Thursday, January 03, 2008

AMERICA...! THE LAND OF LIBERTY: RIGHT? WELL, IF YOU SAY SO...

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An Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove
How American Democracy Relies on Fascism

By Ted Rall

What would you do if you learned that Bush Administration
officials wanted to round up thousands of Americans and
throw them into concentration camps? Continue

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Paul Craig Roberts: Criminals With Badges:

Take heed, ye red-blooded American males. The police are
operating a new sting designed to destroy your life

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National Assembly Address

By Fidel Castro

Nearly 50 years since the triumph of the Revolution, we
can justifiably feel proud of ourselves, as we have held our
ground, for almost half a century, in the struggle against
the most powerful empire ever to exist in history. Continue

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Welcome to Third World, U.S.A.

By Arthur Donner & Doug Peters

The United Nations publishes a Human Development Index
that ranks countries in terms of life expectancy, literacy,
education and standard of living. The latest published
data were based on 2005 statistics. The U.S., despite its
vast wealth and power, placed only in the 12th position
among industrial countries. The top four countries were
Iceland, Norway, Australia and Canada. Continue

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Now We Are Human Commodities

By Chris Maser


We are today so ensnared in the process of selling and
buying things in the market place, that we cannot imagine
human life being otherwise. Even our notion of well-being
and of despair are wedded to the flow and ebb of the
markets. Why is this so much a part of our lives? Continue

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You’re Damn Right I’m Angry. Why Isn’t Everybody?

By David Michael Green

What an unbelievable record of deceit, destruction,
hypocrisy, incompetence, treason and greed. What a
tragic tale of debt, lost wars, stolen elections, environmental
crises, Constitution shredding, national shame and diminished
security. Continue

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Vermont town seeks Bush, Cheney arrests :

President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid
left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him
subject to arrest for war crimes.

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Creeping Fascism: History's Lessons

By Ray McGovern

Let’s set the stage first by recapping some of what has
been going on that may have resonance for readers familiar
with the Nazi ascendancy, noting how “odd” it is that
the frontal attack on our Constitutional rights is met
with such “calm, superior indifference.” Continue

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Get Real, Americans!

You have been ripped off! By Mary Pitt Our nation, which
spends more for health care than any other only rankS
45th in the quality of care. Those who can afford it have
access to the most modern technology and life-saving
procedures where those who cannot are left with medical
care that is reminiscent of the nineteenth century. Continue

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What Does Freedom Really Mean?

By Ron Paul

Few Americans understand that all government action
is inherently coercive. If nothing else, government action
requires taxes. If taxes were freely paid, they wouldn’t
be called taxes, they’d be called donations. If we intend
to use the word freedom in an honest way, we should have
the simple integrity to give it real meaning: Freedom is
living without government coercion. So when a politician
talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself
whether he is advocating more government action or
less. Continue

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The Freedom To Starve
Why the Left Should Reject Ron Paul

By Sherry Wolf

"POLITICS, LIKE nature, abhors a vacuum," goes
the revamped aphorism. Republican presidential
candidate Ron Paul's surprising stature among a small
but vocal layer of antiwar activists and leftist bloggers
appears to bear this out. Continue

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What's on our Holiday Table

By Cindy Sheehan

So many families marked 2007 as the year that
their families were destroyed by the Bush-Pelosi
pas de deux of violence and pain. Continue

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America on Steroids

A Bill Moyers

EssayIn our drugged state, we cheer the winners
in the game of wealth, the billionaires who benefit
from a skewed financial system -- the losers, we
kick down the stairs. We open fire hoses of cash into
our political system in the name of "free speech.
Continue

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Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950

By TIM WEINER

A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar
Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus
and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected
of disloyalty. Continue

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Your Future As A Sharecropper
Death Of The US Dollar

This is a must watch Aljazeera Video

Paul Craig Roberts and others talks about the ill health
and possible demise of the dollar. Click to view

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The Butcher's Apron

By Mike Whitney

Why do we keep throwing billions of dollars down a
black hole just to maintain this pathetic charade
that fools no one? Why not just load up the boxcars
with pallets of crisp-new hundred dollar bills and
ship them off to Crawford where they end up anyway.
Let Bush worry about how to distribute the loot.
Continue

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9/11 Truth Manifesto

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

We confront more than power elites. There is
psychological resistance of millions of Americans
to painful 9/11 truth – a shameful, “unthinkable”
truth about their elected government. Continue

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One in Five Americans Must Borrow to Heat Homes This Winter:

For perhaps as many as 27 million American adults,
eeping warm this winter will mean borrowing money
and 20 million will use credit cards to be able to afford
their heating bills, according to a CreditCards.com poll.

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The US Dollar: The Long Farewell?

By Gwynne Dyer

As the U.S. dollar fell in value, the price of oil (which
is usually calculated in dollars) rose to compensate
for it, but there was no comparable adjustment for
foreign central banks that had huge amounts of
U.S. dollars in their reserves. China, which was
sitting on about a trillion U.S. dollars, simply lost
several hundred billion as the currency's value fell.
o various central banks started wondering if they
should diversify their reserves, and some acted
on it. Continue


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Did Bush Watch the Torture Tapes?

By Scott Horton

The Times (London) Washington correspondent, Sarah Baxter,
reporting with a summary of the developments in the case
involving the CIA’s destruction of recordings of the treatment
of Abu Zabaydah, points to the growing belief in Washington
that President Bush viewed the torture tapes. Continue

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Michael Moore: Who Is the Best DemocraticCandidate on the Issues?

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Paul Krugman: The Great Divide

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Peter S. Goodman The Free Market:A False Idol After All?

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The New York Times: Looking at America

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