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    Edward Snowden: War on Whistleblowers "Only Builds Better Whistleblowers"
    Larry Wilkerson: Snowden's expertise allowed him to understand the threat of the NSA's surveillance programs on civil liberties - government power exercised in secret will be abused

    Iran's New President a Regime Insider - Wide Mandate for More Civil Liberties
    Hamid Dabashi: President-elect Hassan Rohani will not change Iran's Neo-liberal capitalism but may be inspired by popular support for more political rights and nuclear transparency

    Senate Immigration Bill Fails to Advance Immigrant Rights
    Comprehensive immigration reform fails to address root causes of migration

    "Moral Mondays" Draws Thousands to Protest Legislative Attacks on Voting Rights and The Poor
    Hundreds arrested opposing Republican controlled legislature's 'barbaric' attacks on North Carolina's most vulnerable populations

    Philadelphia Slashes Schools Budget While State Spends $400 Million on New Prisons
    Philadelphia communities fighting back against planned cuts that disproportionally impact low income and African American communities

    No Substantial Iran Negotiations Possible Without Offer of a Suspension of Sanctions
    Lawrence Wilkerson: If the US is serious about negotiating with Iran it must offer a suspension of sanctions and a permanent end to sanctions once safeguards are in place - Iran has to come forward and tell the IAEA everything about the past and present of their nuclear program


    US Iran Policy Can't Abide an Independent Middle East State
    Hillary Mann-Leverett and Flynt Leverett: American policy based on hegemony in the Middle East - a major regional player not within the US system of supported states is a target

    Ellsberg: A Coup Against the Constitution
    Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released the Pentagon papers, says the FISA court is a sham and warrantless wiretapping, which has being going on for years before 9/11, is a violation of the US Constitution no matter what law Congress passes

    Police Brutality Against Blocupy Frankfurt Protest Makes Headlines
    What began as a protest against the ECB, German banks and the German government turned into a protest against police brutality

    'The Americans have been Dishonest Negotiators' says Afghan Militants' Representative
    The Political Chief of Hizb-e-Islami, one of the three main factions fighting Nato in Afghanistan, tells The Real News that his group has withdrawn from peace talks

    William Black 

    Myerson's Ode to Crony Capitalism
    William K. Black This is the fifth installment in my series of article about the predictive and policy failures of Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate in economics in 2007.  My first two articles critiqued his claim that capitalism’s unique advantage over ...

    Tuesday, 18 June 2013

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    Norman Solomon 

    David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller Wish Snowden Had Just Followed Orders
    By Norman Solomon. Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the New York Times reported on Sunday, “have renewed a longstanding concern: that young Internet aficionados whose skills the agencies need for counterterrorism and cyberdefense sometimes bring an anti-authority spirit that does not fit the security ...

    Monday, 17 June 2013

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    Margaret Flowers 

    Turkey Threatens Doctors and First Responders, Violates Medical Neutrality
    By Margaret Flowers, MD. This article was first published on Popular Resistance. The Turkish Health Ministry issued a threat to take medical licenses to practice away from doctors who have been providing treatment to the protesters in Istanbul. They are ...

    Monday, 17 June 2013

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    David Swanson 

    The Pope and the Kill List
    By David Swanson. This article was first published on War is a Crime. In 1984 -- the year not the book, but it was fitting -- and five years before she died, Barbara Tuchman published a book called The March ...

    Monday, 17 June 2013

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    Frank Hammer 

    U.S. and Colombian Auto Workers Keep GM in the Spotlight
    By Frank Hammer. Union members in Detroit protested the firing of workers injured at a GM plant in Colombia, outside GM's shareholders meeting. Photo: Frank Hammer. More than a few GM executives probably suffered indigestion over their eggs Benedict and croissants ...

    Saturday, 15 June 2013

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    Danny Schechter 

    When The Public Is in Trouble, Public TV Gets Hammered
    By Danny Schechter New York: It’s hard for me to feel sorry about the travails of the PBS News Hour where bland has been beautiful for years, and an obsessive loyalty to mechanistic balance—always veering right—has been in command for ...

    Thursday, 13 June 2013

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    Stephen Lendman 

    Susan Rice for National Security Advisor
    by Stephen Lendman. Previous articles discussed her. Calling her controversial stops short of accurately characterizing her. Moral depravity explains best. Vishay Prashad calls her the "queen of interventionist hawks." South African journalist Getahune Bekele said she's a "consummate ally of grubby ...

    Saturday, 8 June 2013

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    Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers 

    The Secret Fukushima Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World
    By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, a 20-foot section of the earthen dam blocking the waste pool for the Church Rock Uranium Mill caved in and released 95 million gallons of highly ...

    Saturday, 8 June 2013

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    David William Pear 

    “Why aren’t the 50% living in poverty protesting in the streets?”
    By David William Pear. People get the government they deserve.
    Philosopher/scholar Joseph de Maistre said, "Every country has the government it deserves."
    HL Mencken said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and ...

    Thursday, 6 June 2013

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    Annie Machon 

    Woolwich murder — the “why?” should be obvious
    The bru­tal murder in Wool­wich last week of Drum­mer Lee Rigby rightly caused shock and out­rage. Inev­it­ably there has been a media feed­ing frenzy about “ter­ror­ist” attacks and home-grown rad­ic­al­isa­tion.  Brit­ish Prime Min­is­ter, David Cameron, felt it n...

    Tuesday, 28 May 2013

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    John Weeks 

    Economics for the 99%: Mainstream economics on budget cuts: dumb and dumber
    There is nothing so reactionary that most mainstream economists will not fervently advocate it. [cartoon from google images] If you read The New York Times - not that I recommend it - you might have encountered an article by Eduardo Po...

    Thursday, 23 May 2013

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    William Fisher 

    FORE!
    By William Fisher It must have been the late 1950s and I couldn’t have been more than 18 – I hadn’t yet finished undergrad school. But I had a job on what was widely thought of as one ...

    Friday, 17 May 2013

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