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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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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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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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No Reason to Favor Private Health Insurers (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
The U.S. health care system is unbelievably inefficient, providing far less effective health care for what is incredibly high costs, compared to all other industrialized countries. The main reason ...
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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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Worker Rights: No Balls, No Gains -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant It will be up to us, just like it always has been… the writer, the Nicuaraguan janitor, the forty-year-old family man forced to bag groceries at Walmart, the pizza delivery guy, the ...
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What Obama Isn’t Going to Change About Military Commissions (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Obama’s proposed revisions to the military commissions pretty much exemplify his administration’s rather limited conception of what “change” means for the foreign policy of the United States.
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Western Media Propagandize Iran’s Missile Test (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Iran announced Wednesday that it had successfully tested its Sejil 2 surface-to-surface missile, and Western media sources took the opportunity to portray the Middle Eastern nation as a threat to ...
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After Pressuring Pakistan to Act, U.S. Offers Aid for Resulting Displaced (Jeremy R. Hammond)
The United States has announced $110 million in aid to Pakistan as the number of refugees fleeing the fighting in the country’s Swat district is quickly approaching 1.5 million. Jeremy R. Hammond -- ...
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