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Central Bankers Race to Protect Growth in 72 Hours of Crisis (Jana Randow, Jeannine Aversa and Scott Lanman)
Aug 10, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Central bankers are racing to shield their economies from fiscal tightening and lopsided currency swings that threaten a new global recession. In the 72 hours after a ...
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Dow Drops 520 Amid New Europe Debt Concern (Stephen Kirkland)
Aug 10, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks slid, dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the lowest level since September 2010, and Treasuries rose for a third day amid concern the European sovereign ...
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Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next? (Noam Chomsky)
Aug. 9, 2011 -- (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a partial transcript of a recent speech delivered by Noam Chomsky at the University of Toronto at Scarborough on the rapid ...
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Prayer Rally Dwarfed by Back-to-School Event (Democracy Now!)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Prayer Rally Dwarfed by Back-to-School Event By Democracy Now August 09, 2011 - - The Response was dwarfed in comparison to Houston’s first-ever, citywide back-to-school ...
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Turning Poverty Into an American Crime (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Turning Poverty Into an American Crime By Barbara Ehrenreich August 09, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- I completed the manuscript for Nickel and Dimed in a time of seemingly boundless ...
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VIDEO: The Poverty Tour: The Poor Have Become Invisible (Tavis Smiley & Cornel West)
The Poverty Tour The Poor Have Become Invisible By Tavis Smiley & Cornel West Debt Ceiling Agreement Was A Declaration Of War On The Poor!" Posted August 09, 2011 Smiley & West are going on a road ...
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The S&P Debt Downgrade: What It Means (Paul Craig Roberts)
Aug. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- On Friday, Aug. 5, the credit rating agency, Standard & Poors, downgraded U.S. debt from AAA to AA+. Gerald Celente’s view that S&P’s downgrade of the ...
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Panic on the Streets of London (Laurie Penny)
August 9, 2011 by Penny Red Panic on the Streets of London by Laurie Penny I’m huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn. The BBC is interchanging footage of ...
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Nature Bats Last: Notes on Revolution and Resistance, Revelation and Redemption (Robert Jensen)
(An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.) Aug. 8, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- My title is ambitious and ambiguous: ...
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The Jobs Crisis Demands Attention (Shamus Cooke)
Aug. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- When the big banks screamed "crisis," they were instantly rewarded with trillions of taxpayer money. Likewise, when rich bondholders -- some of them ...
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It's Time to put the Euro out of its Misery (Mike Whitney)
Aug. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- We all know the drill. Bond yields start to spike in one of the smaller countries in the EU, and before you know it, the bigger countries are called in ...
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