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'Thumbs Down' on the EU Bailout (Mike Whitney)
May 14, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Barack Obama must have been very frightened, indeed. Otherwise he never would have inserted himself so forcefully into Greece's debt crisis. The truth ...
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Ecosystem in Peril After Gulf Oil Spill (Matthew Cardinale)
May 14, 2010 -- ATLANTA, Georgia (Inter Press Service) -- With engineers giving a best-case scenario of "weeks" before the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is sealed, some scientists are ...
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Giant Plumes of Oil Found Forming Under Gulf of Mexico (Justin Gillis)
May 15, 2010 (New York Times) -- Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in ...
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Our Rapidly Changing Planet (Dale Tavris)
Dale Tavris -- World News Trust May 14, 2010 -- Bill McKibben’s new book, “Eaarth – Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, is a real mind opener, and is probably one of the most important books ...
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Yemen’s Sorrowful Options: ‘Revolt, Migrate or Die’ (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 13, 2010 -- When the Soviets concluded their pullout from Afghanistan in February 1989, the U.S. government abruptly lost interest in the country. A devastated ...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Invention of the Jewish People. By Shlomo Sand (Jim Miles)
The Invention of the Jewish People. Shlomo Sand. Verso, New York, 2009. May 11, 2010 (Palestinian Chronicle) -- Historians living within their own nations develop within the mythology peculiar to ...
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The Days of Our Lives (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust May 10, 2010 -- Each of us, on average, will live for about 25,000 days. The first 6,000 days we are too young to have any impact on the world other than soiling ...
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And Chicks for Free? (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 10, 2010 -- The European Union came up with a trillion dollar bail-out for itself at the dawn's early light. Plus, each member gets a Latvian ...
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Louisville man going to prison for tattoo (Dave Sereno)
Louisville man going to prison for tattoo on tot Photos CantonRep.com / Scott Heckel Attorney Eugene O'Byrne, left, speaks with Lee Michael Deitrick, who pleaded guilty to tatooing a 19-month-old ...
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Peak Relationships: The End Of Suburbia Up Close And Personal (Carolyn Baker)
"Sailing the Seine", painting by Edouard Manet Evidently, the only way to find the path is to set fire to my own life. --Rabindranath Tagore May 9, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- For most individuals ...
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The Price of Courage: On Goldstone’s Bar Mitzvah and Finkelstein’s Book (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 6, 2010 -- In his report on Gaza issued late last year, prominent South African jurist Richard Goldstone accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. His ...
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