World-News

Paul Street, Z Communications: Many Americans tend to focus on election funding alone when discussing how the nation s political system is unduly controlled by concentrated wealth. However, campaign finance is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how big corporations and financial institutions dominate US politics and policy.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12337-money-talks-in-many-ways-election-season-reflections-on-how-the-ruling-class-rules



Lies of Plutocracy: Exploding Five Myths that Dehumanize the Poor

Jeff Nall, Truthout: If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been sadly misled. Prepare to be astonished by numbers that tell a very different story.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12264-lies-of-plutocracy-exploding-five-myths-that-dehumanize-the-poor



It s Time for the Poor to Come Out of the Plutocracy s Closet of Shame

Jeff Nall, Truthout: We must resist the dominant cultural shaming of the poor and poverty: Here are some ways to begin.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12457-time-for-the-poor-to-come-out-of-the-plutocracys-closet-of-shame



Why We Fight to Prevent Stolen Elections in 2012 and Beyond

Joan Brunwasser, Sally Castleman, Victoria Collier, Bob Fitrakis, Lori Grace, Emily Levy, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press: Which candidate gets your vote is not our concern here. As Americans, we agree on one thing: All citizens must have their right to a ballot and to have it counted.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12492-why-we-fight-to-prevent-stolen-elections-in-2012-and-beyond



The Corporate Masters of the Universe

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: In 2010, as austerity hit Greece hard, we elected a caucus of Republicans h...-bent on doing the bidding of American corporate masters and bringing austerity to the United States.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12512-the-corporate-masters-of-the-universe

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Ten Numbers the Rich Would Like Fudged
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/19-3



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http://tws.convio.net/site/R?i=80GIlTDNJB-7zkmJTH474A

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President Obama, End Mountaintop Removal Now
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/07-1



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The U.S. Armed Forces recently sent soldiers to Turkey amid the incidents in Syria and the soldiers deployed in Turkey have been sharing intelligence, U.S. Army Europe Commander Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling has said.

http://is.gd/584KHT



Origin of Syrian shells into Turkey unclear, US general says

''We are not sure if these shells are from the Syrian army, from rebels who want to get Turkey involved in the issue or from the PKK [Kurdish Workers' Party],'' he said.

http://is.gd/rwDDWq



How the U.S. Is Helping to Kill Peace in Syria

By Nicolas J.S. Davies

It s no coincidence that the main ''outside'' players in Syria s civil war are the same countries that led and supplied the ''NATO rebels'' in Libya in 2011.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32909.htm



US and the Chalabi-ization of Syria

By Daniel McAdams

Concerned that US/Saudi/Israeli/Qatari-supported al-Qaeda rebels in Syria look too much like, well, al-Qaeda members, the US has announced that it prefers to create a whole new opposition in Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32928.htm



Flooding Syria With Foreign Arms

By Franklin Lamb

The intervention in Syria by more than three dozen countries supplying weapons must be stopped.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32929.htm



Expanded Conflict in Syria Promised by Romney Will Proceed Under Obama

By Tony Cartalucci

Most irrelevant election in US history comes and goes as long-planned regime change using Al Qaeda death squads against Syria continues unabated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32962.htm



Turkey to ask Nato to help protect territory

Signalling a move that could put international troops from the alliance on the border between the two countries.

http://is.gd/8zrK0b



Nato 'will defend Turkey' from Syria attacks

''NATO as an organization will do what it takes to protect and defend Turkey, our ally. We have more plans in place to make sure that we can protect and defend Turkey and hopefully that way also deter so that attacks on Turkey will not take place,'' he said.

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/12/249124.html



France Leads Neocolonial Carve-up of Syria

By Finian Cunningham

What gives these foreign powers the right to subvert a sovereign government is nothing but their own arrogant presumption.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33065.htm



NATO Preparing Psy-Op in Syria

By Tony Cartalucci

Internet connections & telecom reportedly failing across Syria, right as NATO has finished preparing their proxy ''SNC'' and readies for final push.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33178.htm



The Historical Roots of US-NATO s Covert War on Syria

The History of America s Death Squads

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support of terror brigades and targeted assassinations going back to the Vietnam war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33541.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Brandon Smith

The possibility of a U.S. without financial hegemony is very real. To understand that this possibility exists is one thing; to understand that the process of destabilization has already begun is another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32865.htm



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By Dave Lindorff

The whole country is populated by adults who have been raised in a climate of fear by a media and a government that are h...-bent on scaring the s... out of everyone.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32863.htm



How Team Obama Justifies the Killing of a 16-Year-Old American

By Conor Friedersdorf

A boy among boys eating dinner by an open fire along the side of a road when an American drone came out of the sky and fired the missiles that killed them all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32858.htm

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Five Specific Questions Journalists Should Ask About the Drone Strike Policy

Robert Naiman, Truthout: The final presidential debate was the place to ask some compelling questions about US foreign policy related to drone warfare. That didn t happen, but there s still an opportunity to press the media to seek answers to five key issues.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12348-five-specific-questions-journalists-should-ask-about-the-drone-strike-policy



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By Nick Hopkins

Secret legal advice states pre-emptive strike could be in breach of international law as Iran not yet 'clear and present threat'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32864.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
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Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: From the negative effects of fracking, to pesticide use, corporations that go unchecked result in direct health concerns for citizens.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12334-thomm-hartmann-globalism-is-killing-us-all



Voluntary Austerity: All Pain, No Gain

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: The International Monetary Fund s new concern over premature austerity is missing one point: the unforced austerity in countries that continue to be able to borrow cheaply.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12335-voluntary-austerity-all-pain-no-gain

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US Austerity Well Underway
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/26

Fracking in America
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/21

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10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America

Brace yourself for one of the most aggressive corporate lobbying campaigns of all time. And one of the most hypocritical.

http://is.gd/C8bQhe


From Information Clearing House

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The Collapse of Globalism
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/globalism/the-collapse-of-globalism.html



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Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: The anonymous donor behind a voter fraud billboard campaign would rather pull the ads than be identified, raising questions about ties to Romney-founded Bain Capital and its ownership of the company that owns and operates the billboard firm.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12320-citizens-united-bain-capital-an-anonymous-donor-and-those-voter-fraud-billboards



Romney, Family and Friends Connected to the Company Counting the Vote in Cincinnati

Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press: While some fear that exposing current issues with electronic voting machines will deter voters from casting their ballot, others warn that Americans should not shy away from the obligation to vigilantly defend a fair election.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12331-romney-family-and-friends-connection-to-the-company-counting-the-vote-in-cincinnatti



Binders Full of Generals

Dina Rasor, Truthout: Longtime military watchdog and Truthout Solutions editor Dina Rasor paints a well-informed picture of what might be motivating the 359 retired senior military officers endorsing the GOP presidential candidate, and asks: If we continue to allow them and their peers to throw their rank around in the political arena, what message does that send to more junior members of the military, not to mention the public?

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12312-binders-of-generals-how-the-romney-campaign-advances-the-corruption-of-our-military-brass



Bain-Owned Sensata Illegally Threatens Workers for Organizing

Dave Johnson, Campaign for America s Future: The workers in Freeport, Illinois who are protesting the outsourcing of their jobs are part of the larger story of devastation that Walmart and Bain Capital business models have wreaked on American wages & benefits.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12321-sensata-illegally-threatens-workers-for-organizing



Romney Unaware Who Creates Wealth

Gene Grabiner, Truthout: The Republican presidential nominee apparently has no idea that ''apart from nature,'' it is workers who are the creators of all wealth.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12281-romney-unaware-who-creates-wealth



Fatalities in the GOP War on Regulation

Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: More Americans die every year from contaminated medicine, food, air and water than died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Yet the GOP argues we cannot afford the promulgation and enforcement of the regulations that would save these lives.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12463-fatalities-in-the-gop-war-on-regulation

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Romney Family Owns Voting Machines, Is This Right?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/campaign-2012-1/romney-family-owns-voting-machines---is-this-right.html

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Capitol Hill s Rabid, Ravaging Republicans
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/26-5

Suppression Surges as Election Nears
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/26-10

Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/02-6



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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11249/

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How Democracies Die

Mike Lofgren, Truthout: ''Picture a country at the height of its international power and prestige. It has military forces stationed around the globe. It is an intellectual leader....'' It s not the one you are thinking of.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12310-mike-lofgren-how-democracies-die

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Remote U.S. base at core of secret operations: Djibouti

Around the clock, about 16 times a day, drones take off or land at a U.S. military base here, the combat hub for the Obama administration s counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.

http://is.gd/DGLZZs


From Information Clearing House

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Exposed: African Base at Heart of US Drone War
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/26-8



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Overwhelmingly Support Strong Transparency and Accountability Reforms
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/25-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-4

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The Marching Camp (and Mating Habits) of Rome s Military
http://lewrockwell.com/mercer/mercer14.1.html

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The Fall of the American Empire

By Tom Engelhardt

Think of the Petraeus version of collapse as a tryout for the fall of the American empire, writ very small.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33135.htm



Give Thanks You Weren t Bombed

By Jay Janson

Give thanks that what is happening in Syria this year, Libya last year, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen in years before, continuing today, and planned to happen in Iran in the immediate future, cannot happen to you.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33131.htm



Pentagon planning for multinational military operation in Mali

The international force would be led on the ground by several thousand Malian and West African troops but would receive extensive support from the Pentagon and the State Department, which would help train, equip and transport the troops, Obama administration officials said.

http://is.gd/GgE6yK



Pentagon prepares military operation in Mali

United States officials with knowledge of the matter tell the Washington Post that the Department of Defense and the US State Department will assist next year in a mission to overthrow Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qaeda who took under control a significant part of Mali, a small West African country that is still picking itself up after a coup this past March.

http://rt.com/usa/news/pentagon-military-mali-us-560/



The Same Old Colonial Powers Are Licking Their Chops at the Thought of Invading Mali...and the Rest of West Africa

Op-Ed

The current crisis in Mali is the recent manifestation of a recurring episode of terrible suffering and constant struggles.

http://is.gd/B7CvJs



Those Who Say 'I Support the Troops' Really Don t

By Michael Moore

I don t ''support the troops'' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33517.htm


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/25-2

More Brutality and 'Armchair-Diagnoses' Revealed in Manning Pretrial Hearing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/03-7

Mainstream Media s Sparse Coverage of Bradley Manning Hearings
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/03-12

The Ethics of Solitary Confinement
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/27

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Pentagon prisons revealed: WikiLeaks publishes terror detainee manuals

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is releasing over 100 classified documents detailing US Department of Defense procedures for running Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and other infamous prisons where terror suspects are detained.

http://is.gd/t3Ebr2



An MI5 Whistle Blower s Story

From MI6 Al Qaeda Plot to Kill Gaddafi to Spying on Domestic Dissent

Video and Transcript

Annie Machon is a former intelligence officer for MI5, the UK Security Service, who resigned in 1996 to blow the whistle on the spies' incompetence and crimes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32923.htm



Bradley Manning: marine commander warned detention was inappropriate

Manning spent nine months at Quantico, three times the maximum Choike thought appropriate. The soldier s treatment there prompted international protests from the UN, Amnesty International and other organisations that likened it to torture.

http://is.gd/wsiBmq



Investigators Said to Question How Detainee Died of Overdose

A Yemeni detainee who was found dead in September at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, died from an overdose of psychiatric medication, according to several people briefed on a Naval Criminal Investigative Service inquiry.

http://is.gd/n6idYt



Government report confirms US prisons can handle Gitmo detainees

Military and federal US prisons have the capacity to take in the 166 detainees currently held in Guantanamo Bay, as long as a number of modifications are made to enhance and secure the facilities.

http://is.gd/BTKNBk



Treated Like 'a Caged Animal': Manning Breaks Silence in WikiLeaks Hearing

By RT

Manning said that the conditions in the small, dark cell were like a ''cage'' and that during his incarceration there he began ''to fall apart.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33183.htm



Manning Was Reporting a War Crime

By Ralph Lopez

Bradley Manning is where he is in the first place because he was reporting a war crime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33186.htm



Bradley Manning: A Tale Of Liberty Lost In America

By Glenn Greenwald

The US does nothing to punish those guilty of war crimes or Wall Street fraud, yet demonises the whistleblower.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33193.htm



I Thought Solitary Confinement in Iran Was Bad, Then I Went Inside America s Prisons

By Shane Bauer

We throw thousands of people in prison for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here s why.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34835.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Iraq, Libya and 9/11
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Conservative judges demolish the false legitimacy of Guantanamo s terror trials

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

11/09/12

When is a war crime not a war crime? When it is invented by the executive branch and Congress and implemented for six years until a profoundly conservative appeals court strikes it down. The invented war crime is 'providing material support to terrorism'...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1211j.asp



Breaking Private Manning

CounterPunch
by Michael Ratner

11/27/12

By the time the 23-year-old soldier s court martial starts on February 4, 2013, Bradley Manning will have spent 983 days in prison, including nine months in solitary confinement, without having been convicted of a single crime. This week, in pre-trail hearings, a military court is reviewing evidence that the conditions under which he has been held constitute torture. These conditions include the nine-month period spent 23 hours a day in a six-by-eight-foot cell where he was forbidden to lie down or even lean against a wall when he was not sleeping, and when he was allowed to sleep at night, officers woke him every five minutes, and where he was subjected to daily strip searches and forced nudity. The UN Special Rapporteur for Torture has already found this amounted to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and possibly torture...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/27/breaking-private-manning/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US Government Continues to Wage Campaign Against Whistleblowers

Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: Legal expert Michael Ratner on the alleged hacktivist accused of leaking Stratfor files, who awaits trial. Also, Bradley Manning lawyers say charges should be dropped because he was tortured.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12842-us-government-campaign-against-whistleblowers-and-electronic-robin-hoods



Manning Testifies About His Torture; Was It Aimed at Turning Him on Assange?

Paul Jay, The Real News Network: According to Michael Ratner, who is the lawyer for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning describes cruel and unusual punishment and offers to plead to lesser charges.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13086-manning-testifies-about-his-torture-was-it-aimed-at-turning-him-on-assange

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Bradley Manning is guilty of morality
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11296/



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In der Energiepolitik sind die Differenzen zwischen Barack Obama und seinem Herausforderer Mitt Romney überschaubar.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/153051



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