Everybody knows that if you torture people you don't get good information. It was never about that. Disappearing people and putting them into orange jumpsuits, and into legal black holes and waterboarding them and freezing them and killing detainees was about signaling to the rest of world that you can not challenge or stand up to American power, because if you do, we will respond without constraints, and there is nothing anybody can or will do about it. It was about creating a climate of repression and fear to deter any would-be dissenters or challengers to American power. And that is what this war on whistleblowing and this war on Wikileaks is about as well.
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How Can the Richest 1 Percent Be Winning This Brutal Class War Against 99% of Us? | Eco... - 1 views
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How has a tiny fraction of the population arranged for their narrowest economic interests to dominate those of the vast majority?
Glenn Greenwald: How the US Government Strikes Fear in Its Own Citizens and People Arou... - 0 views
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Everybody knows that if you torture people you don't get good information. It was never about that. Disappearing people and putting them into orange jumpsuits, and into legal black holes and waterboarding them and freezing them and killing detainees was about signaling to the rest of world that you can not challenge or stand up to American power, because if you do, we will respond without constraints, and there is nothing anybody can or will do about it. It was about creating a climate of repression and fear to deter any would-be dissenters or challengers to American power. And that is what this war on whistleblowing and this war on Wikileaks is about as well.
Would We Be Better Off If John McCain Were President? | World | AlterNet - 0 views
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Presidents serve the institutional interests of the corporations behind them. A President McCain may have at least triggered a true progressive fight.
Do We Need a Militant Movement to Save the Planet (and Ourselves)? | Environment | Alte... - 0 views
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Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Aric McBay call for new strategy to stave off environmental catastrophe.
Americans Don't Realize Just How Badly We're Getting Screwed by the Top 0.1 Percent Hoa... - 0 views
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With an unprecedented sum of wealth held within the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population, we now have the most severe inequality of wealth in US history.
Facing Reality, The "New Monogamy" Is Keeping Relationships Together | | AlterNet - 3 views
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Affairs outside of marriage are nothing new, but this take on monogamy is.
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