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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. – James Madison
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults because I think a general government necessary for us, and believe further that this is likely to be well-administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you were free of self interest... and very few of us can make that claim... the world would look like a seething madhouse of runaway appetites. -- les visible
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Deepening Economic Crisis: Financing the War at the Expense of Job Creation »
Posted by: 3 weeks, 4 days ago in Political Opinion
America is in the most severe unemployment crisis since - and perhaps including - the Great Depression . And yet Obama, like Bush, has done virtually nothing to ...
(read more)Read (51) | Share | Discuss (3) | Read Full Story at globalresearch.ca
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Nick Turse: As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region »
Posted by: 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Political Opinion
Washington is sending tremendous amounts of military material into autocratic Middle Eastern nations and building-up bases in countries whose governments often prefer that no publicity ...
(read more)Read (45) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at huffingtonpost.com
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Interview with Lu Guang, the photographer of “Pollution in China”| ChinaHush »
Posted by: 3 weeks, 6 days ago in News
In fact, there is no economic development for them, it only brought them destruction. Back then they had fertile fields. There were many water conservancy ...
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The ultimate crop rotation: Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia's farmlands »
Posted by: 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Political News
In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland.
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Governments across Southeast ...Read (46) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at washingtonpost.com
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How much money is enough? »
Posted by: 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Political Opinion
Eighty years on, the developed world has approached Keynes's goal. In 2007 (ie, pre-crash), the IMF reported that average GDP per head in the ...
(read more)Read (47) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at guardian.co.uk
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Lithuania investigates facility that may have been CIA 'black site' »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Political News
ANTAVILIAI, LITHUANIA -- Residents of this village were mystified five years ago when tight-lipped American construction workers suddenly appeared at a mothballed riding stable here and ...
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Judges attack UK secrecy over public documents »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Political News
Senior judges say the foreign secretary is stopping them releasing details of CIA interrogation techniques - even though the US has published them.
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Foreign Secretary David ...Read (43) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at news.bbc.co.uk
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UC expected to raise student fees 32% -- latimes.com »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Political News
Caught between state funding cuts and rowdy student protests, a key committee of the University of California's Board of Regents on Wednesday reluctantly approved ...
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California budget drowning in red ink for next year »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Political News
California again is facing a mammoth budget deficit and the prospect of more severe cuts to state services, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office warned ...
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Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Political Opinion
While intensifying a full-scale war in South Asia, continuing occupation missions in Iraq and the Balkans, maintaining warships off the coasts of Somalia and Lebanon ...
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Workers agree to go without to save others' jobs »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Political News
It was the kind of meeting that is taking place in restaurant kitchens, small offices, retail storerooms, and large auditoriums all over this city, all ...
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Goldman Can Spare You a Dime »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Political Opinion
Goldman is this century’s octopus — almost literally so. The most-quoted sentence in financial journalism this year, by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, describes the ...
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Melting Methane: A Storehouse of Greenhouse Gases Is Opening in Siberia »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Science & Technology
The permafrost has grown porous, says Shakhova, and already the shelf sea has become "a source of methane passing into the atmosphere." The Russian scientists ...
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The 40 million children who just didn't exist »
Posted by: 1 month ago in Political News
It is a mission to give millions of children in the developing world something that is taken for granted in Britain: the registration of their ...
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Ft. Hood: Official story full of holes »
Posted by: 1 month, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
"I spent 10 years at Ft Hood. There is no way this 'official' story is legitimate. No way would a room full of combat vets ...
(read more)Read (198) | Share | Discuss (16) | Read Full Story at examiner.com