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Destroying Higher Education, Savaging Children and Extinguishing Democracy

From Penn State to JPMorgan Chase and Barclays

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: ''Rather than representing a society s dreams and hope for the future, young people, especially poor white and minority children, have become a commodity to be mined for profit and/or pleasure and disposable after they have served those purposes in the age of casino capitalism and big money.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10301-from-penn-state-to-jpmorgan-chase-and-barclay-destroying-higher-education-savaging-children-and-extinguishing-democracy



Beyond Barclays: Laying Out the LIBOR Investigations

Cora Currier, ProPublica: ''Last week, the British bank Barclays was slapped with $450 million in fines and penalties for manipulating information used to set a critical interest rate.... Barclays' traders attempted to steer rates up or down in order to benefit trades they had made to profit off of those rates. Separately, the filings show that during the financial crisis, Barclays tried to counter reports that it had financial troubles by changing the interest rate it reported.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10299-beyond-barclays-laying-out-the-libor-investigations



The 1% Connection: Mexico and the United States, Crony Capitalism and the Exploitation of Labor Through NAFTA

Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''Free trade, such as NAFTA, is a way of exploiting labor without national boundaries and ravaging the environment in pursuit of higher corporate profits. Borders only exist for poor migrants seeking money to keep themselves and their families alive. The victims of this trade policy, and its synergistic companion, crony capitalism, eke out an existence on both sides of the Mexican-United States border.... There is no border wall for economic injustice.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10309-the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states-crony-capitalism-and-the-exploitation-of-labor-through-nafta



Titanic Banks Hit LIBOR Iceberg: Will Lawsuits Sink the Ship?

Ellen Brown, Truthout: ''At one time, calling the large multinational banks a 'cartel' branded you as a conspiracy theorist. Today, the banking giants are being called that and worse, not just in the major media but in court documents intended to prove the allegations as facts.... Damning charges have already been proven and major damages and penalties assessed. Conspiracy theory has become conspiracy fact."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31994


From Truthout

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World s Faith in Capitalism Erodes as Financial Crisis Continues: Survey
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/13

The Selling of American Democracy: The Perfect Storm
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/13-7

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Was The Oil Price Rigged Too?

By Rowena Mason, Emma Rowley

Motorists may have been paying too much for their petrol because banks and other traders are likely to have tried to manipulate oil prices in the same way they rigged interest rates, an official report has warned.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31877.htm



The Two Faces of a Police State: Sheltering Tax Evaders, Financial Swindlers and Money Launderers while Policing the Citizens

By James Petras

Never in the history of the United States have we witnessed crimes committed on the scale and scope of the present day by both private and state elites.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32101.htm



Welcome to Police State USA

Harassed for Filming

Video

Before confronting Henry Paulson, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gets harassed and intimidated by NYPD Officers for filming, then has an exchange with a secret service member during and after the confrontation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32171.htm

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The American Dream Has Changed. Have You?
http://lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi226.html

The Overcriminalization of America: Are We All Criminals Now?
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead51.1.html

The NJ Police State Train
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig13/wilson-bill1.1.1.html

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How did Americans become poor?

Strike the Root
by Glen Allport

08/01/12

How did the linked disasters of mass poverty, staggering and rapidly growing debt, and imposition of a police state befall the wealthy, can-do population of the strongest, wealthiest, and most visibly free nation the world has ever known?

http://www.strike-the-root.com/how-did-americans-become-poor



Police state America

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

08/01/12

How far away are we from the day that local authorities in suburbia will be flying drones around the neighborhood tallying up the number of dandelions in people s yards, and issuing warnings that they need to apply toxic herbicides to kill them or face a fine? You are laughing? There are already laws in many communities that can compel people to mow their lawns or to clear out their dandelions or face a stiff fine. What they don t have yet is a cheap way of monitoring people s lawn-care proclivities. But it?s coming...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/01/police-state-america-2/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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