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Arrigoni’s Murder Trial in Gaza: Answers, Not Just a Verdict | Ramzy Baroud
Vittorio ArrigoniRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2012 -- There was once a young man from a very small Italian town called Bulciago who wished to change the world. As soon as he finished ...
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Talking Wikileaks, Assange, Manning, Occupy, And More: My Conversation With Mark Hand | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 25, 2012 "There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination in the response." --Julian Assange When word ...
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The Specter of Military Defeat | John Michael Greer
Aug. 15, 2012 (ArchdruidReport) -- I’ve come to think that the single greatest obstacle that stands in the way of a clear understanding of the predicament of our age is the insistence that the past ...
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The LIBOR Scandal In Full Perspective | Paul Craig Roberts
July 19, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The article about the Libor scandal, coauthored with Nomi Prins, received much attention, with Internet repostings, foreign translation, and video interviews. To ...
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The Real Libor Scandal | Paul Craig Roberts and Nomi Prins
July 14, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- According to news reports, UK banks fixed the London interbank borrowing rate (Libor) with the complicity of the Bank of England (UK central bank) at a low rate ...
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The (Olympic) Games People Play | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 25, 2012. "What does the billboard say?/Come and play, Come and play/Forget about the movement." --Zack de la Rocha The Great Distraction ...
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The Distant Sound of Tumbrils | John Michael Greer
July 11, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- I’ve commented more than once in these essays about the echoing gap between the fantasies of elite omnipotence so common in contemporary America, and the awkward ...
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Higgs-like particle found in ‘milestone’ for mankind | Agence France-Presse
Proton-proton collisions as measured by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in its search for the Higgs boson particle. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images July 4, 2012 ...
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The Smartest Man is a Firedancer | Byron Wien
Byron WienJuly 2, 2012 (Blackstone) -- When the New Democracy party in Greece defeated the anti-bailout Syriza, I was anxious to learn what The Smartest Man in Europe thought of it all. The next day ...
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U.S. Banks Aren’t Nearly Ready for Coming European Crisis | Simon Johnson
Simon JohnsonJune 24, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The euro area faces a major economic crisis, most likely a series of rolling, country-specific problems involving some combination of failing banks and ...
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There’s Something Rotten in Banking | Bloomberg Editors
llustration by Bloomberg View Jul. 2, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- You might have missed the latest bank scandal, the one involving Barclays Plc (BARC), in the hubbub of last week’s U.S. health-care ruling ...
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