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Border Patrol International: "The American Homeland Is the Planet"

Todd Miller, TomDispatch: If Congress finally passes a new multibillion-dollar border-policing package, its effects will be felt not only along US borders but also at the edges of its empire.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20144-border-patrol-international-the-american-homeland-is-the-planet



Atomic States of America: The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Energy

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20219-atomic-states-of-america-the-rise-and-fall-of-nuclear-energy



Social Justice Groups Demand Congress Slash Military Budget, Spend Money on People, Peace, Planet

Anne Meador, DC Media Group: A social justice coalition called on the Congressional Budgetary Committee to pass a budget resolution that redirects military spending to domestic needs.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20598-social-justice-groups-demand-congress-slash-military-budget-spend-money-on-people-peace-planet



Green Capitalism: The God That Failed

Richard Smith, Truthout: The results are in: no amount of *green capitalism* will be able to ensure the profound changes we must urgently make to prevent the collapse of civilization as a result of the catastrophic impacts of global warming.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21060-green-capitalism-the-god-that-failed

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Dollar Survival Behind US-China Tensions

By Finian Cunningham

In the imperialist, megalomaniac mindset of Washington, the "threat" to the US economy and indebted way of life is perceived as a tacit act of war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37025.htm



New low for Congress: Just 6 percent approve, finally lower than car salespeople

The public s approval rating for Congress has finally hit rock bottom: For the first time, America has a higher opinion of car salespeople.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/new-low-for-congress-just-6-percent-approve-finally-lower-than-car-salespeople/article/2539953



88% of Congress On Gas Industry Payroll As Campaign Donations Hit Record Level

A new report from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) shows that the industry s campaign contributions are now at record levels as they battle politicians wishing to tighten the reins on fracking.

http://www.occupy.com/article/88-congress-gas-industry-payroll-campaign-donations-hit-record-level



Who Appointed The U.S. to Be The World s Policeman?

By Kourosh Ziabari

The United States has contributed to the killing of more than 20 million people. Shouldn't it be held accountable then?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37465.htm



Has America Lost Touch with the World?

Video

Moderator Nik Gowing is joined by US Senator John McCain, Russian Parliament Member Alexei Pushkov, and Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37464.htm



U.S. Experimented With Nuclear Fracking

Is there no limit to human stupidity? Forbes takes a look at the folly of nuclear fracking.

http://orwellwasright.co.uk/2014/02/02/u-s-experimented-with-nuclear-fracking/


From Information Clearing House

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The national security state s childishly dangerous taunt against China

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

11/27/13

It didn t take long for the U.S. national-security state s 'pivot' toward Asia, after its disastrous 12-year foray into the Middle East, to produce a new crisis for Americans. In response to China s decision to implement a new air zone involving a long territorial dispute with Japan over a group of islands, the U.S. military sent two B-52 bombers flying over the zone to test China s resolve, proving that China is just a 'paper tiger' given that it didn t shoot the planes out of the sky. It was a childishly dangerous taunt. What would have happened if China had shot down the planes?

http://tinyurl.com/mckl3cq



Make your choice: Freedom or the national security state

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

12/18/13

In his July 4, 1821, address to Congress John Quincy Adams pointed out that America does not go abroad 'in search of monsters to destroy.' His use of the term 'monsters' encompassed brutal and tyrannical foreign dictators. ...Today, the world continues to be filled with brutal and tyrannical dictators. However, there is now a big difference between the U.S. government of Adams? time and the U.S. government of our time. Unlike our 19th-century American ancestors, modern-day Americans live under a national-security state apparatus, one whose mission, practically from its inception in 1947, is to serve as the world s policeman, one who goes abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

http://tinyurl.com/lacxntl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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China Won t Bow to the Yankee Empire
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/patrick-j-buchanan/china-wont-bow-to-the-yankee-empire/

American Empire is Over
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/patrick-l-smith/usg-exceptionalism-is-over/

Dangerous Organizations of the National Security State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/michael-s-rozeff/the-national-security-state-2/

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Budget Deal Attacks America s Most Vulnerable
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/11

Federal Budget Deal is an Endorsement of Austerity at the Expense of All of Us
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/11-4



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Historisches Rekordhoch der CO2-Emissionen

Nach dem Bericht des Global Carbon Project sind die CO2-Emissionen gegenüber 1990 um 58 Prozent gestiegen, besonders zugelegt haben die Emissionen durch Kohleverbrennung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/155352



UN-Klimakonferenz: Gespräche vor dem Scheitern?

Umweltorganisationen beklagen übermäßigen Einfluss der Energiekonzerne auf die Klimaverhandlungen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/155361

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CO2 emissions ?set to hit new peak?

Belfast Telegraph [Ireland]

11/19/13

Rising global emissions of carbon dioxide greenhouse gas are set to reach a record high of 36 billion tonnes this year, say experts. The 2.1% rise projected for 2013 will take global emissions from burning fossil fuels to a level 60% above what they were in 1990, according to a new report from British climate scientists...

http://tinyurl.com/nqlufb6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Klimakonferenz endet enttäuschend

"Diese Konferenz war ein einziger Betrug," so Martin Kaiser, Leiter der Greenpeace-Delegation in Warschau.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820154ms400.html



Klimakonferenz endet enttäuschend

"Diese Konferenz war ein einziger Betrug," so Martin Kaiser, Leiter der Greenpeace-Delegation in Warschau.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820154ms400.html



Nichtregierungsorganisationen verlassen aus Protest die Klimakonferenz in Warschau

Einfluss der Industrie inakzeptabel.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/r/d87416820164ms400.html

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Record High for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/03

Are Fossil Fuels the New Slavery?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/04-3

In Alberta, Environmental Regulators Now Funded by Fossil Fuel Industry
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/24-3



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The Nation
by Bob Dreyfuss

11/18/13

One of the byproducts of recent events in the Middle East is the return of Russia to a prominent role across the region. Not that Russia ever left, but it has been a principal goal of successive US administrations to push first the Soviet Union and then Russia back. In the 1950s and 1960s that took the form of a series of political and military alliances, including NATO (which included Turkey) and the Baghdad Pact and CENTO (including variously Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan)...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177239/russia-middle-east


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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When a city is badly broken, it can be very tough to fix. Just ask Darren Green, president of a coalition of community groups in Trenton, N.J., where deep budget cuts in 2011 forced the city to lay off a third of its police force.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101196425



U.S. consumer debt highest since early 2008

U.S. household debt rose in the latest quarter by the most in more than five years and the share of student loans in delinquency hit a record high, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed on Thursday.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-consumer-debt-fiveyear-high-20131114,0,2093714.story



Detroit as a Template for Democracy s Destruction

By Chris Floyd

Over the past year, we have seen the citizens of a major American city openly, 'legally' stripped of the right to govern themselves and forced into a form of indentured servitude.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36904.htm



Jesse Ventura: Every baby born in US already $50,000 in debt

A baby born today in the U.S., when it takes its first breath of air, it is 50000$ in debt. Is that ringing home? We have no money to give anyone, how can you call us the richest country in the world when we are trillions and trillions of dollars in debt? How can you make a statement like that?

http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/us-politician-veteran-wrestler-137/



Infant Mortality in Detroit Rivals Many Third World Countries

Although the crime rate in Detroit is high, it's not the #1 killer of children in the city. Kids in the city are more likely to die from infant mortality than violence, according to The Detroit News.

http://www.kulturekritic.com/2014/01/news/infant-mortality-1-kller-children-detroit-rivals-third-world/


From Information Clearing House

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Federal Reserve steals from the poor and gives to the rich

US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) Campaign For Liberty

11/18/13

As recently as five years ago, it would have been unheard of for a Wall Street insider and former Fed official to speak so bluntly about how the Fed acts as a reverse Robin Hood. But a quick glance at the latest unemployment numbers shows that QE is not benefiting the average American. It is increasingly obvious that the Fed s post-2008 policies of bailouts, money printing, and bond buying benefited the big banks and the politically-connected investment firms. QE is such a blatant example of crony capitalism that it makes Solyndra look like a shining example of a pure free market!

http://tinyurl.com/psxx78w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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An Open Letter to You

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Modern America is not a country of compassion. As elected officials disrespect the poor, violence becomes a badge of courage and citizens die needlessly at the hands of a corrupt system, we are reminded that these injustices occur because we allow them to.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20156-an-open-letter-to-you



Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: "What's at stake here is not just the fact that you have rich people who now control the economy and all the commanding institutions of society. What you have is basically a transgression against the very basic ideals of democracy. I mean, it s hard to imagine life beyond capitalism. You know, it s easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism."

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20212-bill-moyers-|-henry-giroux-zombie-politics-and-casino-capitalism



Bankruptcy or Bunko? The Right s War on Detroit s Public Pensioners

Douglas Jamiel, Truthout: The purposeful, ideologically driven assault on democratic government orchestrated by ALEC and forces in Michigan s Statehouse has starved already-ailing Detroit of revenues. Through the emergency financial manager, they will continue to redistribute public assets to corporate pockets.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20437-bankruptcy-or-bunko-the-rights-war-on-detroits-public-pensioners

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The Crony Capitalist Mess?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/greg-hunter/the-crony-capitalist-mess%E2%80%A8/

Detroit: Resurrection Through Bankruptcy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/gary-north/resurrection-through-bankruptcy%E2%80%A8/

Wars, Czars and the Zombie Majority
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/sibel-edmonds/wars-czars-and-the-zombie-majority/

$14 Billion Up in Smoke
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/eric-peters/14-billion-up-in-smoke/

Warped, Distorted, Manipulated, Flipped Housing Market
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/02/no_author/warped-distorted-manipulated/

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The Empire Strikes Back: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme, Again
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/26-5

We Are Not Broke, We Have Been Robbed
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/27-7

What Really Made Detroit Go Bankrupt
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/12/04

Detroit Bankruptcy Bankrupts Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/04-2



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Even when phones have their batteries removed, it appears the NSA still has the ability to locate them.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3014675/fast-feed/how-the-cia-can-send-a-drone-after-any-mobile-phone



NSA grapples with huge increase in records requests

Fueled by the Edward Snowden scandal, more Americans than ever are asking the National Security Agency if their personal life is being spied on. And the NSA has a very direct answer for them: Tough luck, we are not telling you.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/17/nsa-grapples-with-988-increase-in-open-records-requests/3519889/



Taking the "Meh" out of Metadata

How the government can discover your health problems, political beliefs, and religious practices using just your metadata.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/11/nsa_and_metadata_how_the_government_can_spy_on_your_health_political_beliefs.html?wpisrc=burger_bar



NSA hacked over 50,000 computer networks worldwide

The US National Security Agency hacked more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide installing malware designated for surveillance operations, Dutch newspaper NRC reports citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden.

http://rt.com/news/nsa-hacked-world-networks-209/



Why Care About the N.S.A.?

Video

A short film explores whether ordinary Americans should be concerned about online surveillance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36970.htm



Spycrash: 5 CIA operations that went south, spectacularly

The Associated Press yesterday revealed that Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent, was working for the CIA when he disappeared on Iran in March 2007. But perhaps more surprising than Levinson s ties to the CIA was the reckless way in which the operation was carried out.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/13/spycrash_five_cia_operations_that_went_south



Man shot in the back of the head by FBI during 8-hour interrogation

He was ultimately shot 6 times in the chest and once in the back of the head, which his father describes as an *execution* performed to *silence* his son. Months later, the Feds still have not offered any cogent explanations of the the incident or why their agents altered their story multiple times.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/ibragim-todashev-execution/


From Information Clearing House

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Voices From the Drone Summit
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/18

UK Must Not Hide Drone War Involvement Behind ?Special Relationship?, Court Hears
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/03-1

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Drones, Tanks, and Grenade Launchers: Coming Soon to a Police Department Near You
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/john-w-whitehead/drones-tanks-and-grenade-launchers/

Sensitive FBI interrogation manual surfaces at Library of Congress
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/russia-today/when-to-electro-shock-the-suspect/

Survival Guide Informs on New Breed of Aerial Predators
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/russia-today/the-drone-survival-guide%E2%80%A8/

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Drone Strike Victims Find Support From Activists, Silence From Unapologetic US Leaders

Rania Khalek, Truthout: A second drone briefing from victims at the US House of Representatives is also sparsely attended, but concerned citizens from around the world packed CODEPINK s Global Drone Summit in November in Washington, DC.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/20238-drone-strike-victims-find-support-from-activists-silence-from-unapologetic-us-leaders

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FBI Agents knock on door of peace activist
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/defending-civil-liberties-1/it-wont-stop-at-the-airports.html



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By Aryeh Neier

The US was once in a position to promote human rights abroad. That was undermined under Bush, and the damage continues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36898.htm



The hypocrisy of 'law and order' and the injustices caused by capitalism cannot be cured by institutional reform

By Chris Hedges
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36900.htm



Child Labor in the USA

The Editors

The country must find the political will to end this national disgrace.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36896.htm



"Liberty and Justice for Some People"

Video

James Early talks about American identity and growing up African-American facing the deep racism of the South.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36901.htm



Court Documents Reveal NSA Disregard for Privacy Restrictions

By Spencer Ackerman in New York

The National Security Agency shared its trove of American bulk email and internet data with other government agencies in violation of specific court-ordered procedures to protect Americans' privacy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36910.htm



United States Can Spy on Britons Despite Pact, N.S.A. Memo Says

By James Glanz

The National Security Agency is authorized to spy on the citizens of America s closest allies, including Britain, even though those English-speaking countries have long had an official non-spying pact.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36930.htm



Inside America s Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere

By Colum Lynch

The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36932.htm



Government Gave U.S. Permission To Spy On Ordinary British Citizens

BBC video report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYl6I6lVME&feature=youtu.be



Glenn Greenwald: The Goal Of The U.S. Government Is To Eliminate ALL Privacy Globally!"

Video - BBC - Hardtalk

Glenn Greenwald, the man who broke the Snowden story. His mission, he says, is to hold power to account. Is this a journalistic crusade that s gone too far?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37002.htm



Attacking Journalists, Whistleblowers and Other Messengers

By Glenn Grenwald

There are dozens of examples, one of whom is the author of a post this week at Pando.com which accuses me and Laura Poitras of having "promptly sold [the Snowden] secrets to a billionaire".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37020.htm



Lies and Dirty Politics

Canadian MP Smears Greenwald/CBC

Video

"Greenwald is a Brazilian based former porn industry executive, now assisting Edward Snowden leak national security information."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37018.htm



Saving the Net from the Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald Speaks Up (Q&A)

By Edward Moyer

The man to whom Edward Snowden entrusted his NSA documents isn t content just to save the Bill of Rights and reinvent journalism. He also wants to stop the Internet from becoming history's most dangerous spy tool.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37049.htm



Ex-CIA Director Calls For Snowden To Be "Hanged By His Neck Until He Is Dead"

Former CIA Director James Woolsey has one wish for the holidays: for Edward Snowden to be tried for treason and "hanged." That was Woolsey's response to the suggestion of amnesty for Snowden.

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/12/18/ex-cia-director-calls-for-snowden-to-be-hanged-by-his-neck-until-he-is-dead/



John Bolton: Edward Snowden 'Ought To Swing From A Tall Oak Tree'

Bolton, who served under former President George W. Bush, characterized Snowden's actions as treason, and urged against any public talk of amnesty.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/john-bolton-edward-snowden_n_4461196.html



Some Might Call It Treason

By Philip Giraldi

I am referring to a concerted "betrayal of trust" by a group of American government elected officials in openly advancing policies that serve the interests of a foreign country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37164.htm



If You Believe the Goverment, 'You Are Stupid'

By Jon Schwarz

Americans are taught the myth that their democracy is safeguarded by an independent press. But the government and other powerful entities have long mastered the art of manipulating the major media.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37166.htm



America is Still a Deeply Racist Country

By Chris Arnade

Gone is the overt, violent, and legal racism of my childhood in the 1960s. It's been replaced by a subtler, still ugly version.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37375.htm



Adm. Mike Mullen: Americans forget the troops who die in 'our dirty little wars'

*When you get to these wars, I worry that America has paid us very well, the compensation s good, [so the culture says] 'please go off and fight our dirty little wars and let us get on with our lives,* he said. *We need to figure a way to get America to buy into those, into them.*

http://washingtonexaminer.com/adm.-mike-mullen-americans-forget-the-troops-who-die-in-our-dirty-little-wars/article/2542593


From Information Clearing House

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'Liberty and Justice for Some People
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/11/18

Video and Guide to Busting Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/11/26-5



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By Simon Jenkins

It is hard to exaggerate the misery and chaos created by so-called "liberal interventionism". It is hard to think of a more immoral foreign policy, roaming the (chiefly Muslim) world, killing people and sowing anarchy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36893.htm



Libya makes Sharia law basis for law and state institutions: Tripoli

The Libyan National Assembly voted to make Sharia Law the basis of all legislative decisions and the legal framework of the country. The move is seen by some as an attempt to outflank more radical Islamic groups some of whom have called some members of the Assembly un-Islamic.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/363534


From Information Clearing House

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Who Controls US Foreign Policy?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/21-0

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Anti-Interventionism Is Soaring
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/patrick-j-buchanan/anti-interventionism-is-soaring/

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Iraq, Libya, Syria and the long shadow of American interventionism

Reason
by Ed Krayewski

01/07/14

[W]hile the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from [Iraq] in December 2011 marked the end of the American war there, it did not, and could not, mark the end of the influence of the war on events in Iraq. Instead, what s happening in Iraq follows the American war, not just chronologically but consequentially. It s the legacy of foreign policy interventionism in action, and a template from which the contours of the aftermath of subsequent American interventionism can be teased...

http://tinyurl.com/ppdecut



US foreign policy is a shambles

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/07/14

McCain and Graham, who never saw an opportunity for U.S. military intervention they didn t like, continue to operate under the absurd illusion that American politicians and bureaucrats can micromanage something as complex as a foreign society. Their hubris knows no bounds, but, then, they never pay the price for their foolishness. Who pays? The Americans they cheer off to war, but even more so, the people in foreign lands who are on the receiving end of American intervention...

http://tinyurl.com/oxmgrqy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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