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Thousands of US troops deploying to Israel on the Quiet to Prepare for Iranian War

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:32 PM EST ()

Without much media attention, thousands of American troops are being deployed to Israel, and Iranian officials believe that this is the latest and most blatant warning that the US will soon be attacking Tehran. Tensions between nations have been high in recent months and have …

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The Obama Administration is losing the Afghan war by losing the Minds and Hearts of the Pakistanis

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:50 PM EST (Newsvine)

One year after a CIA contractor shot to death two Pakistanis, relatives of the victims are living off generous compensation they received in a deal that led authorities to free the American. "Pakistani rulers are puppets of America," said Malik Waqar, who demonstrated with d …

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How the 99% overcame the Lockhold on Politics by the 1% and Created a Higher Standard of Living for the 99%: The True Story of Sweden and Norway

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:33 AM EST (http://wagingnonviolence.org/)

The Swedes and Norwegians paid a price for their current standards of living through nonviolent struggle.

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Little Green Footballs - AZ Gov. Brewer Angrily Lectures President Obama

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:06 PM EST (Little Green Footballs)
Seeded by anti-status quo (Clipped by truthlover)

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s book Scorpions for Breakfast is a classic example of the right wing genre; i.e., incredibly disrespectful of the office of the Presidency.

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Bernie Sanders Pledges Legislation Ending 'Absurdity' of Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:37 AM EST (TreeHugger)
Seeded by McSpocky (Clipped by truthlover)

We just learned, based on IEA calculations, if all fossil fuel subsidies were eliminated it would result in greenhouse gas emission cuts deep enough to get us halfway to preventing dangerous climate change.

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Obama's State of the Union Speech had Troublesome and Chilling Passages for Progressives who must Vote for him if Obama's to Win in November

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:15 AM EST ()

First, mentioning John Boehner, Obama said he was still open to a grand compromise on Social Security and Medicare. Second, he took a gratuitous swipe at universal single-payer health care.

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State of the Union: Fact Checking the President and Finding Exaggerations and Worse

Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:00 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

Fact or Fiction Number 1 - The Booming Economy: Obama's Jobs Story 3 million jobs created over 22 months, more jobs created in 2011 than in any year since 2005. Using total employment, Obama's numbers don't hold up.

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The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps Spinning: Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as Obama's White House Chief of Staff--by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:15 PM EST (Truthout - All Articles)

There’s simply too much truth in the headline "Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff" to smile for long-- it says a lot about how Wall Street and Washington have colluded to create the winner-take-all economy that rewards the very few at the expense of e …

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BREAKING: US marine pleads guilty of "negilgence" over Haditha killings of 34 civilians: faces maximum sentence up to three months...

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:58 AM EST (alJazeera Magazine)

"Staff Sergeant Wuterich accepted responsibility ...

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BREAKING: Obama on Brink of a Sweetheart Deal to protect Big Banks—Progressives Furious with Obama Hypocrisy of campaigning for 99% but working for the bankster 1%i

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:17 AM EST (The Nation)

On the eve President Obama’s State of the Union address—in which he plans to pretend to further advance a populist message against big money and income inequality—Obama's massive federal settlement with big Wall Street banks over their role in the mortgage cris …

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The Corporate State Will Be Broken

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:04 PM EST (Truthout - All Articles)
Seeded by garyray-501488 (Clipped by truthlover)

I do not know how long it will take to dethrone the corporate state, but I do know it is a dead and terminal system of power. As the global economy deteriorates and climate change causes greater disruptions, these corporations will be increasingly discredited.

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The Tens of Millions of Dollars of Secret but Legal Corporate Campaign Cash Drowning Out a Democracy that was Supposed to be OF, BY, and FOR THE PEOPLE (real breathing people)

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:15 AM EST (Truthout - All Articles)

Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Since then, our democracy has been drowning in a tsunami of corporate special interest money.

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Israeli Exceptionalism:The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism

Seeded on Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:40 AM EST (CounterPunch.org)

The history of Zionism is history gone wrong, and not only for the Palestinians. The tragedy for the Palestinians is obvious, although, blinded by racism and the Zionist bias of their media, Westerners only recently have begun to see this tragedy for what it is.

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BREAKING: One Million Recall Signatures Versus One Partisan Judge | Truthout

Seeded on Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:21 AM EST (Truthout - All Articles)

Fed up with the hard-right's oligarchic, union busting agenda, opponents of Wisconsin's Gov.

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Secret Service Investigating Jewish Newspaper Column That Discussed Obama Assassination

Seeded on Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:25 AM EST (FOXNews.com)
Seeded by Jerry Verlinger (Clipped by truthlover)

The Secret Service said it is looking into a recent op-ed from an Atlanta publisher that floated the idea of green-lighting Israeli Mossad agents to assassinate President Obama in order to improve Israel's security against enemies like Iran.  The publisher an …

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The Near Certainty of Obama being a One Term President--Based on Polls, the Loss of his Base, and the Tremendous Disappointment of his Presidency (Poll Included)

Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:29 AM EST

The odds are that Obama will lose the next election.  I know the professional gamblers currently are putting the odds in Obama's favor.  If you know how these odds are generated, you will also realize that the relatively small number of bets in favor of Obama winning w …

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One Million Wisconsinites Sign Gov. Walker Recall Petition: Uprising has 'potential to rock the politics not just of the state but of the nation in 2012'

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:35 PM EST (Common Dreams)

In all, close to 2 million signatures were submitted Tuesday, building the historic in-the-streets popular uprising that rocked Wisconsin in 2012 into a electoral uprising that has the potential to rock the politics not just of the state but of the nation in 2012   &ldq …

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Global War Series Part IV - Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:05 AM EST ()
Seeded by Rodney-889389 (Clipped by truthlover)

As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington's interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension.

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Wikipedia Going Dark on Wednesday to Call Attention to Internet Censorship Bills

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:03 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

t's been speculated, and now it's confirmed: Wikipedia plans to give its users a (severe) taste of the Internet under SOPA by going offline in protest of the bill on Wednesday.

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The Fire Hose of Your Tax Money Gushing to Iraq, Afganistan and Libya Begins to Explain our own Economic Meltdown

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:18 AM EST (Truthout - All Articles)

When we tally up the price tags for Iraq ($1 trillion and counting, as we leave 5,000 highly paid contractors behind), Afghanistan ($500 billion and counting) and, lately, Libya ($1.1 billion just on Department of Defense [DoD] armaments, not counting State Department secu …

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Is This Land Made for You and Me--or The Super-Rich? Bill Moyers and Woodie Guthrie

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:52 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

What he wrote and sang about caused the oil potentates and preachers who ran Oklahoma to consider him radical and disreputable.

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The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What 70 downed drones tell us about the new American way of war, its brutality and its surging costs. | | AlterNet

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:07 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

The largely covert, yet highly touted war-fighting, assassination, and spy program involving armed robots is significantly less reliable than previously acknowledged.  These planes, the latest wonder weapons in the U.S.

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A revealing portrayal of President Obama highlights the personal failings of his first term in office and how these have undercut his campaign promises for a transformational administration

Seeded on Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:06 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Seeded by Oiled Pelican (Clipped by truthlover)

Not everything Barack Obama has tried to do has failed, but even the president's friends admit that this has not been the transformational administration promised in 2008. This book is one of the first to give us a sense of why that might be.

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U.S. Warns Israel Against Iran Strike - WSJ.com

Seeded on Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:34 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade Tehran not to take that step. As he has previously, Panetta cautioned agai …

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