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Don t be fooled by the huge run in the US stock market and the rebound in the housing market. The financial crisis never really ended, and its effects continue to roil the global economy.

http://is.gd/q9KNa1


From Information Clearing House

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18 Signs that Global Financial Markets are Entering a Horrifying Death Spiral
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/michael-snyder/get-ready-for-the-coming-financial-storm%E2%80%A8/

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The Simple Reason for the Long Downturn: Housing Bubble Burst

Dean Baker, Truthout: Contrary to economic pundits who act as if the cause of the economic downturn is a mystery, the housing market reveals today, just as it did five years ago, the abuses that have plunged this country into disaster.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/18859-the-simple-reason-for-the-long-downturn-housing-bubble-burst



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By Bill Van Auken

What is being upended, behind the scenes and with virtually no media coverage, much less public debate, are constitutional principles dating back centuries that bar the use of the military in civilian law enforcement.

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Obama s Master Class in Demagogy 101

By Michael Hudson

Here s the problem that President Obama did not address yesterday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35663.htm



The Corporate Media s Mass Hypnosis

By Margaret Kimberley

Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is the preferred state of affairs for politicians, CEOs and their friends at the television networks and editorial boards of leading newspapers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35661.htm



House approves 2014, $600 billion''defense'' spending bill

The House on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly approved a spending bill that would give the Pentagon about $600 billion next year.

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Mass Media Madness

By Paul Balles

The public in a democracy deserves more than time wasted reporting on relatively unimportant events and concerns.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35911.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/paul-craig-roberts/role-reversal-2/

How Just 6 Corps Own 90% of The Media
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/anthony-gucciardi/the-corporate-state-and-its-media/

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Obama Is Complicit in Nation s Violent, Discriminatory Behavior, Laws

Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout: The conversation we need to have has to go beyond discriminatory attitudes and practices and must consider the value we place on life itself, and that conversation needs to be national.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17772-beyond-being-followed-around-and-beyond-soul-searching

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Welcome to Post-Constitution America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/05-3



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By Glenn Greenwald

President Obama s most stalwart, enthusiastic defenders are often found among the most radical precincts of the Republican Party.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35655.htm



How Nancy Pelosi Saved the NSA Surveillance Program

Hill sources say most of the credit for the amendment s defeat goes to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. It s an odd turn, considering that Pelosi has been, on many occasions, a vocal surveillance critic.

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They Know Much More Than You Think

By James Bamford

The US intelligence agencies seem to have adopted Orwell s idea of doublethink ''to be conscious of complete truthfulness,'' he wrote, ''while telling carefully constructed lies.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35670.htm



NSA surveillance critics to testify before Congress

Democratic congressman Alan Grayson says hearing will help stop 'constant misleading information' from intelligence chiefs.

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Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have 'Powerful and Invasive' Search Tool

''The NSA has trillions of telephone calls and emails in their databases that they have collected over the last several years,'' Greenwald told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.

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NSA Pays £100m in Secret Funding for GCHQ

By Nick Hopkins and Julian Borger

The US government has paid at least £100m to the UK spy agency GCHQ over the last three years to secure access to and influence over Britain s intelligence gathering programmes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35715.htm



How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say

By Jameel Jaffer and Brett Max Kaufman

A lexicon for understanding the words U.S. intelligence officials use to mislead the public.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35717.htm



Representative Alan Grayson on NSA Data Collection Programs

Video

Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, talked about National Security Agency (NSA) data collection program sand NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35734.htm



UK: BT and Vodafone among telecoms companies passing details to GCHQ

Fears of customer backlash over breach of privacy as firms give GCHQ unlimited access to their undersea cables.

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GCHQ: inside the top secret world of Britain s biggest spy agency

Files leaked by Edward Snowden reveal how the NSA pays for and influences some of the UK s intelligence gathering programmes. The documents also give unique insights into the challenges faced by the agency and the concerns it has about how to tackle them.

http://is.gd/PRfHBG



GCHQ reported to have access to almost all European internet traffic

The reports published by the German public broadcaster NDR and the Süddeutsche newspaper said documents made available to them by Edward Snowden indicate that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is capable of gathering and analyzing data from almost all of the traffic that passes through Europe s internet network.

http://is.gd/AOKbeu


From Information Clearing House

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Why the Surveillance State Is Doomed
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/gary-north/the-surveillance-state-is-doomed/

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Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/


Informant: Mark G.

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NSA Paying UK Spy Agency to Surveil Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/01-10



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By Pepe Escobar

Washington has already destroyed the social fabric of Iraq. Now it s helping to destroy Syria s.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35654.htm



US Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole

By Peter Dale Scott

More and more, it is becoming common to say that America, like Turkey before it, now has what Marc Ambinder and John Tirman have called a deep state behind the public one.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35690.htm



Washington Thinks You Are Stupid

By Paul Craig Roberts

Officially, the US has been at war with al Qaeda since October 7, 2001. The 'superpower' has been battling a few thousand lightly armed al Qaeda for almost 12 years, and what is the result?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35777.htm



The United States as Global Midget

Closing Embassies and Running Scared

By Doug Bandow

Reports of threats from a movement said to be on the run caused the world s dominant military power to cower in fear.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35771.htm



10 Ways to Reduce the Threat of Terrorist Attacks on Americans

By Medea Benjamin

After a decade of wielding the military stick, it s time for some carrots.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35767.htm



Saudi Rulers Pour Money Into Arming Militants in Region

By Finian Cunningham

This is not the first time that the Saudi loose cannon has swung around on its Western patrons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35817.htm



Saudi Arabia Sponsoring Terrorists Who Kill Muslims

By Finian Cunningham

While King Abdullah was spilling Saudi coffers to ostensibly help fight terrorism, Ramadan was ending with thousands of Muslims having their blood spilled by terrorists funded by Saudi Arabia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35905.htm

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The New Al-Qaeda Menace

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: If the new, decentralized al-Qaeda is still a major threat that warrants the shuttering of 19 American embassies, consulates, then we have a decade of wrongheaded US policy to blame.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17998-the-new-al-qaeda-menace

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Al Qaeda in perspective

Antiwar.com
by Patrick J. Buchanan

08/06/13

By the time this column appears, America may have been hit. Yet is it not time to put al-Qaeda in perspective and consider whether our Mideast policy is creating more terrorists than we are killing? In 2010 America lost 15 citizens to terrorism. Thirteen of them died in Afghanistan. The worst attack was the killing of six Americans at a Christian medical mission in Badakhshan Province. Yet, in 2010, not one death here in America resulted from terrorism...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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