World-News

Brad Johnson, ThinkProgress: "As greenhouse pollution continues to build in the atmosphere, 2010 is entering the history books as the hottest year on record. A year of unprecedented extreme weather disasters, 2010 saw tens of thousands of people killed and millions affected by our increasingly dangerous climate. The year is ending with yet more climate disasters, from floods in Australia to winter tornadoes across America."

http://www.truth-out.org/2010-closes-with-yet-more-killer-climate-disasters66459

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Island pioneers future without fossil fuels

Isolated communities can show the world how to create the green power grids our planet needs, writes Darius Snieckus in Berlin.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811160ms244

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Driving Straight Into Catastrophe

By Julio Godoy

According to the latest statistics, unprecedented climate change has Earth hurtling down a path of catastrophic proportions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27331.htm

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"World on the Edge," a Must-Read for 2011

World Business Academy, Currents In Commerce: "'We now have an economy that is destroying its natural support systems. ? We are liquidating the earth's natural assets to fuel our consumption,' Academy Fellow Lester Brown writes in his latest book, World on the Edge, the must-read book of 2011. He warns: 'If we continue with business as usual, civilizational collapse is no longer a matter of whether but when - a time period more likely measured in years than decades.' Before offering a road map for change, he tells a gripping tale of converging trends and missed signals."

http://www.truth-out.org/world-on-edge-a-must-read-201167108

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The Right to a Future
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/stories/4451/

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Link Confirmed Between Warming and Heavy Storms
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/16-8



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A New Year's Meditation

Michael True, Truthout: "At the beginning of the new year, consequences of 'life at war' stare us in the face: the victimization of military and civilian populations and a huge national debt, including an annual military budget that is larger than all military budgets in the world combined and includes $5 billion that remains unaccounted for in Iraq, as well as aid to Pakistan that has wound up in the hands of the Taliban.... Any responsible citizen acknowledges this painful history in the hope of redirecting US foreign policy in the future. The purpose of reclaiming it is not to open old wounds, but to encourage legislative and direct action committed to peacemaking. It is a call to critique the policies and competence of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the national security apparatus responsible for these disasters."

http://www.truth-out.org/us-war-since-1950-a-new-years-meditation66358



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The Britain-based organisation said that the "persistent low-level conflict will continue to kill civilians at a similar rate for years to come."

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/99337


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/journalism-of-corruption.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan148.html

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Is the bond crisis inevitable?

Human Events
by Patrick J. Buchanan

With Christmas shoppers out in force and the stock market surging to a two-year high, talk is spreading that the long-awaited recovery is at hand. Perhaps. But gleaning the news from Europe and Asia as U.S. cities, states and the federal government sink into debt, it is difficult to believe a worldwide financial crisis that hammers governments, banks and bondholders alike can be long averted...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40909


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Adele M. Stan, AlterNet: "In a political year dominated by tales of polarization, a flurry of themes emerged as I contemplated the year just past - the year of the Tea Party, the year that psycho became the new normal (Glenn Beck), the year in which info leaks rocked the world (WikiLeaks), the year that saw accomplishments defying conventional wisdom (Obama). But at the root of all of these themes lies the Lie; all other themes speak to either its advancement or in its defiance."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-year-big-lie-6-outrageous-falsehoods-that-took-flight-201066454



Honor the WikiLeakers

Alexander Cockburn, Truthout: "When it comes to journalistic achievements in 2010, the elephant in the room is WikiLeaks. I've seen many put-downs of the materials as containing 'no smoking guns', or as being essentially trivial communications to the State Department from U.S. diplomats and kindred government agents around the world. Now, it's true that the cables were legally available to well over 1.5 million Americans, who had adequate security clearance. But trivial? Don't believe it. The cables show the daily business of a mighty empire acting in manners diametrically opposite to public pretensions. The cables form one of the most extraordinary lessons in the cold realities of international diplomacy ever made public. Normally, scholars have to wait for 10, 20, even 50 years to gain access to such papers."

http://www.truth-out.org/alexander-cockburn-honor-wikileakers66432

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Prohibition and the New Deal
http://www.lewrockwell.com/nock/nock19.1.html

The Drug War Is a Beast
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson306.html

Afghanistan, Colombia, Vietnam: The Deep Politics of Drugs and Oil
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd6.1.1.html

What WikiLeaks Revealed to the World in 2010
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/what-wikileaks-revealed.html

Forget New Year's Resolutions
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sisson/sisson32.1.html

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Assange: I'll Reveal Info That Will Spark Arab World Coups

By Roee Nahmias

WikiLeaks founder tells Al Jazeera leaked documents in his possession show top Arab officials disclose sensitive information to CIA.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27161.htm



US Embassy Cables: US Spies on Iran from Turkey

According to the cable released from the U.S. embassy in Turkey, the information was gathered through Iranian citizens living in Turkey.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/200994



The US embassy cables

Omar Bongo pocketed millions in embezzled funds: Gabon's late president allegedly channelled money to French political parties in support of Nicolas Sarkozy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/30/wikileaks-omar-bongo-nicolas-sarkozy



Wikileaks : US killed up to 4000 civilians in Panama invasion

The Noriega military dictatorship was supported by the United States as Noriega played a double role in Central America under the supervision of the CIA. George H.W. Bush was head of the CIA 1976-77.

http://crowdleak.net/1989-coup-in-panama/



Tax cuts move U.S. closer to fiscal crisis

President Barack Obama is receiving congratulations for moving to the center on the tax agreement with Republicans last week. - The truth is, the deal moved us closer to a fiscal crisis, just as the euro zone now is experiencing.

http://bit.ly/hROVGh



As Home Prices Drop, 'Serious Reasons To Worry' About Economy

VIDEO

Six cities -- Atlanta, Miami, Seattle, Tampa, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Portland, Oregon -- have hit new lows since the housing market began to struggle in 2006 and 2007. Atlanta showed the steepest decline, with prices falling 2.9 percent from the prior month.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/29/home-prices-drop_n_802325.html



Wish you were here?

President spends $1.5m on his holiday in Hawaii... while the rest of America faces a bleak New Year

http://bit.ly/fhwuQn



New Home Foreclosures Rose 31% in Third Quarter

The 382,000 foreclosures recorded represented a 31.2% jump over the second quarter, and 3.7% over the same quarter last year. Homes already in the process of foreclosure increased to 1.2 million, up 4.5% over the second quarter and 10.1% over last year.

http://bit.ly/hIM6Xs


From Information Clearing House



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Robert Borosage, The Campaign for America's Future: "Beware of conservatives bearing gifts. Today in the Washington Post, former Bush policy advisor, Michael Gerson echoes a growing chorus of conservative pundits offering up "Social Security reform" as 'the answer to Obama's problems.' The advice is illogical on its face, pernicious in its consequence, and poisoned from its source. Gerson argues that Obama faces a major strategic decision in his coming State of the Union address, which must take the 'first cut at the reelection message he carries to reelection or defeat.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/bushwacking-obama-conservatives-seek-to-trap-president-on-social-security66444

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2010: The Big Con Continues

By Ted Morgan

While the Republican party holds our government hostage, Democrats typically collaborate in public policies that don't have a prayer of resolving the deeply serious problem we face.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27159.htm



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