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To overcome poverty we have to overcome the causes of poverty, and the big causes of poverty today are untouched by aid. Poor countries are still forced to pay off unpayable debts. The global poor are facing ever-higher food prices, driven by speculation. And climate change is already destroying lands and livelihoods.

http://is.gd/JSjC3q



US Drought Could Cause Global Unrest

Twice in the last five years, rising food prices triggered global waves of social unrest. With drought baking US crops, another round of soaring, society-straining price spikes may happen in coming months.

http://is.gd/Ujw966


From Information Clearing House

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Climate Change: This Is Just the Beginning
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/04-0

What Good is a Higgs Boson When the Planet is Burning?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/04-8

Courts Should Stop Jailing People for Being Poor
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/05-3

War and Climate Change
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/12

US Politicians Must Regulate Finance to Tackle the Drought and Food-Price Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/25-3

Drought in US Intensifying to 'Historic Proportions'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/26-6

Food Disaster Worries Mount as US Drought Worsens
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/03-0

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Top Ten Things Climate Change Is Making Worse Right Now

Rebecca Leber and Ellie Sandmeyer, ThinkProgress: ''The onslaught of extreme weather and record temperatures this year have had an impact on people globally, directly through drought and temperature, and more indirectly impacting food prices and public transportation. Here are 10 impacts we are seeing right now that climate change is very likely worsening, in some cases playing a major role.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10465-top-ten-things-climate-change-is-making-worse-right-now

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On the drought and our food supply
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/mills-r4.1.1.html



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By Kathy Kelly

We must think hard about ways to democratize our country, and reverse the ''unwarranted influence'' over our society which, half a century ago, a Republican president was warning us already belonged to the military industrial complex.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31753.htm



The Party of Great Moral Frauds

By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The Republican Party has always been about disguising a lust for economic plunder with phony ideas about ''freedom,'' ''Christianity,'' ''equality,'' ''civilization,'' and other nice-sounding words.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31803.htm



The War Party

Video

Panorama investigates the ''neo-conservatives'', the small and unelected group of right-wingers, who critics claim have hijacked the White House.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8581.htm

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Four more years of warrantless surveillance

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

07/26/12

When the Amendments Act was passed, it came with a sunset provision. Congress understood that it should be a temporary measure because it raised some serious constitutional issues relating to privacy. The Act was to be allowed to expire after four years, but its persistence is testament to the fact that the government will never willingly give up powers that it has acquired...

http://bit.ly/SVOOjq



The new police surveillance state

CounterPunch
by David Rosen

07/31/12

May Day has come and gone, but there are lessons to be learned. In particular, the forces of established order, especially government officials and law enforcement agents, are perfecting their policing techniques to suppress popular democracy...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/31/the-new-police-surveillance-state/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Clara Gutteridge

Suleiman joined the growing list of disappeared prisoners held at undisclosed locations with no access to a lawyer, tracked by a handful of global NGOs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31752.htm



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Video

Former Republican presidential candidate and House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed his support for the MEK, an Iranian opposition group considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31750.htm



'Our (New) Terrorists' the MEK: Have We Seen This Movie Before?

By Coleen Rowley

If only the American people would wake up to this corruption, they might find themselves, at the very least, extremely confused that some of the same U.S. political figures who were so hell-bent to take out Saddam Hussein are now sponsoring one of Saddam s main ''terrorist'' underlings.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32579.htm



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Phyllis Bennis, ZNet: ''Fifteen months on, the short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into a harsh winter of discontent. Syria is close to full-scale civil war. If the conflict escalates further, it will have ramifications far outside the country itself. As former UN Secretary-General and current envoy of both the UN and the Arab League Kofi Annan put it, 'Syria is not Libya, it will not implode, it will explode beyond its borders.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10129-syria-no-to-intervention-no-to-illusions

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If the US Loses Syria, the US Loses its Empire

By Tony Cartalucci

The global hegemony of Wall Street and London has been built behind a facade of ''human rights,'' ''freedom,'' and ''democracy.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31781.htm



'Bloody bandits and Western lies: What's really going on in Syria'

Everything you have heard about Syria is a lie says Ankhar Kochneva, a Russian journalist who has seen first hand the realities of the Syrian civil war. Kochneva told RT she has proof a Western invasion of Syria will be launched by summer s end.

http://www.rt.com/news/syria-lies-invasion-reality-interview-671/



'America s Syrian Friends and Afghan Foes are Same People'

By RT

It s puzzling how the US can treat radical Islamists in Syria as allies while fighting against them as enemies in Afghanistan, says the chair of the Russian parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31818.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Everything They are Telling Us About Syria Is False?
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/baker-r17.1.html



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Die Anerkennung der neuen politischen Führung in Paraguay durch den deutschen Entwicklungsminister Dirk Niebel sorgt weiterhin für Kritik.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/152325



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