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CounterPunch
by Howard Lisnoff

12/22/11

And the symbols that militarism uses have a great hold on the ordinary people who labor and live within the system. The flag, patriotic songs, and the glamor of military service are drummed into the psyches of children from the time they reach kindergarten age until they become adults. The cold war so easily morphed into the war on terrorism! And the consumerist ethos brings the rest of the population into the fold...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/22/wars-without-end/



The war that will never end

CounterPunch
by Sarah Lazarre

01/04/12

But the 'end' of the Iraq war does not signal an end to US foreign policy based on brute self-interest, geopolitical control, and military empire. There was no apology, no talk of reparations, and no stated intention to shift direction. The 'security' contractors and private companies will not leave anytime soon, and many soldiers will simply be transferred to 'the good war' in Afghanistan or sent to one of 800 US bases around the world...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/04/the-end-of-a-war-for-whom/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Neocons Hate Peace
http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis275.html



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Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: 'Imagine a democratic alternative to police evictions of Occupy encampments across America s cities and towns. What if the decision to evict or not had been made by referendum? ... But that never happened in a society where private corporations own parks, lots and other possible Occupy sites. The corporate shareholders and boards of directors of those sites, a tiny minority of the population, could shut down Occupy encampments by invoking property rights.'

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



Thirty Thousand Chinese 'Occupy' Highway to Protest Polluting Coal Plants

Stephen Lacey, ThinkProgress: 'Tens of thousands of residents in China s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets yesterday, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near Shantou city. The residents say existing coal plants in the area are fouling local air and water, and are making people sick. Each year, protests spring up to counter the construction of dirty coal plants. But this appears to be the biggest yet.'

http://www.truth-out.org/thirty-thousand-chinese-occupy-highway-protest-polluting-coal-plants/1324569104



The Way to Occupy a Bank Is to Own One

Ellen Brown, Truthout: 'The '99 Percent Declaration' seeks everything from reining in the corporate state to ending the Fed to eliminating censorship of the Internet. But none of these demands seems to go to the heart of what prompted Occupiers to camp out on Wall Street in the first place - a corrupt banking system that serves the 1 percent at the expense of the 99 percent. To redress that, we need a banking system that serves the 99 percent.'

http://www.truth-out.org/way-occupy-bank-own-one/1323976385



Follow English Commoners' Lead: Band Together to Force Corporate Reform

Jeffrey R. McCord, Truthout: 'In recent years, senior Wall Street managers relentlessly pursued short-term profit and personal windfalls by any and all means while bringing Main Street to its knees (where it remains to this day.) Meanwhile, most of the managers remain where they were - comfortably in charge and gazing upon the tents of Occupy Wall Street protesters. The problem of bad corporate governance, of course, extends well beyond Wall Street, into the executive suites of many non-banking Fortune 500 members.'

http://www.truth-out.org/follow-english-commoners-lead-band-together-force-corporate-reform/1323818540

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From OWS with Love: What We have Done, Where We Are, Where We are Going
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/23-0

#OWS: Your Time Is Now
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/23



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Newt Gingrich helped bankroll his resurrection from a has-been to a Republican presidential frontrunner by exploiting a gap in federal campaign finance laws to create a political money machine that raised $54 million over five years.

http://bit.ly/toxsjE


From Information Clearing House

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Meet the Republican chickenhawks

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

12/22/11

Nearly all the Republican presidential candidates are showing their muscles, supporting the war on terror and a robust military while also vowing to do whatever it takes to disarm Iran. They know that it is essential to play the jingoistic 'American exceptionalism' card, and they understand that being president also means becoming commander in chief of America s armed forces with the responsibility for committing U.S. soldiers to die for their country. But how are they qualified to do that?

http://bit.ly/uQG7xE


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bill Authorizes Rendition of Citizens Living On U.S. Soil to Other Countries for Torture.

By Washington s Blog
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30051.htm



Tarek Mehanna: Victimized by Racist Injustice

By Stephen Lendman

Post-9/11, Mehanna is one of hundreds of Muslim Americans victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, activism, and at times charity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30058.htm



Almost 33% in U.S. Are Arrested by Age 23, Study Finds

By Erica Goode

By age 23, almost a third of Americans have been arrested for a crime, according to a new study that researchers say is a measure of growing exposure to the criminal justice system in everyday life.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30057.htm

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Why America s 99% Have Rebelled
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/22-6

?Extraordinary Rendition?: Scott Horton on What You Need to Know about the NDAA
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/22-0

What If We Occupied Language?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/22-8



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By Eli Clifton
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30050.htm



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The 'Arab Spring' And The West: Seven Lessons From History

By Seumas Milne

Carved into artificial states after the first world war, it s been bombed and occupied...and locked down with US bases and western-backed tyrannies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30059.htm



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Worse Than 2008
http://www.lewrockwell.com/martenson/martenson14.1.html

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Are We Living in a Fool s Paradise?

May You Live In Interesting Times

By William Bowles

Are all of us, including the left, reacting to an entirely engineered reality, fed to us via an all-embracing media?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30060.htm

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EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

Frances Moore Lappe, Nation Books: 'Here in the US ... the share of us who say we 'worry' about climate change has dropped in recent years, now to about half, and we seem too bitterly divided as a culture to act ... The real question is whether we each can move ahead creatively with our fear because we believe that, in this pivotal moment, we have it in us to make a planetwide turn toward life.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ecomind-changing-way-we-think-create-world-we-want/1324491542



Right-Wing Politics Slow Climate Studies Despite Year of Extreme Weather

Justin Gillis, The New York Times News Service: 'At the end of one of the most bizarre weather years in American history, climate research stands at a crossroads.... But for many reasons, efforts to put out prompt reports on the causes of extreme weather are essentially languishing. Chief among the difficulties that scientists face: the political environment for new climate-science initiatives has turned hostile, and with the federal budget crisis, money is tight.'

http://www.truth-out.org/rightwing-politics-slow-climate-studies-despite-year-extreme-weather/1324832393



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By Stephen M. Walt

If you d like to read a textbook example of war-mongering disguised as 'analysis,' I recommend Matthew Kroenig s forthcoming article in Foreign Affairs, titled 'Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30052.htm



Iran and Syria in Imperial Crosshairs

By Iftekhar A. Khan

Unfortunately, the 22-member Arab League is playing a leading role in the hostilities orchestrated by the West against the two Muslim states.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30053.htm



Bunker Bombs Requested, Stockpiled for Potential Iran Strike

The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress on November 30 of a possible foreign military sale to the United Arab Emirates of 4,900 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) GPS/inertial navigation kits to convert unguided bombs into precision-guided 'smart' weapons.

http://bit.ly/sBvatw

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'No Options Off the Table' Constitutes Illegal Threat to the Peace
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1-/10501-qno-options-off-the-tableq-constitutes-illegal-threat-to-the-peace.html



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Die obligatorische Weihnachtsansprache ist für die Strategie des Bundespräsidenten eine Hürde.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151091



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Centcom will die Daten auch nach dem offiziellen Kriegsende behalten.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151093



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Kaufrausch, Kaufsucht, Zwangskonsumenten
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151089



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