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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (Alfred W. McCoy)
Dec. 6, 2010 (TomDispatch.com) -- A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone ...
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Surrendering Our Civil Liberties (Cindy Sheehan)
Complacency over airport scanners is further proof Americans are allowing their rights to be taken from them Dec. 5, 2010 (Al Jazeera) -- As a very frequent flyer, I have wanted to write about the ...
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WikiLeaks Cables are Dispatches from a Beleaguered America in Imperial Retreat (Neal Ascherson)
Illustration by Brad Holland, Vanity Fair Envoys provide devastating truths, but world can admire Washington's patient mission to avert nuclear apocalypse Dec. 5, 2010 (The Guardian) -- There's more ...
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General Electric Tapped Fed To Borrow $16 Billion (Jeff Gerth)
The GE building in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Dec. 2, 2010 (ProPublica) -- Newly released documents from the Federal Reserve Board show that General Electric Co. was a significant ...
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'Miss TSA' 2010 Pin-Up Calendar
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Amnesia as a Way of Life: WikiLeaks Amid the 'Careless People' (Phil Rockstroh)
Dec. 2, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- As many wags have noted, the disclosures of Wikileaks have subjected the U.S. Empire and its operatives to a full-body scan. Turnaround is fair play, because, ...
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Nigeria 'To Charge Dick Cheney' over Halliburton, KBR Bribery Case (M.J. Smith)
Cheney served as head of Halliburton before becoming vice president under George W. Bush. (AFPCheney served as head of Halliburton before becoming vice president under George W. Bush. (AFP) Dec. 2, ...
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Mental Ghettos Weaken the US (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Dec. 2, 2010 -- So many intelligent Americans believe, say and do stupid things. When a large fraction of the population is like this, a nation rots from the ...
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NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical (NASA)
Dec. 2, 2010 (NASA) -- NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth. Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of ...
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The Big Economic Story, and Why Obama Isn’t Telling It (Robert Reich)
Dec. 1, 2010 (RobertReich.com) -- Quiz: What’s responsible for the lousy economy most Americans continue to wallow in? A. Big government, bureaucrats, and the cultural and intellectual elites who ...
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A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies (Paul Craig Roberts)
Dec. 2, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The reaction to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange tells us all we need to know about the total corruption of our “modern” world, which in fact is ...
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