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Attacks on Occupy: “Revenge of the 1%”
The New York Daily News is reporting: “Ho…
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Supreme Court and Health Care — Toward Reform Without Mandate
The New York Times reports: “The Supreme…
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Abdullah: Asad Should Step Down
AP reports: “Jordan’s King Abdul…
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Military Trials “Crushing Egyptian Revolution”
Protests are resuming today in Cairo. AP is repo…
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Ten Years Since U.S. “Coup” Order
MICHAEL RATNER, ratner at michaelratner.com,…
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Beyond Penn State: The Failure of the University
HENRY GIROUX, henry.giroux at gmail.com Girou…
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Iran: An Iraq-WMD Redux?
Reuters is reporting: “Prime Minister B…
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Italy: Run by the European Central Bank?
ANTONIO TRICARICO, (in Rome) atricarico at crbm.org Tricarico is coordinator of the Italian NGO CRBM (Campaign for World Bank Reform) based in Rome and has been the economic correspondent of Il Manifesto at several international summits. He was recently at the G20 Summit in Cannes. Tricarico said today: “The Berlusconi era is finally coming to an end, but the economic legacy of his government’s decade will stay for a long time. A new coalition government, likely based on the principle of national unity, is set to guarantee the implementation of harsh austerity policies non-democratically imposed by the European Central Bank…
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* New Movie Highlights Continued BP Gulf Crisis * More Offshore Oil-Drilling
AP reports today in “BP Wants U.S. Probes Barred from Oil Spill Lawsuits” that “The companies involved in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history are trying to prevent government investigations blaming them for the disaster from being used against them by the people and businesses who are suing them.” JOSH TICKELL, REBECCA HARRELL TICKELL, via Nicole Landers, nicole at greenplanet3d.com Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell, filmmakers who are releasing their latest documentary feature film this week exclusively in Los Angeles starting this Friday, 11/11/11, “The Big Fix.”
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Analysts Denounce 100 Reps. Urging Super Committee Austerity
Fox News features a piece claiming “Moderate Lawmakers Lead Insurrection, Urge Super Committee to Defy Leadership and Go Big.” Fox states: “As the Super Committee butts against a hard and fast deadline for reducing the deficit, a Republican and a Democratic lawmaker on Sunday say they must be willing to buck their leadership and go big on both cutting spending and adding revenues. Reps. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, and Heath Shuler, D-N.C., are leading a group of 100 representatives who crafted a letter to the Super Committee calling for all options to be laid on the table in the quest to…
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