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Velkommen to Banktopia (Mike Whitney)
Apr. 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Let's talk turkey. The dollar is getting hammered by the day. And the dollar is getting hammered by design, because the Fed wants a weaker currency to ...
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Libya: Another Neocon War (David Swanson)
Apr. 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The US department of justice (DOJ) has submitted a written defence of the U.S. role in this new war in Libya to the U.S. Congress. The DOJ claims the ...
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America's Planned Nuclear Attack on Libya -- Part I: On The Drawing Board (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)
Mar. 30, 2011 (GlobalResearch.ca) -- A war on Libya has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than 20 years. Using nukes against Libya was first envisaged in 1996. On Apr. 14th 1986, ...
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Our Growing Income Inequality -- It's NOT an Accident (Prof. Hendrik van den Berg)
Hendrik van den Berg Hendrik van den Berg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor of economics April 18, 2011 (NebraskansForPeace.org) -- Something very disturbing has been happening in the United ...
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Who Owns The World? The Contours of Global Order (Noam Chomsky)
Apr. 21, 2011 (Tom Dispatch) -- The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces -- coinciding, fortuitously, with a ...
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Fiscal Conservatives Dodge $10 Trillion Debt (Simon Johnson)
Apr. 19, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Washington is filled with self-congratulation this week, with Republicans claiming that they have opened serious discussion of the U.S. budget deficit and President ...
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Bernanke Strikes Again; QE2 sends margin debt soaring to new highs (Mike Whitney)
Apr. 21, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Interest rates are the Fed's main tool for implementing policy, but when interest rates are already at zero and activity is still weak, then the Fed may ...
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Economic Outlook Brightens on Leading Indicators, Confidence (Alex Kowalski and Timothy R. Homan)
Apr. 21, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The index of U.S. leading indicators increased for a ninth month in March and Americans’ confidence rose for a fourth week, signaling the expansion may withstand higher ...
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Marijuana smoke odor in car not enough for police action? (Reuters)
Apr. 20 2011 -- BOSTON (Reuters) - The smell of marijuana smoke is no longer enough reason for police to order someone out of a car, now that pot has been decriminalized in Massachusetts, the ...
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The New Corporate World Order (Robert Scheer)
Apr. 20, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- The debate over Republicans’ insistence on continued tax breaks for the superrich and the corporations they run should come to a screeching halt with the report in ...
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The Politics of Corruption (Lawrence Davidson)
Lobby, Lobbification, Lobbified Apr. 18, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Lobbification is a word I have just coined for the corruptive process that bends politicians to the will of special ...
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