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U.S. is Currency War's 'Tomb Maker,' Chinese Economist Says (Simon Rabinovitch)
Oct. 15, 2010 (Reuters) -- The United States fired the first shot in the currency war and the rest of the world must be on guard for its deliberate strategy to devalue the dollar, a Chinese ...
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Leakers, Beware the Corporate Media (Ray McGovern)
Oct. 14, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a Code-Orange Advisory to patriotic truth-tellers, sometimes called whistleblowers or leakers: It is anachronistically naïve to expect ...
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Why the U.S. has Launched a New Financial World War, And How the the Rest of the World Will Fight Back (Michael Hudson)
“Coming events cast their shadows forward.” – Goethe Oct. 12, 2010 (Counterpunch) -- What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $1 trillion, $10 trillion or even $50 trillion on ...
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Slashing the Dollar - The Future is Ugly (Mike Whitney)
Oct. 13, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- This has the makings of a real donnybrook. The Fed has has hinted that it will launch a second round of quantitative easing (QE) sometime after its Nov. ...
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Israel's Other 'Peace' Plan: Arm-Twisting Obama (Jonathan Cook)
Oct. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- A ghost haunted the meeting of the Arab League in Libya at the weekend, as its foreign ministers decided to give a little more time to the peace talks ...
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Netanyahu Asking Palestinians To Cede Right Of Return (Akiva Eldar)
Netanyahu understands that a Palestinian leadership prepared to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is tantamount to an up-front concession on the Palestinian right of return. Oct. 12, 2010 (Haaretz) ...
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US Backs PM: Israel is Jewish State (Yitzhak Benhorin)
U.S. State Department spokesman says region must 'accept existence of Israel as homeland of Jewish people' after Netanyahu tells Knesset he is willing to extend settlement freeze in exchange for ...
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Nine Months After the Quake - a Million Haitians Slowly Dying (Bill Quigley)
Oct. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- "If it gets any worse," said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, "we're not going to survive." Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. ...
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Currency wars are necessary if all else fails (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)
The overwhelming fact of the global currency system is that America needs a much weaker dollar to bring its economy back into kilter and avoid slow ruin, yet the rest of the world cannot easily ...
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US Healthcare 'to Blame' for Poor Life Expectancy Rates (BBC)
Oct. 10, 2010 (BBC) -- The U.S. healthcare system is to blame for declines in the country's life expectancy ranking, a study suggests. The Columbia University report rejects claims that factors such ...
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How Democracy Dies: Lessons from a Master (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 11, 2010 (Truthdig) -- The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes spent his life battling the assault on democracy by tyrants. It is disheartening to be reminded that he lost. But he understood ...
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