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The International Monetary Fund issued a clarion call to bickering US politicians Tuesday, urging them to solve the country s debt problems before a still-vulnerable economy is tipped over the brink.

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The rate of people taking their own lives is soaring in Europe at such a clip that the trend has given birth to a new media term: ''Suicide by economic crisis.''

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Staggering rise of the British food bank

One in five Britons are borrowing money for groceries because of the soaring cost of living.

http://bit.ly/IVaJDQ



Republicans to slash food stamps

From food stamps to child tax credits and Social Service block grants, House Republicans began rolling out a new wave of domestic budget cuts Monday but less for debt reduction and more to sustain future Pentagon spending without relying on new taxes.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75190.html



New York City s poverty rate broke record in 2010

The report, released on Tuesday, found that the number of the New Yorkers classified as poor in the year increased by nearly 100,000 from 2009, pushing the poverty rate up by 1.3 percentage points to 21 percent, The New York Times reported.

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All Work and No Pay
Corporate profits: going strong. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery.

http://bit.ly/kXW8ko



Food Stamps In Crosshairs Of Republicans' Plan To Save Military

By Arthur Delaney

The latest Republican plan to reconcile the budget and preserve defense spending extracts even deeper cuts from programs to help the poor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31192.htm


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Czechs Stage Massive Anti-Austerity Rally
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/21-2



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The deployment by Syria of even a small number of Russian-made advanced air defense systems is preventing the West from repeating the so-called ''Libyan scenario'' in that country, according to a report of independent Russian military experts.

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Video Documentary

An investigation of ''disaster capitalism'', based on Naomi Klein s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31113.htm



What Rich People Fear Most

By Kenneth Rapoza

Once again, Washington has shown just who they work for.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31112.htm



It Pays to Be Rich

By Bill Moyers

With help from the government, the tax code, and their own money, there s no limit to how rich the super-rich aim to be, disconnecting themselves further and further from the American people as a result. Bill Moyers examines the gap.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31118.htm



A Huge Student Loan Scam: For-profit colleges are massively ripping off U.S. taxpayers

By Andrew Leonard

An example of blatant hypocrisy sufficient to outrage even the most jaded observer of American politics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31114.htm



Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Government More Than the Rest of Us

By Paul Buchheit

Wealthy individuals and corporations want us to believe they have made it on their own, without the help of government or the American people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31889.htm



The Battle of Blair Mountain

By Chris Hedges

Blair Mountain, amid today s rising corporate exploitation and state repression, represents a piece of American history that corporate capitalists, and especially the coal companies, would have us forget.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31890.htm



Full Spectrum Dominance

By William Engdahl

Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23006.htm



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By Rob Savillo

Many in the media have long since repudiated their failures in the lead-up to the Iraq War. The question today is whether they have learned from those mistakes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31111.htm



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By RT

A newly released document acquired by Wired Magazine exposes the United States Defense Department s torture technique.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31110.htm



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By Conn Hallinan

For an administration touted as sophisticated and intelligent, virtually every decision the White House has made vis-à-vis Afghanistan has been a disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31115.htm



Still killed and killing in the lost Afghanistan War

By Lindsey German

Has anyone told the media that the NATO forces are losing the war in Afghanistan?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31139.htm



Afghan Screams Are Not Heard

By Kathy Kelly and Hakim

Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away.

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Collateral insanity in Afghanistan

In These Times
by Terry J. Allen

04/18/12

The war in Afghanistan has taken a devastating toll on mental health from depression to suicide, domestic violence to murderous rampages. And financial and family strains, as well as attempts at self-medication, have exacerbated the casualty count. ... Many Afghans, blameless in ways that volunteer soldiers never can be, have been pushed past sanity by violence; by becoming refugees or internally displaced; and by losing family, culture, educational opportunities, professions, houses, rights and hope...

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America s lost war

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

for publication 04/21/12

International and constitutional law be damned. Waging war on Afghanistan 'is clearly illegal. It constitutes armed aggression. It is creating a humanitarian catastrophe for the people of Afghanistan.' It s also a lost cause. Pentagon commanders know it. So does Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis. In an unclassified report and more detailed classified one, he explained ongoing disastrous conditions. From his own firsthand observations and what others told him, he concluded that America s war failed. It can t be won...

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Stephen F. Diamond, Dissent Magazine: ''The Occupy movement was widely lampooned by critics for failing to bring forward a coherent set of demands. But a random survey of participants in the protests that spread across the country late last year would likely turn up a large number who agree that ending the recognition of corporations as legal 'persons' is a critically needed reform. Ballot measures in Boulder, Colorado and Madison, Wisconsin calling for an end to corporate personhood passed last year.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8597-occupy-the-courts-corporate-personhood-reconsidered

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Grassroots Fight Against 'Corporate Personhood' Swells
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/22-2



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Chorus of Anger says Little Learned from BP s Gulf Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/20-9

Gulf of Mexico Spill Takes Toll on Health
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/20-0

Two Years After the BP Drilling Disaster, Gulf Residents Fear for the Future
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/20

Public Citizen: The Unlearned Lessons of the BP Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/04/20-5

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Gulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists

Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English: ''Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP's 2010 oil disaster. Along with collapsing fisheries, signs of malignant impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: horribly mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp and interviewees' fingers point towards BP s oil pollution disaster as being the cause.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8616-gulf-seafood-deformities-alarm-scientists



BP Blamed for Ongoing Health Problems

Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English: ''The 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf last year was the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, affecting people living near the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Seemingly compounding the problem, BP has admitted to using at least 1.9 million gallons of toxic dispersants, which are banned by many countries, including the UK. According to many scientists, these dispersants create an even more toxic substance when mixed with crude oil.''

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Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists
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Gulf fisheries in decline after oil disaster

Nearly two years after BP s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, fishermen and scientists say things are getting worse.

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Center for Biological Diversity: 150 Groups Urge Obama to Save Polar Bears From Climate Catastrophe
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/06/18-1

Obama Administration Finalizes Polar Bear Extinction Plan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/02/19-2



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U.S. Troops Posed With Body Parts of Afghan Bombers

By David Zucchino

The paratroopers posed for photos next to Afghan police, grinning while some held, and others squatted beside, the corpse s severed legs.

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Photos of US troops with body parts disgusting, says Hamid Karzai

''The president underlines that the only way to put an end to such painful experiences is through an accelerated and full transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces,'' the statement said.

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No resolution in earlier Marine corpse abuse case

While the military grapples with another corpse abuse scandal in Afghanistan, officials still haven t offered any resolution to the case uncovered earlier this year of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.

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Military Training Exercises : Live Goats' Legs Cut Off With Tree Trimmers

Video

Each year, more than 10,000 live animals are shot, stabbed, mutilated, and killed in horrific military training exercises that are supposed to simulate injuries on the battlefield.

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American Justice? US Marine demoted for urinating on corpses

A US Marine sergeant who was videotaped urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has been demoted to the rank of corporal after pleading guilty, the Marine Corps has said.

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Afghanistan: More photos of US troops posing with corpses

Newsday

04/18/12

In an embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan. Top U.S. military and civilian officials rushed to condemn the soldiers' actions Wednesday, calling them repugnant and a dishonor to the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of Americans who have served in the war there...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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ISAF-Kommandeur verurteilt die Fotos und verspricht Aufklärung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36789/1.html



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