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The Eye of Sauron: Something New Under the Sun | Fred Reed
Aug. 8, 2012 (Fred On Everything) -- The pieces come together. Within the last week I have read: 1) New software, associated with Google, will recognize customers in stores so as to offer them ...
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Calling all Pessimistic Optimists (Activist FAQ) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." --Antonio Gramsci Throughout my time with Occupy Wall Street, I’ve ...
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The Monkeywrench Wars | John Michael Greer
Aug. 22, (Archdruid Report) -- Among science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke’s many gifts was a mordant sense of humor, and a prime example of that gift in action was his 1951 short story ...
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The AFTA Act of 2012 | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2012 -- Over the years, I've spotlighted America's telephone system as the single best example of the diminishing returns of technology in everyday ...
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Talking Wikileaks, Assange, Manning, Occupy, And More: My Conversation With Mark Hand | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 25, 2012 "There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination in the response." --Julian Assange When word ...
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The Specter of Military Defeat | John Michael Greer
Aug. 15, 2012 (ArchdruidReport) -- I’ve come to think that the single greatest obstacle that stands in the way of a clear understanding of the predicament of our age is the insistence that the past ...
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Shifting Truths in Sinai: Who Stands to Gain from the Carnage? | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 13, 2012 -- Two Toyota Land Cruisers filled with about 15 well-built gunmen in ski masks and all-black outfits appear seemingly out of nowhere. Behind them is ...
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Pure Americana | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 13, 2012 -- At the core of the manifold paradoxes swirling around American governance is the harsh reality that we just can't keep running our shit the ...
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No Place to Go | David Glenn Cox
Herbert HooverDavid Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 10, 2012 “Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” --Franklin ...
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The Dispossessed Majority | Paul Craig Roberts
Aug. 8, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The bumper sticker on the beat-up pickup truck read: “Friends don’t let friends vote Democrat.” The driver was obviously not affluent. Yet, despite all the news ...
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Neocons vs. the ‘Arab Spring’: Back on the Warpath | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 8, 2012 -- The neoconservatives are back with a vengeance. While popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and other Arab countries had briefly rendered them ...
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