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The John Edwards Case; Justice or personal vendetta? (Mike Whitney)
June 5, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Why is the Justice Department hassling John Edwards? Don't they have anything better to do then waste their time on a dead-end case like this? We're only ...
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The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths (David Schwartz)
June 5, 2011 (Common Dreams) -- The great writer Kurt Vonnegut titled his final book A Man without a Country. He was the man; the country was the United States of America. Vonnegut felt that his ...
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The State Of The Empire: Some Reflections on the Geopolitical Situation (Ninan Koshy)
June 5, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- My attempt is to give or rather get an overview of the geopolitical situation by an examination of the state of the Empire today. This is because the ...
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Policymakers have made another Depression Unavoidable (Mike Whitney)
June 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Equities markets have been battered all week by bad economic data sending investors piling into "risk free" Treasuries. The Dow Jones slipped 276 points ...
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Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy (Michael Hudson)
June 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In ...
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Scott signs bill forcing drug tests on welfare recipients (Miami Herald)
May 31, 2011 (Miami Herald) -- Floridians will have to submit urine, blood or hair samples for drug testing before receiving cash benefits from the state, under a bill Gov. Rick Scott signed into ...
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Global war on drugs 'a failure,' high-level panel declares (Al Jazeera)
High-level panel declares international anti-drug measures a failure and suggests legalising cannabis and other drugs June 2, 2011 (Al Jazeera) -- A high-level international commission has declared ...
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VIDEO: US Steps Up Cyber Propaganda War (Al Jazeera)
June 2, 2011 (Al Jazeera) -- The U.S. military is developing software that would allow military personnel to use fake profiles in online chat rooms. The idea is to use social media to spread ...
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Hail Caesar (Paul Craig Roberts)
June 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the U.S. government’s credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ...
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Our Goose is Cooked (Mike Whitney)
June 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- This must be what it was like in Russia before the Soviet Union collapsed. The government's so crooked that nothing works right, the infrastructure's in ...
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Deluded, Greedy and Obese: 'The brightest and best' in one generation ravage their children's birthright (Steve Salmony)
June 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Perhaps it is not only our fate as elders to confront certain obviously emerging and rapidly converging global challenges, it may also be that we elders ...
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