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Next Mass Extinction an Eyeblink Away (The Age)
Mar. 3, 2011 (The Age) -- Life on Earth is hurtling towards extinction levels comparable to those following the dinosaur-erasing asteroid impact of 65 million years ago, propelled forward by human ...
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How to Read Gates’s Shift on the Wars (Ray McGovern)
Mar. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- In Establishment Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates enjoys a charmed life based on a charming persona. The Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) is ...
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How the Rich Soaked the Rest of Us (Richard Wolff)
The astonishing story of the last few decades is a massive redistribution of wealth, as the rich have shifted the tax burden Mar. 2, 2011 (The Guardian/UK) --Over the last half century, the richest ...
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The Phony Budget Crisis: Forget Austerity, Tax the Rich (Ted Rall)
Everywhere you look, from the federal government to the states to your hometown, budget crises abound. Services are being slashed. Politicians and pundits from both parties tell us that the good ...
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More Trouble in Squanderville (Mike Whitney)
Mar. 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Bob, Frank and Freddie all bought identical houses in the same neighborhood in 2004. Each man paid $300,000 for his home. Bob paid the whole $300,000 in ...
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Unverified Misreporting on Libya (Stephen Lendman)
Mar. 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- America's media, Britain's state-controlled BBC, other Western sources, and Al Jazeera are spreading unverified or false reports on Libya's uprising. On ...
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The Enduring Mystique of the Marshall Plan (William Blum)
Mar. 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name "Marshall Plan" keeps being repeated by political figures and ...
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$1.2 Trillion: The National Security Figure No One Wants You To See (Chris Hellman)
Mar. 1, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- What if you went to a restaurant and found it rather pricey? Still, you ordered your meal and, when done, picked up the check only to discover that it was almost ...
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QE2 Sparks an Orgy of Speculation (Mike Whitney)
Mar. 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Ben Bernanke is confident that his policies have paved the way for a self sustaining recovery, but there's plenty of reason to be skeptical. For one ...
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The Perfidy of Government: Evidence vs. Denial (Paul Craig Roberts)
Mar. 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- This essay is about three recent books that explain how we lost our economy, the Constitution and our civil liberties, and how peace lost out to war. ...
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It's the War Economy, Duh! (Cindy Sheehan)
Feb. 28, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- I recently sent out a statement in solidarity with the workers who are standing firm against their respective states wanting to make the workers pay ...
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