Saturday, June 12, 2010

Jamaica's Shower Posse: How The CIA Created "The Most Notorious Criminal Organization"

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from News One for Black America.  This is an excellent synthesis of a number of reliable background sources of information in order to und...

Are Faulty Polls Driving Policy on Climate Change?

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from New Deal 2.0. The author finds discrepancies in US poll results regarding opinions on climate change. Looking at the questions asked by...

€uro: the worst case scenario

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from Voltaire. The author makes quite a dramatic assertion in this article--that the current European economic crisis was a deliberate attem...

Daniel Ellsberg Says He Fears US Might Assassinate Wikileaks Founder (10:31m video and transcript)

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from FireDogLake.  As a former target of a CIA hit squad for leaking secret government immoral and illegal acts , he knows whereof he speaks...

Financial Reform Conference Committee Offers Industry Lobbyists Chance to Reunite With Former Bosses

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from Open Secrets. A look at your government of the lobbyists, by the lobbyists, and for the lobbyists. Well, not really. It's actually ...

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How to Build a Better Neighborhood

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from Shareable. The article contains some good ideas about how to do this.

More Than 1 In 5 American Children Are Now Living Below The Poverty Line

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from The Economic Collapse.  Perhaps the greatest victims of the economic nightmare that is unfolding right in front of our eyes are our ch...

The Death Of Las Vegas

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from Economic Collapse.  There are quite a few U.S. cities that are complete and utter economic disaster zones in 2010 (Detroit for example...

When the Wealthy Wed, the Guests Get Gossiping

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from Vanity Fair.  This is my Saturday offering about the lives of the rich. Not sure how long I can get away with this, but you really shou...
Friday, June 11, 2010

EPA Has AgBiz Giants Run Farm Advisory Table

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from Food Freedom.  For decades, federal policy—regardless of which Administration or party is in power—has facilitated the gutting of the ...

New York Times Runs Yet Another Banking Industry Propaganda Piece

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by Yves Smith from her blog, Naked Capitalism.  This astute blogger spots spin immediately when she reads mainstream articles--this time it...

The worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the Holocaust. The second worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the state of Israel.

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by William Blum from his blog, Killing Hope .  This is a good rant about the many manifestations of hypocrisy that emanate from the Empire, ...

Pete Peterson Has Won: Americans Rate Federal Debt as Top Threat

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from Naked Capitalism. The background information on Peterson is here . The author provides polling evidence to show that public opinion is...

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AIG's problems far greater than Bush officials told public (9:41m video and article)

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from McClatchy news service and The Real News Network (embedded). An in-depth report on new details of the AIG bailout that suggest major cr...

Prisoners by choice: Gated communities and domesticated cells

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from Le Monde Diplomatique. A very thoughtful article on worrisome trends in the US that suggests the disintegration of society into islands...

Sayonara, America?

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from Le Monde Diplomatique. Hatoyama had no wish to break the alliance but affirmed his intention of normalising relations with the US and ...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Chairman of Goldman Sachs International Was - Until Last Year - Also Chairman of BP

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from Washington's Blog.  Our intrepid investigator of how the world is ruled puts his spotlight on one shadow figure in the ruling cla...

Obama, Democrats abandon stimulus for austerity

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from World Socialist Web Site. More promises by the Obama administration abandoned: With long-term unemployment at its highest level since ...