Economy
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Economy Close to Stall Speed May Signal Renewed U.S. Recession (Peter Coy)
Aug. 3, 20111 (Bloomberg) -- Economics isn’t rocket science, but the U.S. economy is a little like a rocket. If it has enough thrust, it can escape the tug of economic gravity. Not enough, and it ...
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Arab Awakening and Western Media: Time for a New Revolutionary Discourse (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 27, 2011 -- When President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried desperately to quell Yemen’s popular uprising, he appealed to tribalism, customs and traditions. All his ...
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An Economy Destroyed: The Enemy Is Washington (Paul Craig Roberts)
July 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade U.S. Treasury bonds if the White House and ...
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How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule -- David Korten
How is it that our nation is awash in money, but too broke to provide jobs and services? July 19, 2011 (YES! Magazine) -- The dominant story of the current political debate is that the government is ...
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The Fed Audit (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
July 21, 2011 (sanders.senate.gov) -- The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the United States provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret ...
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BOOKS: Postmodern Imperialism -- Geopolitics and the Great Games. By Eric Walberg (Jim Miles)
Postmodern Imperialism -- Geopolitics and the Great Games. Eric Walberg. Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., 2011. July 17, 2011 (Palestinian Chronicle) -- The many stages of imperialism ...
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Dante’s Slope (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 17, 2011 -- I have been at loose ends now for two, could it be going on three years? Without a phone or an address to call my own, I have access to these ...
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Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While Americans' Wealth Is Stolen (Dennis Kucinich)
July 15, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The rancorous debate over the debt belies a fundamental truth of our economy -- that it is run for the few at the expense of the many, that our entire government ...
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Next Up: Pakistan -- Ominous signs of a major new war (Justin Raimondo)
July 11, 2011 (AntiWar.com) -- I see someone besides myself has noticed all the “leaking” going on in the upper echelons of Washington over our rocky relationship with Pakistan. Suddenly Islamabad ...
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How the bubble destroyed the middle class (Rex Nutting)
Commentary: Sluggish growth is no mystery: No one has any money July 8, 2011 (MarketWatch) -- A lot of people say they are deeply puzzled by the slow recovery in the U.S. economy. They look at the ...
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Murdoch heads for a Fall (Mike Whitney)
July 08, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Boy, this is about as sleazy as it gets... Imagine that your 13-year old daughter has been kidnapped and you have no idea where she is. So you ...
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