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Did The World Narrowly Avoid “Financial Armageddon” Last Week?

Mick Meaney September 22, 2008 0

By Mike Adams | According to insider traders speaking to the New York Post, the global financial system was only 500 trades away from experiencing a global meltdown — “Financial Armageddon” — which was

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200 Years of Standing Up to U.S. War Lies

Mick Meaney September 22, 2008 2

By David Swanson | Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, Jr., have edited a new collection of writings called “We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now.”

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Treasury Seeks Authority to Buy $700 Billion Assets

Mick Meaney September 22, 2008 0

By Alison Fitzgerald and John Brinsley | The Bush administration asked Congress for unchecked power to buy $700 billion in bad mortgage investments from U.S. financial companies in what would be an unprecedented government

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When Corporations Rule the World

Mick Meaney September 22, 2008 0

PCDF | Those of us who seek to intervene in policy debates in favor of economic justice and environmentally sustainability are regularly assured by the world’s power brokers that they are fully committed to these goals

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