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Post Mortem for the world's 'Reserve Currency' (Mike Whitney)
Dec. 13, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Paul Volcker is worried about the future of the dollar and for good reason. The Fed has initiated a program (Quantitative Easing) that presages an end ...
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The United States of War Criminals (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "People from poorer places and poorer countries have to call upon their compassion not to be angry with ordinary people in America." --Arundhati Roy Dec. 14, 2010 -- ...
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No Act of Rebellion Is Wasted (Chris Hedges)
Dec. 13, 2010 (TruthDig) -- I stood with hundreds of thousands of rebellious Czechoslovakians in 1989 on a cold winter night in Prague’s Wenceslas Square as the singer Marta Kubišová approached the ...
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Economics of Slaughter: It really is us against them (William Bowles)
Dec. 12, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- MPs fiddling expenses and leaked diplomatic cables: what connects them and is the game finally up for capitalist ‘democracy’? “Julian Rush is on the ...
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A Grim Record: One In Seven Americans Is On Food Stamps (Jacob Goldstein)
Dec. 8, 2010 (NPR) -- The number of people on food stamps keeps hitting new all-time highs; as of September, nearly 43 million people were using the program, according to figures out this week. Of ...
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Morality is modified in the lab (BBC)
Mar. 30, 2010 (BBC) -- Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses. They identified a region of the brain just ...
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Facebook emerges as 'terrorist recruiting ground' (Nick Allen)
The US government has warned that terrorist groups like al-Qaeda are targeting Facebook as a prime recruitment ground Dec. 10, 2010 -- LOS ANGELES (Telegraph) -- A Department of Homeland Security ...
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Jeremy Scahill Testifies Before Congress on America's Secret Wars
Dec. 9, 2010 (The Nation) -- Editor's Note: Nation national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill today testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the US's shadow wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and ...
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On the Streets of Bedford Falls (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2010 -- There is not much happening this year on the streets of Bedford Falls. The Christmas decorations went up on Main Street, same as always, but it’s ...
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The Sins of Alan Greenspan (Richard Backus)
Dec. 13, 2010 -- When Mr. Greenspan appeared on a recent BBC documentary and was forced to concede to major misunderstandings of certain market phenomena, he was being quite modest. He not only had ...
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The Revolutionary Moment (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2010 -- I overheard a conversation between two employees over at the Price Chopper supermarket last week. The supermarket employees were both ...
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