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IMF Computer System Said to Be Targeted by Foreign Government Cyber-Attack (Michael Riley and Sandrine Rastello)
June 13, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The data theft from International Monetary Fund computers by hackers said to be linked to a foreign government follows incidents against companies and governments that ...
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One Missile, One Playground: The Will of Gaza (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 8, 2011 -- GAZA -- A “Hamas commander” drove a beat-up gray van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walkie-talkie as I sat in the passenger seat. The ...
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How the Empire will Prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? (Dr. Paul Craig Roberts)
June 6, 2011, (Information Clearing House) -- What is Washington’s solution for the rising power of China? The answer might be to involve China in a nuclear war with India. The staging of the fake ...
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War Is A Racket (Major General Smedley Butler, USMC)
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC June 6, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Smedley Butler joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Medal during the ...
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The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths (David Schwartz)
June 5, 2011 (Common Dreams) -- The great writer Kurt Vonnegut titled his final book A Man without a Country. He was the man; the country was the United States of America. Vonnegut felt that his ...
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Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy (Michael Hudson)
June 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In ...
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House Passes Bill Authorizing Worldwide War As Momentum Builds Against It (ACLU)
Defense Bill Also Contains Several Other Troubling Provisions May 26, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (ACLU) -- The House today passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which contains a dangerous ...
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There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (Spencer Ackerman)
May 25, 2011 (Wired) -- You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it’s worse than you’ve heard. Congress is set to ...
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VIDEO: War & Revolutions: Europe and the Arab World (Empire)
May 23, 2011 (Empire) -- Empire travels across the continent's centres of power to examine European hypocrisy. efpkLal92Gs
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10 Steps to Defeat the Corporatocracy (Bruce E. Levine)
May 23, 2011 (AlterNet) -- Many Americans know that the United States is not a democracy but a "corporatocracy," in which we are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy ...
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Saying No to Permanent Global War (Dennis Kucinich)
May 23, 2011 (The Nation) -- The annual reauthorization of the Department of Defense contains unprecedented and dangerous language that gives the President virtually unchecked power to take the ...
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