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By Alnoor Ladha, Joe Brewer, Martin Kirk

It s about time we called out the great myth that mass poverty just is, as if it were a natural part of some universal moral order. Such thinking is both profoundly untrue and disastrously misleading.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34625.htm


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'Corporations Are Not Persons': Democracy Is Coming To The U.S.A.!

By Mike Ferner

When Judge Debbie O'Dell-Seneca, recently directed a corporate ''fracking'' combine in Western Pennsylvania to unseal the terms of a settlement with citizen-plaintiffs, she struck a clear blow for the public s right to know.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34615.htm

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500,000 Americans Urge SEC to Require Disclosure of Corporate Political Spending
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/04/16-9

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Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania

Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch: As the energy industry pushes high-volume fracking, residents in Texas, Colorado and Pennsylvania are experiencing similar health problems: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty breathing, joint pain, intestinal illnesses, memory loss and more.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/16137-fracking-ourselves-to-death-in-pennsylvania



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By Robert Parry

Several of the Americans targeted by Moscow, were clearly guilty of human rights crimes. John Yoo and David Addington were former legal advisers to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, respectively.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34621.htm



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By Andrew Gavin Marshall

Through the educational system, the social sciences, philanthropic foundations, public relations, advertising, marketing, and the media, America and the industrialized states of the world developed a unique and complex system of social control and propaganda.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34626.htm



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Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci tells TRNN that the whole 401(k) structure has a fatal flaw and older workers are going into retirement with not enough money to maintain their living standards.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15752-401k-and-the-financialization-of-retirement

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Many Americans say they can't retire until their 70s or 80s

More than four in 10 Americans think they ll have to work into their 70s or 80s because they can t afford to retire, according to a new survey.

http://is.gd/jKsx6p


From Information Clearing House



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The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: In Germany, Portugal, and India, among others, innovators are already surpassing the lagging US.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15754-global-warming-why-arent-we-using-more-alternative-energy



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/15-3

Surge in US Inequality Continues
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/24-3

'Dignity and Respect' and a Living Wage
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/24-1

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Why Inequality Is a Problem and Growth a Red Herring

Salvatore Babones, Inequality.org: ''To the inequality and growth debate, I say: who cares? If something is bad for 80 or 90 percent of the population, does it really matter whether or not it is also bad for growth?''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16469-why-inequality-is-a-problem-and-growth-a-red-herring



US Inequality Now Literally Off the Chart

Salvatore Babones, Inequality.org: It is well known that the level of income inequality stretches much higher in the United States than in the other developed countries. Now a report from the International Labour Organization shows that US inequality has literally gone off the chart.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/16849-us-inequality-now-literally-off-the-chart



Obamacare s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens (Part II)

Lambert Strether, Naked Capitalism: This continuing analysis of Obamacare reveals more examples of how the system functions as a hierarchy, continuing to create and separate first- and second-class citizens in a system the claims to be about equality.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/17072-obamacares-relentless-creation-of-second-class-citizens-part-ii



Obamacare: The Right Wing s Alamo

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: As Republicans demand apologies and administration officials dutifully offer up mea culpas for the botched Obamacare rollout, wouldn t it be fair to expect just a morsel of apology from the right as well?

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19788-bill-moyers-obamacare-the-right-wings-alamo



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/15-7

Hungering for Justice at Guantanamo
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/15-6

Retaliation for Guantanamo Hunger Strike Grows
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/04/15-12

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'US fails to break mass hunger strike at Gitmo': Martha Rayner

An analyst says hunger strikers at Guantanamo perceive they have been forgotten by the world and this is a final message to say we are still here and we should be released.

http://is.gd/xtRoc1



Guantanamo Grows Tense, Inmates Suicidal

By RT

At least two Guantanamo Bay detainees have attempted suicide since the confrontation between guards and prisoners in February that brought about the ongoing hunger strike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34692.htm


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Nearly Half of Guantanamo Prisoners Now on Hunger Strike

Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers: The hunger strike figure rose by 14 prisoners overnight, and more than 10 percent of all detainees were being tube fed, according to the military.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15855-nearly-half-of-guantanamo-prisoners-now-on-hunger-strike



Gitmo Dilemma Remains a Monkey on the Back of US Democracy

Megan Cowell, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: It is clear that closing Guantanamo Bay is not one of Obama s top priorities this term, especially after a March proposal for a $49 million expansion of the prison facilities. But unrest will continue to be felt between prisoners and civilian protesters alike.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15858-gitmo-dilemma-remains-a-monkey-on-the-back-of-us-democracy



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Die AKW-Abschaltungen können vorgezogen werden und die EEG-Umlage wird immer mehr für den Bau neuer Kohlekraftwerke zweckentfremdet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/154102



Strom wird wieder schmutziger, auch bei uns

Noch mehr Kohlekraftwerke für den Exportstrom und kaum neue Gaskraftwerke für die Flexibilität.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/154137

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Wind- und Solaranlagen produzieren mehr Strom als konventionelle Kraftwerke

Die Stromerzeugung aus erneuerbaren Energien hatte gestern einen neuen Spitzenwert erreicht.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416818202ms367.html



Neue globale Allianz fordert 100 Prozent Erneuerbare Energien

Klarer Aufruf bei Konferenz in San Francisco und Startschuss für internationale Kampagne.

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