"Societies characterized by enduring deep divisions of income and wealth, such as most third-world societies, are wounded societies with little sense of the common good... As America drifts in this direction, ending poverty and redistributing income should be at the top of the national agenda."-- Charles Derber, Corporation Nation, p203..

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"This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security."-- Michael Lerner, journalist

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A close-up look at who holds America's debt.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28670.htm

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Anti-Muslim activists and right-wing Zionists share a political narrative that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a "clash of civilizations," one in which Judeo-Christian culture is under attack by Islam.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28669.htm

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Activists attacking Muslims and Islam are springing up around the country. But there's a core group of 10 hard-liners.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28671.htm

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 The three puppet regimes have provided a fig leaf for the imperial savaging of the colonized people of the countries they preside over
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28672.htm

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Only 110 dead in Benghazi? Wait a minute, we were told thousands had died there, ten thousand even. No, only 110 lost their lives including pro-government people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28666.htm

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In an exclusive interview with Libya's Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi said NATO's bombing campaign must end before negotiations with rebels can begin.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28668.htm

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The US House Foreign Affairs Committee slashed foreign aid for the Palestinians, Egypt, Lebanon, and Yemen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28667.htm

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It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28662.htm

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A suspected far-right gunman in police uniform killed at least 84 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling Labour party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo.
http://bit.ly/oOreeU

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Witnesses of Friday's mass killings in the Norwegian youth camp say there were two terrorists as the shootings were coming from "two different places on the island at the same time," Norwegian VG paper reported on Saturday.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110723/165350450.html

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 Anders Behring Breivik, the main suspect in the Norwegian bomb attacks and shootings, has been described by police as a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing views.
http://tgr.ph/nVxFJz

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There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that the perpetrator of this atrocity, even if it turns out he was acting alone, was very much part of a political movement - a movement whose leading ideologues regularly appear on Fox News and have high public profiles.
http://bit.ly/p0s6eQ

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"Afghan and ISAF security forces conducted a special operation on insurgents and drug traffickers co-center in Baghran district of Helmand province. Operation resulted in killing of 16 insurgents," the press release added, Xinhua reported.
http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1909414.html

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The Pentagon's top researchers have rushed a classified and controversial intelligence program into Afghanistan. Known as "Nexus 7," and previously undisclosed as a war-zone surveillance effort, it ties together everything from spy radars to fruit prices in order to glean clues about Afghan instability.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/darpas-secret-spy-machine/

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An anti-Taliban militia killed 13 militants in clashes in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, a government official said Saturday.
http://wapo.st/qnPdYs

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A car bomb targeting a military facility has killed at least eight people and wounded 15 in Aden, the main city in southern Yemen, medics and soldiers have said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/07/201172483242711900.html

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A Libyan official said six guards were killed in an airstrike on Friday on a pipeline production plant just south of Brega in eastern Libya.
http://reut.rs/q58HyB

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Libyan rebel fighters have lost control of the southwestern oasis town of Qatrun after an attack by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, a member of the local Toubou tribe told AFP on Saturday.
http://bit.ly/qINkJN

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The rebels may have a lot of support in towns such as Benghazi and Misrata, but in the capital Tripoli tens of thousands are willing to take to the streets to show that their loyalties lie with their leader.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14259323

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Video -
http://bit.ly/nHmV8o

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The explosion of two roadside bombs near a liquor store in western Baghdad left two people dead and eight wounded, officials said.
http://bit.ly/n5zsgQ

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Iran, Iraq and Syria will sign a contract for the transit of Iranian natural gas from the country's South Pars gas field to Europe, the English language satellite Press TV reported on Friday.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7449471.html

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State television says Dariush Rezainejad, killed in front of his home in Tehran, was masters student in electronics.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/07/2011724735530738.html

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Just this month, a U.S. drone strike against militants in southern Yemen reportedly killed at least 50 people -- many of them civilians
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/07/23/yemen_us_airstrikes_update

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Inclusion of Jordan Valley, northern Dead Sea and area surrounding Ariel in 'settlement blocs' whose takeover the administration is advancing, would prevent establishment of Palestinian state with territorial contiguity.
http://bit.ly/qjB0Pv

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Palestinian president says Israel's refusal to halt settlement building has forced his people to seek recognition at UN.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/07/201172310330622851.html

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Jamaica's crippling debt crisis must serve as a warning to Greece:

The experience of debt-ridden Jamaica shows the damage that can be done when the interests of creditors are given too much weight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/22/jamaica-debt-crisis

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The United States has wasted some $34 billion on service contracts with the private sector in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a study being finalized for Congress.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/us-wastes-34-bln-in-afghan-iraq-contracting-study

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 "When a country is indebted to the degree that we're indebted, the country always defaults. We will default because the debt is unsustainable," Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said on the House floor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHk-vvsDWnM

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President Barack Obama has relied more on well-connected Wall Street figures to fund his re-election than he did four years ago. One-third of the money Obama's elite fund-raising corps has raised on behalf of his re-election has come from the financial sector,
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/07/financial-sector-helps-barack-obama.html

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Especially among the Young and Poor: The GOP gains have occurred only among white voters; a 2-point Republican edge among whites in 2008 (46% to 44%) has widened to a 13-point lead today (52% to 39%). In sharp contrast, the partisan attachments of black and Hispanic voters have remained consistently Democratic.
http://people-press.org/2011/07/22/gop-makes-big-gains-among-white-voters/

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Consumers in the U.S. are increasingly using credit cards to pay for basic necessities as income gains fail to keep pace with rising food and fuel prices.
http://bloom.bg/o2rCQ0

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Tom Feeley