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The Tide Has Changed: A Musical Essay and a Lesson in Humanity (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 14, 2010 -- If one tried to fit music compositions into an equivalent literary style, Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble’s latest release ...
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BOOKS: The Witch Of Hebron And The Myth Of Post-Peak Uniformity (Carolyn Baker)
Oct. 13, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- I am an avid fan of James Howard Kunstler's work. Whether I read his non-fiction The Long Emergency of 2005 or his recent novels A World Made By Hand and The ...
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Wells Fargo: No halt to foreclosures (Mark Calvey)
Oct. 8, 2010 (San Francisco Business Times) -- Wells Fargo said Friday it has no plans to adopt a foreclosure moratorium despite Bank of America’s decision today to halt all foreclosures. “Wells ...
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Israeli Cabinet approves loyalty oath, but only for non-Jewish new citizens (Jonathan Lis)
Amendment to Law of Citizenship would require any non-Jew seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a 'Jewish and democratic state.' Oct. 10, 2010 (Haaretz) -- Cabinet ministers on ...
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Over 60 percent of Afghans suffer mental health problems (Agence France-Presse)
Oct. 10, 2010 -- KABUL (Agence France-Presse) -- Scarred by decades of war, social problems and poverty, more than 60 percent of Afghans suffer from stress disorders and mental health problems, a ...
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How Do You Take Your Tea? With Heaping Spoonfuls of Irony, Of Course (David Michael Green)
Oct. 10, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It's so great that Americans are finally angry about the state of their country. But it's beyond awful that all the wrong people are beside themselves ...
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Government had Been Warned for Months about Troubles in Mortgage Servicer Industry (Zachary A. Goldfarb)
Oct. 10, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Consumer advocates and lawyers warned federal officials in recent years that the U.S. foreclosure system was designed to seize people's homes as fast as possible, ...
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S&P: 60 Percent Of Countries Will Be Bankrupt Within 50 Years (Daniel Tencer)
Predicts US will have a debt of 415 percent of GDP by 2050 Oct. 10, 2010 (Raw Story) -- Some 60 percent of the world's economies will be so in debt by 2060 that their debt will be downgraded to ...
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World Job Crisis is a Threat to Democracy, Says IMF Head (Larry Elliott)
International Monetary Fund meeting dominated by fears that US job crisis will add to currency tensions with China Oct. 10, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (The Guardian) -- The International Monetary Fund was ...
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Surprise -- The Very Dark Side of U.S. History (Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry)
Editor's Note: Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the "good guys" spreading "democracy" and "liberty" around the world. When the United States inflicts unnecessary death and ...
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US Often Weighed North Korea `Nuke Option' (Charles J. Hanley and Randy Herschaft)
Oct. 10,2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- From the 1950s Pentagon to today's Obama administration, the United States has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened use of nuclear weapons against North ...
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