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15% of U.S. Uses Food Stamps

By Gregor MacDonald

Today, national figures for the SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) were released and, once again, hit a new record.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29588.htm



Bringing Democracy Back Home

This Time, Let s Really Crash the Party

By Andrew Levine

The democratic character of the regime under which we live has waxed and waned over the past two and a third centuries. Today, it is at an especially low ebb; and unless current trends are reversed, the situation is sure to become even worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29592.htm



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By Glenn Greenwald

Little attention is paid to the constant victims of American violence in the Muslim world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29591.htm



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Cato Institute
by John Samples

10/27/11

Since the Cold War the United States has fought three major wars. Congress authorized each of these wars. The president has also initiated several limited wars. These limited wars have not been explicitly approved by Congress as required by Article I of the Constitution... [executive summary - full paper available in HTML or as PDF download]

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13805


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/01-11

Oakland Braces for 'Occupy' General Strike
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/01-1

Tomorrow, a General Strike in Oakland
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/01-13

Occupy Wall Street: A Postcard from Amazing Times
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/01-7

World Faces Years of Social Unrest as Economies Falter
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/01-2

Congressman Kucinich: 'Take Social Security off the Table'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/01-5

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Eurozone crisis sinks Wall Street giant

US brokerage firm reveals $6.4bn of eurozone debt making it seventh-largest bankruptcy by assets in US history.

http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2011/11/20111117555642766.html



Pull Your Money Out of BofA

Goldman Sachs has become the great symbol of investment banking corruption, and other companies like AIG and Countrywide have become poster children for problems with businesses like insurance and mortgage-lending. But when it comes to commercial banking, Bank of America is as bad as it gets.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-weapon-for-ows-pull-your-money-out-of-b-of-a-20111028



Austerity Measures Responsible For Athens' 'New Poor'

By Apostolis Fotiadis

The homeless have multiplied and, despite the approaching winter chill, have gathered en masse in central squares around the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29587.htm



DC s homeless to be left in the cold this winter

Residents of the Washington DC metropolitan area make on average the largest annual income of any region in America. The nation s capital also boasts a homeless population that is unmatched by many locales from coast-to-coast.

http://rt.com/usa/news/homeless-winter-dc-city-333/



Crowd swells at peaceful Occupy Oakland general strike rally

Hundreds have gathered for a mostly peaceful rally this morning in downtown Oakland to launch the general strike called by the Occupy Oakland movement, with nary a police officer in sight.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_19246904


From Information Clearing House

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Poverty, conscientiousness, and broken families

EconLog
by Bryan Caplan

11/01/11

Right-wingers should spend a lot more time reading left-wing ethnography of the poor. It may seem strange, but when leftist social scientists actually talk to and observe the poor, they confirm the stereotypes of the harshest Victorian. Poverty isn t about money; it s a state of mind. That state of mind is low conscientiousness...

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/poverty_conscie.html


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Während die Militärs immer kleinere und billigere Kampf- und Kamikazedrohnen entwickeln lassen, versuchen auch islamistische Terroristen, ferngesteuerte Waffen und Fahrzeuge zu basteln.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35773/1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/11/01/231-it-is-all-blowback/

Leaving Iraq?
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul776.html



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