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State of the Union: Fact Checking the President and Finding Exaggerations and Worse

Fact or Fiction Number 1 - The Booming Economy: Obama's Jobs Story 3 million jobs created over 22 months, more jobs created in 2011 than in any year since 2005. Using total employment, Obama's numbers don't hold up.

The Near Certainty of Obama being a One Term President--Based on Polls, the Loss of his Base, and the Tremendous Disappointment of his Presidency (Poll Included)

The odds are that Obama will lose the next election.  I know the professional gamblers currently are putting the odds in Obama's favor.  If you know how these odds are generated, you will also realize that the relatively small number of bets in favor of Obama winning w …

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Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO: Obama Pointedly Refuses to Investigate US Torture

An inquiry by "a Danish Defence Ministry official" regarding "what happened at the American Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq after media reports of torture and abuse in 2003." Subsequently, "Danish soldiers continued to hand over prisoners to the facility, however, even after the to …

Would Anyone Like to See a Truly Progressive Candidate for President who Could Win? (Poll included.)

Would you would like to see a truly progressive candidate run for president.  Someone who would fight for the Middle Class, fight for something like the public option that the Insurance companies hate, someone who would stand up to the military-industrial establishment and  …

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'Bugsplat' the disrespectful term the Pentagon and drone pilots use to refer to a civilian casualty: we need an Occupy Consciousness - Baltimore Sun

"bugsplat"? That's the name of a Defense Department computer program for calculating collateral damage, as well as, apparently, casual terminology among Pentagon operation planners and the like to refer to the collateral damage itself ... you know, the dead civilians.

Dysfunctional Banking Sector Helps Keep Iraq in Economic Shambles | Truthout

At the heart of the crisis are two debt-laden, state-owned banks, which are the depository for all government funds.

Exclusive: Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban talks - Yahoo! News

This is very good news and obviously the US has been involved for some time at the highest levels:

Bradley Manning hearing ends with no clear sign of harm done to U.S. | McClatchy

After seven days of testimony and more than 300,000 pages of documents, a key question remains unanswered in the case against Army Pfc.

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers | Watch Free Documentary Online

Join documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed) in assessing the damage done to average Americans when corporations decide to wage war.

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The torture by U.S. personnel of U.S. prisoners has become a resounding mark of hypocrisy and criminality by the U.S. government.

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