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Egyptians Ready, Americans Unready (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 3, 2011 -- As I am glued to cable stations showing the street battles in Egypt all I keep thinking about is how Egyptians have mustered the courage to ...
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The Guiding Principle (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 31, 2011 -- It has been about a month since my rescue from the street. I quickly became sissified, sanctified, civilized and satisfied. I am plagued though, ...
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The Ultimate Oxymoron: Industrial Civilization And Mental Health (Carolyn Baker)
Industrial civilization does not occur among healthy people. ~Ken Carey, Return of The Bird People~ Jan. 11, 2011 -- In the days following the tragic Tucson massacre where Congresswoman Gabrielle ...
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Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand (Steve Almond)
Jan. 10, 2011 (The Rumpus) -- It’s a sunny winter day in Tucson, Arizona. There’s an event being held in the parking lot of a supermarket called Safeway. The local member of congress, a woman named ...
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America Has Gone Away (Paul Craig Roberts)
Dec. 29, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). ...
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2011 (Paul Craig Roberts)
”Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.” - -Lewis H. Lapham Dec. 28, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and more ...
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2011: A Brave New Dystopia (Chris Hedges)
Dec. 27, 2010 (Truth Dig) -- The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent ...
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Hacktivism for Cyber Democracy (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Dec. 15, 2010 -- Because of the attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder there has been considerable media attention to the hacktivism practiced by supporters of ...
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Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy (Ted Rall)
Dec. 8, 2010 -- NEW YORK (CommonDreams.org) -- After the Soviet collapse in 1991 U.S. policy toward Central Asia was transparently cynical: support the dictators, screw the people. As the United ...
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'Miss TSA' 2010 Pin-Up Calendar
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Amnesia as a Way of Life: WikiLeaks Amid the 'Careless People' (Phil Rockstroh)
Dec. 2, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- As many wags have noted, the disclosures of Wikileaks have subjected the U.S. Empire and its operatives to a full-body scan. Turnaround is fair play, because, ...
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