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Cost Of US Wars $1.6 Trillion
By Bill Van Auken

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The price tag for the wars being waged by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan will hit nearly $1.6 trillion during the coming year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Democratic staff of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee

Peak Oil Doomsday:Ahead Of Schedule
By Peter Goodchild

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When we try to predict the effects of oil decline, we may assume that human “die-off” will follow a gradual but steady curve from about the year 2000 or 2010 to about 2030, which will then flatten out toward about 2050. But such events will probably happen much more quickly than that, because there is a “synergistic” effect due to the fact that the two forces of oil depletion and human population are now heading in opposite directions

U.S. Economy: Recession, Depression, Or Collapse?
By Shepherd Bliss

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Our economy is paying and will continue to pay the consequences of over-consumption and the over-purchasing of people reaching beyond their resources that characterized the housing market. We have been greedy. There are limits to growth and those limits are crashing in on us

Divisions In Our World Are Not The Result Of Religion
By Karen Armstrong & Andrea Bistrich

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Karen Armstrong was a Catholic nun for seven years before leaving her order and going to Oxford. Today, she is amongst the most renowned theologians and has written numerous bestsellers on the great religions and their founders. She is one of the 18 leading group members of the Alliance of Civilizations, an initiative of the former UN General Secretary, Kofi Anan, whose purpose is to fight extremism and further dialogue between the western and Islamic worlds. She talks here to the German journalist, Andrea Bistrich, about politics, religion, extremism and commonalities

Torturing Palestinian Detainees
By Stephen Lendman

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B’Tselem’s May, 2007 report states that the Israeli Security Agency (ISA – formerly called the General Security Service or GSS) admits to using “exceptional” methods that include “physical pressure” of interrogation in “ticking bomb” cases that can be used as an excuse to abuse anyone. In addition, law enforcement officials openly admit harsh measures are approved retroactively so that Palestinian detainee rights can be freely violated without fear of recrimination

Child Prisoners Of The ‘Holy’Land
By Eileen Fleming

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These children are subjected to physical and psychological torture and interrogated without family or lawyers. The majority of confessions and sentences are related to throwing stones, such as at Caterpillar bulldozers that demolish Palestinian homes without compensation, in order to grab land for The Wall, that is NOT being built on the internationally recognized 1949 Green Line boundary between Israel and the West Bank, but on Palestinian owned land, and thus illegal under international law

The Last Refuge
By Uri Avnery

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The Arab governments will be compelled to support the US, at least with their tongues. But the hearts and souls of the Arab peoples, from Morocco to Iraq, will be with the Iranians defending themselves against the Americans and Israelis. Especially if the Annapolis meeting does end, as expected, without bringing redemption to the Palestinian people.There is only one way to come out of this in one piece – not to get into it in the first place.It has been said that “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”. For a failed politician, the last refuge is war

Articulating The Unprintable
By June Rugh & Ramzy Baroud

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Ramzy Baroud discusses media response to His book

Outrage In A Time Of Apathy
By Aaron Glantz

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Unlike most U.S. journalists who went to Iraq to cover a war, Dahr Jamail went to try to stop it. Once in Iraq, Jamail set about reporting the stories of regular Iraqi people. He spent months in Iraq’s hospitals, morgues and mosques. His journalism covers some of the most mundane, but important, aspects of the U.S. occupation — like gas lines, checkpoints, and bombed out telephone switching stations. His stories appeared in numerous outlets around the world

Venezuela: Reform Battle Continues As Chavez Ally Splits
By Federico Fuentes

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Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on November 4, in a massive sea of red, to support the proposed constitutional reforms adopted by the National Assembly that will be put to a referendum on December 2. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has explained that the reforms aim to deepen the Bolivarian revolution that his government is leading

Lilly Makes Billions Off Zyprexa While Approved For Schizophrenia Only
By Evelyn Pringle

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Experts say there is no way that Zyprexa could have become Lilly’s most widely prescribed drug in the US without influencing doctors to prescribe the drug off-label. For instance, even though Zyprexa was approved to treat the manic phase of bipolar disorder only, which is typically brief, patients were kept on the drug for years

Lessons From Nandigram’s Heroic Land Struggle
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

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Nandigram is burning and the Neros of the left front governments are watching it with great patience. Those who are up in arms against any displacement elsewhere remain mute spectators at the butchering of people in this ‘war zone’, as the governor of the state Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi mentioned in his statement

Shameful Events In Nandigram
By Concerned Citizens

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Statement from concerned citizens on the shameful events in Nandigram

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