by William Bowles
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williambowles.info
September 28, 2011
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In case you hadn’t noticed, especially if you get your news from the MSM, there is the mother of all capitalist crises unfolding around us. A crisis that appears to be far deeper even than the Crash of ’29 and given the global nature of corporate capitalism, nobody (except the rich) can escape its awful destructive power, short of revolution of course.
by Gunther Ostermann
Guest Writer
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Kelowna, BC. Canada
Sept. 30, 2011
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To the Editor:
What’s life all about? I have to wonder, when even physicists, like the late John Wheeler can say: “We do not know the first thing about the universe, about ourselves, and about our place in the universe.”
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by Walter Brasch
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www.walterbrasch.com
September 28, 2011
Parents demanded it be banned.
School superintendents placed it in restricted sections of their libraries.
It is the most challenged book four of the past five years, according to the American Library Association (ALA).
“It” is a 32-page illustrated children’s book, And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, with illustrations by Henry Cole. Continue reading
By Timothy V. Gatto
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liberalpro.blogspot.com
Sept. 30, 2011
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I have to admit that I’m really pissed off. It’s no longer just being angry about the situation in Washington; it’s about what’s happening to America. This country is failing. People are unemployed, and we are neglecting the poor and homeless. What’s happening here? Where is the government when it comes to protecting the welfare of the people? Why are so many crazies in the House and Senate? I’m talking about my Senators; Jim DeMint and Bang-Bang Lindsey Graham who used to be sane. The South Carolina Senators do not represent me. Continue reading
by Rand Clifford
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September 27, 2011
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Napoleon Bonaparte called history “A set of lies agreed upon.”
It’s even been said that lies are the glue that holds civilization together.
And now, before our eyes, lies accumulate like flies on flypaper, germy, nasty things that get processed, pasteurized, and homogenized into history. Examples seem endless: from elections rigged with e-voting, to the heinous false flag circus of 9/11, to the Global War on Terror, to evisceration of the Constitution to “protect” people, to the off-the-charts upward transfer of wealth of bankster bailouts, to the murder of over a million people amid destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya….
with Gareth Porter
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Sept. 30, 2011
TheRealNews on Sep 29, 2011
Gareth Porter: Admiral Mullen’s comments on Pakistan show exit strategy from Afghanistan failing
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stimulator on Sep 30, 2011
This Week:
1. Rick Roll
2. Troy Davis R.I.P.
3. Pelican Bay hunger strike
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by Michael Parenti
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Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
Sept. 29, 2011
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Over the last two decades or more, Republicans have been denouncing as “class warfare” any attempt at criticizing and restraining their mean one-sided system of capitalist financial expropriation.
The moneyed class in this country has been doing class warfare on our heads and on those who came before us for more than two centuries. But when we point that out, when we use terms like class warfare, class conflict, and class struggle to describe the system of exploitation we live under—our indictments are dismissed out of hand and denounced as Marxist ideological ranting, foul and divisive.
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bostonreview on Sep 27, 2011
September 22, 2011 – Wong Auditorium, MIT – In 1967, as the Vietnam War escalated, Noam Chomsky penned The Responsibility of Intellectuals, a stunning rebuke to scientists and scholars for their subservience to political power. Today we face a similar array of crises, from wars to escalating debt. What are the obligations of intellectuals in this day and age? Introduction by Joshua Cohen.
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by Philip A. Farruggio
Featured Writer
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September 26, 2011
Interesting, and ironic Barack, how your Democratic Party is symbolized by the donkey… you know, a jackass. Boy of boy, let me tell you that is just how you have behaved from day one in office. Actually, I saw right through you even before you ran for President. Believe you me, that cost me lots of friendships in the activist community. Many who stood each week on the street corner with me for years during the Bush Jr. debacle seemed to vanish when you won nomination for President. Guess what? Continue reading
by Ellen Brown
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webofdebt.com
Sept. 29, 2011
“Unrestrained financial exploitations have been one of the great causes of our present tragic condition.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933
Why did gold and silver stocks just get hammered, at a time when commodities are considered a safe haven against widespread global uncertainty? The answer, according to Bill Murphy’s newsletter LeMetropoleCafe.com, is that the sector has been the target of massive short selling. For some popular precious metal stocks, close to half the trades have been “phantom” sales by short sellers who did not actually own the stock.
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http://www.tamilsforum.com
Sept. 30, 2011
Press Release
September 30, 2011
As a Member of Parliament to Barrie, I was proud to host the screening of the UK Channel 4 – “Sri Lanka’s Killing Field” documentary in the Canadian Parliament on Wednesday, September 28th.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Human Rights Watch and my fellow colleagues NDP’s Rathika Sitsabaiesan and Liberal’s John McKay for co-hosting the event with me.
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with Gareth Porter
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Sept. 28, 2011
TheRealNews on Sep 28, 2011
Gareth Porter: US used cell phones to track targets, but knowingly killed and captured civilians
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
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www.foavc.org
September 27, 2011
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Much is being said by Republicans about a class war being waged by President Obama and Democrats. In their fantasy world this class war is attacking so called job creators. All this talk is pure nonsense, absolutely false and misleading, intentional political garbage designed to intentionally mislead gullible Americans stupid enough to believe the lies. Here is the truth: There has, indeed, been a class war waged in the US; it has been going on for a good thirty years. And this real war has been won.
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Some reports are saying over 700 protesters were arrested/given summonses for walking over the Brooklyn Bridge.
OperationLeakS on Oct 1, 2011
NYPD purposely misled protestors from legal walking zone to illegal walking zone to get their arrests.
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