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American Exceptionalism: In Defense of Torture:
CIA Torturer Has No Regrets
Video CBS 60 Minutes
Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service, defends the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used on high-level al Qaeda detainees and says he has no regrets. Lesley Stahl reports. Continue
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So Long, US Dollar
The Media Won't Touch This Story About The End Of The US Dollar
By Marin KatusaThe world doesn't need to revolve around US dollars anymore and the longer the US tries to pretend that the dollar is still and will remain dominant, the more often its international actions will backfire. Continue
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EuroSpeak for "Starve the Beast"The Meaning of “Austerity Measures”
By Mike Whitney
Unemployment in Spain is the highest in Europe at 24 percent. (Youth unemployment is over 50 percent) Even so, Spain’s right wing PM Mariano Rajoy is attempting to reach the deficit targets demanded by the troika which will push unemployment higher while further deepening the depression. Continue
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Seniors' Social Security Garnished for Student Debts
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Does The West Have A Future?
By Paul Craig Roberts
The new tyranny is arising in the West, not in Russia and China. The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant Amerikan population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth. Continue
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