Commentary From World News Trust Partners
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If I'm Not A Consumer, Who Am I? (Carolyn Baker)
WINTER SOLSTICE, DEC. 21, 2008 (Truth To Power) -- On Dec. 17, a Reuters story Downturn Spurs Survival Panic reported that, "A paralegal, recently laid off, wanted to get back at the ‘establishment' ...
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Elements of an Inside Job in Mumbai Attacks (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Dec. 21, 2008 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Indian police last week arrested Hassan Ali Khan, who was wanted for investigations into money laundering and other illicit activities, and who is also said ...
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Capitalism At The Expense of All Life (Juan Santos)
Nov. 15, 2008 (Truth To Power) -- The bottom line is profit. Profit and the lust for it is capitalism's event horizon. Much like what happens at the boundary of a black hole ("boundary of a black ...
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Beware The Obama Hype -- What 'Change' In America Really Means (John Pilger)
Nov. 12, 2008 (Information Clearing House) -- My first visit to Texas was in 1968, on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas. I drove south, following the ...
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A Look Under the Hood at the (Potential) Obama Administration (Joshua Frank)
Nov. 6, 2008 (Information Clearing House) -- Tuesday’s celebration hangovers have finally started to wear off, and the pieces are beginning to fall into place. Change will be coming to Washington in ...
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Mountain Sentinel Newsletter (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)
Oct. 1, 2008 (www.mountainsentinel.com) -- U.S. democracy and free market capitalism are nothing more than myths. These myths were drilled into us in public school, and are constantly reinforced by ...
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The End of Prosperity -- The Worst Is Yet to Come (Stephen Lendman)
Oct. 31, 2008 (Global Research) -- From too much of a good thing. From the 1980s and 1990s excesses. From the longest ever U.S. bull market. Heavily manipulated to keep it levitating. From August ...
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Stuff the Bankers (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)
(www.mountainsentinel.com) -- I'll parse as few words as possible. We don't need this bailout. The economy will not crash if Congress doesn't pass it. What is more, the bailout itself could sink the ...
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Billions for Bailouts! Who Pays? (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
The current financial crisis facing our country has been caused by the extreme right-wing economic policies pursued by the Bush administration. These policies, which include huge tax breaks for the ...
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Energy Markets, 9.1.08: The Gustav Dividend Fails to Materialize, In Spades
The Energy Markets were looking for a big upward move, based upon the potential for destruction from Hurricane Gustav upon the oil and natural gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. Right now, it ...
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Has Lost Control Over U.S. Finance (William F. Engdahl)
(Global Research) -- When Henry Paulson agreed to leave his job as chairman of the powerful Wall Street investment bank, Goldman Sachs to go to Washington as Treasury Secretary in 2006 he demanded ...
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