Edited Stories
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'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now' (Patrick Cockburn)
Read more...Patrick Cockburn -- The Independent GAZA -- Sept. 8, 2006 -- Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores ...
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Briefing for the Descent (John Michael Greer)
Read more...By John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Sept. 7, 2006 -- As evidence piles up for the reality of peak oil, and more and more people start to grapple with an issue that challenges almost every a ...
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Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act (Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith)
Read more...by JEREMY BRECHER & BRENDAN SMITH -- The Nation Sept. 5, 2006 -- The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the Geneva Conventions. The Washington Post recently rep ...
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Self-Help in the Land of Denial (Mickey Z.)
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 8, 2006 -- Legend has it that the song Sexy Sadie was written as a response to what the Beatles experienced while getting Zenny with their one-time guru, Maharishi ...
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Oil, Heating Oil Plunge to 5-Month Lows on Ample U.S. Supplies (Mark Shenk)
Read more...By Mark Shenk Sept. 8, 2006 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil and heating oil tumbled to five-month lows, and gasoline fell, on signs that U.S. fuel inventories will be sufficient as economic growth in the wo ...
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Scientists Find New Global Warming 'Time Bomb’ (Seth Borenstein)
Read more...by Seth Borenstein WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researcher ...
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Clarification of the Huge Chevron Gulf Oil Discovery (Randy Kirk)
Read more...By Randy Kirk -- Energy Bulletin Sept. 6, 2006 -- The Sept. 5th announcement by Chevron and Devon and Statoil of the huge Gulf of Mexico discovery should be clarified. The announcement claims that th ...
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Wal-Mart, CVS Alarm Doctors As Retailers Push Clinics (Josh Fineman)
Read more...By Josh Fineman Sept. 7, 2006 (Bloomberg) -- Lillian Grabel had one day of blood pressure medication left and didn't want a long wait in a doctor's office for a new prescription. So she turned to the ...
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Dow ends down 75 on economic worries (Tim Paradis)
Read more...By TIM PARADIS -- AP Business Writer Stocks fell for the second straight day Thursday after warnings from several homebuilders raised investors' concerns about an economic slowdown and comments about ...
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What If? (Enrico Orlandini)
Read more...Enrico Orlandini -- Dow Theory Analysis SAC Sept. 6, 2006 -- Have you ever wondered just how bad things could get? Well, I've lived long enough and traveled far and wide enough to know that things ca ...
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The Art Of Lap Dining -- More From The Liberal (Sic) Media (Mickey Z.)
Read more...Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 7, 2006 -- The parameters of debate in the land of the free are narrower than Ann Coulters mind.
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