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Thrown Out of Their Camps, Can the Occupiers Return Stronger? for 11/18/2011

From Manhattan, to Nashville, to St. Louis, to Portland, Ore., to Oakland, Calif., the police this week moved in to clear out the Occupy Wall Street protesters from the various downtown plazas or squares where they'd established their peaceable camps. Mayor of Oakland, Jean Quan, had earlier acknowledged a conference call between 18 mayors across the U.S. discussing strategy, and the mode elect ...

Updated: Fri Nov 18, 2011

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Challenging the Legitimacy of the System - CounterPunch

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Are we there yet? Not quite, even though nearly 1000 CounterPunchers from every state in the union, from every continent have rallied with money and messages of support. But for us here at CounterPunch it's a nail-biting business right down to the wire ...

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He's No Bill Clinton! for 11/11/2011

As he prepares to follow Gov. Rick Perry into the oubliette of history, Herman Cain can at least console himself that as an alleged harasser of women, his was certainly a classier act than that of a man who not only got elected president in 1992, but was triumphantly re-elected in 1996 by 47.5 million Americans armed with the knowledge that if you left your wife at the table next to Gov. Bill C ...

Updated: Fri Nov 11, 2011

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America's Crisis -- Has Anyone Got the Slightest Idea What to Do? for 11/04/2011

Just over a year from now, Americans will be deciding whether to re-elect President Barack Obama or ... probably Mitt Romney. In the latter case, this is to assume that Mitt, a Mormon and a family man, doesn't, like one of his rivals for the Republican nomination — Herman Cain — get caught up in the dreadful minefield known as "charges of sexual harassment." Study recent p ...

Updated: Fri Nov 04, 2011

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America's Crisis — Has Anyone Got the Slightest Idea What to Do? - Battleground Blog (blog)

[image error] America's Crisis — Has Anyone Got the Slightest Idea What to Do?
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Just over a year from now, Americans will be deciding whether to re-elect President Barack Obama or … probably Mitt Romney. In the latter case, this is to assume that Mitt, a Mormon and a family man, doesn't, ...

Will Tilikum, the 'Killer Whale' Gets His Day in Court? - Battleground Blog (blog)

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Remember Tilikum? Back in 2010, I likened this proud mammal — 6 tons and 22 feet long and the largest orca whale in captivity — to Spartacus. Tilikum was kidnapped by whale-slavers off Iceland at the age of two ...

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Will Tilikum, the ‘Killer Whale' Get His Day in Court? for 10/28/2011

Remember Tilikum? Back in 2010, I likened this proud mammal — 6 tons and 22 feet long and the largest orca whale in captivity — to Spartacus. Tilikum was kidnapped by whale-slavers off Iceland at the age of two in 1983. Deliberately starved as part of his "training" in a Sealand tank in Victoria, Canada, Tilikum has spent the past 19 years in SeaWorld, Orlando Fla. The wha ...

Updated: Fri Oct 28, 2011

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Imperial massacres - The Nation, Pakistan

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The Nation, Pakistan
Denied post mortem imagery of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, the world now has at its disposal photographs of Muammar Gaddafi, dispatched with a bullet to the head after being wounded by Nato's ground troops outside Sirte. ...

Welcome to Our Banana Republic and Its Global Panopticon - Battleground Blog (blog)

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The day I became a citizen of these United States, June 17, 2009, in the old Paramount Theater in downtown Oakland, I raised my right hand and swore that I "absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all ...

Welcome to Our Banana Republic and Its Global Panopticon - truthout

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The day I became a citizen of these United States, June 17, 2009, in the old Paramount Theater in downtown Oakland, I raised my right hand and swore that I "absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, ...