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Truth Decay: Theories and Hoaxes Are Blurring (Greg Guma)
With all the theories, predictions and prophecies out there it’s hard to know what to believe. Why do some extreme ideas get all the attention while more credible ones are buried? And don’t we need ...
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Wisconsin Judge Declares Walker’s Collective Bargaining Bill 'Null and Void' (Mary Bottari)
May 27, 2011 (PR Watch) -- Yesterday, Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi ruled Governor Scott Walker's "budget repair bill," which would eviscerate collective bargaining rights for most public workers in ...
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Judge: Corporate Donations Ban Unconstitutional (AP)
Citizens United applied only to corporate spending on campaigning by independent groups -- not to direct contributions to the candidates themselves May 27, 2011 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A judge ...
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Taking the Side of the Billionaires (Robert Parry)
America’s Right – from the NFL lockout to Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget – side with the billionaires in what amounts to an escalating class war against the middle class and the poor May 27, 2011 ...
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Fed's secret loans to banking giants revealed (Sydney Morning Herald)
May 26, 2011 (Sydney Morning Herald) -- Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland each borrowed at least $US30 billion ($29 billion) in 2008 from a Federal Reserve emergency lending ...
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Increasing the Deficits Will Fire-up The Economy and Add Jobs (Mike Whitney)
May 27, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- How do you light a fire under Congress? How do you get these guys to do what they're paid to do? Look, we're 5 years into this slump, millions of people ...
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The Patriot Act: When Truth Becomes Treason (Susan Lindauer)
May 23, 2011 (The Peoples Voice) -- Many Americans think they understand the dangers of the Patriot Act, which Congress has vowed to extend 4 more years in a vote later this week. Trust me when I ...
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On Patriotism: Examining the Firmware of War (Fred Reed)
May 27, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Patriotism is everywhere thought to be a virtue rather than a mental disorder. I don’t get it. If I told the Rotarians or an American Legion hall that ...
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Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey (John Pilger)
May 26, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed … murdered ...
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The New Face Of War 'We don’t need no stinkin’ badges' (Conn Hallinan)
May 27, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The assassination of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden did more than knock off America’s Public Enemy Number One, it formalized a new kind of warfare, ...
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Ignorant Certainty: On Apocalypse and Empire (Robert C. Koehler)
May 26, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Now that the end of the world didn’t happen, I can’t stop thinking about it. What chutzpah, what a diminished worldview, not simply to make such a prediction, but ...
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