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Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal…
Saturday, December 31st, 2011CounterPunch Diary of the Year Goodbye to 2011, Year of the Rabbit, Welcome 2012, Year of the Dragon by ALEXANDER COCKBURN January 5 http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/30/goodbye-to-2011-year-of-the-rabbit-welcome-2012-year-of-the-dragon/ Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians. Rituals of coercion [...]
Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist for re-election campaign
Saturday, December 31st, 2011By Matthew Boyle – The Daily Caller 12:02 AM 10/25/2011 President Barack Obama’s new senior campaign adviser is a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, and has the potential to damage the president’s aspirations to appeal to the protesters currently “occupying” New York City’s Zuccotti Park. Obama’s new adviser, Broderick Johnson, has an extensive history of lobbying [...]
Street Art for Occupy Wall Street
Friday, December 30th, 2011http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1634302678/street-art-for-occupy-wall-street-posters-and-stic?ref=live
Occupy Wall Street takes the fight to the Internet with its own Facebook clone
Friday, December 30th, 2011Occupy Wall Street takes the fight to the Internet with its own Facebook clone
Friday, December 30th, 2011
The Rain and the Reckoning
Friday, December 30th, 2011http://www.truth-out.org/rain-and-reckoning/1325105757 Dewey Square, the patch of earth in the shadow of the Federal Reserve Building and One Financial Center that Occupy Boston protesters called home from September to December, is empty now. The same can be said for the original Occupy space at UC Davis, where a dozen kneeling and defenseless protesters were hosed down [...]
Has America’s Stolen Election Process Finally Hit Prime Time?
Friday, December 30th, 2011Published on Friday, December 30, 2011 by CommonDreams.org by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman It took two stolen US Presidential elections and the prospect of another one coming up in 2012. For years the Democratic Party and even much of the left press has reacted with scorn for those who’ve reported on it. But the [...]
Lesser Evilism, 2012
Friday, December 30th, 2011A Vote for Obama Now is More Evil Than It Was in 2008 by MICHAEL KAUFMAN http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/29/lesser-evilism-2012/ At this time of year it is not uncommon to become wistful and look back at the time that has passed, but oddly enough, I find myself becoming nostalgic for the time of the last Bush administration. I [...]
A Green New Deal?
Friday, December 30th, 2011Jill Stein and the Green Party by STEVEN HIGGS http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/29/a-green-new-deal-2/ Seven weeks before Jill Stein declared her candidacy for president, the Lexington, Mass., physician outlined her priorities in a plan she called the “Green New Deal” – jobs, climate change, universal health care and peace. When she announced her bid for the Green Party nomination [...]
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