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US Banking: The Shit Has Yet to Hit the Fan
Large U.S. Bank Collapse Seen AheadBy Jan Dahinten / August 19, 2008 SINGAPORE — The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world’s … Continue reading
A Video Series on World Agriculture: Monsanto, Part 8
The World According to Monsanto (Part 8 of 8) Right now, there is probably no other company that is doing more to endanger the health of this planet, and it’s inhabitants, than Monsanto. With Nazi-like attitude, they are leading the … Continue reading
Iraq Report: Still Very Tense in Kirkuk
The aftermath of a suicide attack on Kurdish demonstrators three weeks ago.Photo: Benjamin Lowy/VII NetworkKurdish Control of Kirkuk Creates a Powder KegBy Richard A. Oppel Jr. / August 18, 2008 KIRKUK, Iraq — The phone rang, and it was answered … Continue reading
Democracy in Pakistan Still Has a Fighting Chance
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf inspects guard of honor before leaving the presidential house after his resignation in Islamabad Aug. 18, 2008.Photo: Reuters/Mian KhursheedThe fall of Bush’s man in PakistanBy Juan Cole / August 19, 2008 Despite Pervez Musharraf’s despotism and … Continue reading
Texas Horror Movies : The Top Five
A Handful of Non-Chainsaw HorrorsBy Hair Balls / August 18, 2008 We Texans live with our share of horrors: fire ants, Rick Perry, residents of Plano, but this entry was still something of a challenge. After all, coming up with … Continue reading
Riding the New Media : How Obama Really Did It
Cake and eat it too. From a party organized through Obama social-networking site. Photo by Porter Gifford / Technology Review.The social-networking strategy that took an obscure senator to the doors of the White House.By David Talbot This article appears in … Continue reading
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Six Questions about the Anthrax Case
A hazardous materials unit worker is hosed down on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, where worked continued inspecting buildings and offices for anthrax contamination. Photo by Ron Thomas / AP.Double Standards in the Global War on Terror, Anthrax DepartmentBy Tom Engelhardt … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthrax, Biological Warfare, FBI, Mainstream Media, War on Terror
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Predicting and Preparing for Economic Collapse
Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the USby Dmitry Orlov This article was originally published December 4, 2006. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am not an expert or a scholar or an activist. … Continue reading
Afghanistan: So Long As It’s "Our Taliban"
Malalai JoyaIs Malalai Joya the Bravest Woman in Afghanistan? An Afghan Woman Who Stands Up to the WarlordsBy Farooq Sulehria / August 18, 2008 Afghanistan lives in the fear of the US-sponsored war lords. These hated warlords are not scared … Continue reading
Net Neutrality: Why You Should Give a Damn
Photo by Sean Nel.‘Too much creative control is in the hands of too few people who aren’t creative’By Michael Janover / August 16, 2008 OK, I’m old. I was around when Channel 2 went on the air in Denver in … Continue reading
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Tagged Censorship, Digital Media, Freedom of Press, Internet, Net Neutrality, Telecoms
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Tom Hayden on Obama : Transformational President or Another Disappointment?
Screen print from Ray Noland’s (CRO) traveling Obama art show entitled Go Tell Mama!.‘Whether he wins or loses, the vast movement inspired by Obama will become the next generation of American social activists’By Tom Hayden Barack Obama, it is true, … Continue reading
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Tagged Obama, Presidential Campaign, Social Movements, Student Activism, Tom Hayden
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A Video Series on World Agriculture: Monsanto, Part 7
The World According to Monsanto (Part 7 of 8) Right now, there is probably no other company that is doing more to endanger the health of this planet, and it’s inhabitants, than Monsanto. With Nazi-like attitude, they are leading the … Continue reading
