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• War, Budgets and Blind Ambition: The Limited Minds of the American Elite: by Chris Floyd

  
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  The American elites unbounded, unquestioned, indeed unconscious sense of imperial entitlement and dominance -- based ultimately on war, the threat of war and the profit from war -- is one of the defining characteristics of our age. --- --- The ending of the imperial wars and the dismantling of Americas global ...
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• The Free Market Fetish: Garbage In, Garbage Out: By Paul Craig Roberts

  
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  The failure to regulate financial markets has produced enormous losses to all Americans except the super-rich. But the U.S. government is guilty of an even greater failure. Washington has not only permitted but also encouraged the unemployment of its citizens by enabling greed-driven corporations to send American jobs ...
  22 hours ago

• The Worlds Greatest Insurance Heist: Timothy Geithner and AIG-Gate: By Ellen Brown

  
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  Each day brings more revelations of efforts of the NY Fed and Goldman Sachs to hide the details of the criminal conspiracy of the AIG bailout. . . . This is a real crisis on the scale of Watergate. Corruption at its finest. --- But unlike the perpetrators of the Watergate scandal, who wound up looking at jail time, ...
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• Tomgram: Washington’s Greatest Afghan War Danger: Self-Deception; Pratap Chatterjee: Destabilizing Pakistan

  
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  Operation Breakfast Redux: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969? --- --- While the CIA and the U.S. military have been expending enormous effort studying the Afghan and Pakistani situations and consulting experts, and while the White House has conducted an extensive series of seminars-cum-policy-debates ...
  1 day ago

• What to Say to Those Who Think Single Payer Advocates Are Wacko: by Paul Hochfeld

  
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  What do we say to our more conservative friends, who genuinely think that the Single Payer solution to our health care crisis would be a disaster? Try what follows. In the end, you may simply agree to disagree. Thats O.K., but what follows may give them pause to think.   »  noticia original
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• Incentives to Going Off Grid Bring Power to the People: by Matt Ford

  
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  The price of power has always been a political issue -- but now campaigners argue it could be the key to starting a green energy revolution. --- Roofs in the Vatican City covered with solar panels point the way to off-grid power.On February 1, the British Government announced details of the rates that will be paid ...
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• Adios, Chunko…

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 480
  The headline in El Universal says it all: El PRD expulsa a diputado racista Federal Deputy for Chiapas, Ariel Gómez León, whining about his party’s request that deputies give up one day’s per diem of their already outrageously large daily allowance (which is on top of their over-the-top salary) to a Haitian ...
  4 days ago

• A word

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 480
  I really didn’t expect to write a second wonkish post on Mexican constitutional language in one week, but this just snuck up on me. Sailing though the Constitutional Issues Committee of the Chamber of Deputies by a lopsided margin of eighteen to five, was a one word change to the Mexican Constitution which may ...
  6 days ago

• Roubini Sees ‘Very Dismal And Poor’ U.S. Expansion

  
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  Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who anticipated the financial crisis, said the U.S. growth outlook remains “very dismal” and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said the economy is still mired in a “human recession.” Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in ...
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• The Coal Ash Industry Manipulated EPA Data

  
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  The coal ash industry manipulated reports and publications about the dangers of coal combustion waste, reports Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The group stated that the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the multibillon-dollar coal ash industry to have virtually unfettered access to the ...
  1 week ago

• The Bernanke Reappointment Disaster: The Road to Debt Peonage: Be Afraid, Very Afraid: By Michael Hudson

  
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  If the economy deteriorates in the L-shaped “hockey-stick” rut that many economists forecast, what political price will President Obama and the Democrats pay for having returned the financial keys to the Bush Republican appointees who gave away the store in the first place? Reappointing Federal Reserve Chairman ...
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• Barack Obama and the Fading of Hope: by Matthew Rothschild

  
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  Did we need Barack Obama to say “the true engine of job creation will always be America’s businesses”? -- Did we need Barack Obama to give corporations, big and small, more tax breaks, when even John McCain’s top economist recognizes that such tax breaks are among the least effective ways to get the economy ...
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• Things fall apart, the center cannot hold

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 480
  Having set a new — and unwanted — record for “drug war deaths” here in Sinaloa last month (the cartoon is from El Debate) and reeling from a sudden uptick in mass murder ( 16 in Juarez , ten or so in a s hootout in Torreon today), Congress has finally started to ask what it’s all about. Porfiro Muñoz ...
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• President Obamas State of the Union Address Whoppers: by Dave Lindorff

  
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  President Obama gives a good speech. Hes smooth, unruffled by audience response, good at a timely ad-lib remark, and knows how to win over a tough crowd--all skills that were in evidence at last nights State of the Union address. But hes also good at telling whoppers. Here are a few. Health Care, Iraq, Afghanistan, ...
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• Never explain, never complain

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 480
  Ariel Gómez León, a PRD federal deputy for Chiapas and radio talk show host made a complete ass of himself (as both politicians are radio talk show hosts are wont to do) with a racist “joke” about Haitians.  The “joke” isn’t worth repeating, but what is interesting, coming from the U.S., is the reaction. ...
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• Economic Growth Cannot Continue

  
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  Continuing global economic growth "is not possible" if nations are to tackle climate change, a report by an environmental think-tank has warned. The New Economics Foundation (Nef) said "unprecedented and probably impossible" carbon reductions would be needed to hold temperature rises below 2C (3.6F). Scientists ...
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• Ministry Of Justice Lists Eco-Activists Alongside Terrorists

  
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  The advice lists "environmental extremists" alongside far-right activists, dissident Irish republicans, loyalist paramilitaries and al-Qaida-inspired extremists as among groups "currently categorized as extremist that may include those who have committed serious crime in pursuit of an ideology or cause". David ...
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• Revealed: See Who Was Paid Off In The AIG Bailout

  
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  A key question at the heart of the controversial bailout of AIG is just how much money the government lost. The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department have worked to keep that number secret and to conceal who was on the winning end. --- --- An unredacted document obtained by the Huffington Post list the damage in ...
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• Iraq Inquiry: Saddam Posed NO Immediate Threat: Second UN Resolution Was Not Necessary - Lord Goldsmith

  
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  Lord Goldsmith, the governments attorney general at the time of the Iraq war, has told the Chilcot inquiry that he believed in 2002 there was no imminent threat from Saddam Husseins regime that would have justified the use of force against him. --- --- While he told the inquiry this morning that he believed a second ...
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• The Kidnapping of Haiti: by John Pilger

  
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  In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the "swift and crude" appropriation of earthquake-ravaged Haiti by the militarized Obama administration. With George W. Bush attending to the "relief effort" and Bill Clinton the UNs man, The Comedians, Graham Greenes dark novel about exploted Haiti ...
  1 week ago

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