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Why The Right Loves a Disaster
By Naomi Klein
Over the last four years, I have been researching a
little-explored area of economic history: the way that
crises have paved the way for the march of the right-wing
economic revolution across the globe. A crisis hits,
panic spreads and the ideologues fill the breach,
rapidly reengineering societies in the interests of
large corporate players. It’s a maneuver I call
“disaster capitalism.” Continue
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American Liberty Teetering on Edge of Abyss
By Paul Craig Roberts
“Your papers please” has long been a phrase associated
with Hitler’s Gestapo. People without the Third Reich’s
stamp of approval were hauled off to Nazi Germany’s
version of Halliburton detention centers. Today
Americans are on the verge of being asked for their
papers, although probably without the “please.”
Continue
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The Power of Nightmares
Must See Video Documentary
In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better
world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.
The most frightening of these is the threat of an international
terror network. But just as the dreams were not true,
neither are these nightmares. Click to view
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The Great Credit Unwind of '08
By Mike Whitney
The financial system has been handed over to scam-artists
and fraudsters who've created a multi-trillion dollar inverted
pyramid of shaky, hyper-inflated, subprime slop that they've
sold around the world with the tacit support of the ratings
agencies and the US political establishment. (wink, wink)
Now that system is about to collapse and there's nothing that
the Federal Reserve can do to stop the Great Credit Unwind
of '08.Continue
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Traffic Jam On The Highway To Hell
By Sheila Samples
I used to think Americans had been whipped by 9-11
terror confusion into some sort of national stupor. That's
not so. We're trapped in a massive spiritual paralysis.
Normal people are simply not equipped to deal with
remorseless psychopaths. Continue
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An Excess of Civility
By James Rothenberg
The President gave his State of the Union address. It was
a model affair, magnificent in the practiced art of decorum
fitting an advanced nation. A set play in one act. The
stage empty of meaning and mystery. A refined audience
confident of its indispensability, and nothing more. Continue
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America’s Middle Classes Are No Longer Coping
By Robert Reich
The fact is, middle-class families have exhausted the coping
mechanisms they have used for more than three decades
to get by on median wages that are barely higher than
they were in 1970, adjusted for inflation. Male wages
today are in fact lower than they were then. Continue
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Eight More Years?
By Ralph Nader
Bill Clinton’s presidential resume was full of favors for
the rich and powerful. Corporate welfare subsidies,
handouts and giveaways flourished, including
subsidizing the Big Three Auto companies for a
phony research partnership while indicating there
would be no new fuel efficiency regulations while
he was President. Continue
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Which is worse: Regulation or De-Regulation?
By Paul Craig Roberts
Libertarians preach the morality of the market,
and socialists preach the morality of the state.
Those convinced of the market’s morality want
de-regulation; those convinced of the state’s
morality want regulation. In truth, neither
seems to work. Continue
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America's Teetering Banking System "Where Did All Our Deposits Go?"
By Mike Whitney
Why did Bernanke cut rates when he knew it would just
add to the housing woes? Continue
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What A Great Freakin’ War!!
By David Michael GreenFor months – nay, years! – I’ve
been ranting about how screwed up the war in Iraq has
been, and how disastrous have been its consequences.
What a fool I’ve been! In reality, it’s actually turned
out pretty great. Continue
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Dead For Lies
By Cindy Sheehan
It is imperative that BushCo be impeached for past,
present and future high crimes and misdemeanors.
They have not only lied about the reasons for invading
and occupying Iraq, but they have used their war
of terror to redefine and lie about torture and commit
unspeakable crimes against humanity. Continue
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Return to Triangulation
Ambition, Power and the Clintons
By Ralph Nader
For Bill and Hillary Clinton, the ultimate American
dream is eight more years. Yet how do you think they
would react to having dozens of partisans at their
rallies sporting large signs calling for EIGHT MORE YEARS,
EIGHT MORE YEARS? Continue
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At the Edge of the Abyss
By Gary North
All in all, this week was a sign that the economy is headed
toward the falls. Keep close watch on the canoe
100 yards ahead of you. If, without warning, it
disappears, start paddling for the shore. Either
shore. Fast. Continue
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The Profile of a Third World Country
How Bush Destroyed the Dollar
By Paul Craig Roberts
It is difficult to know where Bush has accomplished
the most destruction, the Iraqi economy or the US
economy. Continue
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Chalmers Johnson on the Myth of Free Trade
By Chalmers Johnson
In the 1970s, scared that its position as global hegemon
was being undermined, the United States turned
decisively toward neoliberalism. It ordered the unholy
trinity to bring the developing countries to heel.
Through draconian interventions into the most
intimate details of the lives of their clients, including
birth control, ethnic integration, and gender equality
as well as tariffs, foreign investment, privatization
decisions, national budgets, and intellectual property
protection, the IMF, World Bank, and WTO managed
drastically to slow down economic growth in the Third
World. Continue
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Don't Be Fooled By The Myth of John McCain
By Johann Hari
Right up to his twenties, he remained a strikingly violent
man, "ready to fight at the drop of a hat", according to
his biographer Robert Timberg. This rage seems to be
at the core of his personality: describing his own childhood,
McCain has written: "At the smallest provocation I
would go off into a mad frenzy, and then suddenly
crash to the floor unconscious. When I got angry I held
my breath until I blacked out." Continue
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