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Downsize or Modify? A Conversation with Noam Chomsky (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 18, 2011 -- While Noam Chomsky surely needs no introduction, as they say, that doesn't mean interviewing him has to follow a blueprint. So, after seeing him in a ...
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The Great Okay-ness (James Howard Kunstler)
Jan. 17, 2011 -- Days after the Tucson shooting, President Obama rode into town on a gooey gel of good will, but by the time the memorial service -- or whatever it was -- got underway, the president ...
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Across the Aisle (Hal Cohen)
Hal Cohen -- World News Trust Jan. 16, 2011 -- In the wake of the Tucson Tragedy, there is a proposal gaining traction in Congress for Democrats and Republicans to sit together during the State of ...
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Planet Overkill (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "Everything in excess is opposed to nature." --Hippocrates Jan. 14, 2011 -- Back in the Cold War days, a useful myth was that of extreme Soviet supremacy. Surely, if ...
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Failure of Academia: The Book that Was Not Meant to Be Published (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 13, 2011 -- Deepak Tripathi’s most recent book, Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (Potomac Books) raises several issues, both ...
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Ain't That America (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 12, 2011 -- I've heard through the grapevine that the media feeding frenzy is in full swing. The shooting. The shooting! The shooting. But the shooting is ...
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Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand (Steve Almond)
Jan. 10, 2011 (The Rumpus) -- It’s a sunny winter day in Tucson, Arizona. There’s an event being held in the parking lot of a supermarket called Safeway. The local member of congress, a woman named ...
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America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns (Nathan Diebenow)
Jan. 10, 2011 (RawStory) -- The Obama administration's $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere "pin-prick" to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the ...
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Jared Got a Gun | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 10, 2011 -- Did anyone else notice that Speaker of the House John Boehner did not shed a tear when issuing his statement about the massacre in Arizona ...
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A note from Joe Bageant -- Update Feb. 12
Jan. 4, 2011 -- Dear friends, associates and fellow travelers, As you may or may not know, I have been struck down by an extremely serious form of cancer. Presently I am back in the United States ...
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Bees in Freefall as Study Shows Sharp US Decline (Alok Jha)
Jan. 4, 2011 (Guardian/UK) -- The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96 percent in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census ...
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