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Halliburton’s Return: Oil Spill Puts Symbol Of Cronyism And Corruption Back In The News
By Dan Froomkin HUFFINGTON POST It seems increasingly likely that when investigators determine the precise cause of the oil-rig explosion that threatens to poison huge swaths of the Gulf of Mexico, what they’ll conclude is that something went catastrophically wrong … Continue reading
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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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Tropics in Decline as Natural Resources Exhausted at Alarming Rate
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2010) New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report … Continue reading
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Opening Gambit: Moore’s Flaw
BY CHARLES HOMANS Foreign Policy Magazine Next year marks the 50th birthday of the first commercially produced silicon microchip, a device that has arguably reordered society more profoundly than any invention since the internal combustion engine. It will also be … Continue reading
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Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly
BY HOPE YEN Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The American suburb is no longer a refuge from poverty in cities. A pair of analyses by the nonprofit Brookings Institution paints a bleak economic picture for the 100 largest metropolitan areas over … Continue reading
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The Fed’s New Bubble (Masquerading as a Jobs Program)
BY ROBERT REICH The Huffington Post The latest jobs bill coming out of Washington isn’t really a bill at all. It’s the Fed’s attempt to keep long-term interest rates low by pumping even more money into the economy (“quantitative easing” … Continue reading
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Banksy Creates Dark Opening For ‘The Simpsons’
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FLOW: For Love Of Water
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply … Continue reading
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Study: US Food Waste Is a Huge Energy Drain
by Hugh Collins Contributor AOL news (Oct. 2) — Forget drafty windows and aging cars — a new study says one of the biggest wastes of energy in America could be the food in your garbage can. Every rotten tomato … Continue reading
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Robert Reich on AFTERSHOCK
The Next Economy and America’s Future:
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