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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

IRS Targets Donors to Politically Engaged Nonprofits

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By Zachary Newkirk on May 11, 2011

The Internal Revenue Service is beginning to enforce taxes on gifts to 501(c)(4) organizations, a move that could significantly affect the world of money in politics.

Various 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups such as the the American Action Network and Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies have poured millions of dollars into federal election campaigns, even though they are not, by law, supposed to have a primary purpose of engaging in political activity.

Donors to these groups are anonymous, and gifts to political groups are typically not taxable. But the IRS has begun taking a closer look at taxing these donors, according to Ben Smith of Politico. Continue reading »

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