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On Freedom and Imperialism: Arab Spring and the Intellectual Divide (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 30, 2011 -- The so-called "Arab Spring" is creating an intellectual divide that threatens any sensible understanding of the turmoil engulfing ...
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Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Nov. 29, 2011 -- There is a growing convergence of thinking about where the U.S. Occupy movement should go as a next step to turning its ...
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MF Global And The Great Wall St Re-Hypothecation Scandal (Christopher Elias)
Image from Business Insider Dec. 7, 2011 (Business Law Currents) -- A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get their money ...
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U.S. Stocks Rally on Global Bank Central Liquidity Move (Rita Nazareth)
Nov. 30, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose, sending benchmark gauges higher for a third day, after central banks acted together to make additional funds available to lenders as Europe’s crisis ...
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Fed, Five Central Banks Cut Rate on Dollar Swaps (Scott Lanman and Jeff Black)
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve cut the cost of emergency dollar funding for European banks as part of a globally coordinated central-bank response to the continent’s sovereign-debt ...
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Your New American Dream (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 28, 2011 -- It's really something to live in a country that doesn't know what it is doing in a world that doesn't know where it is going in a time when ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- November 26, 2011 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- November 26, 2011 Nov. 19-27 House and Senate Thanksgiving recess. (House recess is through Nov. 28.) Nov. 26 20th anniversary of the last British nuclear weapon test, "Bristol." ...
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Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum: Self-Promoting Interests (Jim Miles)
Nov. 22, 2011 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- I did not catch as much of Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum as I would have liked, but if what I saw was indicative of the whole program, then ...
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Welcome To Happy Valley: Occupy Penn State,(Carolyn Baker)
Nov. 17, 2011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- State College, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University, is ensconsed in a somewhat bucolic region of the commonwealth called Happy Valley. The name ...
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‘Zero-Problems’ Foreign Policy No More: Turkey and the Syrian ‘Abyss’ (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 24, 2011 -- When Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey’s prime minister in 2003, he seemed to be certain of the new direction his country would take. It would ...
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Occupy Revolution (Joel S. Hirshhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Nov. 21, 2011 -- History tells us that it is nearly impossible to know in real time whether some kind of national, grassroots public protest ...
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