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Mich. passes 'financial martial law' bill (Jennifer Epstein)
Gov. Rick Snyder requested the expanded state powers the legislation provides. | AP Photo Mar. 16, 2011 (Politico) -- Michigan legislators have approved a bill authorizing state-appointed emergency f ...
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Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand (Chris Hedges)
Mar. 14, 2011 (TruthDig) -- The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and fede ...
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Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own (Dafna Linzer)
A group of detainees kneeling during morning prayer in their camp at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP/John Moore) Mar. 8, 2011 (ProPublica) -- President O ...
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Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)
A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad lo ...
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'I Don’t Think There Is Any Need for a Law against Fraud' (Dale Tavris)
Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Mar. 7, 2011 -- Those who say that banks don’t need to be regulated by government are either naïve, sucking up to rich and powerful bankers, or hoping ...
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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers w ...
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Revolution Handbook for Americans (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 2011 -- As recently presented, there is global respect for and use of the classic and brilliant work by Gene Sharp “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” It ...
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Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? (Matt Taibbi)
Illustration by Victor Juhasz Financial crooks brought down the world's economy -- but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them Feb. 16, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Over drinks at a ...
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America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President (Ray McGovern)
Feb. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk of ...
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House Derails Extending Anti-Terrorist Provisions (James Rowley)
Feb. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- House Republicans failed to muster the votes needed to extend for nine months the government’s authority to conduct roving wiretaps of suspected terrorists, along with two ...
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The Enumerated Rights Are Hanging By A Thread (Paul Craig Roberts)
Jan. 28, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- While people in Tunisia and Egypt have taken to the streets in attempts to gain their liberty, Americans are losing their liberty with minimal protest. E ...
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