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America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns (Nathan Diebenow)
Jan. 10, 2011 (RawStory) -- The Obama administration's $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere "pin-prick" to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the ...
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A note from Joe Bageant -- Update Feb. 12
Jan. 4, 2011 -- Dear friends, associates and fellow travelers, As you may or may not know, I have been struck down by an extremely serious form of cancer. Presently I am back in the United States ...
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Bees in Freefall as Study Shows Sharp US Decline (Alok Jha)
Jan. 4, 2011 (Guardian/UK) -- The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96 percent in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census ...
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Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock (Noam Chomsky)
Jan. 4, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what ...
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Ralph Nader: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’ (Chris Hedges)
Jan. 3, 2010 (Truthdig) -- Ralph Nader in a CNN poll a few days before the 2008 presidential election had an estimated 3 percent of the electorate, or about 4 million people, behind his candidacy. ...
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Declaring Palestine: Revisiting Hope and Failure (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 8, 2011 -- When late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat read the Declaration of the Palestinian Independence just over 22 years ago, Palestinians everywhere ...
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Ibargüen Video on Journalism and New Media (Chuck Gregory)
This from another Wesleyan alum, albeit before my time there. I thought Alberto's views were highly relevant to the way news reporting has changed in the last few years. Alberto Ibargüen ’66, P’97 ...
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Colorado: stepping stone or dead end for the Hick? (Chuck Gregory)
I'm providing an excerpt from a New York Times Magazine article about a classmate of mine, way back in the '70s at Wesleyan University. No, it's not the famous coach... this guy is into politics. ...
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America Has Gone Away (Paul Craig Roberts)
Dec. 29, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). ...
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Economic Prediction for 2011: Profits for Wall St, More Pain for Main St (Robert Reich)
Dec. 30, 2010 (RobertReich.org) -- What will happen to the US economy in 2011? If you're referring to profits of big corporations and Wall Street, next year is likely to be a good one. But if you're ...
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Tax Cuts Move US Closer to Fiscal Crisis (Simon Johnson)
Dec. 30, 2010 (The Capital Times, Wisconsin) -- President Barack Obama is receiving congratulations for moving to the center on the tax agreement with Republicans last week. Both sides think they ...
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