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The Mythical United States of America: Rushing into Backwardness (Prof. John Kozy)
Nov. 14, 2010 (Global Research) -- The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of ...
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Bush's Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe (Dan Froomkin)
Nov. 12, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Huffington Post) -- The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special prosecutor to investigate ...
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Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners (Matt Taibbi)
Retired judges are rushing through complex cases to speed foreclosures in Florida Nov. 10, 2010 (Rolling Stone) -- The foreclosure lawyers down in Jacksonville had warned me, but I was skeptical. ...
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America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The United States Department of Justice (sic) routinely charges and convicts innocents with bogus and concocted crimes that are not even on the statutes ...
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Why George W. Bush Should Still Worry (Bill Quigley)
Bush Pens True Crime Book, No Justice for CIA Destruction of 92 Torture Tapes Nov. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to ...
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Big Brother monitored tweets, too (Donald Gilliand)
Nov. 4, 2010 (Patriot-News) -- Tracking the Twitter activity of law-abiding citizens was part of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security’s intelligence surveillance program. According to ...
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Amnesty International wants Bush on trial over torture (Press TV)
Nov. 10, 2010 (Press TV) -- The London-based Amnesty International has called for a criminal investigation into former US President George W. Bush's admission of torture. The rights group's call ...
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A Recipe for Fascism (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 8, 2010 (Truthdig) -- American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational. On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to ...
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Nine stories the press is underreporting -- fraud, fraud and more fraud (Dan Froomkin)
From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers -- a vast criminal enterprise. You wouldn't know it from a lot of ...
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Finance Has Become a New Form of Warfare: An interview with professor Michael Hudson (Democracy Now!)
Nov. 5, 2010 -- (Democracy Now!) -- The Federal Reserve will pump $600 billion more into the U.S. economy and keep interest rates at historical low levels. The short-term impact of the Fed’s move, ...
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It Was the Banks (James K. Galbraith)
Nov. 5, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- Bruce Bartlett says it was a failure to focus. Paul Krugman says it was a failure of nerve. Nancy Pelosi says it was the economy's failure. Barack Obama says it ...
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