"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Civil disaboidence is the only weapon we have left" - Chris Hedges 

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"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome

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American secret commandos are carrying out raids in 70 countries--just today. By the end of the year, the number will probably be close to 120.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28747.htm

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Currently our 'troops' and mercenaries are committing mass murder and proclaiming that to be necessary 'for the defense of the national security of the United States - which assumes the corollary to be true: that everyone we kill is an enemy of this nation. That's bullshit, and everyone with a brain has to know that.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28750.htm

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A top-secret document revealing how MI6 and MI5 officers were allowed to extract information from prisoners being illegally tortured overseas has been seen by the Guardian.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28745.htm

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This July, I travelled to Syria, with the purpose of finding out for myself the origins of the present political conflict.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28748.htm

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2083 reveals that a new, vicious strain of political virus has emerged from the genetic engineering labs within the think tanks of the Neocons.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28751.htm

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The object of the supposed "crisis" was to short circuit public opinion, - in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It worked. We've been conned.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28744.htm

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"we can't protect these entitlements and also have the national defense...to protect us...with Islamist extremists"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28742.htm

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The dirty little secret is that we never had a debt "crisis." We had a jobs crisis.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28749.htm

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Every dollar cut from the Safety Net is another dollar added to the citizen's cost for education, for security, for health, for life itself.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28746.htm

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You don't need to fool all of the people all of the time. Enough of the people, enough of the time is entirely adequate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28743.htm

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"Civil disobedience is the only weapon we have left"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28752.htm

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The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, a statistic that suggests the death toll of small children will rise.
http://www.startribune.com/world/126761188.html

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The bodies that have come to al-Hourani hospital were shot at close range and mostly in the head, Avaaz says.
http://bit.ly/mXNPxd

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Seven protesters were killed overnight by the Syrian military when thousands of people demonstrated in a number of cities following the breaking of the Ramadan fast, Abdul-Karim al-Rihawi, head of the Syrian League for Human Rights, told the Xinhua news agency.
http://bit.ly/prnkUC

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Mr Assad issued a decree yesterday authorising a multi-party political system, the official SANA news agency reported. The decree allows political parties to be established and to function alongside the Baath Party - in power since 1963 with the constitutional status of ''the leader of state and society''.
http://bit.ly/n7RDdv

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"The settlement in this country should be carried out by the Syrians themselves without outside interference and should be based on an all-Syria dialogue, which is the only way to resolve the conflict," the ministry said in a statement.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110804/165559426.html

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During the raids, ANP also seized five AK-47 guns, a grenade launcher, a satellite radio and various pieces of ammunition.
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/820933/cs/1/

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A NATO service member was killed in an apparent "rogue" shooting by a man dressed as an Afghan policeman on Thursday, the coalition said, at least the fourth to be killed in a bloody 24 hours in one of Afghanistan's most volatile areas.
http://reut.rs/qmmWzb

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Another resident, Dilawar Maroofkhel, said the foreign troops had killed the imam after capturing him. "I saw injuries on his body," he said, suggesting the victim had been tortured.
http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/08/03/foreign-soldiers-kill-hesarak-imam

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A bomb attack killed an Afghan intelligence agent and wounded three girls in the country's north on Thursday, a provincial spokesman said, with the Taliban claiming responsibility.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110804/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestnorth

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Two roadside bombs targeting police exploded in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13, Iraqi officials said.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/aug/03/roadside-bombs-kill-9-people-in-western-iraq/

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Libya's tribal and religious fault lines came to the fore Thursday as Moamer Kadhafi's regime claimed an alliance with Islamists, and rebel tribes banded together in a show of political strength.
http://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/37117

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Libyan state television has broadcast a defiant message from Colonel Gaddafi's son, at a time when the conflict shows signs of getting mired in stalemate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z5L6QjmOWU

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Muammar Gaddafi speaks to the people of Tarhouna on July 31, 2011
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627859?rss

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A couple hours after midnight Gaza was shaken by a huge explosion, turns out that the Israeli F16s and other warplanes bombed "Badr" security HQ. that belongs to Hamas which is located in Al Naser neighborhood in Gaza city, its noteworthy that this time security HQ. was bombed countless times before.
http://gazatimes.blogspot.com/2011/08/israeli-warplanes-attack-gaza-at-night.html

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 Israel's interior ministry has given final approval for the construction of 900 new homes in the occupied east Jerusalem settlement neighbourhood of Har Homa, a ministry spokeswoman told AFP on Thursday.
http://bit.ly/pjWB7X

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Palestinians are determined to go ahead with their UN membership bid as an Arab League follow-up committee endorsed a final draft of the request to be presented to the UN General Assembly, a top official said.
http://yhoo.it/o9t6AA

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For the most part, major media outlets uncritically transmitted the Obama Administration's charge, without much manifestation of serious effort to verify it, find out more about the sourcing upon which it was based, or place it in any sort of detailed and nuanced historical context.
http://bit.ly/nimV46

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Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made a point recently in an interview with the Russian media when he described Iran as the "most significant neighbor" of Russia, which stands in the way of the Western strategy to encircle Russia.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/MH04Ag01.html

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This was a moment when a country proved not only that its revolution was real, but that its victims were real
http://ind.pn/mYHqOd

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The proposed 'Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act' challenges our lawmakers and our nation to finally confront and repair the chemically induced public health and environmental wreckage that remains the most shameful and unresolved legacy of the U.S. war against Vietnam.
http://bit.ly/pFu01X

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A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in Iraq.
http://bit.ly/qP762T

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Muslims Americans more likely than other faith groups to reject attacks on civilians:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148763/Muslim-Americans-No-Justification-Violence.aspx

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Nearly half of American Muslims say they have experienced racial or religious discrimination over the past year, a new poll has revealed.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192096.html

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'This Sharia Law Business Is Crap': The Republican's appointment of Muslim-American Sohail Mohammed to a state bench this week ruffled some feathers among some who fear the threat of Sharia Law, but when asked about those concerns, Gov. Christie made clear he had no patience for such "ignorance," calling the complaints "crap."
http://bit.ly/pAPeHb

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U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_18608410?source=most_viewed

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Drug Enforcement Agency Officers bust into a home in Sterling Heights, armed with a search warrant. The only problem? The guy they were looking for doesn't live there. Fox 2 talked to the man who opened the door, and was stunned by what happened next.
http://bit.ly/nE3wIZ

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Debt-laden Italy is likely to default, but Spain might just avoid it, according to the British think tank, the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14396557

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The Economist interactive graphic shows how deeply in hock we all are
http://econ.st/ngv7Dq

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U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday - the largest one-day bump in history - as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week's debt-limit increase deal.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/3/us-eats-most-debt-limit-one-day/

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The committee of bond dealers and investors that advises the U.S. Treasury said the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency "appears to be slipping" in quarterly feedback presented to the government.
http://bloom.bg/nCISMy

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Everyone needs to see this.

Now you can see how your favorite (?) House Member voted on raising the debt ceiling.

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With $14 trillion in the hole and a slew of wars seemingly no one wants America to be in, what better way for the United States to spend their money by putting $23 billion into spy planes? Each of the four dozen-plus spy crafts comes at a price tag of $218 million apiece - ten times the price of the largest armed attack drone.
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-drone-hawk-billions/

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If you want to know why tax from surging corporate profits isn't making much of a dent in the United States' crippling budget deficit, a glance at Microsoft Corp's recent results provides some clues.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/microsoft-tax-havens-profit-bill_n_911779.html

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Unemployment rose in 345 large metro areas during the month, according to the report.
http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2011/08/unemployment-rose-in-nearly-all-us-cities-in-june.html

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 A sudden and unexpected burst in private-sector downsizing pushed the number of announced job cuts to a 16-month high of 66,414 in July, according the latest report on downsizing activity released Wednesday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
http://www.businessinsider.com/challenger-layoffs-report-for-july-2011-8

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Economic data released this week provides further evidence that economic growth in the US has virtually come to a halt. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that consumer spending fell by 0.2 percent in June, the first monthly decline since September of 2009.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/econ-a03.shtml

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Desperate victims of the economic slump forced to live in makeshift homes in forest
http://bit.ly/nUoKgc

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Help wanted:
Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Social Networkers:

The Pentagon is developing plans to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter as both a resource and a weapon in future conflicts. Its research and development agency is offering $42 million in funding to anyone who can help.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/pentagon-seeks-social-networking-experts/?smid=tw-nytimesbits&seid=auto

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Tom Feeley