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Robert Naiman, Truthout: "President Obama and House Republicans are out with their budget plans for the next fiscal year. Economist Jeffrey Sachs described it thus: President Obama wants to bleed the patient. House Republicans want to cut the patient's arm off. As Sachs pointed out, it's only possible in our 'Mubarak Egypt' political terrain - both party leaderships catering to the super rich, largely ignoring the interests of the vast majority of Americans who must work or scrounge to earn their daily bread - that we can have a debate premised on the absurd notion that the budget deficit is an urgent crisis while we have ten percent measured unemployment and many Americans - disproportionately veterans - don't have a decent place to sleep. But if that weren't outrageous enough, amid all the blather about 'shared sacrifice,' there is another group of powerful people that are largely escaping budget pain, in the plans of leaders of both parties, besides the super rich: the partisans of the Empire."

http://www.truth-out.org/nadler-polis-push-today-cut-deficit-trimming-empire67821

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Empire of US Bases
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/16-0

Obama?s Budget: Freezing the Poor
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/16-0

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The Shame of Being an American
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts293.html

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When 'Good' Dictators Go Bad

By Norman Solomon

It wasn't long ago that Hosni Mubarak's regime -- with all its repression and torture -- enjoyed high esteem and lavish praise in Washington. For Egyptians, the repression and torture went on; for the bipartisan savants running U.S. foreign policy, the suppression was good geopolitics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27490.htm

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Where?s the American outrage against US support of dictatorships?

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

02/16/11

Once it became clear that Egypt?s dictator Hosni Mubarak was on the way out, U.S. officials quickly shifted gears and took the side of the demonstrators, the people who had suffered for 30 years under the brutal Mubarak dictatorship. U.S. officials even offered their guidance for moving Egypt toward a democratic political system...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-02-16.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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