European markets stabilised after the ECB began buying Italian and Spanish debt on Monday [AFP] The stock market ‘woes’ are symptomatic of the immorality of allowing people to deal in a created commodity like a company or corporation while they make no contribution to the company. The company or corporation only exists [...]
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Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security SHARE 0 AP / Carolyn Kaster House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio looks on during a news conference at the Republican National Committee. By Robert Scheer This phony debt crisis has now passed through the looking glass into the realm where madness reigns. What should have been an [...]
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Obama intends to withdraw 10,000 US troops by the end of this year, and to complete the withdrawal of some 30,000 troops by September 2012 [GALLO/GETTY] US President Barack Obama’s speech from the White House on June 22 concerning the “way forward” in Afghanistan struck many as highly unusual. Though billed in advance as a [...]
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Perpetual War Is a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism MAY 31 2011, 11:45 AM ET14 Neither Barack Obama nor his Republican challengers have a strategy for victory and peace In a scathing Memorial Day jeremiad against American foreign policy, Andrew Bacevich argues that elected officials are exploiting the troops by sending them to war [...]
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Thousands march against spending cuts – in pictures About 500,000 people take to the streets in London to protest against the government’s planned public service cuts Share3852 guardian.co.uk, Saturday 26 March 2011 14.35 GMT 1 / 36 Exit gallery and go to previous page The march sets off from EmbankmentPhotograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ; World [...]
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