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Healing Transition Trauma In The New Decade (Carolyn Baker)
Dec. 30, 2009 (CarolynBaker.net) -- Ten years ago this moment, America was awaiting the inauguration of a new President. We knew that the new Bush administration would bring at least four years of ...
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Bomb, Bomb Iran: Lessons From Iraq Unlearned (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Dec. 26, 2009 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- In a New York Times op-ed this week that advocates bombing Iran, the author, Alan J. Kuperman, director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at ...
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'On Call' For Collapse (Carolyn Baker and Kathleen Byrne)
Kathleen with her backyard chicken, Rhubarb It's time to act with great intention. There's work aplenty to do in this weary world and people engaged in that work. Find those people. --Tim Bennett, ...
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Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery (Chris Floyd)
Dec. 18, 2009 (ChrisFloyd.com) -- While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty. It ...
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Winter Solstice: Working And Waiting In Humanity's Back Ward (Carolyn Baker)
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark. The vacant interstellar spaces...... I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For ...
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Global Warming, the Media, and the Impending Catastrophe (Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer)
Dec. 18, 2009 (Information Clearing House) -- Soon, President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen with his pathetically inadequate proposal to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent of 2005 ...
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The War Trap (Ernest Partridge)
Dec, 18, 2009 (Information Clearing House) -- Today, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and nineteen years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the military budget of the United ...
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Democracy & Theocracy -- Part II: From Communalism To Occupation Subjugation (Jim Miles)
How theological considerations, meritocracy, and the fear of social democracy influence perceptions on democratic values and influence actions justified as democratic, from Palestine and Israel ...
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2010: 'The Year of Severe Economic Contraction' (Mike Whitney)
Dec. 14, 2009 (Information Clearing House) -- Upbeat reports in the financial media, belie the effects of the ongoing credit contraction. Massive injections of central bank liquidity have prevented ...
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The Devil and Mr. Obama | Joe Bageant
Barack promised change -- and sure enough, things changed for the worse (Note: Patrick Ward, associate editor of the UK's Socialist Review asked Joe to write a piece for the party publication. This ...
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Examining Obama's Rationale for Escalating the War in Afghanistan (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Dec. 3 (FPJ) -- Outlining his rationale for the decision to send yet more troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama on Tuesday began with a familiar refrain: “We did not ask for this fight. On ...
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