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The US is a Police State: Review of 'State Power and Democracy,' by Andrew Kolin (Prof. John McMurtry)
Nov. 9, 2011 (Global Research) -- Global Research Editor's Note: This article by Professor McMurtry had been commissioned by an academic journal called New Politics. Upon receiving Professor ...
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How Goldman Sacked Greece (Greg Palast)
Nov. 8, 2011 (GregPalast.com) -- Here's what we're told: Greece's economy blew apart because a bunch of olive-spitting, ouzo-guzzling, lazy-ass Greeks refuse to put in a full day's work, retire ...
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Key Lesson from Iceland Crisis is 'Let Banks Fail' (Haukur Holm)
Nov. 8, 2011 (AFP) -- Three years after Iceland's banks collapsed and the country teetered on the brink, its economy is recovering, proof that governments should let failing lenders go bust and ...
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10 Million American Families Sliding Toward Foreclosure (Sherwood Ross)
Nov. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Of the 55-million families with mortgages, 10.4-million of them “are sliding toward failure and foreclosure” -- a tragedy that will depress the U.S. ...
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Nearly 29% Of Mortgaged U.S. Homes Underwater (Jane Hodges)
Nov. 8, 2011 (MSNBC) -- A whopping 28.6 percent of homeowners with mortgages owe more on their loans than their homes could sell for, according to quarterly data released Tuesday by Zillow, a real ...
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Nearly half of mortgages in Chicago area underwater (Mary Ellen Podmolik)
Nov. 8, 2011 (Chicago Tribune) -- A little more than 46 percent of all single-family homes with a mortgage in the Chicago area were underwater in the year's third quarter, far more than the nation ...
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The Blue Bus Is Calling Us (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 20, 2011 -- Zeez European politicians unt economists all zound like rocket scientists wiss all zeir charming euro-chatter. But zey must be quite dumb ...
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Global Systemic Crisis: $30 Trillion In Ghost Assets Will Disappear By Early 2013 (LEAP/E2020)
The crisis enters a phase of widespread discounting of Western public debt Nov. 16, 2011 (LEAP/E2020) -- Public announcement GEAB N°59 -- As we come to the end of the second half of 2011, it is ...
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UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)
Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and ...
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Possible Credit Squeeze As Investors Dump European Gov't And Bank Debt (Nelson D. Schwartz and Eric Dash)
Nov. 18, 2011 (World News Trust) -- Nervous investors around the globe are accelerating their exit from the debt of European governments and banks, increasing the risk of a credit squeeze that could ...
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And the Country Went to Hell (David Glenn Cox )
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Nov. 5, 2011 -- George Orwell wrote in his ground breaking novel 1984, “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the ...
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