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Summer 2009: The international monetary system’s breakdown is underway (LEAP/E2020)
In this issue of the Global European Anticipation Bulletin, our researchers anticipate the different forms a U.S. default will take at the end of summer 2009, a U.S. default that can no longer be ...
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The Bottom (James Kunstler)
Personally, I think a lot of good things await us, but not the ones we're expecting.
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Prosecuting Torture Or Growing Gardens? (Carolyn Baker)
April 27, 2009 (CarolynBaker.net) -- As most readers of my writings know, I don't concern myself with what the two ambiguously separate wings of America's one political party are up to. I have more ...
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New York-sized ice shelf collapses off Antarctica (Reuters)
April 28, 2009 -- An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a ...
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The Meaning of the Specter Switch (Mary Lyon)
My instinct is not to trust this too much. I can’t help looking this gift horse directly in the mouth, through the teeth, and down the hatch.
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The Joker (James Kunstler)
If the flu is the real deal, it will surely drive a stake through the faintly-beating heart of that invalid global economy, and possibly even continental-scaled economies like the United States, the ...
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Middle East 'Spies': A New Front for Gaza's Conflict (Ramzy Baroud)
April 23, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The reverberations of the Israeli war on Gaza are still felt throughout the Middle East. One could in fact speak of a silent war being waged in the region.
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Senior Bush figures could be prosecuted for torture, says Obama (Ewen MacAskill & Robert Booth)
President says use of waterboarding showed US had 'lost moral bearings' as Dick Cheney says CIA memos showed torture delivered 'good' intelligence
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Rule of Law Vetoed by President Obama (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
April 22, 2009 (World News Trust) -- There are no headlines or pontificating pundits, but the real news that has become crystal clear to any but the most delusional and distracted Americans is that ...
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Economic Recovery? No Thank You (Carolyn Baker)
April 18, 2009 (CarolynBaker.net) -- Some economists and a president declare that there's a glimmer of hope, a light at the end of the tunnel, and that sometime in 2010, we'll begin to see a return ...
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Nick Adenhart, R.I.P (Hal Cohen)
April 11, 2009 (World News Trust) -- I am a huge baseball fan. More accurately, I am a huge New York Mets fan. However, I do love baseball. I also have a reputation, neither earned nor deserved, for ...
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