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Information Clearing House Newsletter October 03, 2011: The Day America Died: By Paul Craig Roberts
3 October 2011 — Information Clearing House Suicide of a Superpower By Patrick J. Buchanan This generation of Americans has been witness to one of the most stunning declines of a great power in the history of the world. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29288.htm Continue reading
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Anti-Wall Street protesters 'get organised'
EuroNews: The anti-Wall Street protest in New York has now produced copycat movements across the US. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 30 September – 1 October 2011
1 October 2011 — — williambowles.info Mike Krieger on #OccupyWallStreet: “Rebellion Has Arrived In America” ampedstatus.org TodayEditor’s note: Mike has supported the occupation of Liberty Park since June. He was disappointed it was taking so long for his fellow NYCers to stand up. Now that we have, here’s Mike’s take on it: ‘I will be Continue reading
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Video: Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution (Occupy Wall Street)
Now in the 12th day of occupation the video gives us a real sense of the strength of feeling, mostly by young people. Continue reading
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Video: Welcome to the Police State: NYC Cops Mace Peaceful Protestors Against Wall Street
I’m beginning to wonder whether the right to assemble is effectively dead in the US. No one who is a wage slave (which is the overwhelming majority of the population) can afford to have an arrest record, even a misdemeanor, in this age of short job tenures and rising use of background checks. Continue reading
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Action Alert: What if the Tea Party Occupied Wall Street? Corporate media skip anti-corporate protests
In an action called Occupy Wall Street, thousands of activists took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on September 17. The protests are continuing, with demonstrators camped out on the Financial District’s Liberty Street in support of U.S. democratization and against corporate domination of politics (Adbusters, 9/19/11). But you wouldn’t know much about any of… Continue reading
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The Wall Street Occupation: A Sleep-In Protest in the Shadow of Power By Manny Jalonschi
Surrounded by the headquarters of some of the world’s most powerful financial players, over two thousand protesters converged on Wall Street this Saturday. By the end of the second day, those occupying Liberty Park, formerly known as Zuccotti Park on Broadway and Liberty St., had settled in, partially helped by pizza, hot chocolate and blankets… Continue reading
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New York Times Reports On Libya Ethnic Cleansing of Black People Months Later
More than two months after The Wall Street Journal wrote about what amounted to ethnic cleansing of Black people in Misurata, The New York Times in today’s edition finally writes another piece about the racist attacks against Black people by the NATO-backed “rebels” from Benghazi, now installed in power. The article appears under the sanitized… Continue reading
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9/11: Who Really Benefited? Fact and Not Fiction… By Captain America
Forget so-called conspiracy theories. Instead look at reality. Dare ask yourself who actually seems to have benefited from the 9-11 calamity. In light of the debt ceiling debates and the continuous corrupt politics as usual of Washington D.C., it is time for the American people, and individual states of this federation, to look at a… Continue reading
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FAIR: Seeing ‘Islamic Terror’ in Norway
Right-wing terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik reportedly killed 76 people in Norway on Friday, by all accounts driven by far-right anti-immigrant politics and fervent Islamophobia. But many early media accounts assumed that the perpetrator of the attacks was Muslim. Continue reading
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Democracy Now! Daily News Digest: Murdoch’s Denials Are Tough to Believe
British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing questions from lawmakers today on his handling of the widening News International phone-hacking scandal implicating the British police and top government officials. Continue reading
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The Aaronovitch Code By Dan Hind
I’d more or less put David Aaronovitch out of my mind recently, what with the paywall and everything. But he turned up on Newsnight last night as part of the programme’s efforts to erase memories of the previous night’s now-notorious ‘ask the public’ episode. Continue reading
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Libyan rebel ethnic cleansing and lynching of black people « Human rights investigations
Further specific evidence has emerged that there is a strong racist element within the rebel forces, including at command level, and it is the stated intention of these forces to ethnically cleanse areas they capture of their dark-skinned inhabitants. Continue reading
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Libyan rebel ethnic cleansing and lynching of black people « Human rights investigations
Further specific evidence has emerged that there is a strong racist element within the rebel forces, including at command level, and it is the stated intention of these forces to ethnically cleanse areas they capture of their dark-skinned inhabitants. Continue reading
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Getting Used to Life Without Food: Wall Street, BP, Bio-ethanol and the Death of Millions By F. William Engdahl
Our planet has everything we need to produce nutritious natural food to feed the entire world population many times over. This is the case, despite the ravages of industrialized agriculture over the past half century or more. Then, how can it be that our world faces, according to some predictions, the prospect of a decade… Continue reading
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Gerald Celente: “Austerity riots will come to the US” — RT
While riots erupt in Greece over austerity measures imposed by the government, back home lay-offs are rampant on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs relieving over 200 employees from their positions today. Is there a way out before Americans begin to emulate the Greeks? Continue reading