Europe
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How Goldman Sacked Greece (Greg Palast)
Nov. 8, 2011 (GregPalast.com) -- Here's what we're told: Greece's economy blew apart because a bunch of olive-spitting, ouzo-guzzling, lazy-ass Greeks refuse to put in a full day's work, retire ...
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Key Lesson from Iceland Crisis is 'Let Banks Fail' (Haukur Holm)
Nov. 8, 2011 (AFP) -- Three years after Iceland's banks collapsed and the country teetered on the brink, its economy is recovering, proof that governments should let failing lenders go bust and ...
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Global Systemic Crisis: $30 Trillion In Ghost Assets Will Disappear By Early 2013 (LEAP/E2020)
The crisis enters a phase of widespread discounting of Western public debt Nov. 16, 2011 (LEAP/E2020) -- Public announcement GEAB N°59 -- As we come to the end of the second half of 2011, it is ...
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Possible Credit Squeeze As Investors Dump European Gov't And Bank Debt (Nelson D. Schwartz and Eric Dash)
Nov. 18, 2011 (World News Trust) -- Nervous investors around the globe are accelerating their exit from the debt of European governments and banks, increasing the risk of a credit squeeze that could ...
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World Faces Years of Social Unrest as Economies Falter (Nigel Morris, Ben Chu)
Cars burn during a demonstration, in dowtown Rome Oct. 15 during an anti-capitalist protest. The eurozone debt crisis could lead to a decade-long recession and rising social unrest, the ...
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Roubini Predicts Eurozone Collapse; World Markets Will Follow (RT)
Noriel Roubini Nov. 4, 2011 (RT) -- Noted American economist Nouriel Roubini says the eurozone is in the midst of crumbling, and with the rest of the world’s future at stake with a potential ...
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The Impermanence of Knowledge (Marcus Kracht)
Oct. 28, 2011 (domokos-kracht.eu) -- Abstract Knowledge is essential to our existence. Without knowledge life is almost impossible. So we need to care about what we know. In the recent past mankind ...
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Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields (Anthony Gucciardi)
Sept. 20, 2011 (NaturalSociety) -- Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1,000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically ...
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The lost bases of the US empire (Tarak Barkawi)
The US maintains permanent bases in South Korea, established in 1954, that house some 28,500 personnel The United States maintains more than 700 military facilities on foreign soil that may not be ...
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EU Bank Failures Will Crash Wall Street -- Again: 8 warnings for Washington and Occupiers (Paul B. Farrell)
Oct. 21, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch ) -- Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea ...
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The Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels (John Pilger)
John Pilger Oct. 19, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- On Oct. 14, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In ...
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