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Racketeers for Capitalism

By Cindy Sheehan

The Empire preys on our kids using all the tools at its disposal: Economic panic, high college tuition, high unemployment and a mythology that the U.S. has some existential right to steal the resources of other nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26178.htm



A Mutant Form of Capitalism

Video

An animated interview of John Perkins, author of 'HoodWinked' and 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26184.htm



America's Biggest Jobs Program - the U.S. Military

By Robert Reich

America's biggest - and only major - jobs program is the U.S. military. Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I'm not even including all the foreign contractors employing non-US citizens.)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26175.htm



None Dare Call It Tyranny

By Sheldon Richman

The national government - specifically the executive branch - can do pretty much what it wants. It could bomb Iran tomorrow without a declaration of war from Congress. It can - and does - conduct secret wars and covert operations against countries that have done nothing to us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26180.htm



Dismantling America

By Thomas Sowell

The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, but has been a continuing challenge - to this day - to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books, or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26179.htm



Understanding America's Class System

Honk If You Love Caviar

By Joe Bageant

America has always had a ruling class, and it has always bullshitted the world that it doesn't. But at least the ruling class of the past was interesting and varied, because diverse sorts of Americans were getting rich.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26177.htm



Deceptive Economic Statistics

While the economists lied the US economy died

By Paul Craig Roberts

Right now, if measured according to the methodology of 1980, the US unemployment rate is about 22%. Thus, the reported rate of unemployment hides more than half of the unemployed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26182.htm

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Overthrowing the Liars
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis200.html

Lies and Unction
http://www.lewrockwell.com/snyder/snyder21.1.html

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Death and Joblessness: How Suicide Dogs the Long-Term Unemployed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/17-2

America's Propensity for Paranoia
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/08/17-0

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America has fallen … and can’t get up!

Freedom's Phoenix
by David McElroy

08/14/10

America has fallen … and can’t get up. The wolves of Wall Street are picking her bones. Many wait, with baited breath, for the fat lady to sing. Face it folks, America is no longer the sweet land of liberty. It has become the land of the fee and home of the slave. How the mighty have fallen! How?

http://tinyurl.com/29x3nlw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Lawrence S. Wittner

Where does this vast outlay of U.S. tax dollars-the greatest military appropriations in U.S. history-go?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26183.htm

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Stop spending money

Liberty For All
by John Jay Myers

08/17/10

It seems like this country has been divided in two, not because Americans are really easily divided into two groups, but because we don’t take the time to realize that we are being divided, and that because of laws put in place by a two party monopoly, we don’t believe we have any other choice. I think from now on I have to start every speech with one line. We are broke...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4692


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Rory O'Connor, Rory O'Connor's Blog: "Of the many lies George W. Bush told us about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some were larger but none worse than that told about the death of Pat Tillman. In 2004 - just after Bush's invasion of Iraq, ostensibly in search of those non-existent weapons of mass destruction - Tillman became a military-and media-manufactured symbol of duty, sacrifice, patriotism and heroism. But the truth about Tillman's life is much more complex, and his death ultimately far more heroic, than the convenient, self-serving lie served up by the military and then sent out by our ever-gullible media."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-tillman-story-just-gimme-some-truth62396



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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 of the 'official' war on terror, the violence of extremist groups as well as state-sanctioned and corporate violence are understood almost exclusively within the discourse of moral absolutes pitting good against evil."

http://www.truth-out.org/states-paralysis-americas-surrender-spectacle-terror62387



The Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century

Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch: "In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal documents and information not available to participants. They were acting, as Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it, in the fog of war. So where are we this August of 2010, with guns blazing in one war in Afghanistan even as we try to extricate ourselves from another in Iraq?"

http://www.truth-out.org/the-guns-august-lowering-flag-american-century62384



How Truth Can Save Lives

Ray McGovern, Truthout: "I need to speak out now because I have been sickened watching the Herculean effort by Official Washington and our Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) to divert attention from the violence and deceit in Afghanistan, reflected in thousands of U.S. Army documents, by shooting the messenger(s) - WikiLeaks and Pvt. Bradley Manning."

http://www.truth-out.org/how-truth-can-save-lives62398

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The prison state

CounterPunch
by Michael Yates

08/17/10

It is easy now to forget that the agents of repression — the police, the FBI, the courts, the government itself — consciously and actively targeted those who were active in and led the civil rights and Vietnam war resistance movements. They infiltrated and acted as provocateurs in movement organizations; they arrested innocent people; they enacted and enforced draconian laws; they illegally tapped phones and spied on any and all persons suspected of ’subversive’ activity; and they tortured and murdered those who they deemed to be the most dangerous radicals...

http://counterpunch.org/yates08172010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Sharply Embarrassed By WikiLeaks
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/5a14921a8a7b3d4?hl=en



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Obama stellt sich mit seinen Äußerungen zum islamischen Zentrum quer zur aufgebauschten Stimmung. Dass die Repulikaner davon profitieren, liegt auch an seiner ambivalenten Politik.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33141/1.html



US-Regierung drängte auf Geiselerschießungen

Geheimdienstpapiere: Nixon-Führung wollte in Uruguay gefangene Rebellen ermorden lassen, um einen Agenten zu retten. Schlaglicht auf aktuelle Konflikte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33138/1.html



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By Paul Craig Roberts

If the wars are not immediately stopped and the jobs brought back to America, the US is relegated to the trash bin of history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26166.htm



What If We Google "Democracy" And Get "Oligarchy"?

By John Nichols

Wealthy and powerful interests are determined to replace the civic and democratic values that have underpinned the digital revolution up to this point with the commercial and entertainment values that have made old media a "vast wasteland." They will use every tool at their disposal -- lobbying, campaign contributions, spin and media manipulation included -- to prevail.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26165.htm



How the US economy is being 'Japanised'

By Chris Payne

The US is already in bad shape: imagine what 20 years of economic sclerosis will do! Worse still, unlike Japan, the US has a growing population, which means that little or no growth is going to make the average American poorer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26167.htm



How the US economy is being 'Japanised'

Federal Reserve policy is taking a worrying turn towards monetarism. This can only result in an American 'lost decade'.

http://bit.ly/cmPDiy



US 'Virtually Certain' to Fall Into A New Recession

The US economy is almost certainly headed back into a double dip recession, and economists aren't seeing it because they're using "the old rules of thumb" that don't apply this time, well-known economist David Rosenberg told CNBC.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38691272



Economic Growth Prospects Dim in U.S. After Retail Sales, Trade Reports

Prospects for U.S. economic growth took a hit this week after reports showed the trade deficit swelled and consumers reined in spending.

http://bit.ly/92jOxu



Banks to benefit most from White House program to help fight foreclosures

Nevada, Arizona and Florida posted the worst foreclosure rates in July, with Nevada reporting the nation's highest foreclosure rate for the 43rd straight month.

http://bit.ly/aja0z3



Pension check may not be in the mail

Illinois public employees who think the state constitution guarantees that they'll get all their pension benefits may have another think coming.

http://bit.ly/ae0iZT


From Information Clearing House

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The Public Pension Outrage and Alan Greenspan's Pension

Dean Baker, Truthout: "In recent weeks, there has been a serious effort by the conservatives and even many centrists to whip up anger at public sector workers over their pensions. The basic story is that public sector workers get better pensions on average than their private sector counterparts. At the same time, most state and local pension funds have large shortfalls, implying that additional government revenue will be needed to keep them solvent."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-public-pension-outrage-and-alan-greenspans-pension62358

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Homeowners' Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/18-8



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