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• Split the difference: Social Democrats, Dr. Simi and AMLO

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 430
  If there really is a drug dealing “family” seeking to control the Mexican state, it’s the one headed by Dr. Simi… the cartoon mascot of Farmacias Similares and Best Laboratories. Victor Gonazles Torres and alter-ego The hugely successful — and profitable — generic pharamceutical company, which ...
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• Taking Care of Business: How Big Business Has Hijacked Climate Talks: by Oscar Reyes

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  A new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it’s a business opportunity. -- Companies hide behind ‘trade associations to side-step the bad PR they might invite for opposing measures to fight climate change. -- The American Petroleum ...
  4 days ago

• UK Inquiry: Blair Conspired With Bush As Early As February 2002 To Plot Iraq Invasion: By Dave Lindorff

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon Brown under pressure from anti-war activists in Britain is beginning hearings into the actions and statements of British leaders that led to the countrys joining the US ...
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• Oil Giant Chevron Accused of Extortion on Capitol Hill: by Han Shan

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  Chevron is piling on the lobbyists and PR firms in an extraordinary effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. -- But in a recent article for Politico, Kenneth Vogel, who tracks the confluence of money, politics and influence for the influential Washington news ...
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• Should Obama Fire Gen. McChrystal? - by Ray McGovern

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  If Obama does not put a decisive end to McChrystals politicking, and does not remonstrate with Rasmussen, we can conclude that the pundits are right. - If so, and if the troop increase is substantial-even though it will probably be portrayed as mostly for training of the (barely existent) Afghan army-disaster looms ...
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• If Nothing Else, Save Farming: by George Monbiot

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production. - According to farm scientists at Cornell University, cultivating one hectare of maize in the United States requires 40 litres of petrol and 75 litres of diesel(3). The amazing productivity of modern farm labor has ...
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• Tomgram: The Ruins in Our Future: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  All of us have been watching drought in action this summer. When it hits the TV news, though, it usually goes by the moniker of "fire." As weve seen, California, in the third year of a major drought, has been experiencing " a seemingly endless fire that has burned more than 250 square miles of Los Angeles County" ...
  5 days ago

• Single Payer Activists to Congress: Defeat Democratic Health Bill: by Russell Mokhiber

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  The Democratic health care bill is a massive bailout of the private health insurance industry. -- It is convoluted and complicated. --- And it should be defeated. --- Thats the take of a number of leading single payer activists. They will hold a press conference the day before Thanksgiving. And call on ...
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• Exiting Afghanistan: A Letter to President Obama: By Ralph Nader

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  George W. Bush, in the duplicitous run-up to the invasion of Iraq, insulated himself, closed his mind and refused to meet with civic associations in his own land. Like an autocrat bent on plunging a country into war and occupation, knowingly on false pretenses, he deliberately deprived himself of the information that ...
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• Progress, not perfection, for Latin American GLBTs

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 430
  Although the news of the gruesome murder of a Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, a cross-dressing Puerto Rican teenager — seen as a test of new hate-crimes laws in the United States — received extensive attention in both the Latino/a and gay media, the Latin American press gave more coverage to the upcoming nuptuals of ...
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• Why Cant We Do to DC What We Did to Seattle? David Swanson

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  We have to invest months of hard work in planning and coalition building. - Seattle was built at the grass roots for months through educational efforts and the facilitation of creative planning by diverse groups. A coalition was built that included communities directly impacted by the WTOs actions. And it was a ...
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• Plain Talk: Restore Law and Split Up The Banks! Restore Glass-Steagall: by Dave Zweifel

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  Glass-Steagall stood as a firewall between commercial banks and Wall Street since 1933, when the countrys leaders heeded the lessons of the 1929 stock market crash and set in place strict regulations in an attempt to prevent such an economic calamity from happening again. -- But the countrys financial institutions ...
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• "Worst-Case Debt Scenario": Société Générale Tells Clients How To Prepare For Potential Global Collapse

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction. -- In a report entitled "Worst-case debt scenario", the banks asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have ...
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• The Worthiness of Banker Charity: by Jim Hightower

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  As in our country, people in Europe are enraged at those hustlers of high finance who wrecked the worlds economies, then flexed their political muscle to get governments to replenish their bankrupt vaults. Infuriatingly, these bailed-out bankers have now returned to business as usual, including grabbing monstrous ...
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• Rising CO2 Will Cause Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Finds Antarctic Study

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  The British Antarctic Survey found that during past periods of high carbon dioxide, temperatures in Antarctica were up to 6C above current levels. - This could cause a sea level rise of up six metres, threatening coastal cities like London, New York and San Francisco. - It is the latest research to warn of the ...
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• Geithner Singled Out in TARP Watchdog Neil Barofskys Scathing Report on AIG Bailout

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  A brutal report issued Monday by a government watchdog holds Timothy Geithner -- then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now the nations Treasury Secretary -- responsible for overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs. - ...
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• Universal Single Payer Health Care Coverage: An Economic Stimulus Plan - by Stephen Lendman

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  Health care is a fundamental human right no different than food, shelter, clothing, clean air and water, and other essentials to life and well-being, not something to be bought and sold as a commodity. --- Universal single-payer coverage is the solution, not Americas dysfunctional for-profit model. -- If ...
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• The Great Global Land Grab

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  The global food crisis has prompted various rich countries to start buying up land in the poorer world to secure their food supplies. As well as affecting domestic food supplies in the countries affected, Sue Branford says it could be a time bomb for the world’s ability to cope with climate change. -- The day that ...
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• How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving and Learned to be Afraid: Of Turkeys and Holocausts: By Robert Jensen

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  I am afraid of what Thanksgiving tells us about both the dominant culture and much of the alleged counterculture. -- Here’s what I think it tells us: - As a society, the United States is intellectually dishonest, politically irresponsible, and morally bankrupt. - This is a society in which even progressive ...
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• A Nun Speaks Out On the H1N1 Pandemic: "The WHO Changed the Official Definition of a Pandemic"

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  Im a doctor of medicine and in 2006 I published the study Crimes and Abuses of the Pharmaceutical Industry. - Last May, WHO changed the official definition of a pandemic -- it changed from a logical definition (a pandemic is an infection of global proportions and with a high mortality) to an illogical definition (a ...
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