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Bernanke's Dilemma (Mike Whitney)
Oct. 27, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Ben Bernanke is in a real fix. His quantitative easing (QE) program is designed to boost stock prices, lower bond yields, and weaken the dollar. But the ...
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Airport Security Checks are Completely Redundant, BA Chairman says (Peter Hutchinson)
Passengers are needlessly removing their shoes and having their laptops inspected due to pointless security checks at airports, the chairman of British Airways has claimed Oct. 27, 2010 (The ...
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The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy: How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections (Joshua Holland)
Oct. 27, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Election 2010 is being fought on a wave of campaign dollars unleashed on the American people by the Supreme Court in its Citizens United v. FEC decision. The court, led ...
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WikiLeaks Founder Lashes out at New York Times (Christopher Alessi)
Oct. 27, 2010 (Huffington Post) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon analyst best known for leaking key memos about the Vietnam War 40 years ago, led a packed ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev: Victory in Afghanistan is 'Impossible' (Telegraph)
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, has warned that Afghanistan risks turning into another Vietnam, telling Nato that victory is impossible Oct. 27, 2010 (The Telegraph) -- Mr ...
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Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan Fueling the Taliban, Senate Report Concludes (Scott Horton)
Oct. 27, 2010 (Harpers) -- The American decision to rely more heavily on contractors and to downplay the use of uniformed military in Afghanistan has led to a sharp detour in the process of ...
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War Should Be an Election Issue (Amy Goodman)
Oct. 27, 2010 (Truthdig) -- Just days away from crucial midterm elections, WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, unveiled the largest classified military leak in history. Almost 400,000 secret ...
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Such is the Peace Process: Obama as a Salesman (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2010 -- It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that the resumption of peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have thus ...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Chosen Peoples -- America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election. By Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibowtiz (Jim Miles)
The Chosen Peoples -- America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election. Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibowtiz. Simon & Schuster. 2010. Oct. 26, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- A work on studying chosen ...
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The Stealth Coup D'Etat: U.S.A. 2008-2010 (Charles Hugh Smith)
Oct. 28, 2010 (Of Two Minds) -- The Stealth Coup D'Etat in the U.S. (called "The Quiet Coup" by Simon Johnson) was begun long ago, but the takeover reached fruition in the 2008-2010 timeframe. ...
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Halliburton Knew Cement for BP Well Was Unstable (Jeff Plungis)
Oct. 28, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The cement Halliburton Co. recommended to seal BP Plc’s Macondo well was unstable in tests and may have contributed to the April 20 blowout, the staff of a national ...
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