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9/11: Watershed for US Imperial Intentions (Patrick Martin -- World Socialist Web Site)
11 September 2009 Eight years ago today, on September 11, 2001, some 2,700 people lost their lives in a coordinated act of mass terrorism, in which hijacked jetliners were crashed into the World ...
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Americans Have Become Weak and Fearful Things (Joe Bageant)
Joe, Today, a friend forwarded to me a news article with this headline: "Fines proposed for going without health insurance." Here are some things I don't get: 1) If folks can't afford to reroof the ...
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Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle (Henry A. Giroux)
Sept. 2, 2009 (T R U T H O U T | Perspective) -- Under the Bush administration, a seeping, sometimes galloping, authoritarianism began to reach into every vestige of the culture, giving free rein to ...
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CIA Atrocities Revealed to a National Shrug (Ted Rall)
We Have met The Nazis, And They Are Us Sept. 4, 2009 NEW YORK (Information Clearing House) -- Nazis. Americans are Nazis. We are Nazis. Godwin's Law be damned -- it's impossible to read the ...
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How Bad Will It Get? (Mike Whitney)
Sept. 3, 2009 (Information Clearing House) -- The U.S. economy is at the beginning of a protracted period of adjustment. The sharp decline in business activity, which began in the summer of 2007, ...
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Bush's Third Term? You're Living It (David Swanson)
September 02, 2009 (TomDispatch) -- It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had ...
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Afghanistan for Dummies (Ray McGovern)
Ray McGovern Sept. 2, 2009 (Information Clearing House) -- I’m going to ask for my money back. I’ve seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title. As in an early scene ...
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Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland (John V. Walsh)
The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening Aug. 26, 2009 (CounterPunch) -- Cindy Sheehan will be at Martha’s Vineyard beginning August 25 a short way from Obama’s vacation paradise of the ...
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Capitalism: A Disaster Waiting to Happen (Michael Parenti)
www.commondreams.org/ January 21, 2009 After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the ...
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Growing Scientific Consciousness Revolution (Allen L. Roland)
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Growing-Scientific-Conscio-by-Allen-L-Roland-090810-662.html August 10, 2009 Science will surely remain one-eyed and lacking in depth-perception ...
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Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism? (Sara Robinson)
Sara Robinson -- Campaign for America's Future Aug. 7, 2009 -- All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist ...
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