World-News

Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica: 'This was the year that 'fracking' became a household word?. In a landmark finding, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that hydraulic fracturing was the likely culprit in a spate of groundwater contamination that had forced residents to stop using their water ? This was also the year fracking went global. While France banned fracking outright and South Africa enacted a temporary moratorium, multi-national energy companies began exploring shale reserves in Poland, Argentina and China.'

http://www.truth-out.org/fracking-cracks-public-consciousness-2011/1325354500



Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2011 Year in Review

Andrew Stelzer, National Radio Project: 'From Egypt to Wisconsin, and from Wall Street to any town USA, 2011 was a year in which people raised their voices to call for justice. As we head into 2012, there s optimism about the possibilities for change. On this edition, we look back at some the most important issues of 2011: attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate change.'

http://www.truth-out.org/looking-back-moving-forward-2011-year-review/1325352275



Uncle Sam Is Making the Wrong Choices

Norman Solomon, PressDemocrat.com: 'Charities and other nonprofits are struggling to cope with deep economic wounds that have been festering for years. The dire consequences are far more widespread than private agencies can possibly heal?. Only the federal government can use the Keynesian tool of deficit spending to bring down unemployment. But Washington is paralyzed by ideology. Job stimulus funding, inadequate from the outset, has dwindled. And the momentum is moving in the wrong direction.'

http://www.truth-out.org/norman-solomon-uncle-sam-making-wrong-choices/1325352599



What 19th Century Farmers Can Teach Occupiers About How to Keep Going

Ashley Sanders, War Is A Crime.org: 'Not so long ago, Americans witnessed the beginning of a mass democratic uprising.... They did it to reject debt. They did it to fight foreclosures. They did it to topple a world where the 1 percent determined life for the other 99. And they did all of it against incredible odds, with a self-respect that stymied critics. The year? 1877. The people? Dirt-poor farmers who would come to be known as Populists.'

http://www.truth-out.org/populism-isnt-dead-its-marching-what-bunch-farmers-can-teach-bunch-occupiers-about-how-keep-going/13



Let s Double Our Efforts to Raise a Ruckus

Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com: 'On December 30th, in 1936, 75 years ago, hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took over the facilities and occupied them for 44 days. My uncle was one of them.... I can think of no better way for us to honor the original Occupiers than by all of us participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement in whatever form that takes in each of our towns. We need direct action all winter long if we are to prevail.'

http://www.truth-out.org/lets-double-our-efforts-raise-ruckus/1325429725

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The Plan is for the United States to rule the world

By David Armstrong

The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1544.htm

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Climate Change: Our Real Bequest to Future Generations
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/03-3

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Stimulus was designed to provide pork and payoffs, not to revive the economy

OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

01/24/12

Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron argued that the $800 billion stimulus package wasn t even designed to stimulate the economy, but rather to benefit special-interest groups, since it flunked even old-fashioned Keynesian policy prescriptions about how to revive the economy. Recently-disclosed memos obtained by the New Yorker provide more evidence for this argument...

http://tinyurl.com/75xqyev


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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