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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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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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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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America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President (Ray McGovern)
Feb. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk ...
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House Derails Extending Anti-Terrorist Provisions (James Rowley)
Feb. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- House Republicans failed to muster the votes needed to extend for nine months the government’s authority to conduct roving wiretaps of suspected terrorists, along with ...
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Americans Are Oppressed, Too (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 4, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Police in the United States now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case ...
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Torture at the Justice Department? Better Not to Ask (Ray McGovern)
Jan. 25, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- On Sunday, I attended an informal talk given in a parish hall by the Justice Department's Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. His topic: ...
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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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Surrendering Our Civil Liberties (Cindy Sheehan)
Complacency over airport scanners is further proof Americans are allowing their rights to be taken from them Dec. 5, 2010 (Al Jazeera) -- As a very frequent flyer, I have wanted to write about the ...
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