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Event Horizon (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- There's a particular moment known to all Baby Boomers when Wile E. Coyote, in a rapture of over-reaching, has run past the edge of the mesa and, still licking his chops and ...
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Where We're At (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- Every time I saw a car towing a motorboat this holiday weekend, I wondered what was going through the head of the towee. Did they have a sense that darkness was falling on ...
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Not Your Grandma's Depression (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- This isn't so funny anymore. Intimations of a July banking collapse rumbled though the Internet this weekend while mainstream news orgs like The New York Times and CNN pulled ...
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The Covert Kingdom -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant Thy Will be Done, On Earth as it is in Texas Joe Bageant -- World News Trust May 24, 2004 Not long ago I pulled my car up alongside a tiny wooden church in the woods, a stark white frame ...
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Staring Down the Jackals -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant. Photo credit: Nobookunread.comLiberal Roadkill Along the High Road to Baghdad Joe Bageant -- World News Trust May 24, 2004 Somewhere in hell tonight, the Devil’s wife is setting out an ...
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Penetration (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- The telling moment last week was Robert Hirsch's appearance on the CNBC morning "Squawkbox" financial show in which he proposed the probability of $500-a-barrel oil within "a ...
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Sleepwalking to Fallujah -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 28, 2004 Each workday I commute toward Washington, D.C. along Route 7, where patriotic war slogans are spray-painted on the overpasses, and homemade ...
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Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantDispatches From Blue Ridge Bush Country Joe Bageant -- World News Trust March 25, 2004 Bluebird, bluebird Take a letter up north for me These folks is fixin' to hurt somebody And it sure ...
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Status Quo-oh (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- A catastrophe for Iowa farmers will not be just a catastrophe for Midwestern Americans. In the Iowa floods, we'll see more evidence of how the problems of weird weather ...
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A Harsh Season (James Kunstler)
June 9 (World News Trust) -- The banking “industry” slept like a dog through the climax of the political primary season. Meanwhile, the banks sucked in scores of billions in cheap loans from the ...
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Legalizing Occupation: Bush's Last Maneuver In Iraq (Ramzy Baroud)
(World News Trust) -- When U.S. forces descended on Baghdad five years ago, they seemed unstoppable. Military arrogance had reached an all time high, and it seemed only a matter of time before the ...
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