Economy
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Global Unemployment to Trigger Further Social Unrest, UN Agency Forecasts (Julia Kollewe)
International Labour Organisation (ILO) notes that social unrest has already been reported in at least 25 countries Oct. 1, 2010 (The Guardian) -- The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has ...
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Animal Rights/Vegan Issues: Where's the Left? (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 17, 2010 -- In a recent article, I discussed how America’s top liberal (sic) eco-spokesperson, Al Gore, conveniently ignores the primary cause of climate change: ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Dismantling the Empire -- America’s Last Best Hope. By Chalmers Johnson
Dismantling the Empire -- America’s Last Best Hope. Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, NY. 2010. Sept. 25, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- That the empire has caused much ...
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Towards a very serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system (LEAP-E2020)
GEAB N°47 is available! The Global systemic crisis – Spring 2011: Welcome to the United States of Austerity / Towards a very serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system Sept. 16, ...
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Retail Sales in U.S. Increase for a Second Month (Shobhana Chandra)
Sept. 14, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Sales at U.S. retailers rose in August for a second consecutive month, easing concern the economy will stumble in the second half of the year. Purchases increased 0.4 ...
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Global Collapse of the Fiat Money System (Matthias Chang)
Too-Big-To-Fail Global Banks Will Collapse Between Now and First Quarter 2011 When Quantitative Easing Has Run Its Course and Fails Aug. 31, 2010 (Global Research) -- Readers of my articles will ...
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Do Not Pity the Democrats (Chris Hedges)
Sept. 13, 2010 (TruthDig) -- There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religious ...
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International Panel Reaches Accord on New Rules for Banking Industry (New York Times)
Sept. 12, 2010 (New York Times) -- Top central bankers and bank regulators agreed Sunday in Basel, Switzerland, on far-reaching new rules for the global banking industry that are designed to avert ...
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Walking in Reagan's Shoes (Mike Whitney)
Sept. 10, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The Fed's Beige Book, which was released Wednesday, provides a sobering look at an economy that is sputtering-along on empty. Nearly all the districts ...
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So Many Suckers, So Few Bridges (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 10, 2010 -- I sometimes don’t know who I am anymore. As I was walking to the library and I saw a younger man in a business suit buying gas. I thought to ...
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Fed Banks: `Widespread Signs of a Deceleration' in Economy (Joshua Zumbrun)
Sept. 8, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy maintained its expansion while showing “widespread signs of a deceleration” in mid-July through the end of August, according to ...
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