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2011/05/172011/05/17

Nuclear/Climate Change: CLOSED 17 May 2011

ROLLING UPDATE from Beginning of Crisis SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/PBI-Japan-Update 16 May 2011 ALL: Study: Seaports unready for climate change CANADA: Climate change threatens arctic coastlines CHINA: China’s Nuclear Arsenal: Status and Evolution EUROPE-SPAIN: Spanish Quake Jolts European Nuclear Debate GERMANY-JAPAN-USA: Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables INDIA: Manmohan Singh takes stock of country’s …

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2011/05/152011/05/15

Niall Ferguson’s 4 Reasons Why US Dominance Is Over

Missing is the lack of integrity of the US Government….. Niall Ferguson’s 4 Reasons Why US Dominance Is Over Jeff Cox, 12 May 2011, CNBC LAS VEGAS—The era of US economic dominance is rapidly coming to an end as an “American Gothic” age sets in and China becomes the new global leader, economic historian Niall …

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2011/05/102011/05/10

Ideological Underpinnings of the “Great Society”

Ideological Underpinnings of the “Great Society” By Robert Higgs Campaign for Liberty, 05/10/11 [The Freeman (March 2011). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Steven Ng, is available for download.] The surge of federal economic interventions that occurred during Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency — the much-ballyhooed Great Society, whose centerpiece was the War …

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2011/05/082011/05/08

The Age of De-Leveraging is Just Beginning

Phi Beta Iota: 10 more years of pain. – – – – – – – While the political elite obsesses over the rise in public debt, the US is on the cusp of an era of deleveraging — or more bluntly, a massive liquidation of private debt — the ramifications of which, in the best …

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2011/05/012011/05/01

Graphic: Billboards for Truth in Seattle Rejected

Source Phi Beta Iota: Israel should not be singled out as the recipient of US Government funding that relies on borrowing “in our name.” Most of the world’s dictators are also supported by the US military industrial complex and its Congressionally-mandated foreign military assistance program, a primary motivation for the annual one trillion dollars a …

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2011/05/012012/11/09

Chuck Spinney: Obama’s Failure of Intelligence & Integrity

My friend Jeff Madrick, and old fashioned liberal democrat in the best sense of the term, has penned a pithy analysis of the anti-empirical madness now dominating the contemporary American political economy. Jeff concludes that the Right ignores its track record, particularly regarding the clear economic effects of tax cuts, and is rarely challenged on …

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2011/05/012011/05/01

9/11 Questions Linger Ten Years Later

For Activists, Architects, 9/11 Questions Linger Ten Years Later GLORIA TATUM 4-30-2011 Atlanta Progressive News With additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale, News Editor. [The purpose of this article is not to hypothesize what the real story behind the Towers’ collapse is, but to address what we find to be reasonable and compelling questions about the …

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