Democracy Now's 2013 Year in Review [Video]

2013 In Review: Power, Politics and Resistance

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@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: U.S. Government Revealed as Criminals and Liars, U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Falls, America's Dark Chemical Warfare History, the Pledge of Allegiance, N.S.A. Campaign Against Encryption, Civil Disobedience, USDA Whistleblowers Threatened, the Truth About Syrian War, more.

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The West Dethroned
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36164.htm

Why You’re To Blame for the NSA (and So Am I)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/06/nsa_surveillance_we_re_all_to_blame_for_the_government_overreach.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

5 Acts of Terror By the People We Chose to Protect Us
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-acts-terror-people-we-chose-protect-us

The US Government Stands Revealed to the World as a Collection of War Criminals and Liars
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36135.htm

US labor force participation rate falls to lowest level since 1978

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/07/jobs-s07.html

Wouldn't It Be Something If We Had A President Who Believed In Liberty?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130830/16242924371/wouldnt-it-be-something-if-we-had-president-who-believed-liberty.shtml

Inside America's Dark History of Chemical Warfare
http://www.alternet.org/world/america-and-chemical-warfare

5 facts about the Pledge of Allegiance
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/04/5-facts-about-the-pledge-of-allegiance/

10 Ways America Has Come to Resemble a Banana Republic

http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-ways-america-has-come-resemble-banana-republic

Secret Documents Reveal N.S.A. Campaign Against Encryption
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html?_r=0

How can we change the world?
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/09/how-can-we-change-the-world

Violent Behavior Linked to Nutritional Deficiencies: ‘Their Brains Are Starving’
http://disinfo.com/2013/09/violent-behavior-linked-to-nutritional-deficiencies-their-brains-are-starving/

When Civil Disobedience Becomes Law Enforcement
http://onthecommons.org/magazine/when-civil-disobedience-becomes-law-enforcement

Save the Planet, Starting on Your Own Block
http://onthecommons.org/magazine/save-planet-starting-your-own-block

USDA Whistleblowers: Workers "Threatened" for Making Food Safety Complaints at Pork Plants
http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/blog/28-2013/565-usda-whistleblowers-workers-qthreatenedq-for-making-food-safety-complaints-at-pork-plants

Map: Where You Don’t Want to Be When It Hits the Fan

The Mind-Blowing Truth About War With Syria

KMC » 1pm - Sep 6, 2013

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: America Discredited, Rules of War, Palestinian Genocide, Facial-Scanning System, Affordable Care Act, Poverty Reduces Brainpower, NSA Email Collection, Israel's Siege of Gaza, Moral Obscenities in Syria, Whistle-blowers Good for Democracy, more.

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America Totally Discredited
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36036.htm

Facebook report reveals governments' requests for user data
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15325489-facebook-reveals-government-request-for-user-data-in-new-report

Our Democracy?
http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen300813.htm

What Are the Rules of War?
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/rules-of-war-130830.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1

The Palestinian Genocide By Israel
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle300813.htm

Facial-scanning system for crowds shows improvement in tests by Homeland Security
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/facial_scanning_system_for_crowds_shows_improvement_in_tests_by_homeland_se/

Is the Affordable Care Act Actually Affordable? For Millennials, Maybe Not
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/affordable-care-act-actually-affordable-millennials-maybe-not

Poverty reduces brainpower 
http://machineslikeus.com/news/poverty-reduces-brainpower

NSA Email Collection Violated 4th Amendment: FISA Court
http://blogs.findlaw.com/decided/2013/08/nsa-email-collection-violated-4th-amendment-fisa-court.html?DCMP=NWL-pro_downloadthis

Why America Cannot Live without Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/29-4

New Snowden revelation details vast US intelligence “black budget”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/31/nsas-a31.html

BBC editor urged colleagues to downplay Israel’s siege of Gaza
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/bbc-editor-urged-colleagues-downplay-israels-siege-gaza

What To Expect During The Next Stage Of Collapse

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/what-to-expect-during-the-next-stage-of-collapse_082013

Moral Obscenities in Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/27-7

People of the World are Fighting Back

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36052.htm

Whistle-Blowers Are Good for Democracy
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/daniel_ellsberg_whistle-blowers_are_good_for_democracy_20130829/

Fool Me Twice, Shame on US

"It's shocking to me that in this day and age, after what this world has been through, that there can be any argument that what the United States plans to do is legal. For the United States to go in there, you need two sets of laws to be complied with. One is international law, UN law, and the other is our own domestic Constitution of the United States. Since the Second World War, there's only two ways that you can make war on another nation. One is in self-defense. So if you're being attacked by a missile or a rocket from that country, etc., you can use self-defense against that country to try and stop it. And the second one was under the authority of United Nations, the Security Council."—Michael Ratner

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@dustcirclenews - Free DOCUMENTARIES: Dark Days, Down to the Earth's Core, Sniper, History of Syria, How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth, Surgery's Dirty Secrets, I Lost My Job, Mexico's Female Crime Journalists

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Dark Days

Filmmaker Marc Singer brings a unique view of New York City’s homeless in a very raw film. Dark Days was made by Singer spending 2 years living in the subterranean tunnels with the people that society has cast out. These people have come together to form a sort of underground community. This film, shot in black and white and without narration, reveals some of the lives of those in these ‘hidden’ communities.

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National Geographic: Down to the Earth’s Core

Learn about what is going on under your feet as National Geographic plunges into Earth’s depths to reveal the history of our world and what is below us.

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Sniper: Inside The Crosshairs

Sniper: Inside The Crosshairs brings us the psychological and strategic thinking behind one of the battlefield’s most notorious weapon: the sniper. Learning from some of the best marksmen in the industry, they destruct previous missions, showing the planning and mentality involved.

A History of Syria

Robin Barnwell, who directed and produced ‘A History of Syria with Dan Snow’, explains the challenges of filming amid the conflict, and describes the spirit of the Syrian people he met.

How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth

In a Horizon special, naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world is heading for a population crisis.

Surgery’s Dirty Secrets

Vigorous investigation of a topical issue. Panorama investigates concerns about the quality of surgical instruments being used on patients in the UK. Reporter Samantha Poling hears from those working inside the NHS who claim that tools with dangerous defects are being supplied to hospitals.

I LOST MY JOB

I Lost My Job is a short documentary film which sets out to explore the phenomenon which is affecting and due to affect many people’s lives – namely, technological unemployment. The documentary also examines what we can do about it as a society through the analysis of a transitional direction.

MEXICO’S FEMALE CRIME JOURNALISTS

We travel to Ciudad Juarez to meet the journalists who cover politics and crime for the Diario de Juarez. All of them are women and they have covered more crimes than anyone we can think of. They are also some of the bravest women we’ve ever met. We followed them around the city as they covered political rallies of the ruling party, PAN, and to crime scenes, to try to understand what happened there over the past few years and why the candidates were not fully addressing the most glaring issue in Mexican politics right now.

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Resisting the Big Brother State, New Thought Police, Syria's Revolution, US Surveillance Drones Acknowledged, Excuse for War, Supreme Court Rulings, Military Presence in Africa, Bible-Thumper Politics, Edward Snowden, more.

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Bradley Manning: Truth on trial? Featuring Exclusive Interview with Julian Assange

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Resisting the Big Brother state
http://socialistworker.org/2013/06/25/resisting-the-big-brother-state

American Government and Corporations Are at War With the American People
http://www.alternet.org/chomsky-nsa

The new thought police

http://machineslikeus.com/news/new-thought-police

Walmart Costs U.S. 1 Billion in Foodstamps for Workers Not to Starve to Death
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76448

Will the U.S. hijack Syria's revolution?http://socialistworker.org/2013/06/25/will-the-us-hijack-syrias-revolution

FBI Director Acknowledges Use Of Surveillance Drones In The US
http://www.countercurrents.org/london200613.htm

10 Problems With The Latest Excuse For War
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson200613.htm

The National Security State and the Whistleblower
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-National-Security-Stat-by-Melvin-Goodman-130619-288.html

Google Challenges NSA Gag Order, Cites 1st Amendment
http://blogs.findlaw.com/technologist/2013/06/google-challenges-nsa-gag-order-cites-1st-amendment.html

4 Recent Supreme Court Rulings Show Which Way the Wind Is Blowing: Corporations Are Getting Whatever They Want
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/us-supreme-court-furthers-corporate-assault-america

How the U.S. Military Presence in Africa Could Spawn a New Era of Radical Terrorism
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-military-and-unraveling-africa

The Evil Lies of Crazy Bankers: 6 Former Employees Expose Inhuman Greed of BofA
http://www.alternet.org/economy/bank-americas-former-employees-expose-inhuman-greed

The Fascist State of America
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Fascist-State-of-Ameri-by-Glen-Barry-130625-853.html

There's a New Fascism on the Rise, and the NSA Leaks Show Us What It Looks Like
http://www.alternet.org/media/understanding-latest-leaks-understanding-rise-new-fascism

Are the Bible Thumpers Losing Their Grip on Our Politics?
http://www.alternet.org/belief/christian-right-0

How American Society Unravelled After Greedy Elites Robbed the Country Blind
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-american-society-unravelled

United States of Surveillance

The TRUTH About Whistleblowers Edward Snowden And Bradley Manning

@dustcirclenews - 16 FREE DOCUMENTARIES: The CIA and the Nazis, Within Gaza, Global Non-Compliance, Wearable Technology, Addicted to Pleasure, Panopticon, Hajj to Mecca, America's War Games, Art of Deception, CIA Secret Experiments, 9/11 - 10 Years Later, Hy.Poth.E.Sis, Syria - The Reckoning, CIA Hidden Operations, Pies Who Fooled the World, Punch Drunk

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Operation Paperclip: The CIA and the Nazis
Operation Paperclip was the code name under which the U.S. intelligence and military services extricated scientists from Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. The project was originally called Operation Overcast, and is sometimes also known as Project Paperclip.

Within Gaza: Life in Palestine

Press TV’s documentary program series “Within Gaza” looks into the horrific humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip after recurrent Israeli offensives.


Fight The New World Order w/Global Non-Compliance
“Understand your enemy, and understand the weapons they use. Then use those same weapons against them. The money system is the head of the snake. Cut the head off the snake and the rest of it will whither and die. There need be no violence, no guns, no banners, no slogans, no Groupthink, just a united act of global non-compliance.


THE FUTURE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGYAs computing moves from our desktops to our phones, we look into the future to see how technology will become increasingly ingrained in our movements and our active lives. From the Nike Fuelband to Google Glass, consumers are already seeing hints of the future of wearable devices. They have the possibility to make us more knowledgeable about ourselves and our surroundings, and connect us with each other in an uninterrupted, more intimate way. From DIY wearables to high-tech sensors and smart fabrics, the years ahead will show how integrated technology can impact our lives for the better.


ADDICTED TO PLEASURE
Actor Brian Cox reveals the rich and controversial past of sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium to uncover how the commercial exploitation of these products hooked the world.

PANOPTICON
Control on our daily lives increases and privacy is disappearing. How is this exactly happening and in which way will it effect all our lives? A film about the rise of the surveillance state into your life.

Hajj to Mecca: The World’s Biggest Annual Religious Gathering RevealedMecca, the birthplace of Islam, is the venue for one of the world’s biggest religious gathering. The Hajj is the ultimate act of devotion for the 1.2 billion people who practice Islam. It is an annual pilgrimage that is one of the 5 religious duties that every Muslim should perform. The event signifies solidarity and one’s submission to Allah as depicted by prophets Ibrahim and Muhammad.


AMERICA’S WAR GAMESThe United States’ military expenditures today account for about 40 percent of the world total. In 2012, the US spent some $682bn on its military – an amount more than what was spent by the next 13 countries combined.


The Art of Deception
In an academic environment, a paper must have detailed references according to a set of university standards, but in a film, anything goes. The Art of Deception is an explanation of how a documentary is constructed to communicate truth, brainwash the audience and push an agenda.



















CIA SECRET EXPERIMENTS
It’s the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly classified, top secret research program into the covert use of biological and chemical agents. In simulated attacks on enemy populations, entire cities in America are contaminated with bacteria, exposing millions of Americans to germ warfare. But the real focus of the research is on mastering the art of mind control. Psychiatrists at top academic institutions work under secret contract with the agency. Psychiatric patients, prisoners, even unwitting members of the public are exposed to a startling array of experiments designed to facilitate interrogations, induce amnesia and program in new behavior. Every psychological technique is explored, including hypnosis, electroshock therapy and lethal cocktails of drugs. What was the extent of these brainwashing experiments? How did the CIA become involved in such far-reaching and disturbing research? Join us as National Geographic presents: CIA Secret Experiments.

9/11: 10 YEARS LATER
Eight months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Lyndon LaRouche forecast that the United States was at high risk for a Reichstag Fire event, an event that would allow those in power to manage through dictatorial means an economic and social crisis that they were otherwise incompetent to handle. We are presently living in the unbroken wake of that history.

HY.POTH.E.SIS
Hy.poth.e.sis is a documentary film that follows physics professor Steven E. Jones during a pivotal point in his life. In 2005, Steven went public with a controversial theory regarding the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11. His assertion that the collapse was likely the result of pre-positioned explosives rather than the hijacked planes resulted in a backlash from the community and even threatened his standing as a professor at BYU.

Syria: The Reckoning
This documentary tells the story of the past and brings it right up to the present to provide deeper historical context to the events of today as war continues to rage in Syria with the unleashing of many of the forces which had been previously repressed.



















CIA HIDDEN OPERATIONS
A National Geographic documentary on the CIA, the right hand tool, of the Military-Industrial Complex.

THE SPIES WHO FOOLED THE WORLD
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to justify the invasion were based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies. Peter Taylor tracks down some of those responsible and reports on the remarkable story of how, in the months before the war, two highly-placed sources – close to Saddam Hussein – talked secretly to the CIA and MI6. Their intelligence said Iraq did not have an active WMD programme – but it was simply dismissed.

Punch Drunk

In all, it is estimated that alcohol-related violence costs the community $187 million each year. Four Corners also reveals there’s a growing body of evidence that shows a link between binge drinking and brain damage.

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Anonymous: CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd | #CISPABlackout

When Fear Threatens Freedom
http://prospect.org/article/when-fear-threatens-freedom

Fight Wage Theft with Direct Action
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/04/fight-wage-theft-direct-action

Government Should Stop Its Own Violence First
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34680.htm

American Right-Wingers Are No Longer Conservative — They're Extremists

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/american-right-wingers-are-no-longer-conservative-theyre-extremists

Study Shows That Belief In An Angry God Is Bad For Mental Health
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/20/study-shows-that-belief-in-an-angry-god-is-bad-for-mental-health/

Israel army attacks Palestinians in West Bank
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/video-israel-army-attacks-palestinians-in-west-bank/

What America's Leaving Behind in Afghanistan: Trained Militias Accused of Rape and Murder
http://www.alternet.org/world/what-americas-leaving-behind-afghanistan-trained-militias-accused-rape-and-murder

Republican Religious Freedom Hypocrites Call For Profiling American Muslims
http://www.politicususa.com/republican-religious-freedom-hypocrites-call-profiling-american-muslims.html

When Israeli denial of Palestinian existence becomes genocidal
http://electronicintifada.net/content/when-israeli-denial-palestinian-existence-becomes-genocidal/12388

US Admits 16 Guantanamo Detainees Being Force-Fed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/21-1

European study condemns UN inaction regarding condition of Palestinians in Syria
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/european-study-condemns-un-inaction-regarding-condition-of-palestinians-in-syria/

Bombing suspect captured after military-police lockdown of Boston
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/20/bost-a20.html

Is an International Cyberwar Imminent?
http://www.alternet.org/media/international-cyberwar-imminent

Surveillance Society: Met Police Spying On 57,000 People A Year
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Surveillance-Society-Met-by-Mick-Meaney-130419-852.html

Hamas MP warns of new Israeli war on Gaza with American blessing
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/hamas-mp-warns-of-new-israeli-war-on-gaza-with-american-blessing/

03.Feb.2013 - HEADLINES: Israel Settlements, Attack on Syria, American Worker Activists, Assault on Unions, Defense Companies, Torture, Farmworkers, Drones Issue, Citizens' Rights, National Security, Chinese Hackers, more.

UN Report: Israel Must Immediately Dismantle Settlements or Face ICC

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/31-4

Israel Condemned for Cross-Border Attack on Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/31-0

New Activists Fight for the Life of the American Worker

http://www.alternet.org/labor/new-activists-fight-life-american-worker

The Judicial Assault on Unions

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/judicial-assault-unions

7 Big Defense Companies with Transparency Problems
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/337-166/15806-focus-7-big-defense-companies-with-transparency-problems

Seeing Torture for What It Is
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-richard-l-killmer/seeing-torture-for-what-i_b_2581612.html

Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/31-4

Drones Are A Local Issue
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson010213.htm

US Citizens Fear Federal Government Threatens Rights
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33799.htm

The NRA vs. America
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15829-the-nra-vs-america

The State of Israel: Unimportant To The NWO
http://www.countercurrents.org/fenley010213.htm

The True Cost of National Security
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33816.htm

Over the Past Four Months, Chinese Hackers Attacked NY Times
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/over-the-past-four-months-chinese-hackers-attacked-ny-times-342595.html

Writing the Rules for Domestic Drone Use
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2013/01/31/writing-the-rules-for-domestic-drone-use/

An Economic Alternative to Exploitative Free Market Capitalism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/01-3

Five Possibilities for the Next Great Progressive Push
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/01-9

The Dark Side of America
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Dark-Side-of-America-by-Timothy-Gatto-130202-329.html

UN Mission Condemns Israeli Settlements
http://www.opednews.com/articles/UN-Mission-Condemns-Israel-by-Stephen-Lendman-130202-288.html

US Military Struggling to Stop Suicide Epidemic Among War Veterans
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/323-95/15834-us-military-struggling-to-stop-suicide-epidemic-among-war-veterans-

30.Dec.2012 - Threat to Occupiers, Warrantless Wiretapping, Environmental Justice, West Unleashing Terrorism Against Syria, Millennial Delusions, Anti-Government Propaganda, Times Erases Israel's Crimes, Vitamin Water Deception, War Made Easy, US Became an Orwellian State, Important Bills Blocked by GOP, Social Costs of Austerity, China Prison Labor, more.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: THIS IS NO TIME “FOR A POLITICALLY SELF-INFLICTED WOUND TO OUR ECONOMY”


FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers: US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement

 New documents obtained from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security by the Partnership for Civil Justice and released this past week show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/FBI-Ignored-Deadly-Threat-by-Dave-Lindorff-121227-423.html

Senate Reauthorizes Warrantless Wiretapping

After Defeating Moderate Reforms, Senate Extends Unchecked Surveillance Powers for Five Years

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/28-0

Deprogramming Progressives

 little bit of economics can be a truly terrible thing, for the introductory classes in micro and macro-economics are the most dogmatic and myth-filled part of the neoliberal curriculum. Dogmas that have been falsified for 75 years (such as austerity) are taught as revealed truth. The poor indoctrinated student is then launched into the world "knowing" that austerity is the answer and that mass unemployment and prolonged recessions are small prices to be paid (by others) to achieve the holy grail of a balanced budget. Students are taught that national budgets are really just like household budgets.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15270-focus-deprogramming-progressives

Matt Damon laments U.S. politics: ‘We’re genuinely f*cked’ on long-term issues

Hollywood star Matt Damon recently told Playboy he has little hope that Washington can address long-term environmental issues like using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/28/matt-damon-laments-u-s-politics-were-genuinely-fcked-on-long-term-issues/

Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty and Environmental Justice

America's "Founding Fathers" Detested the Paradise of Delightful Debauchery and Freedom That Was 18th Century America

There was a lot of fun to be had in early America, before the prudish patrician types did everything they could to stamp it out.

http://www.alternet.org/books/americas-founding-fathers-detested-paradise-delightful-debauchery-and-freedom-was-18th-century

West unleashing terrorism against Syria: Mark Glenn

2012 Apocalypse, the Rapture and Other Millennial Delusions

I once had a noted New Age peace activist tell me that, because all spiritual practice has ripple effects outward, “my cat is a contemplative contributor to the universe.”

http://www.alternet.org/belief/2012-apocalypse-rapture-and-other-millennial-delusions

FBI Violated Constitution by Branding Occupy a Terrorist Threat

Power of Anti-Government Propaganda

Exclusive: By many standards, President Obama has done a remarkable job, steering the U.S. and the world away from a global depression and enacting reforms to benefit millions of Americans. But he has fought against a powerful dynamic of modern U.S. politics, a hatred of the federal government, says Robert Parry.

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/06/power-of-anti-government-propaganda/

How The New York Times erases Israel’s crimes

According to The New York Times, there is no siege of Gaza, no occupation of the West Bank, and never was there a Nakba (the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Three recent articles erase these key Israeli crimes from the historical record.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-new-york-times-erases-israels-crimes/12042

The Vitamin Water Deception

17 Solutions for a Better America in 2013

Don't most Americans believe and want strong law enforcement against corporate crime and fraud and abuses against consumers, taxpayers, the environment and workers? The first step is telling your member of Congress to toughen the weak laws and beef up the law enforcement budgets which will pay for themselves many, many times over in deterrence, damage prevention to innocent people, and fines.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15286-focus-17-solutions-for-a-better-america-in-2013

War Made Easy

Oliver Stone: 'US Has Become An Orwellian State'


How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy

t was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall - so mystifying at the time - was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves -was coordinated with the big banks themselves.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/15285-focus-how-the-fbi-coordinated-the-crackdown-on-occupy

What Could Have Been: The Most Important Bills Blocked by Republicans in 2012

The bills we could have passed if it wasn't for GOP obstructionism -- from a minimum wage increase to the Buffett Rule.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/what-could-have-been-most-important-bills-blocked-republicans-2012

Renewing Warrantless Eavesdropping

To this day, many people identify mid-2008 as the time they realized what type of politician Barack Obama actually is. Six months before, when seeking the Democratic nomination, then-Sen. Obamaunambiguously vowed that he would filibuster "any bill" that retroactively immunized the telecom industry for having participated in the illegal Bush NSA warrantless eavesdropping program.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15275-renewing-warrantless-eavesdropping

The Social Costs of the Austerity Agenda

s we begin what appears to be the final long, slooooowwww roll down the Gentle Fiscal Incline, it is becoming clear that, among our governing elites, and among the courtier press that serves their interests, it is taken as a given that some sort of austerity agenda, which will not materially affect any of their lives, is going to be dropped on the rest of us, probably for our own good, as that good is defined from some tony little bistro in Georgetown, or from the parlor at Ben and Sally's.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15274-the-social-costs-of-the-austerity-agenda

Made in China - By prison labor

"A State Secret"

Congress Extends Surveillance Power

ongress approved a measure Friday that would renew expansive U.S. surveillance authority for five more years, rejecting objections from senators who are concerned the legislation does not adequately protect Americans' privacy.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/311-15/15289-congress-extends-surveillance-power

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The Ka-Ching Dynasty