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1. Betraying Earth; Corporate Conservative Domination; Right-wing Coup in Honduras; Obama Continues More Bush Policies; US Funds Heroine Production

   06/29/09 11:40:32 | 0 Comments

   - The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free "The modern world, as Kafka predicted, has become a world where the irrational has become rational, where lies become true. And facts alone will be powerless to thwart the mendacity spun out through billions of dollars in corporate advertising, lobbying and control of traditional sources of information. We will have to descend into the world of the forgotten, to...

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2. Right Wing Terrorism; Guns Kill People; Obama Continues Failed Bush Education Policies; more

   06/15/09 11:27:33 | 0 Comments

   - Far-Right Shootings Raise Fear of Hate Offensive in America "The killing of a black security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington last week was the latest example of a surge in extremist violence, as the election of Barack Obama and the economic crisis breed resentment in a fanatical, racist minority"
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3. Republican Lies/Hate on the Airwaves; Republicans Want to Conceal US Crimes; Not Enough Nations Willing to Cut Greenhouse Gases; more

   06/12/09 12:50:16 | 0 Comments

   - Should the US also Suppress Evidence of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan? "The Bush-defending Right continues to insist, and huge numbers of Americans continue to believe, that the brutal abuses of Abu Ghraib were isolated and aberrational, the rogue crimes of a few low-level soldiers who were punished. These yet to be released photos showing torture would prove that to be a lie. But no matter. For exactly...

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4. The Amazon is Dying for Meat Production; Republicans Deny US Citizens Healthcare; Military Spending All Time High; End of Line for Oceans

   06/08/09 10:46:43 | 0 Comments

   - 'The End of the Line' for the World's Oceans "More than four fifths of people support the introduction of a nature reserve in our seas to protect stocks of fish, according to a survey published today on World Oceans Day. The poll came ahead of the launch of a film, The End Of The Line, which reveals the impacts of overfishing on the world's oceans. The...

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5. Fox News Lies (of course we already know this); Obama Offering Little (if any) Change; Rainforests Suffer from Beef Production; more

   06/05/09 11:13:48 | 0 Comments

   - Amazon Rainforests Pay the Price as Demand for Beef Soars "Espirito Santo and thousands of farms like it raise cattle on Amazonian pasture that was once rainforest. The farms are huge, and so is their impact. The cattle business is expanding rapidly in the Amazon, and now poses the biggest threat to the 80% of the original forest that still stands. Where loggers have...

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6. Republican Lies; Obama Mimics Bush; Climate Bill Increases Pollution, more

   05/23/09 13:23:32 | 0 Comments

   - US Climate Bill Falls Short "A drastically weakened U.S. climate bill released Monday favors polluting industries over truly sustainable clean energy solutions...... An element of the proposed U.S. climate change bill to reduce carbon emissions and invest in clean energy could actually spur a rise in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions until 2026, said a coalition of...

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7. More Proof that Republicans are Fascists; Poor Most Generous; Obama Backs Bush... Again!; more

   05/21/09 10:04:18 | 0 Comments

   - America's Poor Are Its Most Generous Givers "In fact, America's poor donate more, in percentage terms, than higher-income groups do, surveys of charitable giving show. What's more, their generosity declines less in hard times than the generosity of richer givers does."
   
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8. Ignoring American History by Chomsky READ ME! ; Torture and the Right Wing US Media; more

   05/19/09 10:18:04 | 0 Comments

   - Torturer in Chief: The Lying Republican Media Distract America "Journalists seem finally to have a found a torture story they like. Mind you, not the one about the Bush/Cheney White House possibly okaying drowning to extract "information" to justify an Iraq attack -- not that story. The story the Beltway bulldogs have decided to get stuck into is a story about Democrats."
   
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9. Obama is Being 'Bush-Lite'; US History; Republican Crimes; US Military Killing Civilians; more

   05/16/09 12:48:10 | 0 Comments

   - Powell Aide Says Torture Helped Build Iraq War Case "Finding a "smoking gun" linking Iraq and al Qaeda became the main purpose of the abusive interrogation program the Bush administration authorized in 2002, a former State Department official told CNN on Thursday."
   
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10. Fossil Fuel Giants Derail Environmental Reform; The Lying Conservative Media, more

    05/13/09 10:11:31 | 0 Comments

    - The Lying Conservative Media "Let's just repeat that: "I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law." That is the crux of the case for investigations and prosecutions. That's it. Can anyone find a "liberal" or ideological argument anywhere in what Ventura said? It's about as far from a partisan or...

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