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By Charles Sullivan

With its reliance on corporate money and financial contributions by the wealthy, the U.S. electoral system provides movement in only one direction: to the right.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26829.htm



The Stench of American Hypocrisy

By Paul Craig Roberts

The ignorant population of the "Great American Superpower," buried in fear propagated by a Ministry of Truth, has acquiesced in the total destruction of the US Constitution and their civil liberties.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26822.htm



The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum

By Chris Hedges

Universities stand as cowardly, mute and silent accomplices of the corporate state, taking corporate money and doing corporate bidding.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26825.htm

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Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and social amnesia. How else to explain the electoral sweep that just put the most egregious Republican Party candidates back in power? These are the people who gave us Katrina, made torture a state policy, promoted racial McCarthyism, celebrated immigrant bashing, pushed the country into two disastrous wars, built more prisons than schools, bankrupted the public treasury, celebrated ignorance over scientific evidence ('half of new Congressmen do not believe in global warming') and promoted the merging of corporate and political power."

http://www.truth-out.org/living-age-imposed-amnesia-the-eclipse-democratic-formative-culture65144

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Insouciant Americans

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

11/22/10

In a recent column, 'The Stench of American Hypocrisy,' I noted that US public officials and media are on their high horse about the rule of law in Burma while the rule of law collapses unremarked in the US. Americans enjoy beating up other peoples for American sins. Indeed, hypocrisy has become the defining characteristic of the United States...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts11222010.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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