Economy
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World Food Day: Global Crises’ Double Standards (Ramzy Baroud)
Oct. 23, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The 25th annual World Food Day, marked Oct. 16, was an occasion whose arrival and passing received little media attention or governmental fanfare. Evidently, much ...
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Economic Free Fall? (William Greider)
Aug. 3, 2008 (The Nation) -- Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. In this case, the people are Wall Street's titans, who are scared witless at the ...
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Joe Bageant: Breaking The Beer Barrier
June 7, 2008 (World News Trust) -- This is the text of a presentation by Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus , to the National Conference On Media Reform June 6-8 at the Minneapolis ...
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A Credit Card You Want to Toss | Robert Berner
Bank of America abruptly notified cardholders in good standing their rates would skyrocket if they didn't opt out fast. Is BofA greedy or needy? Robert Berner -- Newsweek Feb. 7, 2008 -- Credit-card ...
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Green China? (Stephen S. Roach)
China has a rare and important opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. A successful rebalancing of the Chinese economy -– moving away from excess reliance on investment and exports and ...
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Collapse Of Global Stocks? Welcome To The Global Systemic Crisis Impact Phase (LEAP/E2020)
What lags behind the ongoing stock crisis? This question is in the air these days due to global stocks current rout.
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The Failure of America as a Moral Force (Paul Craig Roberts)
Paul Craig Roberts -- ICHBlog Jan. 31, 2007 -- President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century. Armed with a powerful moral case against Bush, whose lies are ...
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Bush Is About To Attack Iran (Paul Craig Roberts)
Why Can’t Americans See it? By Paul Craig Roberts -- ICHBlog Jan. 27, 2007 -- The American public and the U.S. Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime’s determination to escalate ...
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Somewhere A Banker Smiles -- Muffled Noises From The Ranks Of The Babbling Paranoid (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Dec. 5, 2006 -- It’s hard as hell to keep conspiracy theories out of one’s mind these days. And I’m not talking about “Who really brought down the Twin Towers?" or ...
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Pissing In The Liberal Punchbowl, Again -- Joe Bageant
The Democratic conga line in the American House of Lords Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Saw the talking heads today, speaking the priestly tongue. Saw them nodding seriously, using words like ...
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Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem? (Paul Craig Roberts)
By Paul Craig Roberts -- Information Clearing House Nov. 9, 2006 -- It only took six years for Americans to comprehend George Bush and the Republican Party and to realize that the Republicans were ...
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