"Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing great - greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources....

And finally, in our progress towards a resumption of work, we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order. There must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments. There must be an end to speculation with other people's money. And there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency. These, my friends, are the lines of attack."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933.

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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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"It is a moment of truth and my people are waiting to hear the answer of the world. Will it allow Israel to continue its occupation, the only occupation in the world?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29199.htm

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The facts will continue to prove that the US administration remains a tool of Israel when it comes to Israel's refusal to give the Palestinians a state.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29196.htm

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Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are falling over one another to show their support for Israel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29194.htm

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to the podium at the U.N. General Assembly Thursday - one day after two American hikers were released from prison in Tehran - to deliver a speech strongly condemning the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29193.htm

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The neo-colonial order since has lingered in most Third World countries and the western powers are at work to continue it for the foreseeable future.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29201.htm

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Although it might be little-known among the American people, the Jose Padilla case is quite possibly the most important legal case in our lifetime in terms of the freedom that Americans lost on 9/11.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29195.htm

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Do the wealthy look to you like the victims of class warfare?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29198.htm

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One of the secrets of capitalism, after all, is the way in which it obscures and conceals processes of economic exploitation. Wealth moves and accumulates along hidden circuits that tend to elude us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29200.htm

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The perception now is that the Fed is out of bullets at the worst possible time, just as the economy is starting to crater.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29202.htm

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The behavior of two Colorado politicians shows how superficial the differences between the parties are.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29197.htm

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Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's spokesman said on Thursday that NATO air strikes and shelling of Sirte by interim government forces on Wednesday and Thursday had killed 151 people.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-libya-sirte-idUSTRE78L26X20110922

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Those who fled recount a campaign of violence against them which leaves them little hope of a future in Libya.
http://yhoo.it/pQXcwY

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A group of 500 Ghanaians who managed to arrive back home from the fighting in Libya told harrying stories of how difficult life had been for them.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201109230885.html

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"Make no mistake: The United States is at war in Somalia, and will likely only deepen its involvement as the present famine worsens. But that won't mean large troop deployments as in 1992. Today's intervention is unlike anything that was possible 19 years ago."
http://bit.ly/qXILjt

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Analysts believe that the real reason why NATO has prolonged its mandate is that, in reality, it is too early to say that the Gaddafi regime is living its last days.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/23/56617171.html

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Renewed violence in the Yemeni capital killed at least 15 people Thursday as forces loyal to the regime and its opponents shelled each other's strategic positions from hills surrounding the city, medical and security officials said.
http://bit.ly/qGoihY

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President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned Friday to the violence-torn Yemeni capital after more than three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia in a surprise move certain to further enflame battles between forces loyal to him and his opponents.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/i/1107/09-23-2011/20110923020500_08.html

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'So far, we know of nine protesters killed in various areas in Syria and some 40 injured,' said Syrian activists based in Beirut on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
http://bit.ly/r9pZLy

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Journalist Nir Rosen discusses armed struggle with army officers who have defected to join the opposition
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/09/2011923115735281764.html

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Seven Afghan civilians died and four were wounded in a landmine explosion Friday in southern Kandahar province, police said.
http://bit.ly/r2YomV

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Three Italian soldiers were killed in a road accident in Afghanistan Friday raising Italy's death toll in Afghanistan to 44 since it joined the NATO-led mission in the Asian country in 2004.
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2011/09/23/visualizza_new.html_700063982.html

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A US drone strike has left at least three people dead in northwestern Pakistan, reports by the country's security officials say.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200808.html

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Pakistan's foreign minister warned the U.S. that it risked losing an ally after the U.S.'s top military commander claimed Pakistan's military spy agency was aiding a militant group believed to be responsible for an attack last week on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903703604576588222939453458.html

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Pakistan would not tolerate any incursion on its territory by US forces targeting militant groups, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday, calling for Washington to provide the intelligence Islamabad needs to take them out itself.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/257977/pakistan-warns-us-no-boots-on-our-ground/

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Haqqani spoke to Reuters by satellite phone from an undisclosed location on Thursday just hours before Washington, ever more strident, accused Pakistan's shadowy but powerful ISI intelligence agency of working with the enemy.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/insight-haqqani-chief-us-will-suffer-if-it-tries-attack

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Police officials say five bombs were planted early Friday near three houses and two parking lots in the mostly Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah.
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/22/3159460/iraq-speaker-parliament-in-the.html

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Iraq's parliament's speaker says the government has failed to tell lawmakers how many U.S. troops might be need to stay in the country beyond an and-of-the-year deadline for Americans to leave Iraq.
http://bit.ly/qSNljb

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"By using their imperialistic media network which is under the influence of colonialism they threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and the September 11 event with sanctions and military actions," he said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/09/201192218153348760.html

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In an interview with Charlie Rose, when Erdogan was asked if he saw the Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed nine Turkish nationals as "a cause of war," -- as the premier had earlier said -- Erdogan said "we will do that too if it becomes necessary," Turkey's Vatan newspaper reported on Thursday.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200630.html

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Abbas was greeted by sustained ovation and appreciative whistles as he approached the dais to deliver a speech outlining the Palestinian quest to have the United Nations recognize an independent Palestine. The request was formally submitted shortly before Abbas spoke.
http://huff.to/qQl3Tu

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In Ramallah, a flag-waving, whistling crowd packed into the downtown area to show its support for President Mahmoud Abbas, who had come under intense pressure from the U.S. and others to withdraw the application at the last minute.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/09/23/general-ml-israel-palestinians_8697247.html

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U.S. President appeals to Palestinian President at meeting on sidelines of UN General Assembly; ahead of Clinton meeting, Netanyahu says West Bank settlement freeze not an option.
http://bit.ly/oEwm8c

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After the president's speech to the UN, our senior analyst wonders why US leaders continue to pander to a foreign power.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201192216365733499.html

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Former President Bill Clinton suggested Thursday that Texas Gov. Rick Perry was ideologically in line with "militant subgroups in Israel" and was too willing to let the Jewish state do whatever it wants.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64134.html

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Propaganda alert:
Iran stole missiles during Gaddafi revolt in Libya:

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have stolen dozens of sophisticated surface-to-air missiles from Libya and smuggled them across the border into Sudan, according to Western intelligence reports.
http://bit.ly/nVAIX0

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US President Barack Obama secretly authorized the sale of 55 powerful bunker-buster bombs to Israel, a report by Newsweek magazine says.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200798.html

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"[They] consider themselves superior to others and entitled to special and exclusive advantages and do not accord any value or right to others and allow themselves to tread upon the rights of all nations and governments," he said.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200679.html

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A city councilman in San Juan Capistrano, California, has come under fire by Muslims and local council members alike for naming his dog Muhammad and later announcing it during a city council meeting.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/city-councilman-defends-naming-his-dog-muhammad/

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The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-201_162-20109986.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

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Kelly Thomas was sitting on a curb in Southern California as police checked his backpack when Officer Manuel Ramos donned the gloves and made two fists in front of him. Prosecutors say Ramos then said: "Now see my fists? They are getting ready to F you up."
http://bit.ly/pIQ3D0

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It's worth remembering that the U.S.-Mexican border, all 1,969 miles of it, is the only place in the world where the Third World washes up against the First.
http://bit.ly/pJL0eH

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The majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/Majority-Continue-Distrust-Media-Perceive-Bias.aspx

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Strikes bring Athens to a standstill as government announces further swingeing cuts to public sector jobs and pensions
http://bit.ly/nxUzL6

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Greece denied on Friday newspaper reports that one option in the debt crisis would be an orderly default with a 50 percent haircut for bondholders. - Separately, the Finance Ministry said, in reaction to the reports, that the country was committed to implementing a second, 109 billion euro bailout agreed with its international lenders in July.
http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/Greece-denies-reports-default-reuters-2067385919.html?x=0

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US senators unveiled legislation Thursday to punish China over its alleged currency manipulation, promising angry American voters to put an end to Beijing's "economic murder" of US jobs.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/22/senators-target-china-with-currency-bill/

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The debt deal will hurt the poorest Americans, convinced by Fox and the Tea Party to act against their own welfare
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/01/us-debt-deal-tea-party

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Poverty grew nationwide last year, but the increase was even greater in New York City, the Census Bureau will report on Thursday, suggesting that New York was being particularly hard hit by the aftermath of the recession.
http://nyti.ms/pEsH4v

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Tom Feeley