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When the Federal Government Fails the People (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
(World News Trust) -- The hardest thing for Americans to do right now in this presidential election season is to fight distraction and, instead, focus on the failure of all three branches of the ...
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The Nausea Express (James Kunstler)
Oct. 13, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The G-7 world, the club of "developed" western nations plus Japan, has commenced an ordeal of suddenly waking up much poorer.
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On The New York Times Assessment Of The Vice-Presidential Debate (John Edminister)
(World News Trust) -- As it turned out, I listened to some of last night's presidential debate on NPR, and I think this morning's New York Times editorial gives a very fair assessment of what I ...
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The Bail Out In Plain English -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant --Yea though we walk in the valley of debt, we speak with the tongues of brokers Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Oct. 2, 2008 Any number of cultural historians have noted the American ...
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The Ponzi-Plus Plan (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- To paraphrase the late and great old war-horse of the senate, Everett Dirkson of Illinois (1896 - 1969), a trillion here, a trillion there, sooner or later you're talking about ...
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Falling Into Fall (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- So many shoes are poised to drop this week that the American scene might be confused for the world's greatest-ever clog dancing festival, but a closer look will reveal a circle ...
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Crashed Jet Carrying Cocaine Linked to CIA (Jeremy R. Hammond)
A number of jets connected to drug-trafficking, including a Gulfstream II carrying more than three tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico last year, have been linked to the ...
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A Ripe Moment (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- It turns out the real hurricane blew through Wall Street last week, not Galveston. This morning, Manhattan is strewn chest-deep with the debris of banking and at this hour ...
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Why Rednecks May Rule The World -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant Joe Bageant -- BBC Sept. 6, 2008 During this U.S. election cycle we are hearing a lot from the pundits and candidates about "heartland voters," and "white working-class voters." What ...
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Coup de Grace (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- As I write at 6:30 Eastern Daylight Time, Hurricane Gustave grinds out of the Gulf of Mexico to make landfall on the Louisiana Coast at Port Fourchon, the marshalling yard for ...
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The Abyss Stares Back (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- As the political conventions descend like the soggy forces of nature they have become -- the tropical depressions of politics -- the Republican party will be seen, with growing ...
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