Economy
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FLATWIRE:How Wall Street Occupied America (Bill Moyers)
Bill Moyers This article is adapted from a speech Bill Moyers gave in October at Public Citizen’s fortieth-anniversary gala. Nov. 2, 2011 (The Nation) -- During the prairie revolt that swept the ...
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FLATWIRE: Global Crises are Spiritual: A Time for Awakening
"Above all else," writes Mofid, "The purpose of the economy is to provide basic human needs as well as the means of establishing, maintaining, and nurturing human relationships while dealing justly ...
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Roubini Predicts Eurozone Collapse; World Markets Will Follow (RT)
Noriel Roubini Nov. 4, 2011 (RT) -- Noted American economist Nouriel Roubini says the eurozone is in the midst of crumbling, and with the rest of the world’s future at stake with a potential ...
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Americans: Awash In Spin (Paul Craig Roberts)
Oct. 28, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- I have come to the conclusion that Big Brother’s subjects in George Orwell’s 1984 are better informed than Americans. Americans have no idea why they ...
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Fraudulent Defense Contractors Paid $1 Trillion (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Oct. 20, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (Information Clearing House) -- Hundreds of defense contractors that defrauded the U.S. military received more than $1.1 trillion in Pentagon ...
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Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Oct. 24, 2011 (Truthdig) -- The occupation movement’s greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the poor and the working class, especially people of ...
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Totally Corrupt America (Paul Craig Roberts)
Oct. 24, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Last March I reviewed Matt Taibbi’s important book Griftopia, an entertaining account of the through-going financial fraud that gave us the financial ...
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Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields (Anthony Gucciardi)
Sept. 20, 2011 (NaturalSociety) -- Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1,000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically ...
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The lost bases of the US empire (Tarak Barkawi)
The US maintains permanent bases in South Korea, established in 1954, that house some 28,500 personnel The United States maintains more than 700 military facilities on foreign soil that may not be ...
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Wall Street Isn't Winning -- It's Cheating (Matt Taibbi)
A protestor's sign expresses the sentiment of the Occupy Wall Street movement at a Occupy Wall Street protest in London. BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images Oct. 25, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- I was at an ...
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EU Bank Failures Will Crash Wall Street -- Again: 8 warnings for Washington and Occupiers (Paul B. Farrell)
Oct. 21, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch ) -- Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea ...
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