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Murderland (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Oct. 23, 2011 -- Only occasionally do we get catch a glimpse of this nation as it truly is. Occasionally can we smell it, but only when we get close enough to ...
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Occupy Wall Street Visited (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Oct. 18, 2011 -- Last Saturday while in New York City I went downtown to visit the Occupy Wall Street group and also ended up walking in their protest march ...
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The Real ‘Theater of the Absurd’: Netanyahu and His Endgame in Palestine (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 19, 2011 -- During his deliberately offensive speech Sept. 23, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the General Assembly as “the theater of the ...
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Jet-Lagged and Ragged (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 25, 2011 -- I am in a nation of super-models. The girls who sell tickets in the art museum are super-models. The girls behind the hotel desk, ditto. ...
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BofA Said to Split Regulators Over Moving Merrill Derivatives to Bank Unit (Bob Ivry, Hugh Son and Christine Harper)
Oct. 18, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. (BAC), hit by a credit downgrade last month, has moved derivatives from its Merrill Lynch unit to a subsidiary flush with insured deposits, ...
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Protests Show Capitalism ‘Nearly Broken’ (Simon Clark)
David Blood Oct. 19, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The protesters camping in London in support of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators may be right and capitalism risks losing its “license to operate,” ...
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A Movement Too Big to Fail (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Oct. 17, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted ...
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America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time (Nick Turse)
Predator drone Oct. 17, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work inclimate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in ...
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The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America (Robert Reich)
Robert Reich Oct. 16, 2011 11 (RobertReich.org) -- A fundamental war has been waged in this nation since its founding, between progressive forces pushing us forward and regressive forces pulling us ...
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Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot (Ray McGovern)
Ray McGovern Oct. 14, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, in his accustomed role as unofficial surrogate CIA spokesman, has thrown light on how the CIA ...
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Foreclosure deal near as banks win more immunity (Aruna Viswanatha)
Oct. 19, 2011 (Reuters) -- Talks between U.S. states and top banks over mortgage abuses are nearing agreement on a major sticking point that has bogged down settlement negotiations for more than a ...
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