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Conversations with Fidel Castro: The Dangers of a Nuclear War (Fidel Castro Ruz and Michel Chossudovsky)
Nov. 13, 2010 (Global Research) -- Introductory Note: From October 12 to 15, 2010, I had extensive and detailed discussions with Fidel Castro in Havana, pertaining to the dangers of nuclear war, the ...
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Our Imperial Stimulus Package: War to the Horizon (Tom Engelhardt)
Nov. 15, 2010 (TomDispatch) -- You must have had a moment when you thought to yourself: It really isn't going to end, is it? Not ever. Rationally, you know perfectly well that whatever your "it" ...
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The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 15, 2010 (TruthDig) -- The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American ...
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Projecting Power or Promoting Peace: The Prophetic Call for Justice, Kindness, Humility (Robert Jensen)
A version of this essay was delivered at the “People’s Response to the George W. Bush Library and Policy Institute” event at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, on November 14, 2010. Nov. ...
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None Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A World Without Birds (Kate Ravilious)
A wing and a prayer: starlings congregate over Gretna on the Scottish Borders (PA) Nov. 15, 2010 (The Independent/UK) -- Scanning the sky with his binoculars, he searches carefully for any sign of ...
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The Mythical United States of America: Rushing into Backwardness (Prof. John Kozy)
Nov. 14, 2010 (Global Research) -- The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of ...
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It’s Official: Rich Declare War on the Middle Class (Robert Freeman)
Nov. 14 (Common Dreams) -- For the past thirty years the rich have been waging war on the middle class. It’s been astonishingly effective, partly because it has been undeclared. But even that ...
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Bank of America Is in Deep Trouble There May Be Financial Disaster on the Horizon (Joshua Holland)
Nov. 12, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Will Bank of America be the first Wall Street giant to once again point a gun to its own head, telling us it'll crash and burn and take down the financial system if we ...
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Bush's Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe (Dan Froomkin)
Nov. 12, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Huffington Post) -- The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special prosecutor to investigate ...
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Sixty Lame Minutes (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 15, 2010 -- So, last night CBS hauled Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, on board their flagship Sunday infotainment vehicle, 60 Minutes, to ...
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Foreign Affairs -- Remaking the Middle East (Jim Miles)
The United States has been trying to remake the Middle East for decades. (Zoriah.net) Nov. 13, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- The title from this issue of Foreign Affairs struck me as rather odd, in ...
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