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Police Say Violent Crime In U.S. Cities Shows Sharp Surge (Kate Zerkike)
“There’s a mentality among some people that they’re living some really violent video game,” said Chris Magnus, the police chief in Richmond, Calif., north of San Francisco, where homicides rose 20 ...
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Rising Subprime Mortgage Defaults Add to Unsold U.S. Homes Inventory (Brian Louis)
``We estimate that the effect of looser lending standards could translate into another 533,000 homes coming onto the market as borrowers default -- an unwelcome phenomenon given the existing supply ...
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Juicing the Stock Market -- The secret maneuverings of the Plunge Protection Team (Mike Whitney)
The Plunge Protection Team may have been deeply involved in last Wednesday’s “miraculous” stock market rebound from Tuesday’s losses. There was no apparent reason for the market to suddenly “go ...
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In the World’s Eyes the US has become Amerika (Paul Craig Roberts)
Americans still regard themselves as the salt of the earth. But the rest of the world no longer sees Americans that way. When citizens of other countries turn their eyes toward America, they see ...
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The Dire Strait (John Damien)
The worlds most valuable real estate is comprised of two imaginary boxes. These boxes are two miles wide and twenty five miles long. They are the international shipping lanes at the apex of the ...
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What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks? (Christopher Ketcham)
It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park.
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Morons and Magic: A Reply to George Monbiot (David Ray Griffin)
In “Bayoneting a Scarecrow The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward’s cult.” (Guardian, Feb. 20), George Monbiot accuses members of the 9/11 truth movement of being “morons” and “idiots” who ...
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Senate Dems announce BINDING joint resolution to start troop withdrawal in 6 mos. (John Aravosis)
The Democrats are for getting us the hell out. The Republicans are for the slow bleed. Let the voters decide in November 2008 who was right and who was wrong.
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In Debt We Trust As The Economy Goes Bust: A Return To Serfdom? (Carolyn Baker)
A tornado of foreclosures, bankruptcies, missing money -- now arriving on the world stage as a housing bubble, soon devolving into a credit bubble -- is ripping through the United States economy and ...
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Vermont Votes to Impeach Bush/Cheney (The Nation)
By an overwhelming voice vote, Middlebury called for impeachment. So it has gone this week at town meetings across Vermont, most of which were held Tuesday.
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Top US Official Warns Arab Businessmen Over Trade With Iran (Associated Press)
A top U.S. Treasury Department official warns Arab businessmen and bankers that even innocuous trade with Iran could help bankroll the countrys disputed nuclear program.
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