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The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Hellish And It’s On Its Way (Addison Wiggin)
June 1, 2011 (Forbes) -- “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner,” says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, “because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused ...
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War Is A Racket (Major General Smedley Butler, USMC)
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC June 6, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Smedley Butler joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Medal during the ...
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The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths (David Schwartz)
June 5, 2011 (Common Dreams) -- The great writer Kurt Vonnegut titled his final book A Man without a Country. He was the man; the country was the United States of America. Vonnegut felt that his ...
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Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy (Michael Hudson)
June 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In ...
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Scott signs bill forcing drug tests on welfare recipients (Miami Herald)
May 31, 2011 (Miami Herald) -- Floridians will have to submit urine, blood or hair samples for drug testing before receiving cash benefits from the state, under a bill Gov. Rick Scott signed into ...
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Hail Caesar (Paul Craig Roberts)
June 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the U.S. government’s credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ...
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Deluded, Greedy and Obese: 'The brightest and best' in one generation ravage their children's birthright (Steve Salmony)
June 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Perhaps it is not only our fate as elders to confront certain obviously emerging and rapidly converging global challenges, it may also be that we elders ...
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The Truth about the US Economy (Robert Reich)
May 31, 2011 (RobertReich.org) -- The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down. Home prices are down. ...
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Welcome to Post-Legal America (Tom Engelhardt)
Post-Legal America and the National Security Complex May 31, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- Is the Libyan war legal? Was Bin Laden’s killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to ...
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Offshoring has destroyed the economy (Paul Craig Roberts)
A Nobel Economist Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans May 31, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to ...
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Is Fukushima Now 10 Chernobyls into the Sea? (Harvey Wasserman)
May 26, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are 10 times higher than those measured in the ...
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