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The Betrayal of Gaza (Noam Chomsky)
The US is vocal about its commitment to peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories -- but its actions suggest otherwise. Nov. 6, 2010 (New Statesman) -- That the Israel-Palestine conflict ...
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Bombs Away: Afghan Air War Peaks With 1,000 Strikes in October (Noah Shachtman)
Nov. 6, 2010 (Wired) -- The U.S. and its allies have unleashed a massive air campaign in Afghanistan, launching missiles and bombs from the sky at a rate rarely seen since the war’s earliest days. ...
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James K. Galbraith: Statement to the Commission on Deficit Reduction by
Statement to the Commission on Deficit Reduction by James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen, jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of ...
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Eruption: As the Indonesian volcano explodes, scientists fear something far more catastrophic may be brewing (William Sargent)
Nov. 10, 2010 (Boston Globe) -- THE MERAPI volcano, currently exploding more forcefully every day in Indonesia, is located on the Sundra Arc, one of the planet’s most complex and dangerous ...
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The Fed and the Debased “Imperial Dollar”: Inflation, Stagnation and Higher Interest Rates Ahead (Prof Rodrigue Tremblay)
Global Research, November 7, 2010 "Under a paper money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation."Ben Bernanke, future Fed Chairman (in 2002) ...
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Waterboarding is torture, Downing Street confirms (Haroon Siddique and Chris McGreal)
No 10 dismisses George Bush's claim in his memoirs that interrogation technique is legal and helped foil attacks on Heathrow and Canary Wharf Nov. 9, 2010 (Guardian) -- Downing Street today ...
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Wall Street Wins Again (Nomi Prin)
Nov. 9, 2010 (Truthdig) -- The Republicans may have stormed the House, but it was Wall Street and the Fed that won the election. Regardless of party power plays and posturing, there are two ...
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Capitalism and the War on Public Education (Charles Sullivan)
Nov. 9, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- My own experience indicates that the average college student is more concerned with grades than with learning. Therefore grades are more of an impediment ...
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Illusions and Empire (Charles Scaliger)
Nov. 9, 2010 (The New American) -- On a bitterly cold day in mid-January, 1842, British soldiers manning the garrison at Jalalabad on the Afghan frontier saw a strange sight. Out of the snowy ...
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Outrage, Misguided (Noam Chomsky)
Nov. 4, 2010 (New York In These Times) -- The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats ...
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'Damn Right': Bush Boasts about Waterboarding (Ray McGovern)
Nov. 8, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- Former President George W. Bush continues to be beyond shame. Those favored with an advance copy of his memoir, Decision Points, say it paints a picture of a ...
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