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Video> How to Reverse the Corporate Coup d’Etat> A Conversation with Lawrence Lessig and Chris Hedges

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFPN-XFGk0&w=560&h=315] How to Reverse the Corporate Coup d’Etat A Conversation With Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig Monday 30 January 2012  TruthOut Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig, Yes! Magazine | Interview and Video  Protesters against Citizens United demonstrate outside the Sacramento Capitol, California, January 21, 2012. (Photo: Public Citizen) "We've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. More

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Video> Covert Drone War> Analysis: New rules in play as CIA drones return to Pakistan skies

Covert Drone War Analysis: New rules in play as CIA drones return to Pakistan skies January 10th, 2012 | by Chris Woods | Published in Covert Drone War, Views from the Bureau  of Investigative Journalism Drone War in Numbers Total reported killed: 2,380 – 3,007 Civilians reported killed: 391 – 780 Children reported killed: 175 Total reported injured: 1,174-1,261 Total strikes: 311 Obama More

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Video> National Security and Civil Liberties> Debate with John Yoo and Chip Pitts

Recommended by Coleen Rowley [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifoYmF6pJDA&w=560&h=315] Uploaded by SMUVideo on Jan 13, 2012 A luncheon debate at the October 22, 2011, conference on "National Security and Civil Liberties," sponsored by SMU's John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies and the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility. The debate was moderated by Seyom Brown, the John More

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Nick Turse> The US Has Special Operations Forces in How Many Countries?

The US Has Special Operations Forces in How Many Countries? The Bush administration had special operations forces in 60 countries. Today, that number is 75—and it’s rising. Nick Turse | Mon Sep. 19, 2011 12:28 PM PDT   Mother Jones This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. US Army soldiers conduct a patrol through More

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Robert Dreyfuss> Nibbling at the Pentagon’s Fat

Nibbling at the Pentagon’s Fat Robert Dreyfuss    January 27, 2012    The Nation Like President Obama’s announcement earlier this month, which drew angry denunciations from hawks, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s more detailed budget ideas for the Pentagon going forward ought be seen as an opening bid. Anyone concerned about the bloated budget at the More

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Rolling Stone> Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview

Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism By MICHAEL HASTINGS  January 18, 2012 8:00 AM ET Rolling Stone  Assange poses for a portrait at his undisclosed location in the English countryside.  Max More

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Greg Levine> Occupy Innovation: Neither the Military Nor the Market Does

Occupy Innovation: Neither the Military Nor the Market Does by: Gregg Levine   Saturday 21 January 2012   Truthout | News Analysis Actress Anne Hathaway marches with demonstrators on the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Elana Levin) Two days after thousands of police broke up the around-the-clock occupation of New York’s Zuccotti Park, tens of thousands More

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From the Land Down Under> George Ikner writes about GTMO from Australia

From the Land Down Under Posted on January 19, 2012 by comehomeamerica George Ikner writes about GTMO from Australia You may wonder just how obvious it has become that Guantanamo is set to be the place where those against the idea of endless war to support the monopoly capitalist democracy in the US can be sent. As the capitalist elites set More

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John Pilger> The World War on Democracy

The World War on Democracy Thursday 19 January 2012    truthout by John Pilger, Truthout | News Analysis B-1B Lancer Bombers on a runway at Diego Garcia, November, 2001, during the bombing campaign in Afghanistan. (Photo: Senior Airman Rebeca M. Luquin, U.S. Air Force) Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent More

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Video> Banks Block Somali Financial Lifeline, Minnesotans Protest

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdNvcrQrnas&w=560&h=315] Uploaded by UpTakeVideo on Jan 9, 2012 “Peoples’ lives are at stake. People are dying.” said a young Somali to a crowd gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol. State Senator Jeff Hayden agreed, “This is an injustice. This is a crime.” Members of the largest Somali community in the United States have been wiring their money More

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Global Research> The Globalization of War The “Military Roadmap” to World War III

The Globalization of War The “Military Roadmap” to World War III  Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham (Editors) December 2011 It is our hope that the Interactive Reader Series will become a useful tool for high school, college and university students.   INTRODUCTION [scroll down for Reader’s Table of Contents] The Pentagon’s global military design is one of More

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