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The Economics Of Decline -- John Michael Greer
Many people nowadays fail to grasp some of the most basic realities facing us as the industrial age comes to an end John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report May 20, 2009 -- I opened last week’s ...
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Constitutional Rubbish (Joel Hirschhorn)
If prominent people tell a lie enough times, again, and again, and again, then the public lie becomes accepted fact, a cultural myth. So it is with the three coequal branches of government lie. It ...
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Pakistan: Half a Million Refugees as Fighting Continues in Swat (Jeremy Hammond)
Pakistani military officials have said that the number of civilians who have fled fighting in Pakistan has reached 1.3 million. A figure of more than half a million who have been registered has been ...
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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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Housing Bubble Smackdown: Bigger Crash Ahead | Mike Whitney
Huge "shadow inventory" Mike Whitney -- Global Research April 21, 2009 -- Due to the lifting of the foreclosure moratorium at the end of March, the downward slide in housing is gaining speed. The ...
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Fed's Fisher Forecasts Steep Contraction in US GDP (Nipa Piboontanasawat)
April 14, 2009 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said “grim” figures indicate the world’s largest economy shrank steeply last quarter. “The economic data in the ...
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Antarctica: Collapse of the ice bridge supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf appears imminent
April 3, 2009 (European Space Agency) -- The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Latady Islands looks ...
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The Corporate State Is Here -- Bill Moyers Interviews William Greider
"The corporate state is here. And I'd say, let's not argue over that. The fact is, if the Congress goes down the road I see them going down, they will institutionalize the corporate state in a way ...
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The Origins of John F. Kennedy's Struggle against the CIA (Dale Tavris)
March 24, 3009 (World News Trust) -- A couple months ago I wrote a Democratic Underground post titled “The GAME,” which I began by noting the many unmentionable things in U.S. politics, and I ...
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I Love a Planet with a Happy Atmosphere (Michael Greenwell)
March 24, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The newspapers and TV like natural disasters. They provide countless emotional and, on the whole, non-controversial scenes (with the exception of New Orleans as ...
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An interview with Andy Worthington, author of 'The Guanta¡namo File' | Elizabeth Ferrari
"There really are no half-measures. With Obama’s promise, America has emerged from an extraordinarily bleak period in which the fear of terror -- however legitimate -- combined with the leadership ...
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