World-News

By John W. Whitehead

Let us dismantle our military empire. Let us take care of our poor, our downtrodden. Let us push back against the surveillance state. Let us put human dignity above corporate profits. If not now, then when?.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29067.htm



A new jobs plan is thinking too small. What we need is a new economy

By David Korten

We can turn as a species from an economic system devoted to perfecting our capacity for violent exclusionary competition to one devoted to perfecting our capacity for caring, inclusive cooperation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29073.htm

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Ten years on, America is at war with itself

Spiked
by Wendy Kaminer

09/08/11

I write this under surveillance, or so it s safe to assume. We are all suspects now; we all read, write, talk on the phone and travel under surveillance, or the threat of it. A shadowy national security state has access to our emails, phone calls and web-surfing habits; government agents monitor our political activities and collect reports about our suspicious activities - photographing bridges for scrapbooks or art projects or attending political protests...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11061/



Who really kept us safe after 9/11

Reason
by Steve Chapman

09/08/11

There have been very few attacks in this country by Islamic extremists - and nothing remotely on the scale of 9/11. The 'sleeper cells' proved to be mostly nonexistent. This surprising record has been attributed to excellent work by the FBI, CIA, and other law enforcement agencies, the war in Afghanistan, and the Bush administration s aggressive treatment of suspected terrorists. But on the list of those deserving credit, the first is a group hardly anyone would have predicted: American Muslims...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/08/who-really-kept-us-safe-after


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical'

By Spencer Ackerman

The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that 'main stream' [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a 'cult leader'; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a 'funding mechanism for combat.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29131.htm

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Anti-Islam Material Part of FBI Training
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/09/15



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