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By Chris Hedges

If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists. The goons will inherit power not because they are astute, but because we are weak and inept.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23492.htm

 

Health Care Deceit

By Paul Craig Roberts

It is absurd to mandate that people purchase what they cannot afford and to fine them for failing to do so. A person who cannot pay a health insurance premium cannot pay the fine.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23491.htm

 

Sick and Wrong

By Matt Taibbi

Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment - a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23494.htm

 

Why Capitalism Fails

By Stephen Mihm

The man who saw the meltdown coming had another troubling insight: it will happen again.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23493.htm

 

Obama blamed for Taliban impasse

Peace talks with the Taliban were severely undermined by the US president Barack Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, an official involved in the discussions has warned

http://snipurl.com/ru7rl

 

'I told the US to talk to the Taliban. They jailed me'

The West must start negotiating with Afghanistan's Islamists, the former foreign minister tells Kim Sengupta.

http://snipurl.com/ru7s2

 

Extrajudicial Killing

US Attack Kills 4 In Pakistan

The attack targeted a vehicle believed to be carrying Taliban fighters in the North Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border. "Four militants" were killed and at least five others were wounded, a local intelligence official said on condition of anonymity.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/25088/four-killed-us-missile-strike.html

 

Ex-Intel officer discloses US plans for Pakistan:

The US seeks to establish new military bases in Pakistan to keep the country destabilized and control its nuclear weapons, says a former head of Pakistan's intelligence service.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106141&sectionid=351020401

 

Prosecutors in Iraq Case See Pattern by US Mercenaries

Private security guards who worked for Blackwater repeatedly shot wildly into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians long before they were involved in a 2007 shooting episode that left at least 14 Iraqis dead, federal prosecutors charge in a new court document.

http://snipurl.com/ru7u4


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