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By Michael T. Klare

Welcome to an edgy world where a single incident at an energy ''chokepoint'' could set a region aflame, provoking bloody encounters, boosting oil prices, and putting the global economy at risk.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30217.htm



Boom And Doom: Revisiting Prophecies Of Collapse

By Debora MacKenzie

At the beginning of the 1970s, a group of young scientists set out to explore our future. Their findings shook a generation and may be even more relevant than ever today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30216.htm



The Perils of 2012

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

By 2011, the savings of those who had lost their jobs in 2008 or 2009 had been spent. Unemployment checks had run out. Headlines announcing new hiring, still not enough to keep pace with the number of those who would normally have entered the labor force, meant little to the 50 year olds with little hope of ever holding a job again.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30235.htm



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