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Week ending Friday January 27, 2012   Do you want to share the news with a friend? Click here to tell your friends about Common Dreams. Readers' Choice / Most Read Views... George Lakey: How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ Brian Tierney: Military Intervention vs. Maritime Union Power Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: Shades of an American Kristallnacht? Yves Smith: Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary Americans to Pay for Bank Mortgage “Settlement” Bill Quigley: Ten Steps for Radical Revolution in the US Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Just Keeps Spinning Along Sarah van Gelder: Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable Jayati Ghosh: Could Ecuador Be the Most Radical and Exciting Place on Earth? Kate Harding: Rick Santorum Thinks Pregnancy Through Rape is God's Gift? Seriously? Matt Taibbi: Is Obama's 'Economic Populism' for Real? Readers' Choice / Most Read News... ACTA: The International Treaty You've Never Heard of That Could Affect Internet Freedom US among countries that have already signed ACTA. After Occupy Arrests, US Global Press Freedom Ranking Dives The United States fell 27 points to No. 47 on the list. FBI Wants New App to Wiretap the Internet 'Scraping' social network postings including Facebook and Twitter. Critics to Obama: Stand with Homeowners, Not Big Banks Progressives "Furious" at Emerging Details of Mortgage Deal. Occupy Davos: Attendees Confront New Wave of Anger Plus: George Soros on the Coming US Class War. Wikileaks Founder to Host New Television Series 10-part series on iconoclasts, visionaries, power insiders, and 'the world tomorrow'. In New Campaign Video, President Obama Shows His Love for Israel The 7-minute long video, titled "America and Israel: An Unbreakable Bond," features President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and others praising President Obama. New EU Oil Embargo; Iran to Shut Strait of Hormuz? Iran oil sanctions spark war of words between Tehran and Washington. Twitter Enables Censorship, Boycotts Begin Reversing its position and heading down a slippery slope. Adbusters' New Call: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit The world’s military and political elites, heads of state, officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there. And so will we. Home About Us Donate Subscribe Archives Common Dreams Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community. Independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997. To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. www.commondreams.org You are subscribed to the Common Dreams Weekly Newsletter as F.Abdolian.blogi@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe.