Truthout: 5 March 2012

Guantanamo Prison's True Secret
Angola 3 News, Truthout: "[T]he truth is 'much more mundane' than 'some huge national security secret.... It's about cruelty, incompetence, embarrassment ... But above all, it's about the torture, abuse, coercion and bribery that was in Guantanamo. There was a house of cards of evidence built out of nothing except the testimony of prisoners and their fellow prisoners, who were abused or persuaded in other ways to produce what masquerades as the evidence. That's the true secret.'"
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Occupy AIPAC: "The Battle for Justice in the Middle East Is Our Battle"
Allison Kilkenny, In These Times: "Hundreds of protesters from Occupy AIPAC protested outside AIPAC's annual policy conference in Washington DC yesterday during speeches by President Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres. The group spelled out 'NO WAR ON IRAN' in giant letters and set up mock checkpoints and an 'Annexation Wall.' Protesters remarked on the increased awareness and interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following the Arab Spring ..."
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BP Settles While Macondo "Seeps"
Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera: "As BP settles out of court for the first phase of thousands of lawsuits that could cost the company tens of billions of dollars, Al Jazeera has spotted a large oil sheen near the infamous Macondo 252 well.... Experts believe the oil is likely to be from a seep in the seabed ... many believe it may well have been caused by BP's blowout well and the failed attempts to cap it during spring 2010."
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Chris Hedges | AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "What is being done in Gaza, the world's largest open-air prison, is a pale reflection of what is slowly happening to the rest of us. It is a window into the rise of the global security state, our new governing system that the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls 'inverted totalitarianism.'... And one of the greatest purveyors of this demented ideology ... is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC"
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Obama Says Military Force Is Option to Keep Iran From Getting Nuclear Weapons
Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers: "President Barack Obama insisted Sunday he'd call for military action to prevent Iran from securing a nuclear weapon, even as he urged Israel and its supporters to refrain from 'loose talk of war' and allow diplomacy and 'crippling sanctions' to work. Speaking a day before a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama told the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee that he's got 'Israel's back' and is unalterably opposed to Iran getting a nuclear weapon."
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Euro Zone Unemployment Hits Record High, and More
In today's On the News segment: Ohio Gov. John Kasich rejected federal aid for his state's tornado victims, Iceland's prime minister faces negligence charges related to 2008 crash, peaceful protest against Virginia mandatory ultrasound law hampered by arrests, and more.
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Dean Baker | Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Bowles-Simpson Commission Report
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Parents often find it useful to tell their children about nonexistent creatures to instill habits of good behavior. It seems that many political leaders are going the same route. How else can one explain the repeated references to the Bowles-Simpson commission report and its advice to the country on how to reduce the deficit? The point here is a simple one: there was no Bowles-Simpson commission report."
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Jim Hightower | Treating Sick Rich Folks
Jim Hightower, OtherWords: "From New York to Los Angeles, hospitals that draw huge subsidies from taxpayers (and often are so overcrowded that regular patients are lucky to get a gurney in the hallway) have set aside entire floors for $2,400-a-day deluxe suites. They come with butlers, 5-star meals, marble baths, imported bed sheets, special kitchens, and other amenities for swells who have both insurance and cash to burn."
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How to Fund an American Police State: Real Money for an Imaginary War
Stephen Salisbury, TomDispatch: "All told, the federal government has appropriated about $635 billion, accounting for inflation, for homeland security-related activities and equipment since the 9/11 attacks. To conclude, though, that 'the police' have become increasingly militarized casts too narrow a net. The truth is that virtually the entire apparatus of government has been mobilized and militarized right down to the university campus."
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Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Owns Half of Rush Limbaugh's Butt
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Of course, by now, most everyone is aware that Bain Capital - where Romney made hundreds of millions of dollars and from which he still receives millions - is co-owner of the company, Clear Channel, which pays Limbaugh his reported salary of $400 million dollars over eight years. Limbaugh even acknowledged this on his program."
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Glenn Greenwald on Obama, Iran and Preventive War
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Paul Krugman: Cuts at the State and Local Level Are Hobbling the Recovery
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Ah, There Is Justice for Financial Crimes ... in Iceland
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Rush Limbaugh, AOL Part Ways
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Is There a Bipartisan Deal Brewing to Cut Entitlements?
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Workers: Walmart Contractor Paid $3 to $4 an Hour
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NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll Shows the Primary Season Has Taken a Toll on GOP
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