Economy
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We Americans Better Damn Well... Beware (Gregory Crawford)
Mar. 13, 2011 (World News Trust) -- Recent efforts by Republican politicians to eliminate federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have focused on NPR’s supposed “liberal bias.” In ...
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Let me remind you of something crucial when it comes to nuclear power incidents and accidents: They lie (MadHound)
Mar. 13, 2011 (Democratic Underground) -- People lie. When it comes to nuclear incidents and accidents, plant owners, government officials, and the media lie. If they can't cover up an incident, ...
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Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)
Mar. 13, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that ...
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Wis. State Senate Passes Anti-Union Bill, In End-Run Around Dem Boycott (Eric Kleefeld)
Mar. 9, 2011 (TPM) -- Capping a dramatic turn of events, the Wisconsin state Senate on Wednesday night passed a new, stripped-down "budget repair bill" -- which now excludes all the fiscal elements ...
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Ronald McDonald and Other Clowns (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Mar. 9, 2010 -- Libya's Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were being caused by, are you sitting down? Al Qaeda. It sounds absurd, ...
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'Operation Libya' and the Battle for Oil (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)
This is Part II of a three-part article Part I: Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? Mar. 9, 2011 (Global Research) -- The geopolitical and economic ...
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Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)
Part I of a three-part article. Part II. "Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil Mar. 7, 2011 (Global Research) -- The United States and NATO are supporting an armed insurrection in Eastern Libya, ...
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The Global Economic Crisis: Central Banking at the Centre of Power (Andrew Gavin Marshall)
Mar. 8, 2011 (GlobalResearch.ca) -- The following is an excerpt of a chapter by Andrew Gavin Marshall from the new book by Global Research Publishers, "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great ...
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From Buccaneers to Profiteers: On the Origin of Corporations (David Korten)
Mar. 8, 2011 (YES! Magazine) -- Like many Americans, I grew up believing that conservative values were about local control and personal responsibility for family, community, and nature. It seemed ...
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The 2008 crash isn’t over, only covered up: Reaganomics driving us into Phase 2 of meltdown (Paul B. Farrell)
Mar. 8, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- We have hard evidence Washington and Wall Street knew the 2008 crash was coming years in advance. Yes, they could have prevented it. But ...
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'I Don’t Think There Is Any Need for a Law against Fraud' (Dale Tavris)
Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Mar. 7, 2011 -- Those who say that banks don’t need to be regulated by government are either naïve, sucking up to rich and powerful bankers, or ...
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