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Back to homepageTrillions for Wall Street 0
Post Views: 6 On Tuesday, the 30-year fixed rate for mortgages plunged to an all-time low of 4.56 per cent. Rates are falling because investors are still moving into risk-free liquid assets, like Treasuries. It’s a sign of panic and
Read MoreMonsanto, mon Dieu! 0
Post Views: 10 Paco Puche dedica esta colaboración con www.revistaelobservador.com a la historia de Monsanto, multinacional que controla más del 90% de las semillas transgénicas que se venden en todo el mundo. “ Esta historia nadie la ha relatado mejor
Read MoreEl verdadero problema de América Latina no es la pobreza sino la riqueza” 0
Post Views: 9 Entrevista con el analista y activista social uruguayo Raúl Zibechi“ No hay que llamarse a engaño: el modelo neoliberal, pese a los efectos perversos que ha tenido en la profundización de las injusticias sociales en América Latina,
Read MoreNeoliberalism, Political Repression and the Rise of Mexico’s Narco-State 0
Post Views: 8 The Electrical Workers Union versus President Calderon“We are confronting a monster; a force that ridicules, deceives and wants to destroy us”. Miguel Angel Ibara, member of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union, (SME) on the 80th day of
Read MorePetraeus: Place Combat Posts as Close to Afghan Civilians as Possible 0
Post Views: 2 New Guidelines Admonish Troops to Be ‘Good Guests’New Afghanistan commander Gen. David Petraeus issued a new three page document outlining his guidelines for combat troops’ behavior in Afghanistan,
Read MorePentagon Can’t Account for $8.7 Billion in Iraqi Reconstruction Funds 0
Post Views: 13 Inspector Determines Most Money Gone Without Documentation The Pentagon has once again lost billions of dollars in cash, which has vanished from a fund meant for Iraq reconstruction without any documentation of where
Read MoreHouse Approves More Afghan War Funding 0
Post Views: 4 Congressmen Embrace Escalation as Evidence of War’s Folly Grows Though one would have expected that the massive release of some 92,000 classified documents Sunday underscoring just how poorly the war is going would
Read MoreThe Afghan War Springs a Leak 0
Post Views: 3 The 92,000 reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and reported Monday by the Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel, offer no major revelations that are entirely new, as
Read MoreRampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System 0
Post Views: 6 The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. Saying the US criminal system
Read MoreAfghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries’ role in civilian deaths 0
Post Views: 36 An Afghan girl lies on a hospital bed in Helmand after being injured in an airstrike by coalition forces in June 2007. Photograph: Abdul Qodus/Reuters Innocent Afghan men, women and children have paid the price of the
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