1. Globalization and its Contribution to America's Economic Catastrophe (Richard Backus)

  Jan. 4, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The promoters of Globalization, in their headlong and single-minded lust for profit, have exhibited one major flaw, a complete ignorance of the basic economic principles underlying capitalism. While marginally lowering prices on products by replacing decently-paid western workers with third world workers at exploitative wages, they have killed the proverbial "goose that laid the golden egg."

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2. Top 5 Lies About Israel’s Assault on Gaza (Jeremy R. Hammond)

  Jan. 3, 2009 (World News Trust) -- Lie #1) Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.

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3. Gaza and the World: Will Things Ever Change? (Ramzy Baroud)

  Jan. 3, 2009 (World News Trust) -- In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes it’s comforting for the truth to be stated the way it is, with all of its gory and unsettling details, without blemishes and without censorship. When Israel carried out massive air strikes against Gaza Dec. 27, terrorizing an already hostage and malnourished population, I too tuned in to Aljazeera.

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4. Americans Should Act to End Violence Against Gaza (Jeremy R. Hammond)

 Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip was predictable, if not preventable. Israel's crimes against the Palestinians simply could not take place on such a massive scale were it not for U.S. support. The American people, therefore, have a responsibility to act and pressure their government to end its financial, military, and diplomatic support for Israeli violations of international law -- a necessary first step towards any viable and sustainable peace.

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5. My, We Do Live In Interesting Times - A Few Words Of Positivity (T.P. McWhorter)

  Dec. 2, 2009 (World News Trust) -- Silly, silly me.  I must be crazy, but I feel like the luckiest guy in the world!

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6. The 'Bush Effect' -- Hopefully for a Third and LAST Time (Mary Lyon)

  Dec. 31, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Third time’s a charm, maybe?

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7. Forecast for 2009 (James Kunstler)

  The big theme for 2009 economically will be contraction

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8. The Abolition Of Broadcast Television And The Average Poor Schmuck (T.P. McWhorter)

  Dec. 24, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Hello!  It’s been a while and it is nice to be back.

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9. Bernie Madoff (actually pronounced made-off) -- True American Folk Hero (John Kelley)

  Dec. 24, 2008 (World News Trust) -- While most folks on the bottom get the shaft, Bernie Madoff made it big. Madoff started his firm with $5,000 in 1960 at 21 years old. He supposedly earned it from installing sprinklers and working as a life guard, a pretty daunting task at 1960 wages even in Long Island. Bernie has now admitted to swindling rich folks out of $50 billion. Now if any of these people had any idea of how hard it would have been to save $5,000 in 1960 at those kind of jobs they never would have invested with him to start with.

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10. Prop 8 And The Same-Sex Debate (Hal Cohen)

  Dec. 23, 2008 (World News Trust) --- Let me begin with some erroneous suppositions:

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11. Waves of hope and change (Mickey Z.)

  Dec. 21, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It’s holiday season in Manhattan and despite the economic downturn, there seems to be no shortage of well-dressed humans cavorting, laughing, and spending freely. Walking among them, a homeless man begs for money -- shaking his tattered coffee cup (adorned with images of Greek architecture) to rattle the few coins therein. A veteran of the first Gulf War, this man is no longer concerned with yellow ribbons. Right now, he’d settle for a scrap of food and a dry pair of shoes.

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12. Gaza: The Untold Story (Ramzy Baroud)

  Dec. 18, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It’s incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with defiance, can be reduced to a few blurbs, sound bites and reductionist assumptions, convenient but deceptive, vacant of any relevant meaning, or even true analytical value.

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13. Counting sea gulls (Mickey Z.)

  Dec. 17, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It’s early November. I’m checking my mail when I decide to stand in front of my apartment building for a little air: Astoria, Queens, New York City, USA air.

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14. The Un-Asked Question (Hal Cohen)

  Dec. 22, 2008 (World News Trust) -- In a recent interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson, President George W. Bush offered that the greatest regret of his presidency was that the intelligence was wrong on Iraq.  He then went on to say that a lot of people had put their reputations on the line.  It hadn’t occurred to me at first that he omitted mentioning regret for the lives lost based on that bad intelligence.

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15. Cluster Bomb Treaty and the World’s Unfinished Business (Ramzy Baroud)

  Dec. 13, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the world by refusing to take part in the historic signing of a treaty that bans the production and use of cluster bombs. In a world that is plagued by war, military occupation and terrorism, the involvement of the great military powers in signing and ratifying the agreement would have signaled -- if even symbolically -- the willingness of these countries to spare civilians’ unjustifiable deaths and the lasting scars of war.

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16. Illinois Citizens Deserve Corrupt Government (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

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17. Legitimacy Dwindles (James Kunstler)

   Dec. 22, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Zounds! Public sentiment toward the accelerating economic fiasco has shifted, seemingly overnight, from a mood of nauseated amazement to one of panicked grievance as the United States moves closer to an apparent comprehensive collapse -- and so ill-timed, wouldn't you know it, to coincide with the annual rigors of Santa Claus. The tipping point seems to be the Bernie Madoff $50 billion Ponzi scandal, which represents the grossest failure of authority and hence legitimacy in finance to date in as much as Mr. Madoff was a former chairman of the NASDAQ, for godsake. It's like discovering that Ben Bernanke is running a meth lab inside the Federal Reserve. And out in the heartland, of course, there is the spectacle of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich trying to desperately dodge a racketeering rap behind an implausible hairdo.

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18. TOON: The Radical Fringe -- Shoe Of Damocles (Dory Hippauf)

 

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19. Change You Won't Believe (James Kunster)

  Dec. 15, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The peak oil story has not been nullified by the scramble to unload every asset for cash -- including whomping gobs of oil contracts -- during this desperate season of bank liquidation. The main implication of the peak oil story is that we won't be able to generate the kind of economic growth that defined our way of life for decades because the primary energy resources needed for it will be contracting.

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20. If Obama coached the Knicks (Mickey Z.)

 

  Dec. 10, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Barack Obama just might be the Mike D’Antoni of national politics.

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21. Obama Conspiracy (Mickey Z.)

  Dec. 8, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Mr. G.B. Shaw sez: “I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.” With that concept in mind, I’ll remind you of something I said in a recent interview, re: St. Barack. Obama’s ascendancy, I posited, “is an excellent illustration of how the system handles dissent. A black face, a soothing voice and a vague message of change -- all designed to keep the rabble pacified without changing anything at all.”

  This, I submit, could be deemed the ultimate conspiracy theory.

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22. Obama and the 2076 election (Mickey Z.)

  Before we get to 2076, first things first: Hail Obama, our brilliant, articulate, eloquent, half-black savior and prince.

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23. People Get Ready (James Kunstler)

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24. Woody Guthrie: A little recession music, please (Mickey Z.)

  Dec. 4, 2008 (World News Trust) -- If you were to open your mouth and belt out the words “this land is your land,” you could rest assured that someone nearby would add: “this land is my land.” The chorus to Woody Guthrie’s 1940 classic is common knowledge… as are the first couple of verses. But it ain’t until you get to the later verses -- those often omitted from official versions -- that you start comprehendin’ what good ol’ Woody had in mind:

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25. Obama exploits liberal denial (Mickey Z.)

  Dec. 4, 2008 (World News Trust) -- By now, we should expect the soft Left (and more than a few radicals) to gleefully guzzle the Democrat Kool Aid every four years. In 2004, it was Anybody-But-Bush. This year, it was Attack of the Obamatrons. Hey, when you’re a liberal, harboring multiple delusions comes with the territory, e.g:

 

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26. George W. Bush Belongs in Prison (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

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27. Gaza: Salvation in a News Broadcast (Ramzy Baroud)

  Dec. 1, 2008 (World News Trust) -- When Gaza's electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It's neither "American Idol" nor "Dancing with the Stars" that brings them together. It's the news.

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28. Does Mr. O Know? (James Kunstler)

  Dec. 1, 2008 (World News Trust) -- A lot of readers are twanging on me for refraining to castigate President-elect Obama for deeds yet undone. They're discouraged by the advisors and cabinet sectetaries he's picked, ostensibly because the crew coming in are Washington "insiders," meaning they can't possibly see or do things differently.

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29. The Gutting of our Civil Service- A Prelude to Fascism (Dale Tavris MD, MPH)

One of the most striking hallmarks of the Bush/Cheney administration has been the privatization of as many formerly government jobs as it could get away with. This effort has sometimes been referred to as “competitive outsourcing”, and the implication of that term is that privatization creates competition which ultimately results in better or more efficient services at lower cost.

 

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30. Restoring Food Security And A Dying Way Of Life: Getting To Know Your Local Farmer (Carolyn Baker)

  Nov. 26, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The U.S. financial system is in collapse, and energy costs are likely to come back again next spring and summer with a vengeance that we can't imagine. This will make the price of food, already off the scale, skyrocket even further. We must all get to know our local farmers, or better yet, become them. In the moment, we have the "luxury" of low energy prices, and it is during this time that we should be making food security our top priority.

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