By Mike Whitney (published on ICH, August 5, 2007
On Friday the Dow Jones took a 280 point nosedive on fears
that that losses in the subprime market will spill over into
the broader economy...
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By Dr. Mohammed
When will I die? That's the question circling in my head when I awake on Wednesday. I'm sweating, as usual. My muscles ache from another long night of no electricity in weather only slightly cooler than hell. As I dress for work, other questions assail me:...
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"The panic and distraction of the security crisis should not be used as cover for handing Iraq's wealth to foreigners"By Jonathan Steele, in “The Guardian”Glad tidings from Baghdad at last. The Iraqi...
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Exactly fifty years ago in Australia, a pudgy, aggressive, whiz kid business genius named Keith Rupert Murdoch was launching himself in Australia after inheriting from his father a half interest in a minor daily...
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It was decadence, among other things, that brought down the Roman Empire two thousand years ago. It appears that a shocking new wave of pornographic decadence as well as a crumbling economy and a futile war is...
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The world's mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge the principal reason for the Bush "surge" in Iraq which is due for review in mid-September. The "surge" has so far failed to resolve the main issue which...
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Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew to Moscow this week with a bunch of neo-conservative heavyweights, for a deliberately concealed meeting with Russia's President Putin.Kissinger's delegation...
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HERE in Australia some of us have decided to join Gordon Brown in the UK by not using the phrase “war on terror” any more. It is a small step, but it might be important. From now on “terrorists” will be...
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HERE in Australia some of us have decided to join Gordon Brown in the UK by not using the phrase “war on terror” any more. It is a small step, but it might be important. From now on “terrorists” will be identified more accurately “freedom fighters.”The past...
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Australians may have enjoyed the spectacle of the prime minister of their country contradicting his own defence minister about the reasons for Australia's militarily inconsequential but enthusiastically willing...
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“We cannot imagine that the descendants of people whose genius and resilience maintained a culture here through 50 000 years or more, through cataclysmic changes to the climate and environment, and who then...
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by ROBERT MATTHEWS MORE than half a century after his death, one of Britain's greatest war heroes will today be honoured at the site of his greatest exploits, the former Allied code-breaking centre at...
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By STUART MURRAY(historian and author of 35 books, including An Atlas of American Military History) WHEN top British general Sir William Howe marched his powerful professional army of Redcoats, American...
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One way or another since he entered politics fifty years ago, Australia's prime minister John Howard has been pulling the wool over the eyes of the 20 million people who inhabit the world's largest island...
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Australia's prime minister, John Howard, has colluded with US president George W Bush and an industrial “greenhouse mafia” to stifle international efforts on global warming, according to a new book...
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