Edited Stories
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BOOKS: Imperial Messenger -- Thomas Friedman at Work. By Belen Fernandez (Jim Miles)
Imperial Messenger -- Thomas Friedman at Work. Belen Fernandez. Verso Books, London/New York, 2011. Dec. 12, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Thomas Friedman is a writer whom I have avoided reading ...
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Life Outside the Box: #DeOccupyBinaryThinking (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” --Banksy Feb. 13, 2012 -- As we bear witness to the current version of America’s ...
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The John Brown Moment (James Howard Kunstler)
Daguerreotype of Brown, ca.1856. James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2012 -- When Gaia gets pissed off enough at the antics of humanity, she sends in her hit-man, Reality, to settle ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 13 11:15 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget. Posted on the Government ...
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PILLOW TALK: Mike Kelley, I Hardly Knew Ya' (Deborah Goodwin)
Feb. 8, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- I just read of the death of Mike Kelley, a sculptor, performance and installation artist, and punk musician. Detroit-born but LA-based, he was very influential and ...
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Occupy Your Spine | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it with our art, our music, our literature, ...
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Israel Vying for War: Attacking Iran Will Not Repeat History (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2011 -- On April 10, 2002, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons, “Saddam Hussein's regime is ... developing weapons ...
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Will Iran Be Attacked? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 8, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran. There is speculation that Washington has called off its two longest running wars–Iraq ...
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All Screaming Id, No Brains, No Honor (James Howard Kunstler)
Flying Nuclear Robot. Credit: Irregular Times James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2012 -- A Martian psychoanalyst observing the U.S. Superbowl on TV would be shocked by the vicious ...
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The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 6, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Last Friday the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate (U.3) fell to ...
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The Real Economic Picture (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 2, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams shadowstats.com. John ...
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