World-News

Part I

Henry A. Giroux, Peter Lang Publishing Group Book Excerpt: 'The twenty-first-century zombies no longer emerge from the grave; they now inhabit the rich environs of Wall Street and roam the halls of the gilded monuments of greed such as Goldman Sachs. As an editorial in The New York Times points out, the new zombies of free-market fundamentalism turned 'the financial system into a casino. Like gambling, the transactions mostly just shifted paper money around the globe. Unlike gambling, they packed an enormous capacity for collective and economic destruction - hobbling banks that made bad bets, freezing credit and economic activity. Society - not the bankers - bore the cost.'

http://www.truthout.org/zombie-politics-democracy-and-threat-authoritarianism-part-i/1306932037



Zombie Politics: Dangerous Authoritarianism or Shrinking Democracy

Part II

Henry A. Giroux, Peter Lang Publishing Group: *While precise accounts of the meaning of authoritarianism, especially fascism, abound, I have no desire, given its shifting nature, to impose a rigid or universal definition. What is to be noted is that many scholars, such as Kevin Passmore and Robert O. Paxton, agree that authoritarianism is a mass movement that emerges out of a failed democracy, and its ideology is extremely anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and anti-socialistic. As a social order, it is generally characterized by a system of terror directed against perceived enemies of the state; a monopolistic control of the mass media; an expanding prison system; a state monopoly of weapons; political rule by privileged groups and classes; control of the economy by a limited number of people; unbridled corporatism; 'the appeal to emotion and myth rather than reason; the glorification of violence on behalf of a national cause; the mobilization and militarization of civil society; [and] an expansionist foreign policy intended to promote national greatness.'

http://www.truthout.org/zombie-politics-dangerous-authoritarianism-or-shrinking-democracy-part-ii/1306795464



The Truth About the American Economy

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: 'The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down. Home prices are down. Jobs and wages are going nowhere. It s vital that we understand the truth about the American economy. How did we go from the Great Depression to 30 years of Great Prosperity? And from there, to 30 years of stagnant incomes and widening inequality, culminating in the Great Recession? And from the Great Recession into such an anemic recovery?'

http://www.truthout.org/truth-about-american-economy/1306953884



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Nur in Großbritannien und Spanien waren mit 20 und 25 Prozent noch größere Teile der jungen Bevölkerung Opfer von Cybermobbing. Die zunehmende Bedeutung von ...

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'EHEC ist Hilfeschrei der Natur'

Kurier

Zusätzlich sind wir in der heutigen Zeit einem massiven permanenten Elektrosmog ausgesetzt. Wenn man es ganzheitlich betrachtet, ist der geistige Einfluss ...

http://kurier.at/nachrichten/oberoesterreich/3913579.php

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Who created the e coli strain in Europe?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1131.html



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US states are implementing drastic cuts to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, creating further hardships for 700,000 families that include 1.3 million children.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/tanf-m30.shtml



Coming this summer: $5 gas

Goldman Sachs' crystal ball is proclaiming that oil will soon soar to $135 a barrel, and likely have service stations jacking up fuel prices to $5 a gallon in New York just like the summer of 2008 that preceded the recession.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/the_living_easy_the_driving_is_hard_9mzb1aAfj4bpC8X63YYKhI


From Information Clearing House



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NATO continues to violate Pakistani airspace as two helicopters again intruded into the Pakistani territory on Monday.

http://bit.ly/jyVod4


From Information Clearing House



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Offshoring Has Destroyed the Economy

By Paul Craig Roberts

The IMF report said that the US economy has been seriously eroded and that the age of America is over.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28212.htm



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Legal Team for Abu Ghraib Victims
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/31-3

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CIA prisons in Poland 'illegal'

Secret prisons operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Polish territory violated international law and the Polish constitution according to legal experts, reported the daily Gazeta Wyborcza on Monday, citing sources close to an investigation.

http://www.news24.com/World/News/CIA-prisons-in-Poland-illegal-20110530


From Information Clearing House

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SCOTUS: Regime officials can do anything they want

Los Angeles Times

05/31/11

The Supreme Court, unanimously throwing out a suit against former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft from someone arrested but never used as a material witness in a terrorism case, has now erected a broad shield protecting the government and Bush administration officials for their conduct in the war on terrorism. ... Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, in a key concurring opinion joined by three liberal justices, said judges should be wary of allowing suits targeting 'national officeholders' working 'in the area of national security.' ... Justice Antonin Scalia, writing the lead opinion, said it did not matter whether Ashcroft was falsely claiming that Kidd and others like him were valuable witnesses...

http://tinyurl.com/3jrgzed



Lawless government

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

05/27/11

Everyone pays lip service to the rule of law. Indeed I?ve never heard of anyone rejecting it as undesirable. (It has been called impossible under prevailing circumstances but that is a different point.) So why is the principle so flagrantly violated with almost no public outrage...

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/lawless-government/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/31

Senator Bernie Sanders: Hunger Among Seniors a Growing Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/21-2



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NATO risks spilling own blood while mounting pressure on Gaddafi

'They seem to think if they quote the UN resolution at the same time as they call for Gaddafi to go and for regime change, it s a sort of guarantee, or as a laissez-passer. Frankly they are involved in a civil war in Libya. The deployment of helicopters, the intensive bombing of Tripoli that s going on - this is a war about regime change," British MP Jeremy Corbyn believes.

http://rt.com/news/nato-pressure-gaddafi-libya/



'US dropped cluster bombs on Misratah'

A Human rights investigation in Libya has found that it was the US and its Western allies who cluster bombed the troubled city of Misratah back in April.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/182310.html


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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/31-5

NATO Says Attacks on Afghan Houses 'Necessary,' Will Continue
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/31-4

Afghanistan 'Sovereignty'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/31-2

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Karzai bans NATO strikes on Afghan homes

On Tuesday, Karzai told reporters in Kabul that 'from this moment, air strikes on the houses of people are not allowed. The people of Afghanistan so far have endured casualties and have given sacrifices. So these operations should not be used against Afghan people and their houses.'

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/201153165616561911.html


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Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/duncan-a3.1.1.html

You are Not Defending Our Freedoms
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger187.html

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Welcome to Post-Legal America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/31

For Sale: The Desperate States of America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/31-1

The Truth about the US Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/31-6

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What Must America Defend?

Patrick J. Buchanan

'The tough choices ahead,' said Gates, are 'about the kind of role the American people - accustomed to unquestioned military dominance for the past two decades - want their country to play in the world.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28220.htm



Look Out Below

By Mike Whitney

The slowdown has begun. The economy has started to sputter and unemployment claims have tipped 400,000 for the last seven weeks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28217.htm



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