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Bush Gave the Taliban $43 Million Four Months before 9/11 (Brandon Friedman)
As Barack Obama begins the effort of turning America's attention toward the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan--and as American soldiers die at the hands of Taliban militants in numbers never ...
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Wall Street's Great Deflation (William Greider)
Phil Gramm, the senator-banker who until recently advised John McCain's campaign, did get it right about a "nation of whiners," but he misidentified the faint-hearted.
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Oil Falls Most in 3 Years as Slowing Economy Threatens Demand (Margot Habiby)
July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil tumbled 5 percent, the most in more than three years, amid concern that a slower U.S. economy will curtail demand for oil and gasoline.
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Wholesale Prices Soar in June; Sales are Sluggish (Martin Crutsinger)
WASHINGTON - The economy showed the depth of its twin problems on Tuesday, slow growth and rising inflation, as the nation wrestled with a teetering financial system, a slumping dollar and rising ...
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I Think I Saw Tom Paine On The 4th Of July (Carolyn Baker)
These are the times that try men's souls. ~Thomas Paine~ July 7, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Everyone said I must attend a Fourth of July parade in New England. I yawned and thought of all the Fourth ...
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A Kodak Moment: The Not-So-Historic Talabani-Barak Handshake (Ramzy Baroud)
(World News Trust) -- Most people would not have even realised that the 23rd congress of the Socialist International was being held near Athens were it not for the moment when Israeli Defence ...
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Commodities Trader Speaks about 9/11 (Video)
E18ote1E4PY Carlton Brown speaks the unspeakable, openly.
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Prosecutor's Name Turns Up on Terrorist Watch List (Lara Jakes Jordan)
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's former top criminal prosecutor says the government's terror watch list likely has caused thousands of innocent Americans to be questioned, searched or otherwise ...
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Ghost Ships (Alexa)
Brothers that live when we are dead, don't set yourself against us too. If you could pity us instead, then God may sooner pity you. We five or six strung up to view, dangling the flesh we fed so ...
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Event Horizon (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- There's a particular moment known to all Baby Boomers when Wile E. Coyote, in a rapture of over-reaching, has run past the edge of the mesa and, still licking his chops and ...
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Bush to Lift Offshore Drilling Ban(Jeremy Pelofsky and Tom Doggett)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush plans to lift a ban on offshore drilling on Monday to combat soaring energy prices, a largely symbolic move unlikely to have any short-term ...
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