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Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/05/11

[A]s we?ve lost our freedoms, down through the years, ceding them to government at every critical turn, our 'free' media, instead of 'working past the fog of State deception to penetrate to the truth,' has acted like a fog machine, generating and legitimizing deception rather than exposing it. This is why WikiLeaks was inevitable: the death of investigative journalism has created a void, which Julian Assange and his collaborators have filled -- much to the chagrin and outrage of our alleged 'journalists,' who, as semi-official Court Intellectuals, are concerned not with exposing but with protecting the regime...

http://tinyurl.com/2a5248x



Damning corporate capitalism with faint praise

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

01/03/11

We?ve seen a stagnation in nominal, dollar-denominated, inflation-adjusted purchasing power, and the shift of virtually every penny increased GDP from productivity increases upward to the plutocracy and corporate management, as the result of all kinds of subsidies, protections, and monopolies. ... all these monopolies were still unable to prevent the average worker?s standard of living because ? despite all the larceny in the plutocrats? and bosses? piggy little hearts ? the technologies of abundance have developed so fast that they?ve increasingly broken the link between nominal purchasing power and resource distribution on the one hand, and quality of life on the other. In other words, it?s becoming more and more feasible to live comfortably on what you?ve got left after you?ve been robbed by the plutocracy, despite their best efforts...

http://c4ss.org/content/5687


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=plutocra
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=State+deception
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate+capitalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GDP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=investigative+journalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kevin+Carson
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