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The Recession’s Human And Environmental Impacts
By Emily Spence

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The coalescence of a recession, mounting population, peak oil, mass extinction, urgent water shortages, climate change and other disastrous environmental impacts challenge us to take immediate action. Our doing so need not be disastrous if we collectively begin to make the essential changes on the scale needed. If we do not, the results could likely be catastrophic on a scope barely imagined by any of us. With firm resolve, let us all begin to undertake the critical modifications at once

Climate Code Red – The New Denial And The Failure Of Democracy
By Bill Henderson

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A new report based upon state of the art science argues convincingly that climate change is a much more serious and immediate problem than previously perceived by even informed publics – climate change is an emergency that requires urgent mitigation measures not presently possible in our political and economic systems. No major media outlet acknowledges let alone critiques or comments upon or otherwise covers the report

Iraq: Unemployment Too Becomes An Epidemic
By Ahmed Ali & Dahr Jamail

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For a few, salaries have soared. For the rest, unemployment has. Many Iraqi workers enjoyed huge salary increases following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. But unemployment rose more sharply under policies introduced by the Coalition Provisional Authority

Risk Of Cholera Multiplied By Sewage Collapse In Baghdad
By Oscar Grenfell

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Five years after the illegal invasion of Iraq, the absence of adequate sewerage treatment, clean water and reliable power supplies are glaring exposures of the lie that the US occupation has any concern for the well-being or rights of the population. Every death and illness that is caused by the infrastructure crisis is the responsibility of the Bush administration

Americanism: ‘The Good,The Bad And The Ugly’
By Gaither Stewart

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A close analysis and dissection of the American values that constitute Americanism will be necessary in order to create a new set of values. A new mindset that will include a basic conception of social justice to counteract and replace the pervasive and visible sense of gloom and hopelessness in the obesity of consumerist America

Movement 28 And The Health Of The American Republic
By Case Wagenvoord

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The short answer to this mess is public funding of elections campaigns. On the surface it seems to offer much. By freeing the congress from the multiple snares of corporate purse strings, Congress might start representing the public interest. As it stands now, every time an elected official speaks of our national interests or national security, “national” is simply a code word for “corporate”. The system is gamed to minimize public influence on policy

Suharto And The Address Unknown
By Dr.Auswaf Ahsan

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a Suharto loyalist general, praised Suharto the dead dictator as “a loyal fighter, a true soldier and a respected statesman”. World political leaders and international media showered tributes to this ‘Pol Pot’ of Indonesia who was responsible for not less than one million deaths

Juno: Fact And Fiction
By Mirah Riben

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The comedic fictional movie Juno has garnered praise, awards and nominations. It also created uproar among those of us for whom adoption is not a comedy, but our life

Failed Fascist States
By Pablo Ouziel

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During the rise of the short-lived Nazi empire, criticizing Hitler and his party to the average German civilian would have undoubtedly received strong rejection. Today the same holds true to critics of the mighty ‘democratic’ empire, built by the U.S. with the submissive support of its ‘client states’

The Last Testament Of Benazir Bhutto
By Thomas Riggins

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I don’t know who killed Benazir Bhutto: the radical anti-western so-called “Islamists”, the Musharraf government, or the Bush government. All three groups have shown that they won’t hesitate to use murder and political assassination to gain their ends. It seems that the ideas put forth by Ms Bhutto, as presented in the New York Times review of her last book which she completed writing just before she was killed, would not please the Taliban, Al-Quaeda, Musharraf or Bush and his followers

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