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Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom

[youtube=http://youtu.be/0iWrjVmUzU4]  democracynow Published on May 15, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. More

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Last Empire?

And Then There Was One>  Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth  By Tom Engelhardt  May 7, 2013  TomDispatch.com It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia.  Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads, and its military had five million troops under More

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[Video] Gil Scott-Heron – Work For Peace

Work for Peace http://youtu.be/hPqpV9olIlw  ribeye Uploaded on Apr 19, 2009 Gil Scott-Heron My music video of a timeless song with picture's i lifted off flickr Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest More

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John LaForge> The Weapons Oligarchy

Federal Taxes Reward 8-Figure Pentagon Fraud Spree by JOHN LaFORGE  WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 26-28, 2013  Counterpunch.org With the Pentagon having secured its annual 47 percent of the April 15 federal tax haul ($1,335 billion out of a total of $2,890 billion) it’s a good time to consider the mountains of money being wasted on useless More

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John LaForge> The Weapons Oligarchy

Federal Taxes Reward 8-Figure Pentagon Fraud Spree by JOHN LaFORGE  WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 26-28, 2013  Counterpunch.org With the Pentagon having secured its annual 47 percent of the April 15 federal tax haul ($1,335 billion out of a total of $2,890 billion) it’s a good time to consider the mountains of money being wasted on useless More

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Cathedral of the Enemy> The Enemy-Industrial Complex

"And don’t forget a media that was ready to pound the drums of war and emphasize what dangerous enemies lurked in our world with remarkably few second thoughts."  Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:01pm, April 14, 2013. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today’s post is part one of a two-parter.  Part two will focus on the must-read new book More

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Cathedral of the Enemy> The Enemy-Industrial Complex

"And don’t forget a media that was ready to pound the drums of war and emphasize what dangerous enemies lurked in our world with remarkably few second thoughts."  Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:01pm, April 14, 2013. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today’s post is part one of a two-parter.  Part two will focus on the must-read new book More

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“The Kissinger Cables”: Three Years After “Collateral Murder,” WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy

[youtube=http://youtu.be/tpaW8Ji_rBM]   Published on Apr 8, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has just published "the Kissinger cables," 1.7 million U.S. diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973 to 1976 that include many once-secret memos written by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. While the documents have been available to the public at the National Archives, WikiLeaks More

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