Economy
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'Graduating' From Graduating From College: The Ivory Tower Crumbles (Carolyn Baker)
As concerns education, its purpose as presently envisaged is to enable persons to be "productive" within the context of industrial society. --Thomas Berry, The Great Work July 5, 2010 ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Letters from Palestine, By Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah (Jim Miles)
Letters from Palestine - Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. July 6, 2010 ...
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These Dreams (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 3, 2010 -- I woke up this morning after having nightmares all night. I slept later than usual because it was cooler than normal. The heat keeps me from ...
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US Economy Stuck in Misery (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 2, 2010 -- The middle class is dead. The United States has produced a self-sustaining two-class society. Most Lower Class Americans are in bad or ...
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Waltzing At The Doomsday Ball -- Joe Bageant
Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an ...
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The Journey From Anger To Anguish: Responding To Eco-cide (Carolyn Baker)
Messenger My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled ...
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Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)
June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the ...
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Pimco’s Crescenzi Sees ‘Endpoint’ in Devaluations (Wes Goodman and Garfield Reynolds)
Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO Bill Gross speaks during a conference. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Nations have reached a “Keynesian endpoint” as exhausted balance ...
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Warning: Crash dead ahead. Sell. Get liquid. Now. (Paul B. Farrell)
Commentary: 'Game's in the refrigerator.' Power's turning off. Dow sinking below 6,470 May 25, 2010 -- ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "This game's in the refrigerator! The door's closed, the ...
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After Haiti: A Conversation with John Perkins | Elizabeth Ferrari
Elizabeth Ferrari -- World News Trust Mar. 26, 2010 When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, the first person I wanted to hear from was John Perkins. Several years before Naomi Klein coined ...
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Editor & Publisher, Kirkus Reviews to be shut | Geraldine Baum
Nielsen Business Media will stop publishing the trade magazines. One covers the newspaper industry; the other reviews books. Dec. 11, 2009 (Los Angeles Times) -- The ever-shrinking world of print ...
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