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Pensions: the Next Casualty of Wall Street

By Mark Brenner

Nobody wants to admit it, but the next casualty of the Wall Street meltdown will probably be your golden years.

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Dollar Trouble

By Mike Whitney

The notion that the dollar will crash, has become an article of faith among doomsayers, Libertarians, survivalists, leftists and goldbugs. (I'm as guilty as anyone) But is the theory supported by the facts?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23771.htm



The Dollar: Dive or Survive

Real News

Leo Panitch: Lower dollar will harm developing countries; will offer little help to US workers.

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2009 US Economy: Largest Transfer of Wealth to Financial/Political Elite in Global History

By Carl Herman

Political "leadership" of the two oligarchy parties spin their economic policy as being for the public benefit.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23775.htm



UK: 'Never has so much money been owed by so few to so many'

With City bonuses set to top £6bn this year, the Governor of the Bank of England echoes Churchill in devastating indictment of the banks.

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America's Phoney War in Afghanistan

By F. William Engdahl

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large.

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The Lost History Of Hemland

By Adam Curtis

If you look beyond the soldiers, and into the distance, what you are really seeing are the ruins of one of the biggest technological projects the United States has ever undertaken. Its aim was to use science to try and change the course of history and produce a modern utopia in Afghanistan.

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Sy Hersh: Military 'In War Against The White House'

By Susie Madrak

The army is also "in a war against the White House - and they feel they have Obama boxed in," Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh told several hundred people in Duke University's Page Auditorium on Tuesday night. "They think he's weak and the wrong color. Yes, there's racism in the Pentagon. We may not like to think that, but it's true and we all know it."

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Pakistan Feels The American Raj

By Eric Margolis

The eight-year war in Afghanistan has now set Pakistan on fire. What began in 2001 as a supposedly limited American anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan has now become a spreading regional conflict that involves the United States, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Iran and Russia.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23776.htm



The US Massacre at Al-Sukkariya

Attack on Syria Cover Up

By Real News

Erlich: The US massacre at Al-Sukkariya, Syria in 2008 was a clear violation of international law.

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They Can’t Push Us Around Forever
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ACLU: On Anniversary of Treaty Ratification
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Mother Jones
by Nick Baumann

10/20/09

According to a new book on the financial meltdown by New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, in June 2008, Paulson, who was the chairman of Goldman Sachs before joining the Bush administration, held a secret meeting in Moscow with the board of directors of his former employer. The problem for Paulson — then and possibly now — was that after he had been nominated in 2006 to the Treasury post he had signed an ethics letter vowing to stay clear of potential conflicts of interest with Goldman Sachs and promising not to take any action that might affect the firm’s ability to cover his multimillion-dollar pension...

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Our Future Blog
by Eric Lotke

10/19/09

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke recognized today that America’s trade deficit played a central role in the global economic crisis. Then after he recognized the problem, he went on to solve a different one. Start with the real problem, America’s trade deficit. America is spending more than it earns, and buying more than it’s selling. Our trade deficit in 2008 was $706 billion. We know we’re addicted to oil. We’re also addicted to cheap stuff imported from China (made cheap by devalued currency and near-zero workplace or environmental protections). America’s problem is a huge efflux of dollars, as our wealth departs for foreign lands...

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Bernanke housing gamble may bring pressure to extend Fed aid
Bloomberg

11/03/09

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is gambling that come March, he can stop the purchases of mortgage-backed securities that have propped up the U.S. housing market. Congress may have other ideas. The central bank says it must eventually withdraw its unprecedented economic stimulus to avoid a surge of inflation as a recovery takes hold. Plans to buy $1.25 trillion of housing debt are the centerpiece of its program to pull the nation out of the worst recession since the 1930s. Bernanke, who convenes a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee today, is counting on private investors to fill the void left by the Fed when its purchases end. If he’s wrong, he may come under pressure from politicians to maintain support for housing or even extend credit programs for small businesses and consumers...

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