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Slashing the Dollar - The Future is Ugly (Mike Whitney)
Oct. 13, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- This has the makings of a real donnybrook. The Fed has has hinted that it will launch a second round of quantitative easing (QE) sometime after its Nov. ...
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Nine Months After the Quake - a Million Haitians Slowly Dying (Bill Quigley)
Oct. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- "If it gets any worse," said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, "we're not going to survive." Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. ...
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Currency wars are necessary if all else fails (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)
The overwhelming fact of the global currency system is that America needs a much weaker dollar to bring its economy back into kilter and avoid slow ruin, yet the rest of the world cannot easily ...
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US Healthcare 'to Blame' for Poor Life Expectancy Rates (BBC)
Oct. 10, 2010 (BBC) -- The U.S. healthcare system is to blame for declines in the country's life expectancy ranking, a study suggests. The Columbia University report rejects claims that factors such ...
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How Democracy Dies: Lessons from a Master (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 11, 2010 (Truthdig) -- The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes spent his life battling the assault on democracy by tyrants. It is disheartening to be reminded that he lost. But he understood ...
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The Tide Has Changed: A Musical Essay and a Lesson in Humanity (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 14, 2010 -- If one tried to fit music compositions into an equivalent literary style, Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble’s latest release ...
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BOOKS: The Witch Of Hebron And The Myth Of Post-Peak Uniformity (Carolyn Baker)
Oct. 13, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- I am an avid fan of James Howard Kunstler's work. Whether I read his non-fiction The Long Emergency of 2005 or his recent novels A World Made By Hand and The ...
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Wells Fargo: No halt to foreclosures (Mark Calvey)
Oct. 8, 2010 (San Francisco Business Times) -- Wells Fargo said Friday it has no plans to adopt a foreclosure moratorium despite Bank of America’s decision today to halt all foreclosures. “Wells ...
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Over 60 percent of Afghans suffer mental health problems (Agence France-Presse)
Oct. 10, 2010 -- KABUL (Agence France-Presse) -- Scarred by decades of war, social problems and poverty, more than 60 percent of Afghans suffer from stress disorders and mental health problems, a ...
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How Do You Take Your Tea? With Heaping Spoonfuls of Irony, Of Course (David Michael Green)
Oct. 10, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It's so great that Americans are finally angry about the state of their country. But it's beyond awful that all the wrong people are beside themselves ...
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Government had Been Warned for Months about Troubles in Mortgage Servicer Industry (Zachary A. Goldfarb)
Oct. 10, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Consumer advocates and lawyers warned federal officials in recent years that the U.S. foreclosure system was designed to seize people's homes as fast as possible, ...
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