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Robert Jensen, Truthout: If we are rational and consider objective scientific evidence of environmental collapse including groundwater depletion, topsoil loss, chemical contamination, ocean dead zones, species extinction, biodiversity reduction and climate disruption, we need to be apocalypticists.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14322-rationally-speaking-we-are-all-apocalyptic-now



Things Are Not Going to Be as Easy Over the Next 40 Years

Karen Rybold Chin, Truthout: Nate Hagens, former editor of The Oil Drum and former Lehman Brothers vice-president, asks whether ultimately, contrary to our animal nature, we are willing and able to plan for future generations by reducing our own energy consumption and economic growth.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/14317-nate-hagens-things-are-not-going-to-be-as-easy-over-the-next-forty-years

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Hottest, Most Extreme Year Ever Saw 'Most Anti-Environmental House in History'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/21-2

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We are All Going To Die
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner602.html



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Richard Long, Campaign for America s Future: The GOP knows they cannot compete with Democrats in the next presidential election unless they change. But instead of trying to compete, they are trying to change, change the rules of the game that is.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14427-how-the-gop-plans-to-subvert-buy-and-obstruct-the-vote-in-2016



Time to End the GOP s Voter Fraud Lie

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Don t be fooled by all of these GOP laws, because they have absolutely nothing to do with combatting voter fraud and have everything to do with keeping typically Democratic voters away from the polls.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15128-time-to-end-the-gops-voter-fraud-lie

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Vote Fraud: Diebold Whistleblower Speaks Out
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/election-fraud-in-the-usa/vote-fraud---diebold-whistleblower-speaks-out.html



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Op-Ed

''I sincerely doubt most members of the U.S. government would be happy with China or Russia or North Korea using drones and lethal force the way the U.S. government is doing, which is outside the bounds of international law,'' said Johnson.

http://is.gd/DfpN1s


From Information Clearing House

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Debating a Court to Vet Drone Strikes

Scott Shane, The New York Times News Service: In response to the drone program, there is an interest in applying the model of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to the targeted killing of suspected terrorists, or at least of American suspects.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/14446-debating-a-court-to-vet-drone-strikes



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By Stephen Lendman

''The parallels to the Bush administration torture memos are chilling. Those were unchecked legal justifications drawn up to justify torture; these are unchecked justifications drawn up to justify extrajudicial killing.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33864.htm



American Foreign Policy: Have Our War Lovers Learned Anything?

By William Blum

When it comes to following international law, is the United States like a failed state? The Somalia of international law?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33875.htm



It Has Happened Here: The police state is real

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33874.htm



US Media Yet Again Conceals Newsworthy Government Secrets

By Glenn Greenwald

Yet again, the US media has been caught working together to conceal obviously newsworthy government secrets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33866.htm



Obama s Failed State

By Stephen Lendman

Obama s State of the Union address didn t surprise. It reflected rogue leadership. It was beginning-to-end demagogic boilerplate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33945.htm



What Does a Police State Look Like?

By David Sirota

''Police state'' is no longer a hyperbolic term, nor should it imply some fictional fantasy world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33938.htm



The Grand Plan for a New World Order

By Prof. John McMurtry

Who had the most compelling motives for the event? Who had the means to turn two central iconic buildings in New York into a pile of steel and a cloud of dust in seconds?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34056.htm

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The police state is real

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

02/10/13

Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 or not, the result is the same: 9/11 was used to create an open-ended 'war on terror' and a police state. It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that 'it can t happen here' when it already has...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/08/the-police-state-is-real/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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911Truth Evidence Goes to Court Feb 25, 2013
http://tinyurl.com/acbsjlm



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By Human Rights Watch

The committee said it was ''alarmed'' at reports of the deaths of hundreds of children from US attacks and air strikes in Afghanistan since the committee last reviewed US practices in 2008.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33868.htm



UN body ''alarmed'' by US killings of Afghan children

A UN committee has expressed ''alarm'' over reports that hundreds of children have been killed by US military forces in Afghanistan in the past five years.

http://is.gd/BW1XSx



Senator Feinstein: Why did the US kill two 16 year-olds?

Join us and send a letter to Senator Feinstein, urging her to start with two cases: 16-year-old U.S. citizen Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, killed by a drone strike in Yemen, and 16-year-old Tariq Aziz, killed by a drone strike in Pakistan.

http://is.gd/jTDMtU



Afghanistan confirms UN report on child killings by US-led troops

''We agree with the UN report and confirm that innocent kids have been killed during coalition forces operations specifically US troops operations during the past ten years,'' Aimal Faizi, a spokesman for the Afghan government, said Saturday.

http://is.gd/Oyo52z



12 Afghans killed in US-led forces attack

Witnesses say there six civilians were among those killed in the Monday night attack in Tagab district of Kapisa province.

http://is.gd/Einv60



US strike kills 10 civilians as Obama touts end of Afghan occupation

By Bill Van Auken

Obama reiterated that Washington intends to maintain a military force in Afghanistan well past the formal date for the US-NATO withdrawal at the end of 2014

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33936.htm



Karzai summon NATO commander over civilian deaths

''Pointing to a commitment Gen. Allen had previously made not to conduct any air strike or bombing in residential areas, President Karzai reminded that such incidents must strictly be avoided in future and any recurrence is not acceptable.''

http://is.gd/mzKvSS



Karzai to ban Afghan forces from requesting NATO airstrikes

''I will issue a decree tomorrow that no Afghan security forces in any circumstances can ask for the foreigners' planes for carrying out operations on our homes and villages,'' Karzai said during a speech at the Afghan National Military Academy in Kabul on Saturday.

http://rt.com/news/karzai-ban-nato-airstrikes-385/



US To Continue Afghan Occupation: Will station up to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan, says German official

The US defence secretary has told Nato allies the US will leave between 8,000 and 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, when combat ends, according to a senior government official.

http://is.gd/GOgGrb



Kabul orders US forces out of two Afghan provinces

Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded Sunday the withdrawal of US special forces from Wardak and Logar within two weeks, accusing them of fuelling ''insecurity and instability'' in the volatile provinces neighbouring the capital Kabul.

http://is.gd/b2Upx6


From Information Clearing House

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Afghan Civilians Bear Brunt of Death, Injury as US War Continues
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/19/

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Why the Awlakis Were Killed
http://lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger195.html



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Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: ''The United States and other independent governments around the world are crumbling while Ayn Rand s billionaires are taking over.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14420-ayn-rand-queen-of-the-universe



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Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: Austerity is the policy preferred by the private capitalist interests and unfortunately both Democrats and Republicans concur to always serve and never question capitalism.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14389-austerity-us-style-exposed



In the US, Austerity Could Be Disastrous

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: ''So fiscal austerity is the difference between where we are now and an unemployment rate not much above six percent. It s a policy disaster.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14640-in-the-us-austerity-could-be-disastrous

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Austerity USA Begins March 1st

By Shamus Cooke

If Labor and community groups united in a demand of 'No Cuts, Tax the Rich' and organized massive mobilizations, there would be a very different public debate happening right now.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34116.htm



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Appeals Court Hears Arguments in NDAA Lawsuit

John Knefel, Truthout: On Wednesday morning plaintiffs, who include journalist Chris Hedges and six political dissidents, argued that a provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) allows for military detention of US citizens.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14418-can-the-military-detain-us-citizens-appeals-court-hears-arguments-in-ndaa-lawsuit



The State of Dissent in America: Flex Your Rights

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout: When protesters occupied DC s Freedom Plaza in fall 2011, they made it a habit to read aloud together the words of the First Amendment to let everyone know, including the security state, that they had the right to exercise their right to protest peacefully.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/17354-the-state-of-dissent-in-america-flex-your-rights



Locking Out the Voices of Dissent: Arrests Demonstrate Restrictions on Right of Assembly

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''The security and surveillance state, after crushing the Occupy movement and eradicating its encampments, has mounted a relentless and largely clandestine campaign to deny public space to any group or movement that might spawn another popular uprising.''

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17583-locking-out-the-voices-of-dissent-arrests-demonstrate-restrictions-on-right-of-assembly

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Hedges Vs Obama

Stop The National Defense Authorization Act

Video

NDAA May Already Be Detaining Americans .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33881.htm



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Das französische Institut für Strahlenschutz und nukleare Sicherheit schätzt in einer Studie die Folgen von Kernschmelzen in einer der Reaktoren in unserem Nachbarland ab.

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Promotion und Honorarprofessuren als Spielwiesen für Politiker.
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Ein Dokument des US-Justizministeriums offenbart, wie die gezielten Tötungen mit Drohnen von Rechtsexperten, die sich als Rechtsverdreher erweisen, gerechtfertigt werden sollen.

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Wie Politik und Geschäft sich vernetzen.
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Heimtücke, Erpressungsversuche und brachiale Zerstörungswut?

Das Wahlkampfblog für Peer Steinbrück wird eingestellt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/153694



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