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"As
societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are
used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by
destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people
will solemnly vote against their own interests". Gore Vidal
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"I
believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy - not
democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the
responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy
begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom
from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms
on the basis of which good human societies are based." Vandana Shiva
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"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance." - Ruben Blades
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,745icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,276
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Leaked U.S. Cables
Discuss Mexican Drug Lord and Panamanian President's Request For Wiretaps
By William Booth
The
Mexican government has repeatedly denied that Mexican military forces
are receiving training from U.S. armed forces, but diplomatic cables
leaked earlier this year appear to confirm that Mexican marines have
been receiving special operations training from U.S.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27133.htm
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The National Image and its Contradictions - An Analysis
By Lawrence Davidson
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WikiLeaks May Spawn New Sedition Act
By Bob Barr
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Gibbs: Indefinite Terrorist Detentions Regrettable
By Politico
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'Homeland' Security Coming to Hotels, Shopping Malls
By Agence France-Presse
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2011: A Brave New Dystopia
By Chris Hedges
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The Working Poor
By EC Blog
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Hollywood and the War Machine
Video Report By Al Jazeera
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US Kills 24 People In Pakistan:
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Twin suicide bombings kill 17 in Iraq's Ramadi:
Twin
suicide bombings rocked a government compound in Iraq's western city
of Ramadi on Monday, killing 17 people, a deputy interior minister said.
http://bit.ly/gWQVBU
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Three killed in suicide car bombing in Afghanistan:
A
suicide car bombing in the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar
killed three people and wounded 26 others, mostly police, officials
said, in an attack spotlighting instability in Afghanistan as the
Nato-led fight against insurgents there approaches the start of its
10th year.
http://ind.pn/gofGsO
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NATO occupation force soldier killed in southern Afghanistan blast: -
A
soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
was killed in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Monday.
http://bit.ly/fwuJ8C
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Russian court: ex-tycoon guilty:
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US Embassy Cables: Rule of law in Mikhail Khodorkovsky trial merely 'gloss':
US dismisses Russian efforts to show due process in tycoon's trial, as 'lipstick on a political pig'
http://bit.ly/i6brDn
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WikiLeaks founder baffled by sex assault claims:
ONE
of the women claiming she was sexually assaulted by Julian Assange took
a "trophy photo" of him lying naked in her bed, he says.
http://bit.ly/e5YVF2
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Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government.:
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The Bank of America attack today, will they succeed?:
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Assange to write autobiography for over USD 1 million:
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Rare earth metals mine is key to US control over hi-tech future:
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US threatens China with WTO case on rare earth exports:
US
trade officials Thursday threatened trade action against China over
exports of rare earth materials, one day after embarking on a separate
case before the World Trade Organization (WTO) against wind power
subsidies.
http://bit.ly/hmy8jX
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Change? What Change?
Executive order for detainee reviews being drafted:
Such
an order would be further acknowledgment by Obama that his campaign
pledge to close Guantanamo Bay will remain unfulfilled for the
foreseeable future
http://wapo.st/gMPhIk
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Conservative chorus calling for states' right to declare bankruptcy:
A
chorus of conservative pundits are calling for bankruptcy laws to be
changed so that all 50 US state governments might have the chance to
restructure their debts, an ability currently limited to corporations,
municipal entities, and private citizens.
http://bit.ly/ik5ACN
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The rich are much richer than you and me:
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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