World-News

Under the Growing Influence of the 1%, American Exceptionalism has Become American Deceptionalism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/29-4

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Darwinian Stupidity

By Richard Schwartzman

Only a warmongering nation that makes enemies needs military bases all over the globe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29845.htm



The New Authoritarianism

From Decaying Democracies to Technocratic Dictatorships and Beyond

By James Petras

We delineate a two-stage process of political regression. The first stage involves the transition from a decaying democracy to an oligarchical democracy; the second stage currently unfolding in Europe involves the transition from oligarchical democracy to colonial-technocratic dictatorship.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29848.htm



'How Could This Happen in America?'

Why Police Are Treating Americans Like Military Threats

By William Hogeland

'Disconnect: liberals see a suddenly 'militarized,' possibly federalized police force. Black people see 'the usual.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29834.htm



The End of Poverty?

Documentary

Filmmaker Philippe Diaz examines the history and impact of economic inequality in the third world, and makes the compelling argument that it s not an accident or simple bad luck that has created a growing underclass around the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29844.htm

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Setting the trap

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

11/30/11

That the authoritarian strain in American politics is coming to the fore in this time of crisis should come as no surprise. Backed up against a wall, the ruling elite is baring its teeth, and the Constitution - which has long been a mere piece of moldering parchment rather than the law of the land - is easily disposed of. Our cowardly Congress, which lives only to advance special interests and line its own pockets, is hardly a bulwark against this onslaught: indeed, they are the source of it...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/11/29/setting-the-trap/



Police state America

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

11/29/11

Section 1031 exceeds the laws of war. Its ambiguities and excesses would institute extrajudicial national security state terror. No one anywhere would be safe. It calls 'covered persons' anyone captured or detained, even unconnected to hostilities. In other words, the executive could order anyone indefinitely incarcerated on his say alone...

http://bit.ly/sy3QHY



Dictatorship codified

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

11/30/11

There is one important thing, however, that we should keep in mind about the 2012 defense authorization bill, something that Levin and McCain point out in their op-ed: We are already living in a country where the president, the military, and the CIA possess the omnipotent, dictatorial power that is granted to them in the bill. As Levin and McCain point out, the bill is simply codifying a legal situation that already exists...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-11-30.asp



30 signs that the United States of America is being turned into a giant prison

Information Liberation
by Michael Snyder

11/30/11

If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death. In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that we do. Nothing is private anymore...

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=37466


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Levin-McCain 'sets the stage for martial law in the United States'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10713/

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Fourth Estate Pleads the Fifth
http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente86.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Carl+Levin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=McCain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Defense+Authorization+Bill
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=dictatorship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptional
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deception
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ruling+elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=special+interests
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warmonger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=extrajudicial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+bases
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=authoritar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oligarch
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=dictatorship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+force
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=martial+law
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=indefinit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=incarcerat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fourth+Estate
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=OWS
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=inequality
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=underclass
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Schwartzman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Petras
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Hogeland
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=celente
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Snyder

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