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‘Matter of Policy’: Gaza War and Goldstone’s Moral Collapse (Ramzy Baroud)
Justice Richard Goldstone Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 14, 2011 -- Shocking is not a sufficient term to describe Justice Richard Goldstone’s decision to recant parts of the 2009 report on ...
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Military Tribunal May Keep 9/11 Motives Hidden (Ray McGovern)
Apr. 6, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The Obama administration’s decision to use a military tribunal rather than a federal criminal court to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four ...
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What the Patriot Act Does For You (Philip Giraldi)
Mar. 31, 2011 (AntiWar.com) -- Incessant warmaking overseas will someday end when the United States runs out of money or soldiers or both. But less well understood is the collateral damage here at ...
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Mich. passes 'financial martial law' bill (Jennifer Epstein)
Gov. Rick Snyder requested the expanded state powers the legislation provides. | AP Photo Mar. 16, 2011 (Politico) -- Michigan legislators have approved a bill authorizing state-appointed emergency ...
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Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand (Chris Hedges)
Mar. 14, 2011 (TruthDig) -- The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and ...
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Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own (Dafna Linzer)
A group of detainees kneeling during morning prayer in their camp at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP/John Moore) Mar. 8, 2011 (ProPublica) -- President ...
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Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)
A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad ...
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'I Don’t Think There Is Any Need for a Law against Fraud' (Dale Tavris)
Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Mar. 7, 2011 -- Those who say that banks don’t need to be regulated by government are either naïve, sucking up to rich and powerful bankers, or ...
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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers ...
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Revolution Handbook for Americans (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 2011 -- As recently presented, there is global respect for and use of the classic and brilliant work by Gene Sharp “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” ...
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Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? (Matt Taibbi)
Illustration by Victor Juhasz Financial crooks brought down the world's economy -- but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them Feb. 16, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Over drinks at ...
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