World-News

By Kevin Zeese

A radical change in law to allow the use of the military inside the United States, against U.S. citizens and residents, and to allow their indefinite military detention based merely on suspicion of being engaged in hostilities against the U.S is being rushed through congress.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29975.htm



Police go military

Video

An onslaught of attacks with pepper-spray, tear gas guns and batons are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the arsenal of arms that the police are pulverizing peaceful protesters with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpiRFkHVLy8



Who Are the World s Biggest Employers?

By The Economist

America s defence department had 3.2m people on its payroll last year, equivalent to 1% of the country s population.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29966.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Can Broadened 'Counterterrorism' Rules Open Door to Indefinitely Detaining Peaceful Protesters?

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: 'In passing the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress, in the words of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has just voted to, 'authorize the military to go literally anywhere in the world to imprison civilians - even American citizens in the United States itself - without charge or trial./ The ACLU calls it what it is: 'Prison based on suspicion alone.'

http://www.truth-out.org/can-broadened-counterterrorism-rules-open-door-indefinitely-detaining-peaceful-protesters/1323806026



Congress vs. the Constitution

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: 'The NDAA s military detention provisions thus represent a frontal attack on the Fifth Amendment (which once guaranteed due process) and the Sixth Amendment (which once ensured the rights to trial, access to counsel and an opportunity to confront accusers). They also deeply erode the First Amendment - but in a less obvious way, and a way in which any activist would do well to consider.'

http://www.truth-out.org/congress-vs-constitution/1323799353



Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring?

Nick Turse, TomDispatch: 'These training missions are only a fraction of the dozens carried out each year in secret, far from the prying eyes of the press or local populations. They are a key component of an outsized Pentagon support system that also shuttles aid and weaponry to a set of allied Middle Eastern kingdoms and autocracies.'

http://www.truth-out.org/nick-turse-did-pentagon-help-strangle-arab-spring/1323796589



Occupy Your Education: A Note to Students About Changing the World

Jason Del Gandio, Truthout: 'This scenario is upsetting, but not hopeless. You, the students, can reclaim your educational experience as an opportunity to change not just the problems of education, but the problems of society. Education should not be a privilege, or even a right. It should be a way of life, and that life should be a political force for the common good.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-your-education-note-students-about-changing-world/1323279149

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OWS, Banksters, and Bombs
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/13-5

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What s Next for the Occupy Movement?

In These Times
by Marilyn Katz

12/12/11

The tents in Oakland are collapsed, the libraries and food kitchens of New York dismantled. And while Occupiers hold ground in some cities, in many others the Occupation has become a state of being rather than a place. But ... the Occupiers have already won the more important battles of the times...

http://tinyurl.com/6skf8r8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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