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FLATWIRE: The Decade's Biggest Scam (Glenn Greenwald)
Aug. 29, 2011 (Salon) -- The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a ...
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FLATWIRE: CIA's Bay of Pigs Foreign Policy Laid Bare (Carol Rosenberg)
Aug. 29, 2011 (Miami Herald) -- A once-secret CIA history of the Bay of Pigs invasion lays out in unvarnished detail how the American spy agency came to the rescue of and cut deals with ...
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FLATWIRE: Welcome to Colonialism 2.0 (Rakesh Krishnan Simha)
Aug. 29, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The assault on Libya by a coalition of mostly Western nations begs the question: Is colonialism making some sort of a comeback? While their economies ...
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FLATWIRE: The Election March of the Trolls (Chris Hedges)
Aug. 29, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two ...
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FLATWIRE: The Rise of Another CIA Yes Man (Ray McGovern)
Aug. 29, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- As Gen. David Petraeus prepares to take the helm at CIA in September, he can expect unswerving loyalty from his likely deputy, Michael Morell, who has been acting ...
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FLATWIRE: Timebomb in Euroland: 'Tick...tick...tick...' (Mike Whitney)
Aug. 28, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The Eurozone is headed for crash. Bank funding costs are rising, liquidity is being choked off, and interbank lending has started to stall. A full-blown ...
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American Decline: Causes and Consequences (Noam Chomsky)
US soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a Medevac helicopter. (Photo: AFP - Johannes Eisele) Aug. 26, 2011 ...
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Stocks, Euro Tumble on Greece Debt Concern (Stuart Wallace and Rita Nazareth)
Sept. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks sank, while the euro slid to a ten-year low versus the yen and a six-month low against the dollar, as concern grew about Greece’s debt crisis. European bank and ...
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August consumer sentiment drops to 3-year low (Kerry Panchuk)
Aug. 26, 2011 (HousingWire) -- Consumer sentiment in the U.S. plunged to the lowest level in three years according to a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey. The final August reading on the ...
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FLATWIRE: Secrecy, Leaks, and the Real Criminals (Glenn Greenwald)
Aug. 26, 2011 (Salon.com) -- Ali Soufan is a long-time FBI agent and interrogator who was at the center of the U.S. government's counter-terrorism activities from 1997 through 2005, and became ...
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FLATWIRE: Common Sense in a Coma (Robert C. Koehler)
Aug. 25, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- “Then there is the issue of how the Afghans will be able to pay for their greatly enlarged police and military, which by some estimates will require $10 billion a ...
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