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U.S. Markets Not Vulnerable to Big Drop, Barclays’ Kantor Says (Suzanne Woolley)
June 23, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks aren’t likely to see price declines similar to those during the financial crisis of 2008, said Larry Kantor, head of research for Barclays Capital. Markets ...
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Environmental Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline (Naomi Klein, Wendell Berry, Maude Barlow, Bill McKibben and Others)
June 23, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Dear Friends, This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age -- it’s serious stuff. The short version is we want you to consider doing ...
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The Curse of the Crocodile: Russia's Deadly Designer Drug (Simon Shuster)
June 20, 2011 -- CHICHEVO, Russia (Time.com) -- The new arrivals at the drug rehab center in Chichevo, a tiny village that is a two hours' drive east of Moscow, are usually given two weeks without ...
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US Lawmakers to introduce bill to legalize marijuana (Luis Robayo)
June 22, 2011 (AFP) -- A group of U.S. representatives plan to introduce legislation that will legalize marijuana and allow states to legislate its use, pro-marijuana groups said Wednesday. The ...
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Fed to Maintain Stimulus as Bond Buying Ends (Craig Torres and Jeannine Aversa)
June 22, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials decided to keep the central bank’s balance sheet at a record to spur the slowing economy after completing $600 billion of bond purchases this ...
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Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison? (Al Gore)
WCW's Bill Goldberg, a former NFL linebacker, puts the hurt on an opponent. June 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The first time I remember hearing the question "is it real?" was when I went as a young ...
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Apple's Pre-Emptive Strike Against Free Speech (Tim Karr)
June 22, 2011 (Save the Internet) -- So you think you control your smartphone? Think again. Late last week reports uncovered a plan by Apple, manufacturer of the iPhone, to patent technology that ...
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European Spring: The Gradual Demise Of Capitalism (Gaither Stewart)
June 22, 2011 -- ROME (Information Clearing House) -- It's an accumulative kind of thing, the demise of capitalism worldwide: at first the waning and the dwindling, now the rapid corkscrew-like ...
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More Treachery at the Fed? (Mike Whitney)
June 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- No one expects the Fed to announce a rate-hike at the end of the today's FOMC meeting, but that doesn't mean there won't be a few surprises. The problem ...
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5 WikiLeaks Revelations: Exposing the Growing Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad (Rania Khalek)
June 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- One of the most significant scourges paralyzing our democracy is the merger of corporate power with elected and appointed government officials at the ...
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Imperialism 101 (Michael Parenti)
June 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing ...
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