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Crashed Jet Carrying Cocaine Linked to CIA (Jeremy R. Hammond)
A number of jets connected to drug-trafficking, including a Gulfstream II carrying more than three tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico last year, have been linked to the ...
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Economic Free Fall? (William Greider)
Aug. 3, 2008 (The Nation) -- Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. In this case, the people are Wall Street's titans, who are scared witless at the ...
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ICC and al-Bashir: Ocampo's Justice (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 30, 2008 The crimes committed against innocent people in Darfur represent a shameful episode in the history of Sudan and its neighbors, including Chad, which ...
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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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Joe Bageant: Breaking The Beer Barrier
June 7, 2008 (World News Trust) -- This is the text of a presentation by Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus , to the National Conference On Media Reform June 6-8 at the Minneapolis ...
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Political Ponerology: A Science of Evil Applied for Political Purposes (Dale Tavris MD, MPH)
(World News Trust) -- I define evil as the exercise of political power -– that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion -– in order to avoid extending one’s self for ...
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A 'perfect storm' of hunger (Edmund Sanders and Tracy Wilkinson)
The U.N.'s World Food Program is struggling as costs of food and fuel skyrocket while the numbers of people needing help surge across the globe. Millions are in danger. April 2, 2008 -- KHARTOUM, ...
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A Credit Card You Want to Toss | Robert Berner
Bank of America abruptly notified cardholders in good standing their rates would skyrocket if they didn't opt out fast. Is BofA greedy or needy? Robert Berner -- Newsweek Feb. 7, 2008 -- Credit-card ...
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Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business (Matthew Rothschild)
Matthew Rothschild -- The Progressive Jan. 7, 2008 -- Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The ...
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