"A thought unlikely to occur to most Americans is the profoundly anti-democratic sidestep around habeas corpus that Mr. Obama’s claim to the right of extra-judicial murder of citizens implies ties directly to his economic policies."
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هوگو چاوز آمریکا کجاست؟

Political economist Rob Urie wonders who in the U.S. is going to stand up and take on the military-banker-oil mafia?
مسکن در آمریکا : آیا بهبودی واقعی است ؟

Mike Whitney says there is no doubt that housing prices are going up, but warns that we shouldn't get too excited just yet.

The Grand Bargainerسوداگر بزرگ

Scholar Andrew Levine writes that capitalism has undermined democracy so much that the only solutions are radical ones..

A Strange Trip to the Oscarsسفر عجیب اسکار
Israeli journalist Uri Avnery critiques his country's Minister of Culture who last week publicly rejoiced that two films from Israel were not awarded Oscars.

Death and Dollars in the New Iraq
مرگ و دلار در عراق نوین

Patrick Cockburn investigates what's really going on between the Shia and the Kurds 10 years after the invasion.

Complicit Americansآمریکائی های شریک جرم

Anthropologist William Manson on the mass psychology of mass torture.
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"A Clean Kid" -- The Flying Burrito Brothers
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Volume 20 Number 2
THE STRANGE SAGA OF THE KISSINGER PAPERS - In the new CounterPunch magazine, historian Christopher Dietrich details the extraordinary lengths Henry Kissinger has taken to block public access to his papers, flouting the Freedom of Information Act and federal court rulings in an effort to hide the fingerprints of his bloody career; A SHORT HISTORY OF RIGHT-TO-WORK LAWS: labor journalist David Macaray charts the origins of the 60-year campaign to destroy organized labor; ADDICTED? HAS BIG PHARMA GOT A DRUG FOR YOU: Martha Rosenberg exposes the latest scheme from the drug industry; FRACKING AND THE GREAT GAME: Steve Horn on the globalization of fracking; HOW OBAMA DEFANGED THE EPA: Joshua Frank on the silencing of Lisa Jackson; SPYING ON ACTIVISTS: Adam Federman reveals the concerted international campaign by intelligence agencies and police to infiltrate the radical environmental and animal rights movements. PLUS: Jeffrey St. Clair the FBI's latest entrapment case; Mike Whitney on Jack Lew; Christopher Ketcham on prosecutors gone amuck; Chris Floyd on the Professional Left and Obama; Lee Ballinger on the decline of record stores; and Kim Nicolini on Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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