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US Army 'Kill Team' in Afghanistan Posed for Photos of Murdered Civilians (Jon Boone)
Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal Mar. 21, 2011 (The Guardian) -- Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for ...
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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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Secretive Plan For a Global Currency (Ellen Brown)
"The Tower of Basel," Bank For International Settlements headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Mar. 17, 2011 (Global Research) -- The following is an excerpt of a chapter by Ellen Brown from the new ...
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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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Worker Uprising: Up to 185,000 Protest in Madison as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Signs Union-Busting Bill (Democracy Now)
Mar. 14, 2011 (Democracy Now) -- In Wisconsin, more than 100,000 people filled the streets of Madison Saturday in what what has been described as the state’s largest protest ever. The massive rally ...
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A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 10, 2011 -- A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a ...
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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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From Buccaneers to Profiteers: On the Origin of Corporations (David Korten)
Mar. 8, 2011 (YES! Magazine) -- Like many Americans, I grew up believing that conservative values were about local control and personal responsibility for family, community, and nature. It seemed ...
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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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The 2008 crash isn’t over, only covered up: Reaganomics driving us into Phase 2 of meltdown (Paul B. Farrell)
Mar. 8, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- We have hard evidence Washington and Wall Street knew the 2008 crash was coming years in advance. Yes, they could have prevented it. But ...
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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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