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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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The Economics Of Decline -- John Michael Greer
Many people nowadays fail to grasp some of the most basic realities facing us as the industrial age comes to an end John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report May 20, 2009 -- I opened last week’s ...
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Constitutional Rubbish (Joel Hirschhorn)
If prominent people tell a lie enough times, again, and again, and again, then the public lie becomes accepted fact, a cultural myth. So it is with the three coequal branches of government lie. It ...
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Pakistan: Half a Million Refugees as Fighting Continues in Swat (Jeremy Hammond)
Pakistani military officials have said that the number of civilians who have fled fighting in Pakistan has reached 1.3 million. A figure of more than half a million who have been registered has been ...
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Rule of Law Vetoed by President Obama (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
April 22, 2009 (World News Trust) -- There are no headlines or pontificating pundits, but the real news that has become crystal clear to any but the most delusional and distracted Americans is that ...
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Fed's Fisher Forecasts Steep Contraction in US GDP (Nipa Piboontanasawat)
April 14, 2009 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said “grim” figures indicate the world’s largest economy shrank steeply last quarter. “The economic data in the ...
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The Corporate State Is Here -- Bill Moyers Interviews William Greider
"The corporate state is here. And I'd say, let's not argue over that. The fact is, if the Congress goes down the road I see them going down, they will institutionalize the corporate state in a way ...
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An interview with Andy Worthington, author of 'The Guanta¡namo File' | Elizabeth Ferrari
"There really are no half-measures. With Obama’s promise, America has emerged from an extraordinarily bleak period in which the fear of terror -- however legitimate -- combined with the leadership ...
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The Unprofessional Interviews -- Michael Greenwell Interviews Mickey Z.
March 7, 2009 (Atlantic Free Press) -- The next in the Unprofessional Interviews series is Mickey Z., author of one novel, CPR for Dummies, and several fiction books and contributor to this site, ...
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Growing Transatlantic tensions on the eve of the G20 summit (LEAP/E2020)
March 16, 2009 (LEAP/E2020) -- According to LEAP/E2020, there are only two options left for the G20 leaders who gather April 2nd in London: either they rebuild a new international monetary system, ...
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