Culture
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Penetration (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- The telling moment last week was Robert Hirsch's appearance on the CNBC morning "Squawkbox" financial show in which he proposed the probability of $500-a-barrel oil within "a ...
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Sleepwalking to Fallujah -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 28, 2004 Each workday I commute toward Washington, D.C. along Route 7, where patriotic war slogans are spray-painted on the overpasses, and homemade ...
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Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantDispatches From Blue Ridge Bush Country Joe Bageant -- World News Trust March 25, 2004 Bluebird, bluebird Take a letter up north for me These folks is fixin' to hurt somebody And it sure ...
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Status Quo-oh (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- A catastrophe for Iowa farmers will not be just a catastrophe for Midwestern Americans. In the Iowa floods, we'll see more evidence of how the problems of weird weather ...
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A Harsh Season (James Kunstler)
June 9 (World News Trust) -- The banking “industry” slept like a dog through the climax of the political primary season. Meanwhile, the banks sucked in scores of billions in cheap loans from the ...
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"We Were Lied To" (James Kunstler)
June 2 (World News Trust) -- This meme, which has been the mantra among supposed political "progressives" for years now, was reignited over the weekend with the publication of a memoir by former ...
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Anxious Hiatus (James Kunstler)
May 26 (Clusterfuck Nation) -- Loveliness was everywhere this holiday weekend in upstate New York, and it was probably hard for many to believe that the wayward nation would return to the dread ...
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Old dogs and Hard Time -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant Joe Bageant -- World News Trust June 12, 2008 Late at night through my window by the computer I can see my neighbor Stokes bicycling at 10 p.m. to the local convenience store to buy ...
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Joe Bageant: Breaking The Beer Barrier
June 7, 2008 (World News Trust) -- This is the text of a presentation by Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus , to the National Conference On Media Reform June 6-8 at the Minneapolis ...
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"Far From Normal" (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- "Far From Normal." Those were the words that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke used to describe the financial markets (and by extension the economy) these heady spring days when ...
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Monster of Ambition (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- I was pretty disturbed eight years ago when Hillary Clinton up and announced she was running for a New York seat in the U.S Senate. Say what? She didn't even live here after ...
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