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Heidi Boghosian, City Lights Books: Once a massive spying apparatus is in place that functions with minimum oversight, who is to keep it from being used for domestic and political and economic agendas in the name of combating terrorism?

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/18356-freedom-cannot-exist-alongside-a-massive-surveillance-industrial-complex-they-are-incompatible



Pursuing Profits or Power?

James K. Boyce, Dollars & Sense: Recognizing the real-world pursuit of power redirects our attention from the dichotomy between the market and the state toward a more fundamental one: the divide between oligarchy and democracy.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/18354-pursuing-profits-or-power

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A Time for Creative Suffering

Martin Luther King s Words in a Surveillance World

By Ariel Dorfman

Let us hope and pray, for his sake and ours, that his faith in his own country was not misplaced and that 50 years later his compatriots will once again listen to his fierce yet gentle voice calling on them from beyond death and beyond fear.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35999.htm



The Surveillance State: To Make Journalism Harder, Slower, Less Secure

By Jay Rosen

That s what the surveillance state is trying to do. It has the means, the will and the latitude to go after journalism the way it went after terrorism. Only a more activist press, working together, stands a chance of resisting this.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36004.htm



I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision

By Michael Parenti

Opinion-makers prefer to treat Martin Luther King as an inspirational icon rather than a radical leader. He has been domesticated and sanitized.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36048.htm

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The seven choices left to the military-industrial complex

Freeman s Perspective
by Paul Rosenberg

09/12/13

Since 2002 the US government has presided over one of the most dramatic financial bubbles of all time: the bubble of the military-industrial complex. (A few will remember that Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans about this in 1961.) This bubble, like all others, will pop, and it looks to be deflating right now. The amounts of money that have been spent in the past decade can only be characterized as obscene. But the point that really matters is this: Military spending is just part of the bubble...

http://www.freemansperspective.com/military-industrial-complex/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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