Government
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Joining In The Dance (John Michael Greer)
Nov. 10, 2010 (Archdruid Report) -- Recent headlines, it seems to me, put an interesting slant on the much-ballyhooed claim that we live in an information society. I’m thinking here especially of ...
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Big Brother monitored tweets, too (Donald Gilliand)
Nov. 4, 2010 (Patriot-News) -- Tracking the Twitter activity of law-abiding citizens was part of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security’s intelligence surveillance program. According to ...
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Amnesty International wants Bush on trial over torture (Press TV)
Nov. 10, 2010 (Press TV) -- The London-based Amnesty International has called for a criminal investigation into former US President George W. Bush's admission of torture. The rights group's call ...
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The Betrayal of Gaza (Noam Chomsky)
The US is vocal about its commitment to peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories -- but its actions suggest otherwise. Nov. 6, 2010 (New Statesman) -- That the Israel-Palestine conflict ...
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Outrage, Misguided (Noam Chomsky)
Nov. 4, 2010 (New York In These Times) -- The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats ...
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A Recipe for Fascism (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 8, 2010 (Truthdig) -- American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational. On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to ...
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Nine stories the press is underreporting -- fraud, fraud and more fraud (Dan Froomkin)
From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers -- a vast criminal enterprise. You wouldn't know it from a lot of ...
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What now? (U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders)
Nov. 3, 2010 (sanders.senate.gov) -- The Republicans won big on Tuesday. Not only have they taken over the U.S. House of Representatives and made major gains in the Senate -- but many of the ...
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Finance Has Become a New Form of Warfare: An interview with professor Michael Hudson (Democracy Now!)
Nov. 5, 2010 -- (Democracy Now!) -- The Federal Reserve will pump $600 billion more into the U.S. economy and keep interest rates at historical low levels. The short-term impact of the Fed’s move, ...
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It Was the Banks (James K. Galbraith)
Nov. 5, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- Bruce Bartlett says it was a failure to focus. Paul Krugman says it was a failure of nerve. Nancy Pelosi says it was the economy's failure. Barack Obama says it ...
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Scariest speed camera of all... It checks your insurance, tax and even whether you are tailgating or not wearing a seatbelt (Luke Salkeld)
Nov. 3, 2010 (Daily Mail) -- Even the most law-abiding driver might feel a shiver down the spine when spotting this speed camera at the roadside. For as well as detecting speeding, it is packed with ...
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