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We Are in 'Worse Situation' Than in 2008: Roubini
Sept. 2, 2011 (CNBC.com) -- The world’s developed economies are trapped at the “stall speed” of low growth and need to have greater fiscal stimulus and less austerity to kick-start growth, leading ...
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Stocks, Euro Tumble on Greece Debt Concern (Stuart Wallace and Rita Nazareth)
Sept. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks sank, while the euro slid to a ten-year low versus the yen and a six-month low against the dollar, as concern grew about Greece’s debt crisis. European bank and ...
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Libya’s Next Fight: Overcoming Western Designs (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2011 -- At a press conference in Tripoli Aug. 26, a statement read aloud by top Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj was reassuring. Just a few months ...
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Life in an Age of Looting: 'Some Will Rob You with a Sixgun and Some with a Fountain Pen (Phil Rockstroh)
Aug. 12, 2011 (World News Trust) -- As the poor of Britain rise in a fury of inchoate rage and stock exchanges worldwide experience manic upswings and panicked swoons, the financial elite (and their ...
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It's Time to put the Euro out of its Misery (Mike Whitney)
Aug. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- We all know the drill. Bond yields start to spike in one of the smaller countries in the EU, and before you know it, the bigger countries are called in ...
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Cultivating Violence: Israel and its 'right-wing Zionists' (Prof Lawrence Davidson)
Aug. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- By now the world is aware that, despite the ardent wishful thinking of the Western media, the terrorism that struck Oslo July 22, 2011 was not ...
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The Corporatocracy: Bailouts Serve The Creditors; Enslave the Debtors (John Perkins)
The corporatocracy -- Bailouts Serve the Creditors; Enslave the Debtors Aug. 5, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As I write this, I am watching the economic chaos in Greece. I’m sure we’re all ...
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U.S. Stock Futures, Oil Plunge on U.S. Debt-Rating Downgrade; Gold Surges (Rita Nazareth and Nikolaj Gammeltoft)
Aug 7, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Equity futures sank, signaling the market may extend its worst slump since the bull market began in 2009, while oil slid as the loss of the U.S.’s top credit rating fueled ...
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Lansdowne Partners sells entire $850m stake in Goldman Sachs (Helia Ebrahimi, and Harry Wilson)
July 30, 2011 (Telegraph) -- Lansdowne Partners, Europe's biggest hedge fund, has sold its entire $850 million (£517 million) position in Goldman Sachs in a move that underlines growing concerns ...
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The Fed Audit (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
July 21, 2011 (sanders.senate.gov) -- The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the United States provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret ...
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BOOKS: Postmodern Imperialism -- Geopolitics and the Great Games. By Eric Walberg (Jim Miles)
Postmodern Imperialism -- Geopolitics and the Great Games. Eric Walberg. Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., 2011. July 17, 2011 (Palestinian Chronicle) -- The many stages of imperialism ...
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