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Ramsey Muniz - Guilty of Being Latino and Activist in America
Stephen Lendman: "Ramiro (Ramsey) Muniz is one of the victims, imprisoned for life without parole on a bogus drug charge. Now age 67, he's been incarcerated nearly 17 years...he "contributed greatly to the Chicano Civil Rights Movement during the 1970s as a leader for justice and equality for all Mexican Americans, Hispanics, and Latinos throughout the United States."
Aug 28, 2010, 4:53pm
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The Israeli Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence
Stephen Lendman: "James Petras' powerful 2006 book titled, "The Power of Israel in the United States" explained the enormous Jewish Lobby influence on US Middle East policies. Often harming American interests, they're pursued anyway because of its grassroots and high-level control over government, the business community, academia, the clergy and mass media since at least the 1960s.
Aug 26, 2010, 11:17am
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Palestine: Occupied, Divided, Isolated, Oppressed and Unaided
Stephen Lendman: "You live in constant fear, collectively punished, politically denied, and economically strangled in a continuing cycle of violence. Military orders deny free expression and movement, enclose population centers, close borders, and impose curfews, checkpoints, roadblocks, separation walls, electric fences, dispossessions
Aug 19, 2010, 4:50pm
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The Scott Sisters: Victimized by American Injustice
Stephen Lendman: "Their story is shocking, disturbing, yet common - African Americans indicted, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned despite their innocence. Nearly always society's most vulnerable are affected, including Muslims by the "war on terror" and people of color - Jamie and Gladys Scott's experience explained below...
Aug 16, 2010, 2:03pm
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Net Neutrality Threatened
Stephen Lendman: "Net Neutrality - letting users access all content without restrictions, limitations, or discrimination, an online level playing field for everyone, the essence of democratic free speech. Without it, consumer choice will be lost, stolen by corporate predators, making the Internet look like cable TV...
Aug 12, 2010, 3:15pm
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America's Gulf: A Toxic Crime Scene
Stephen Lendman: "That unseen oil, though, is what will foul the Gulf for years, (perhaps generations), eating away at the basic elements of the food chain that are the building blocks for fisheries, birds, sea turtles and mammal populations." (Kieran Suckling, executive director of Center for Biological Diversity responding to report from NOOA "The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed...
Aug 11, 2010, 11:43am
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Political Prisoners in America
Stephen Lendman: Noted journalist HL Menchen described "The most dangerous man to any government (as someone) who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable,"...
Aug 9, 2010, 11:28am
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The Queasy Season
James Howard Kunstler: "USA has been running on fumes since the beginning of the 21st century...Massive expenditures of energy produce equivalent globs of entropy - which you can translate to "bad ju-ju" or the tendency of whatever can go wrong to go wrong. That because we're unwilling to re-scale and reform the things we do, nature is about to do it for us.
Aug 9, 2010, 11:14am
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White House Cover-Up: How Harry Truman Edited the First Hollywood Film About the Atomic Bomb
"This Friday marks the 65th anniversary of the first use of the atomic bomb against a large city. Since that day, creative artists of every variety have made incisive, satiric or powerful statements about nuclear threats...What these artistic statements share, however, with rare exceptions, is an avoidance of the specific subject of Hiroshima.
Aug 4, 2010, 4:00pm
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Skidding Toward Fall
James Howard Kunstler: "It's instructive that so much current hoopla about economic growth revolves around the issue of cars. For, if anything, reality is telling us very clearly that the mass motoring paradigm is near its end. Our determination to prop it up at all costs, despite the grave impairments of available capital and energy resources is a symptom of our detachment from reality.
Aug 2, 2010, 12:52pm
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WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries"
Stephen Lendman: "Civilians are willfully targeted, those killed or wounded called insurgents, the numbers affected downplayed and misreported, embedded journalists an echo chamber for Pentagon/NATO lies and distortion...Founder Julian Assange "shin(ing) light on the everyday brutality and squalor of war," in hopes the mood will shift to end it. "Reform can only come (when) injustice is exposed.
Jul 28, 2010, 12:01pm
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Growing Health Crisis in the Gulf
Stephen Lendman: "The combination of millions of gallons of oil and dispersants has made large areas of the Gulf toxic and dangerous, marine toxicologist Ricki Ott saying if she lived there with children she'd leave - based on her firsthand experience after the 1989 Prince William Sound, Alaska Exxon Valdez disaster and subsequent research
Jul 27, 2010, 2:49pm
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What Is It?
James Howard Kunstler: "The collective failure of authority, whether of intention or oversight or mental deficiency boggles the mind. And it leaves us where we are: in a compressive deflationary contraction, a.k.a. the long emergency. This is not a cyclical recession. It's the end of one thing and the beginning of another thing, another phase of history in which people will have to learn to live differently or perish.
Jul 26, 2010, 12:27pm
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Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repression"
Stephen Lendman: That's what Frank Donner called Chicago in his 1990 book, "Protectors of Privilege."... guerrilla warfare against substantial sectors of the city's population - using illegal, criminal methods, including intimidation, physical confrontation, and flagrant abuse, at times involving torture.
Jul 22, 2010, 4:45pm
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Public Anger and Distrust of Business and Government
Stephen Lendman: "An April 2010 Pew Research Center (PRC) for the People & Press study and others report growing public anger, distrust, and hostility toward business and government because of a "perfect storm of conditions" - wrecked economies, fueling "epic discontent" toward responsible officials.
Jul 20, 2010, 3:37pm
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