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Collapse, Transition, The Great Turning: Why Words Matter (Carolyn Baker)
May 21, 2010 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- As the work I do circulates around the nation and the world, I frequently encounter resistance to the use of the word "collapse" to describe the ...
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VIX Jumps Above 40 as Credit Markets Worsen Amid Risk Aversion (Lynn Thomasson)
May 25 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. options market benchmark known as the VIX climbed above 40 as borrowing costs rose, boosting speculation that banks’ reluctance to lend will curb economic growth, and ...
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Oily Obama: Lousy Response to BP Oil Invasion (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust May 22, 2010 -- Thirty days into the BP oil spill one mile down into the Gulf of Mexico it should be clear to every objective person that President Obama has ...
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Overcoming The Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan,' By Deepak Tripathi (Ramzy Baroud)
‘Overcoming the Bush Legacy’: New Language Is Not Enough Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 22, 2010 -- When former US President George W. Bush left the White House, he left behind one of the most ...
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Out of Darkness (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 24, 2010 -- If the Devil created an anti-city, a place where people would feel least human, Atlanta would surely be that place -- despite the prayerful ...
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Karazai’s Washington Visit: The War Awaiting Kandahar (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 20, 2010 -- Clad in his usual attire of a colorful, striped robe, Afghan President Hamid Karazai appeared more like an emperor as he began his fourth day in ...
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Is There Rehab For This Oil Overdose? (Carolyn Baker)
Black tar has just taken on a whole new meaning May 17, 2010 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- It's been almost a month since the sirens of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico lacerated ...
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BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’ (Chris Hedges)
U.S. Navy / MC2 Justin Stumberg May 17, 2010 (TruthDig) -- Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, ...
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Something Happened (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 17, 2010 -- Everybody in the world is broke, except for maybe Lloyd Blankfein, and he may not end up broke so much as broken by a political meat-grinder ...
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Economic Power: Avoid Arizona and Boycott BP (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust May 16, 2010 -- Money is power. Each of us has it to varying degrees. Our challenge is to use our spending to advance worthy goals. Right now we see economic ...
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Gulf Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Believed (Richard Harris)
This image released by BP on May 11 shows the main oil leak (R) of the Deepwater Horizon rig which exploded April 20 and killed 11 workers. (AFP/BP) May 14, 2010 (NPR) -- The amount of oil spilling ...
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