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Finally, a Judge Stands up to Wall Street (Matt Taibbi)
A courtroom sketch of Judge Jed Rakoff. SHIRLEY SHEPARD/AFP/Getty Images Nov. 10, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Federal judge Jed Rakoff, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s office here in New ...
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The Blue Bus Is Calling Us (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 20, 2011 -- Zeez European politicians unt economists all zound like rocket scientists wiss all zeir charming euro-chatter. But zey must be quite dumb ...
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Global Systemic Crisis: $30 Trillion In Ghost Assets Will Disappear By Early 2013 (LEAP/E2020)
The crisis enters a phase of widespread discounting of Western public debt Nov. 16, 2011 (LEAP/E2020) -- Public announcement GEAB N°59 -- As we come to the end of the second half of 2011, it is ...
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UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)
Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and ...
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Possible Credit Squeeze As Investors Dump European Gov't And Bank Debt (Nelson D. Schwartz and Eric Dash)
Nov. 18, 2011 (World News Trust) -- Nervous investors around the globe are accelerating their exit from the debt of European governments and banks, increasing the risk of a credit squeeze that could ...
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And the Country Went to Hell (David Glenn Cox )
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Nov. 5, 2011 -- George Orwell wrote in his ground breaking novel 1984, “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the ...
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‘Islamists’ on Probation: Western Reaction to Tunisian Elections (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 2, 2011 -- Following Tunisia’s first fair and free elections Oct. 27, the Western media responded with a characteristic sense of fear and alarm. For many, it ...
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Rudderless (James Howard Kunstler)
Nov. 14, 2011 -- The Penn State football sex scandal, and the depraved response of the university community at all levels, tells whatever you need to know about the spiritual condition of this ...
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This Is What Revolution Looks Like (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 15, 2011 - NEW YORK (Truthdig) -- Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they ...
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Finding Freedom in Handcuffs (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 7, 2011 -- New York (Truthdig) -- Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, an activist, an author and a member of a reporting team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize, wrote this article after he was ...
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A Master Class in Occupation (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 31, 2011 -- NEW YORK (Truthdig) -- Jon Friesen, 27, tall and lanky with a long, dirty-blond ponytail, a purple scarf and an old green fleece, is sitting on concrete at the edge of Zuccotti Park ...
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