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'Business is Booming':Wall Street's Role in Narco-trafficking (Mike Whitney)
June 01, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Imagine what your reaction would be if the Mexican government agreed to pay Barack Obama $1.4 billion to deploy US troops and armored vehicles to New ...
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The Truth about the US Economy (Robert Reich)
May 31, 2011 (RobertReich.org) -- The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down. Home prices are down. ...
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Welcome to Post-Legal America (Tom Engelhardt)
Post-Legal America and the National Security Complex May 31, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- Is the Libyan war legal? Was Bin Laden’s killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to ...
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Banks demand savage austerity measures in Greece (Patrick O’Connor)
May 31, 2011 (WSWS) -- Officials with the European Central Bank (ECB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the European Commission (EC) have been deployed to Athens this week to finalise plans ...
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The Breakup of the Euro? (Prof. Michael Hudson)
Is Iceland’s rejection of financial bullying a model for Greece and Ireland? May 31, 2011 (Global Research) -- Last month Iceland voted against submitting to British and Dutch demands that it ...
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Look Out Below (Mike Whitney)
May 31, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The slowdown has begun. The economy has started to sputter and unemployment claims have tipped 400,000 for the last seven weeks. That means new ...
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The Creeping Nausea of American Exceptionalism (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 6, 2011 -- History, that coy dominatrix, loves to trick the credulous human race. In a moment when something we call "democracy" seems to be spreading ...
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Offshoring has destroyed the economy (Paul Craig Roberts)
A Nobel Economist Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans May 31, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to ...
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Dispatches from the End of Empire (David Michael Green)
May 30, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Well folks, there’s good news, and there’s bad news in America today. The good news is that people seem to be waking up just a bit to what’s being done to them. ...
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The Sky Really Is Falling (Chris Hedges)
May 30 (TruthDig.com) -- The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few ...
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First man ‘functionally cured’ of HIV (Liz Goodwin)
June 3, 2011 -- Since HIV was discovered 30 years ago this week, 30 million people have died from the disease, and it continues to spread at the rate of 7,000 people per day globally, the UN says. ...
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