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Jenny Carroll, Truthout: ''Of all the losses that I can never hope to measure since the morning of September 11, of all the ways the world has truly changed, perhaps it is the loss of the very constitutional protections that made me want to be a lawyer in the first place that scares me the most.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11160-why-are-we-turning-our-backs-on-the-constitution



The Hologram: Financial Speculation and Casino Capitalism

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''Dave Eggers' gem of a book, 'A Hologram for the King,' is a parable about the decadence, fragility and heartlessness of late, decayed corporate capitalism. It is about the small, largely colorless men and women who serve as managers in our suicidal outsourcing of manufacturing jobs and the methodical breaking of labor unions. It is about the lie of globalization, a lie that impoverishes us all to increase corporate profits.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11205-the-hologram-financial-speculation-and-casino-capitalism



Cannibalistic Capitalism and Green Resistance

Craig Collins Ph.D., Truthout: ''Profit-hungry capitalism doesn t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase.... The word catabolism is used in biology to refer to the condition whereby a living thing feeds on itself. Thus, catabolic capitalism is a self-cannibalizing system whose insatiable hunger for profit can only be fed by consuming the society that sustains it.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11173-cannibalistic-capitalism-and-green-resistance



Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans and Haiti

Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: ''The catastrophes stripped naked the trappings of difference between the richest and poorest countries in the hemisphere. New Orleans and Haiti are two predominantly Black, low-income areas where the ongoing devastation has been only partly about nature. It has also been about inequitable distribution of power and wealth, and the race- and class-biased policies that have left certain groups highly vulnerable.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11276-disaster-capitalism-in-new-orleans-and-haiti



Capitalism s Ideological Crutches

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: ''Capitalists and the rich remain determined now NOT to bear the costs of the bailouts or the crisis. Unlike in the 1930s, they don t see organized, determined and militant workers' movements to worry about today, nor any USSR positioned as an alternative to modern capitalism. So, they push austerity policies for governments everywhere. To sustain governments' austerity policies, capitalists and the rich lean on their ideological crutches to try to thwart political opposition. The mainstream ideology that works best as capitalism s crutch is blame the government.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11241-capitalisms-ideological-crutches

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Obama s America: Waiting for Blowback

By Nicolas J.S. Davies
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32319.htm



Phony Populism from a Party of Corporate America

By Patrick Martin

The convention s first night added a particularly noxious note of economic nationalism to the populist demagogy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32366.htm



New group accepts company money

By Michael Becke

While Democrats have touted their grassroots fundraising efforts for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, deep-pocketed corporate donors are helping underwrite the event.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32367.htm



9/11, Bin Laden and the Tyranny of the Corporate Media

By Prof. James F. Tracy

At a time when information is crucial and thousands if not millions more innocent lives may be lost, U.S. journalists are again ''stenographers to power''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32397.htm

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'The Solution to the Crisis is Outside of Capitalism'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/09/05-0

Transaction Tax, Not Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/26-10

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Thoughts for Constitution Day

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

09/17/12

By my reading, almost nothing the federal government does is Constitutional. The entire national security state and empire are dubious at best. ... Virtually everything that both Obama and Romney propose to do as president is unconstitutional and therefore illegal. Yet this seems not to matter to most Americans. And sadly, it has been this way for a long time...

http://blog.independent.org/2012/09/17/thoughts-for-constitution-day/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bailouts and the Wonderland Economy
http://lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson346.html



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