Economy
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Four time bombs that will blow up Wall Street (Paul B. Farrell)
Commentary: Too late to jail bank CEOs; only revolution will succeed Mar. 1, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Put Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in jail for six months, and all ...
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The Collapse of the Old Oil Order: How the Petroleum Age Will End (Michael T. Klare)
Mar. 4, 2011 (Information Clearinghouse) -- Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be ...
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Record Gasoline Grips Europe, California Faces $4 a Gallon (Brian Swint)
Mar. 4, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Gasoline prices are setting records across Europe and exceeding $4 a gallon in California as the rise in crude oil caused by the conflict in Libya punishes companies and ...
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Market Crash 2011: It will hit by Christmas (Paul B. Farrell)
Commentary: The S&P 500 is worth only 910. Get out or lose big Feb. 22, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Politicians lie. Bankers lie. Yes, they’re liars. But they’re not bad, it’s in ...
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How to Win an Election (Mark Brandly)
Feb. 16, 2011 (Mises.org) -- In his superb analysis of democracy, Hans-Hermann Hoppe observes that "prime ministers and presidents are selected for their proven efficiency as morally uninhibited ...
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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers ...
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BOOKS: Beyond Affluenza And Into The 'New Normal': Carolyn Baker Interviews David Wann (Carolyn Baker)
Feb. 23, 1011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- In our efforts to include voices that offer options for our current human predicament, we often overlook those in our own local communities. I’m fortunate to live ...
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Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 25, 2011 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the ...
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Researcher: Roundup or Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility (Dr. Don Huber)
(farmandranchfreedom.org) -- One of the nation’s senior scientists alerted the federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous ...
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All-American Decline in a New World: Wars, Vampires, Burned Children, and Indelicate Imbalances (Tom Engelhardt)
Feb. 24, 2011 (Tom Dispatch) -- This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet ...
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Leslie Gelb’s unconventional wisdom (Jim Miles)
Leslie Gelb Feb. 22, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- In its Fortieth Anniversary special issue, Foreign Policy magazine (now owned by the Washington Post) presents a series of articles titled ...
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