World-News

Faced with a prolonged war against terrorism on global level, its defeat in Afghanistan, the United States seeks to fight covert wars in some Islamic countries, which will especially include Pakistan.

http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/08/us-learns-no-lesson/


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Islamic+countr
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=covert+war

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/10-0

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The Next Crash Will Be Much Worse Than 2008
http://lewrockwell.com/faber/faber116.html

The collapse is happening
http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente77.1.html

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Jeremy Grantham: The US Is A Banana Republic

When a top investor like Grantham sees the US like this, is it any surprise the market has crashed?

http://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-grantham-danger-children-at-play-2011-8


From Information Clearing House

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Valuable lessons from federal spending and debt

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/10/11

Americans are getting some great lessons in both economics and history in the federal spending-debt crisis. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that it definitely intends to keep interest rates low for two more years. Translation: We will inflate (and debase) the currency to whatever extent necessary to get the economy rolling again...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-08-10.asp



End this agony

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Robert P. Murphy

08/10/11

In the wake of the stock-market plunge and S&P downgrade, economic pundits of all stripes are rushing to explain events. But as so often happens in economics, 'believing is seeing.' Keynesians, monetarists, and Austrians can all look at the slow-motion train wreck and feel vindicated by the data...

http://mises.org/daily/5538/End-This-Agony



'A funny thing happened on the way to the apocalypse'

Living Freedom
by Claire Wolfe

08/10/11

But what if there is never a recognizable trigger point? What if we just go on like this - until perhaps we realize the 'it' we have been waiting for actually happened a long time ago and nobody even saw it until long after the fact?

http://bit.ly/om2R24



Quantitative easing forever?

Foundation for Economic Education
by Christopher Lingle

08/10/11

Despite assertions that it has ended its policy of quantitative easing (QE), the Fed is unlikely to be able to do so until it also ends its zero-interest-rate policy (ZIRP). This deadly policy duo has had terrible consequences for the American economy and every country using U.S. dollars, which continue to depreciate. It is as though the Fed were riding on the back of a double-headed monster...

http://tinyurl.com/43l3ame



Yes we can

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M. Vance

08/10/11

Yes we can, Mr. President, yes we can. We can close the deficit with just spending cuts. Congressman Ron Paul recently explained how in language so simple that even a politician who never worked in anything but a government job could understand. ... We are not even talking about paying down the national debt and eliminating unconstitutional entitlement programs - just cutting spending to the point where outlays don t exceed revenues...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1108g.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Economic Crisis or Nonviolent Opportunity? Gandhi s Answer to Financial Collapse

Michael Nagler, Waging Nonviolence: 'The real purpose of an economic system is to guarantee to every person in its circle the fundamentals of physical existence (food, clothing, shelter) and the tools of meaningful work so that they can get on with the business of living together and working out our common destiny. This was Gandhi s vision, among others'.'

http://www.truth-out.org/economic-crisis-or-nonviolent-opportunity-gandhis-answer-financial-collapse/1313084331



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collapse
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Standard+&+Poor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=stock+market
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Keynes
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=apocalypse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Grantham
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Scheer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/faber
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=celente
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Claire+Wolfe
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+P.+Murphy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christopher+Lingle
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Laurence+M.+Vance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Nagler
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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Libya and Syria: Humanitarian War Is a 'Monstrous Illusion'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/10-1



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=humanitarian+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/10-10



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Koch+brothers
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/10-10



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tim+Dickinson
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Long Live the Oligarchs

By Thom Hartmann

Thanks to an irrational and likely illegal Supreme Court ruling, we have moved into an era of oligarch-run politics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28807.htm

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Wisconsin Recalls Replace Two Republican Senators in a Rebuke to Governor s Anti-Labor Agenda
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/10

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The public really does not like the GOP

The American Prospect
by Jamelle Bouie

08/10/11

Given liberal despair over President Obama s political fortunes, you might think that we live in a world where the Republican Party is popular with voters. But you would be wrong. Despite their recent legislative success, Republicans have never been more unpopular than they are now...

http://tinyurl.com/3ue45rq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wisconsin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Supreme+Court
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oligarch
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thom+Hartmann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Nichols
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jamelle+Bouie
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William J. Astore, Truthout: 'A line at the tail end of Nicholas Schmidle s article in The New Yorker (August 8, 2011) on SEAL Team Six s takedown of Osama bin Laden captured the military zeitgeist of the moment. Upon meeting the SEAL team, President Obama gushed that the team was, 'literally, the finest small-fighting force that has ever existed in the world.' As a military historian, I was struck by the sweeping nature of that boast. The 'finest small-fighting force' ever in the history of the world? What about the Spartan 300 who gave their all at Thermopylae against the Persians, thereby saving Greek civilization for posterity?'

http://www.truth-out.org/dangerous-myth-american-military-omnipotence/1312896223

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More Questions About US Propaganda
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/questions-about-bin-laden-death-propaganda.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Osama+bin+Laden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=propaganda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+J.+Astore
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Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'Many of us view the deficit ceiling brouhaha between the Obama White House and the laissez-fairy extremists in the Republican House as some combination of farce and fiasco. So much political playacting around a made-up deficit 'crisis' in order to avoid dealing with the real deficit that is crushing America s middle class and draining the lifeblood from our economy: the jobs deficit. But wait - before I could work out my anger over that fiasco, here came an even more incredible farce.'

http://www.truth-out.org/downgrading-america/1312981161

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The Rich Are Different - And Not In a Good Way

By Brian Alexander

Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28808.htm

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As Go Unions, So Goes the Middle Class
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/10



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Hightower
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brian+Alexander
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/09-2

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Why expand the drug war?

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/09/11

Here we go again. Amidst all the talk about out-of-control federal spending and debt, what does the U.S. government do? It goes out and spends more money by expanding the drug war in Mexico. Hey, when a federal program has failed to show any success after 40 years, what else would you expect federal officials to do, especially in the midst of a spending-and-borrowing crisis?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-08-09.asp



Surviving the inanity

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Richard Schwartzman

08/09/11

It s easy to be skeptical. Sometimes, though, you have to either laugh at the lunacy or go running into the ocean screaming, 'Get me out of here.' The United States is just few hundred billion dollars short of the national debt being 100 percent of GDP and is waging illegal wars in a handful of different countries. The 40-year-long war on drugs is still destroying civil liberties and local governments are telling people what they can and can t ingest...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1108f.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=humanitarian+intervention
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=federal+spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GDP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+liberties
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Walden+Bello
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Schwartzman
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/09-7



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