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By Rodrigue Tremblay
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd and longest-serving US president
“This great and powerful force—the accumulated wealth of the United States—has taken over all the functions of Government, Congress, the issue of money, and banking and the army and navy in order to have a band of mercenaries to do their bidding and protect their stolen property.” - Senator Richard Pettigrew, Triumphant Plutocracy, 1922
Allen L Roland
Fox News, with its timeless flashing of fictions, plays its self - important role in exercising its corporate grip on opinion in America. However, Online news continues to gain traction as more Americans begin to take the time to dig beneath the fictions to find the truth:
By Sherrie Wilcox
People are having their money seized right now by the government, while they are throwing Billions and Trillions out the window to their corporate friends and banks.
What branch of the government is doing that?
The IRS of course. The IRS right now - is seizing people's bank accounts and taking every dime they have in the account. But they are letting the bank first take their $100 from the account for giving the money to the IRS. In fact, they are taking every dime not caring what money is outstanding in checks, so the people who have their money taken, then have to pay multiple check bouncing charges on both sides.
The government obviously couldn't care less about people's situations and they are willing to leave them without any money to pay a mortgage or buy food.
by Mary Pitt
I was taking a drive on the country roads as a break from sitting alone in the house, feeling sorry for myself for having been widowed recently and facing the many pressures involved in re-organizing my life whiile keeping ahead of the bills. The beauty of my beloved prairie was blinding, reminding me of my continuing fight to save my vision. What if I could never again see the clusters of golden flowers blooming beside the road? They seemed to be waiting for the ripening grain to join them as it matures and dazzles us with brilliance for a brief while before being lost in the stark white of winter.
by Stephen Lendman
Established in 1992, the Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association helps Palestinian prisoners, and works to end torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, other forms of abuse, and unjust, unequal treatment in Israel's criminal justice system that handles Jews one way and Palestinians another.
In July 2009, in cooperation with the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (Stop the Wall) and the Palestinian Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association, Addameer published a report titled "Repression allowed, Resistance denied" that documents resistance to Israel's apartheid wall and the "staggering level of repression, arrests and violence" by Israeli authorities.
Link: http://ddjango.blogspot.com/2009/09/silence-of-freedom.html
I know I'm not the only one, but I have to ask ...
Who's watching the store? Who is leading the Cabinet? Who is corralling the Democrats? Where does the buck stop? Instead of a presidency, we've bought into nothing more than a traveling wild west variety show, complete with gunslingers and the Snake Oil Salesman-in-Chief. The deluge of words over the weekend was simply over the top. For once, Faux Noose had the right idea in snubbing the guy.
Maybe it just ain't so great that we got ourselves a president that can string a few intelligible words together. At least Dubbleduh tended to be hilarious on the podium from time to time and we really didn't have to listen to him very much. This Obama cat just won't shut up. Nothing more than a cheerleader, but it remains to be seen just where the team is and where the game plan is supposed to get us.
It's not just the volume of words in his grand speechification tour. It's that the content still means no more than "hope" and "change". This man brings nothing to the table but thousands of vague generalities.
Excerpted, edited by Carolyn Bennett
In a statement on Monday ANSWER Coalition coordinator Brian Becker is looking at parallels and at the growing rift in Washington and in the real world about the U.S. war on and occupation of Afghanistan.
"The U.S. public largely opposed the invasion of Iraq while being generally supportive of the invasion of Afghanistan," he says. "That is now changing. Majority sentiment has moved, and will continue to move, in opposition to the plans for a protracted war and occupation in Afghanistan. There is both uncertainty and debate within the Obama administration and among the Pentagon brass about what to do in Afghanistan: continue to send ever more troops; seek a truce with the Taliban and create a government of 'national unity' that includes the Taliban and either Hamid Karzai or another U.S. political puppet; or both.
By: Ali Hattar
Translated by: Adib S. Kawar
What is taking place regarding the Nile’s water is not a simple matter… Without exaggeration… It is as important as war itself…
Lieberman, the foreign minister of the wrathful Zionist entity, is taking a tour around African countries that are connected with the Nile… and before time elapses, and before those who are in charge of us take the initiative to beg peace from Zionists, they have to thoroughly read what is taking place.
All Arab nationalist forces have to read what is taking place… Because it only concerns the resistance… It is the starting point for controlling the entire region and its resources… It is a water war… We know the historic motto of the “state of the Jews”… From the Nile to the Euphrates… or from the Euphrates the Nile… Egypt’s great river as said in the Bible… The motto means water… water… And today it means gas and oil too.
Water is a basic necessity after the political and the military for the survival of the “state of the Jews”… which is not hidden from anybody… Zionists want water even if they have to steal it as they stole Arab land… And the Jordan River, the Litany River, Wadi Araba and the West Bank water is their business too, as well as interfering with Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian water matters, which is well known by all.
By: Peter Chamberlin
And that was the way it all ended, during that fateful week in September, 2009, the week when one man, President Barack Obama turned the old order upon its head, giving us the blessed New Order we all share in today, in peace and harmony, no longer shackled to the wheels of war that drove the old solutions to humanity's problems.
You see, it wasn't always so. The world never knew real peace until our generation. Before the beginning of the current era, all of mankind's resources were dedicated to an inhumane struggle for domination. There was no hope, as fear was civilization's primary organizational factor. Alliances of mutual defense were created, borders were drawn, creating lines to be defended at all costs. People today cannot understand what went down in the past; very few of us are aware of the terrible price that was paid to create communities of men from cave-dwelling proto-humans. A global society that has been estranged to the world of fear can hardly fathom the "Week of Change" that marked the beginning of an era of harmony, that began with one man's inner turmoil and ended with a decisive determination to create a better future for all mankind.
by Greg Palast
I still get a thrill whenever I get my hands on a confidential memo with "The White House, Washington" appearing on the letterhead. Even when—like the one I'm looking at now—it's about a snoozy topic: This week's G-20 summit.
But the letter's content shook me awake, and may keep me up the rest of the night.
The 6-page letter from the White House, dated September 3, was sent to the 20 heads of state that will meet this Thursday in Pittsburgh. After some initial diplo-blather, our President's "sherpa" for the summit, Michael Froman, does a little victory dance, announcing that the recession has been defeated. "Global equity markets have risen 35 percent since the end of March," writes Froman. In other words, the stock market is up and all's well.
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