit coercive interrogations, instead of being held in a prisoner of war camp in accordance with the Geneva Conventions...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1008g.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 09:59

A Closer Look at Our Basic Needs in a Time of Crisis

Jon Letman, The Hawaii Independent: "Ours is a nation obsessed with security. Two months after the bitter sting of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government formed the Transportation Security Administration and, one year later, the Department of Homeland Security ... Yet as we approach our ninth year of war and occupation in Afghanistan and our eighth in Iraq, Americans have seen security at home eroded by financial collapse, a neglected infrastructure, a hemorrhaging job market, anemic social services and public health care crisis, volatile energy and food markets, and the complex realities of climate change."

http://www.truth-out.org/in-search-real-security-part-one-a-closer-look-our-basic-needs-a-time-crisis62823

"Between the Fences": A Review

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "[Tony] Hefner has authored a book, 'Between the Fences: Before Guantanamo, There Was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center,' which details the struggles of a guard at an immigration detention facility in Texas' Rio Grande Valley to bring to light the numerous instances of sexual and physical abuse, extortion and intimidation experienced by both guards and immigrants at the facility on a regular basis."

http://www.truth-out.org/between-fences62842

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Declare 9-11 “Government Blowback Day”

Strike the Root
by Lawrence Ludlow

08/31/10

This September 11, let’s help to change the ‘meme’ that has been used by the U.S. government to terrorize Americans into submission and to cynically manipulate the grief of those who lost loved ones in the 9-11 attack of 2001. This year in your community, join hands with others who understand the meaning of the event. Carry signs and wear black armbands. Remind people that the civilian victims of September 11, 2001 were the inevitable result of blowback from the U.S. government’s policy of international meddling...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/declare-9-11-government-blowback-day

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 09:27

Entire US-Mexico Border to Be Guarded by Predator Drones

Taylor Barnes, The Christian Science Monitor: "The entire 2,000-mile US-Mexico border will be monitored by drones starting Wednesday when a new Predator drone begins flying from Corpus Christi, Texas, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. There are already three drones operating along portions of the border. Aside from the new drone launched today, money for two more was included in $600 million legislation President Barack Obama signed earlier this month, which ramps up border security ahead of midterm elections on Nov. 2 and as Mexico's heated drug war gains more attention. Meanwhile, Napolitano calls the border safer than ever."

http://www.truth-out.org/entire-us-mexico-border-be-guarded-predator-drones62844

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rudkla - 1. Sep, 09:19