Government
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Lebanon at Stake: Turkey Must Reveal Its Cards (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 2, 2010 -- The timing of the Turkish Prime Minister’s two-day visit to Lebanon could not be more judicious. Lebanon’s enemies have been banging the drums of war ...
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Fed May Be `Central Bank of the World' After UBS, Barclays Aid (Bradley Keoun and Hugh Son)
Dec. 2, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve data showing UBS AG and Barclays Plc ranked among the top users of $3.3 trillion from emergency programs is stoking debate on whether U.S. regulators bear ...
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U.S. Federal Reserve Conjures -- and Redefines -- Money (Matthew Cardinale)
Nov. 30, 2010 (Inter Press Service) -- ATLANTA, Georgia - The private central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has begun purchasing $600 billion of long-term U.S. Treasury Bonds, ...
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Crop Failures and Drought Within Our Children's Lifetimes (Steve Connor)
Nov. 30, 2010 (The Independent/UK) -- Children today are likely to reach old age in a world that is 4C warmer, where the 10,000-year certainties of the global climate can no longer be relied on, and ...
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Wikileaks’ next target: A major US bank (Sahil Kapur)
Nov. 30, 2010 (Raw Story) -- He's been relentlessly revealing some of the U.S. government's most deeply held secrets, but for his next act, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he will expose the ...
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Religion as a Tool of Repression (Charles Sullivan)
Nov. 30, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Free speech and dissent are always curtailed in times of war. Whenever soldiers occupy foreign nations, rational thinking is proscribed in favor of ...
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Fabricating Terror (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 30, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots? The latest one snared Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American teenager in Portland, Oregon. The Associated ...
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Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal 'Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership' (Amy Goodman)
Chomsky On U.S./Israeli Attack on Gaza Nov. 30, 2010 (Democracy Now) -- In a national broadcast exclusive interview, we speak with world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky about ...
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The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 29, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- On Thanksgiving eve the English language China Daily and People’s Daily Online reported that Russia and China have concluded an agreement to abandon the ...
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Obama Administration Weighs Indefinite Detention (Dina Temple-Raston)
Nov. 26, 2010 (NPR) -- It is starting to look like the president who campaigned on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay may end up doing something wholly different: signing a law that would pave the ...
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Global Poverty Doubled since 1970s: UN (Agence France-Presse)
Nov. 26, 2010 -- GENEVA (Agence France-Presse) -- The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown ...
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