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Romney, Severely Awful (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Mitt Romney Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 17, 2012 -- There are many, many reasons to have low regard for Mitt Romney. All but the totally delusional correctly see him as disingenuous, dishonest, devious and devoid of an authentic set of core beliefs. He is a shill for corporate and rich elites. He is the phony smiling, perfect hair poster jerk for the proverbial one percent...
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Corporate Power vs. Animal Rights: #DeOccupyAETA (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting ani...
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BDS: Power of the People at Work (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 15, 2012 -- The issue is not about hummus, chocolate bars or Dead Sea vacations. It is about civil society taking full responsibility for its own action (or lack...
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Occupy Your Spine (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it with our art, our music, our literature, ou...
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Anti-Semitism and Israel’s Inherent Contradictions (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2012 -- In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as "anti-Semitic." He also denounced Arab K...
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PILLOW TALK: Don't Worry, Be Happy (Deborah Goodwin)
Most of the bad things you worry about will never happen. Most of the bad things that do happen will never have crossed your worried mind. --Shari Jan. 24, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- My friend Shari po...
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PILLOW TALK: Old (Down) Dogs and New Tricks (Deborah Goodwin)
Jan. 9, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- The most amazing thing happened in yoga class the other day. (I'm only a little prone to hyperbole). Not to suggest I am in any way some sage, disciplined, flexib...
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The US is a Police State: Review of 'State Power and Democracy,' by Andrew Kolin (Prof. John McMurtry)
Nov. 9, 2011 (Global Research) -- Global Research Editor's Note: This article by Professor McMurtry had been commissioned by an academic journal called New Politics. Upon receiving Professor Mc...
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This Is What Revolution Looks Like (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 15, 2011 - NEW YORK (Truthdig) -- Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cann...
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Finding Freedom in Handcuffs (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 7, 2011 -- New York (Truthdig) -- Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, an activist, an author and a member of a reporting team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize, wrote this article after he was released...
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A Master Class in Occupation (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 31, 2011 -- NEW YORK (Truthdig) -- Jon Friesen, 27, tall and lanky with a long, dirty-blond ponytail, a purple scarf and an old green fleece, is sitting on concrete at the edge of Zuccotti Park l...
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Rebels on the Street: The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis (David Harvey)
Oct. 28, 2011 (DavidHarvey.org) -- The Party of Wall Street has ruled unchallenged in the United States for far too long. It has totally (as opposed to partially) dominated the policies of Presidents ...
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FLATWIRE:How Wall Street Occupied America (Bill Moyers)
Bill Moyers This article is adapted from a speech Bill Moyers gave in October at Public Citizen’s fortieth-anniversary gala. Nov. 2, 2011 (The Nation) -- During the prairie revolt that swept the...
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FLATWIRE: Global Crises are Spiritual: A Time for Awakening
"Above all else," writes Mofid, "The purpose of the economy is to provide basic human needs as well as the means of establishing, maintaining, and nurturing human relationships while ...
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Oo-rah: War and the Free Will of Pool Balls (Fred Reed)
Fred Reed Nov. 2, 2011 (Fred On Everything) -- I read frequently among the lesserly neuronal of the supposed honor of soldiers, of the military virtues of courage, loyalty, and uprightness -- tha...
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Murderland (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Oct. 23, 2011 -- Only occasionally do we get catch a glimpse of this nation as it truly is. Occasionally can we smell it, but only when we get close enough to have...
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A Movement Too Big to Fail (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Oct. 17, 2011 (TruthDig.com) --There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opte...
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BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant -- World News Trust “Well, good lordie, you really was writin a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” Aug. 14, 2006 -- That was my friend Fat L...
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Why the Elites Are in Trouble (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 10, 2011 (TruthDig.com) --Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17. She had a tent, a rol...
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Occupy Together: The Best Among (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Sept. 30, 2011 (TruthDig.com) --There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country...
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The Arc of the Moral Universe: Justice May Be Just Around the Bend (Randall Amster)
Sept. 26, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) --Let’s face it: things are bad and getting worse every day. Even a casual glance at the daily headlines provides ample reason for dismay, from perpetual warfare an...
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace (Chris Hedges)
Sept. 19, 2011 (Truthdig) --Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, playin...
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American Decline: Causes and Consequences (Noam Chomsky)
US soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a Medevac helicopter. (Photo: AFP - Johannes Eisele) Aug. 26, 2011 ...
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The Miserable Ones (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2011 -- I’m going to tell you a story today, it’s a story about you and me and it’s a story about a father and son. In a larger sense it’s a story about...
