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CounterPunch
by Andy Kroll

03/01/12

You might say that [Jonathan] Schell, a former New Yorker staff writer renowned for his work on nuclear weapons and disarmament (his 1981 book The Fate of the Earth was a best-seller and instant classic), prophesied Occupy and the Arab Spring without even knowing it. He admits to being as surprised as anyone about the wave of nonviolent action that swept the world in 2011, but those who had read Unconquerable World would have found themselves uncannily well prepared for the birth of a planet of protest whenever it happened...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-kroll/how-empires-fall-includin_b_1313095.html



Corruption and the citizen, American-style

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

03/01/12

I have long nurtured this thoroughly depressing conviction that the United States, far from being a shining city on the hill, has become one of the most corrupt of nations. Why does America have more lawyers than the rest of the world combined? It is because the corruption has been institutionalized at every level of political life and is protected by laws and procedures created precisely to enable elites to maintain dominance over the rest of us...

http://bit.ly/zXe813



Foreign aid and the empire

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/12/12

The pro-empire crowd sometimes claims that the U.S. Empire is different from other empires in history in that it doesn t try to acquire foreign lands. They fail to grasp the real nature of the U.S. Empire. It isn t about acquiring foreign lands, it s about acquiring control over foreign regimes.

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-03-12.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Protesters Nationwide Occupy Corporations, Education

Allison Kilkenny, In These Times: ''The past week has proven to be something of a resurgence for Occupy Wall Street with two major protests featuring thousands of activists unfolding in states across the country.''

http://www.truth-out.org/spring-preview-protesters-nationwide-occupy-corporations-education/1330712214



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