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China Has Tied Bernanke's Hands: The Least We Can Do Is Be Grateful (Mike Whitney)
Nov. 19, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Say what you will about Alan Greenspan, he was never a whiner. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about present Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. Bernanke's ...
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4 Common Myths about the War on Terrorism (Reese Erlich)
Nov. 19, 2010 (Common Dreams) -- I'm finishing up a 25-city book tour that took me from New York and Chicago to Elizabethtown, PA, and Spearfish, SD. I met with college students, farmers and ...
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The Billionaires Want More, More, More (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
Nov. 17, 2010 -- The billionaires are on the warpath. They want more, more, more. In 2007, the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income – more than ...
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Americans Voted Few Incumbent Bums Out (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2010 -- For some years a number of groups have been advocating voting out incumbents in Congress, both the House and the Senate, as a path to reform ...
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Ireland's "Suicide Pact" With the E.U. (Mike Whitney)
Nov. 18, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Ireland could be the next Lehman Brothers. That's what has the markets worried. If Irish leaders refuse to accept a bailout from the EU's new European ...
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British Defense Chief: 30 to 40 Years of Afghanistan Occupation Ahead
Nov. 18, 2010 (New American) -- The foreign policy bait-and-switch continues. First, President Barack Obama declared the end of combat in Iraq, withdrawing some U.S. troops but leaving many others ...
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Peddling War to Children (Robert C. Koehler)
Nov. 18, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- In the gap between a boy’s passionate fantasies and the smell of dead bodies in a mass grave marches . . . America’s Army. “He wonders if God is punishing him ...
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'Privacy' Protections for Corporations Undermines Government Transparency (Rebecca Jeschke)
Nov. 18, 2010 (Deeplinks Blog / EFF) -- EFF and a coalition of public interest groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court in anamicus brief Tuesday to reject so-called "privacy" protections for corporate ...
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Climate Change and Disease Will Spark New Food Crisis, Says UN (Sean O'Grady)
Nov. 18, 2010 (The Independent/UK) -- A food crisis could overtake the world in 2011, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, an agency of the United Nations. Pakistanis displaced by ...
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Rush to Approve Frankenfish May Prove Risky (
Nov. 18, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France Presse) -- With the US government close to approving genetically modified salmon for human consumption, a study out Thursday warned that key risks to ...
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World Comparison Shows U.S. Healthcare Lacking (Maggie Fox)
Nov. 18, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A third of Americans say they have gone without medical care or skipped filling a prescription because of cost, compared to 5 percent in the Netherlands, ...
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