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Assad to US: Want Our Chemical Weapons? Take Them by Jon Queally "As the Obama maintains a push at the UN for military force against Damascus, the Russians play a steady diplomatic game."         Dollarocracy: How Big Money Undermines Our Democracy by John Nichols and Bob McChesney "...And how we can take it back"         Study: Nations Awash in Guns Are Simply Killing Themselves by Jon Queally "Released just two days after another mass shooting in the U.S., a report shows countries with lower gun ownership rates are safer than those—with the U.S. being the bloodiest example—where firearms are extremely prevalent and highly unregulated."         Beating Swords Into Solar Panels by Mattea Kramer and Miriam Pemberton "Moving public dollars into this country’s renewable energy sector could begin to lay the groundwork for a vibrant economy in the second and third decades of this century. Or... "         Brazil's President Rousseff Cancels US Visit Over NSA Spying by Andrea Germanos "An official statement by the Brazilian government called the 'illegal practices' of the NSA an 'assault on national sovereignty and individuals' rights.'"         Verizon's Plan to Break the Internet by Timothy Karr "The telecom giant has big plans for the Internet. And if that doesn't worry you, it should."         House GOP Axes Food Assistance as Millions of Americans Go Hungry by Sarah Lazare "Republican lawmakers voted on Thursday to slash $40 billion from food assistance programs over the next decade despite ongoing poverty and hunger nationwide."         The Crisis at Fukushima's Unit 4 Demands a Global Take-Over by Harvey Wasserman "We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis."         'Unleashed and Unaccountable': FBI's Post-9/11 Abuse of Power by Sarah Lazare "The FBI has abused its ever-widening post-9/11 powers to target immigrants, minorities, and political dissidents through secret surveillance and infiltration programs that trample constitutional rights and run roughshod over principles of fairness and justice, the ACLU finds in a report released Tuesday."         Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower (or How to Build a National Security Blowback Machine) by Tom Engelhardt "How the security state’s mania for secrecy will create more whistleblowers."

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