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A Yard Sale in Chernobyl (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 3, 2009 -- "It's only a system," she said, as we floated through the sprawling supermarket's gleaming commodity lined ...
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Evil Syndicated (James Howard Kunstler )
James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust July 27, 2009 -- By now, everyone in that fraction of the world that pays attention to something other than American Idol and their ...
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Clinton Outlines Continuation of Bush Policies Under Obama at CFR (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Obama’s foreign policy parallels Bush’s. The train may have switched tracks, but it’s still headed in the same direction
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Is Obama Gorbachev? (James Howard Kunstler)
The eulogy for Walter Cronkite as "the most trusted man in America" on the CBS "Sixty Minutes" show said a lot about the condition of this nation -- though it did not signify what CBS thought it did
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America's White Underclass -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant. Photo: greenleft.org When seeing ain't believing, somebody's blind Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 18, 2009 "White underclass" is a term I've used often in my writing, and most ...
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Wobble Time (James Howard Kunstler)
The cat coming out of the bag this week -- a frazzled, flaming, rabid, death-dealing cat -- is the news that Goldman Sachs will announce impressive second-quarter profits, and set aside $18 billion ...
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Tamil Death Doll 'Is 1,400 A Week' At Manik Farm Camp In Sri Lanka (Rhys Blakely)
July 10, 2009 -- Mumbai (The Times) -- About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil ...
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Has the U.S. Played a Role in Fomenting Unrest During Iran’s Election? (Jeremy R. Hammond)
There is ample reason to believe that the United States likely had a hand in fomenting the chaos that has plagued Iran since its June election, which many commentators have compared to the 1979 ...
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Global Systemic Crisis In Summer 2009: The Cumulative Impact Of Three Rogue Waves (LEAP/E2020)
As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 as early as October 2008, on the eve of summer 2009, the question of the U.S. and UK capacity to finance their unbridled public deficits has become the central question ...
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The Free And The Dead (James Howard Kunstler)
Over the last ten days, somebody shot the "Green Shoots" narrative in the head. There is no way the American economy can re-expand.
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Interview: Journalist Files Suit Alleging H1N1 'Swine Flu' A Hoax To Sell Vaccines (Kathlyn Stone)
Credit: Public domain (CC0) Interview with Jane Burgermeister, a science journalist who has filed criminal charges against the World Health Organization, U.S. officials and business executives. She ...
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