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‘Islamists’ on Probation: Western Reaction to Tunisian Elections (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 2, 2011 -- Following Tunisia’s first fair and free elections Oct. 27, the Western media responded with a characteristic sense of fear and alarm. For many, it ...
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Rudderless (James Howard Kunstler)
Nov. 14, 2011 -- The Penn State football sex scandal, and the depraved response of the university community at all levels, tells whatever you need to know about the spiritual condition of this ...
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This Is What Revolution Looks Like (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 15, 2011 - NEW YORK (Truthdig) -- Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they ...
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Finding Freedom in Handcuffs (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 7, 2011 -- New York (Truthdig) -- Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, an activist, an author and a member of a reporting team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize, wrote this article after he was ...
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A Master Class in Occupation (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 31, 2011 -- NEW YORK (Truthdig) -- Jon Friesen, 27, tall and lanky with a long, dirty-blond ponytail, a purple scarf and an old green fleece, is sitting on concrete at the edge of Zuccotti Park ...
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Rebels on the Street: The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis (David Harvey)
Oct. 28, 2011 (DavidHarvey.org) -- The Party of Wall Street has ruled unchallenged in the United States for far too long. It has totally (as opposed to partially) dominated the policies of ...
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Critical State (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 7, 2011 -- Portents of winter and the toothless chatter of flag-draped traitors vies with a fog of lies spread by Koch Brother ...
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Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 31, 2011 -- I landed back in the USA Wednesday from Sweden. What a downer to be reminded that more people speak English in the foreign country you just ...
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World Faces Years of Social Unrest as Economies Falter (Nigel Morris, Ben Chu)
Cars burn during a demonstration, in dowtown Rome Oct. 15 during an anti-capitalist protest. The eurozone debt crisis could lead to a decade-long recession and rising social unrest, the ...
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FLATWIRE:How Wall Street Occupied America (Bill Moyers)
Bill Moyers This article is adapted from a speech Bill Moyers gave in October at Public Citizen’s fortieth-anniversary gala. Nov. 2, 2011 (The Nation) -- During the prairie revolt that swept the ...
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FLATWIRE: Global Crises are Spiritual: A Time for Awakening
"Above all else," writes Mofid, "The purpose of the economy is to provide basic human needs as well as the means of establishing, maintaining, and nurturing human relationships while dealing justly ...
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