World-News

Asia Times
by Chris Hellman

08/18/11

Regardless of what figures you choose to use, one thing is certain: we'
are talking about trillions and trillions of dollars. And given the debate raging in Washington this summer about how to rein in trillion-dollar deficits and a spiraling debt, it s surprising that no one thinks to ask just how much safety bang for its buck the US is getting from those trillions...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MH18Dj01.html



Why the US is still stuck in Iraq

Spiked
by Tim Black

The interminable occupation of Iraq exposes the crazy idea that Western forces can liberate foreign peoples.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10995/



It is 1989 all over again

Zero Gov
by Bill Buppert

08/18/11

In six months or six years, the nation known as the United States is going to dissolve roughly along the same lines that the other Soviet republic, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), died with a whimper in 1989-1991...

http://zerogov.com/?p=2218


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=occupa
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Hellman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bill+Buppert

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