Europe
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The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding | Greg Palast
June 27, 2012 (Nation of Change) -- The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor -- and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it -- predicted and ...
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A Huge Break in the LIBOR Banking Investigation | Matt Taibbi
Oli Scarff/Getty Images June 28, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- This is a huge story: On Wednesday, Barclays won the race to reach a deal with U.S. and British regulators, beating UBS, which was reportedly ...
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Is Your Mortgage Payment Based on Lies? | Mark Whitehouse
Jun. 27, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to trust a group of banks in London to set a benchmark borrowing rate that affects the value of some $360 trillion in mortgage loans, ...
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Barclays Reduced Libor After October 2008 Bank of England Call | Joshua Gallu
Jun. 27, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc (BARC) deliberately reported artificially low borrowing costs at the height of the 2008 financial market turmoil after a senior manager discussed external ...
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Barclays Fined by U.K., U.S. for Falsifying Libor Rates | Lindsay Fortado and Silla Brush
Jun. 27, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc (BARC) was fined 290 million pounds ($451.4 million), the largest penalties ever imposed by regulators in the U.S. and U.K., after admitting it submitted ...
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Banker to the Bankers Knows the Numbers Are Lying | Jonathan Weil
June 28, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank for International Settlements, which acts as a bank for the world’s central banks, should know fudged numbers when it sees them. What may come as a surprise is ...
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The Twilight Of Investment | John Michael Greer
June 20, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- It’s been a few weeks since the conversation on this blog veered away from the decline and fall of American empire to comment on points raised by the recent Age ...
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Hubris as the Evil Force in History | Paul Craig Roberts
The Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas) (July 21, 1861)June 12, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- I have always been intrigued by the Battle of Bull Run, the opening battle of the U.S. Civil War, known to ...
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War Correspondent | David Glenn Cox
Ernie PyleDavid Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Apr. 26, 2012 -- There is a war going on our there, a war without and the war within, a war for the soul of America. For three years now, I have lived ...
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America: The Price of Supremacy | John Michael Greer
Apr. 18, 2012 (Archruid Report) -- A complex and self-justifying mythology has grown up around the process by which, during and after the Second World War, the United States made the transition from ...
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BOOKS: Side by Side - Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine. Edited by Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh | Jim Miles
Side by Side - Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine. Edited by: Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh. New Press, New York, 2012. Apr 22, 2012 (Palestinian Chronicle) -- This is an intriguing work of ...
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