Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
By YAAKOV LAPPIN
Ayalon said Iran “is the source of instability in the Middle East. For Iran, the nuclear program is not a means but an end.”
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By William Blum
I really did not know that I could still be so surprised, even shocked, by corruption in the Congress of the United States. I thought my coating of cynicism was already more than thick enough to be impervious to any new revelations. I was wrong. Consider the following.
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Who's Really Poor in America?
By Leo Hindery Jr.
At least 50 million people are ill-fed -- up from 37 million just a year ago -- including 17 million children. Hunger in America is now at an all-time high, and there are currently entire national geographic regions -- the very large 15-state 'South' being one of them -- where more than half of all public school students are poor and ill-fed.
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By Michelle Alexander
How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste. Continue
Pound falls again on deficit fears: Sterling drops below $1.50 on warnings from ratings agency Fitch - January's trade gap nears £8bn adding to pressure on pound
Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson warns: "We're running out of time ... to prevent a true depression." He says unless we break Wall Street's "stranglehold" we will be unable prevent the Great Depression 2.
33 States Have Raised Taxes by $32 Billion/Year: The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the previous 12 months.
43% have less than $10k for retirement: The percentage of American workers with virtually no retirement savings grew for the third straight year, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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