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Drones and Democracy in Afghanistan (Ramzy Baroud)
By Ramzy Baroud With elections just around the corner in Afghanistan, it might be timely to reflect on the US engagement with that stricken nation and consider just how much foreign intervention has ...
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Financial Crisis Called Off (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 24, 2009 -- Whew, what a relief! Everybody from Ben Bernanke and a Who's Who of banking poobahs schmoozing it up in the heady vapors of Jackson Hole, ...
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This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87% Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428% Chances ...
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Quenching a Thirst for Learning (Katherine Jamieson)
Aug. 23, 2009 (New York Times) -- I’m an adjunct professor, one of hundreds of thousands in an overeducated, unmoored, disposable work force staffing a majority of the nation’s colleges and ...
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Wise Old Mexico (Charles Dews)
Charles Dews -- World News Trust Aug. 24, 2009 (ERGONGARICUARO, Michoacán, Mexico) -- Well, whaddaya know, gringos? Mexico, poor backward Mexico, my chosen home and hearth of my heart, has ...
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Blackwater Hit Squads: What Was the CIA Thinking? (Robert Baer)
Blackwater contractors take part in a firefight in Najaf, Iraq. Credit: Gervasio Sanchez / AP Aug. 21, 2009 (Time Magazine) -- The other shoe has dropped. CIA Director Leon Panetta, it turns out, ...
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Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession (AP)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed ...
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Existing Home Sales in U.S. Jump to Two-Year High (Shobhana Chandra)
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of existing U.S. homes jumped more than forecast in July to the highest level in almost two years, signaling the housing crisis that crippled the world’s largest economy ...
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Cause of destruction of WTC discovered (David Scrimshaw)
Aug. 12, 2009 (NewsChief.com) WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- As disturbing as 9/11 was, the peer-reviewed paper of Dr. Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen is causing shockwaves around the world. In ...
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Roots of the Upcoming Nuclear Crisis (Daniel Ellsberg)
Roots of the Upcoming Nuclear Crisis (or, Dr. Strangelove Lives: How Those Who Do Not Love the Bomb Should Learn to Start Worrying) by Daniel Ellsberg on August 20, 2009 The chance that some nuclear ...
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The world's worst polluter: U.S. military (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 20, 2009 -- No matter what we're led to believe, the world's worst polluter is not your cousin who refuses to recycle or that co-worker who drives a gas guzzler or ...
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