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A new world is being born, one without the US dollar greasing the wheels of commerce, notes Eric Walberg
Yekaterinburg, famous tragically as the spot Lenin chose to have the Tsar and his family executed in 1918, and ironically as the fiefdom of Boris Yeltsin, who finished off the Russian... » read this article
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Chris Hedges , Truthdig
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what... » read this article
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In Mortal Hands – A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. Stephanie Cooke. Bloomsbury, New York, 2009.
In an era when the corporate media and the corporate politicians and the corporate military men gang up together and denounce and threaten other countries because of their nuclear related activities, they... » read this article
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Barry Grey , WSWS
13 June 2009
Even as US unemployment rolls soar to their highest levels in post-war history, employed workers face the worst conditions since the Great Depression, according to a front-page article in Friday’s USA Today.
Based on its analysis of employment data, the newspaper reports that pay cuts, reduced hours,... » read this article
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Special Report , BBC
Editorial Note: Axis of Logic of course does not attempt to promote or diminish any candidate in the Iranian elections - that's the business of the Iranian people in a democratic society. However, the same journalistic practice can hardly be claimed by the editors of the BBC who cast light and shadows on the... » read this article
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Peter Symonds , WSWS
Editor's Note: According to a NYT article today, the Pakistan military has killed 700 "militants" in SWAT in the last 4 days. Obviously, the military has ceded Pakistan sovereignty to the U.S. under pressure from Richard Holbrooke and Hillary Clinton. Obama, under the guidance and direction of the Council on... » read this article
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Fayyad , KABOB-fest
"So be careful, if Obama looks better than Bush, it means you just don’t know how he’s about to screw you. Careful Cuba and Venezuela. And if you’re looking for a black president to finally make America discuss its history of racism, wait a little longer."
The World Conference on... » read this article
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