Saturday stops

Written by: Gerry Lykins on Nov 7, 2009 9:27 AM EST

Saturday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 7th, 2009

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Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5%

By DAVID LEONHARDT

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/economy/07econ.html?hp

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Recovery? The 10.2 percent without jobs might beg to differ

By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/78466.html

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Bernie Sanders Tackles Too Big to Fail in Two Pages

by Sam Stein

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/06-1

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Democrat Gives Up Single-Payer Measure to Back Party Leaders

by David M. Herszenhorn

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/06-8

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Co-Authors Question Stand Alone Vote on National Single Payer

by Dennis Kucinich & John Conyers

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/06-8

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MARKET DRIVEN HYSTERIA AND THE POLITICS OF DEATH

by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Feature

http://www.truthout.org/1106095

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The Forever War of the Mind

By Max Cleland

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/opinion/07cleland.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1257598856-u4JV0SARrbOsYLzCn2oOWA

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The Horror at Fort Hood

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/opinion/07sat1.html?hp

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Stress Beyond Belief

By Bob Herbert

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/opinion/07herbert.html?_r=1&hp

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Shooting reveals tensions over Muslims in the military

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/78511.html

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U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49173

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 How Two Elections Changed America
Secret Republican operations around elections in 1968 and 1980 set the U.S. on today's troubled course, says Robert Parry.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110409.html

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Bachmann's Fight against Terror Health Care

On the one hand it seems funny that a bunch of GOP Reps. would blow off a vote to strengthen the Patriot Act so they could hang out and speak at Michele Bachmann's Capitol Hill tea party event. On the other hand, since you have Republicans saying health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism, maybe the whole thing makes sense?

--Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/11/bachmanns_fight_against_terror_health_care.php?ref=fpblg

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10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.

http://www.alternet.org/politics/143790/10_of_the_nuttiest_statements_elected_officials_have_made_in_the_health_care_battle

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The Real Intelligence Failure
By Philip Giraldi
Most Americans believe that we are in a terrible dilemma. An increasing number are uncomfortable with the continuing carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan and fearful of the consequences of yet another Middle East war, this time against Iran, but most also believe that our country is threatened by dark forces that seek to destroy us and that extreme measures are justified. Few realize that fear alone is bringing about our transformation into a country driven by constant warfare to the detriment of our constitutional liberties.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23907.htm

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Why Does The U.S. Have An Empire In Asia?

 Paul Craig Roberts
The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11062009.html

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Civil Unrest Has a Role in Stopping Climate Change, Says Gore

Ahead of Copenhagen summit, former US vice-president says 'non-violent lawbreaking' is legitimate in persuading governments to cut emissions

by Oliver Burkeman in Los Angeles

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/06-6

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from and about ‘over there’

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Climate Talks End on Divided Note

by Alan Fisher in Barcelona

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/06-7\

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Deaths Bring Whole Afghan Strategy Into Question

Friendly Fire

By PATRICK COCKBURN

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick11062009.html

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Goldstone and Gaza
By Jimmy Carter

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23911.htm

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

Baradei says Inspectors found 'Nothing;'
But Israeli Attack Plans not Tabled

http://www.juancole.com/

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Peace and Solidarity

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