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Edward Snowden is an American hero who has significantly raised public awareness about the United States' government's threat to global freedom by using extreme and illegal measures of surveillance.
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The hidden roots of Egypt’s despair
By Danny Schechter Al Jazeera The economic crisis is driving political protests sparked in part by US financial speculation. The question is, why aren’t Americans up in arms too as inflation at the pump and the grocery store drives prices … Continue reading
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Gap Between Rich And Poor Named 8th Wonder Of The World
The Onion “It’s breathtaking,” said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, a longtime champion and benefactor of the rift’s conservation. “After all we’ve been through in recent years, there’s no greater privilege than watching it grow bigger and bigger each day. … Continue reading
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Think Again: American Decline
By Gideon Rachman Foreign Policy “We’ve Heard All This About American Decline Before.” This time it’s different. It’s certainly true that America has been through cycles of declinism in the past. Campaigning for the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer plans to hand over offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous to WikiLeaks
By Ed Vulliamy GUARDIAN “What I am objecting to is not one particular bank, but a system of structures,” he told the Observer. “I have worked for major banks other than Julius Baer, and the one thing on which I … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: High Pay Commission
In an effort to try and curb hefty bonuses, and perhaps risky behavior, in the financial sector, a group of labor unionists, journalists and academics from the U.K. have launched a high pay commission.
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SOLUTIONS: AgenKultur
Great organization in Indonesia! AGENKULTUR Agenkultur born in a hysterical space of billboards among the massive icons of globalization and in the crowd of local culture stagnancy. It grew up among the fast food industry, phantasm of high class society … Continue reading
Europe’s Shell Game
Planet Money Europe is borrowing money to bail out countries that got in trouble by borrowing too much money. Satyajit Das explains that European countries aren’t actually putting their own money into that trillion-dollar bailout fund. Instead, the fund will … Continue reading
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Arundhati Roy – Fault Lines
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Don’t Try This Abroad
By Dave Algoso FOREIGN POLICY Many globally minded, can-do Americans these days have come to believe that the world’s major problems have solutions, and that these solutions are within reach. This feeling often leads to frustration: Why doesn’t someone just … Continue reading
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