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Is Defaulting on the National Debt on the Table?
Dean Baker, Truthout: "In an interview last week, Rep. Chris Van Hoellen, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, persistently refused to take cuts to Social Security off the table.... ...
A Closer Look at Our Basic Needs in a Time of Crisis
Jon Letman, The Hawaii Independent: "Ours is a nation obsessed with security. Two months after the bitter sting of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government formed the Transportation Security Administration... ...
U.S. Deficit Really $202 Trillion
"Enron Accounting" Has Bankrupted America: U.S. Deficit Really $202 Trillion, Kotlikoff Says By Peter Gorenstein The "real" deficit - including non-budgetary items like unfunded liabilities of Medicare,... ...
Gutscheine statt Geld für Hartz-IV-Kinder
„Für Sozialpolitiker ist Stuttgart derzeit ein kleines Labor. Denn dort gibt es ein Projekt, das Herzstück der nächsten Hartz-Reform werden soll. Mit dem Gutschein-Modell plant Arbeitsministerin von der... ...
Gitmo Trial Puts White House In Tight Spot
By Michael Isikoff National investigative correspondent Top U.N. official calls defendant a 'child soldier,' says proceedings violate international legal norms. http://www.informa tionclearinghouse.info/art icle26124.htm... ...
NATO Diplomats Tune Out the Bad News in Afghanistan
NATO foreign ministers heard only what they wanted to hear on Tuesday in Kabul as they sought to reassure the world that withdrawal can take place in 2014. The reality, however, is quite different. http://www.spi egel.de/international/worl d/0,1518,707689,00.html#re f=rss Rebuild... ...
BP Oil Spill: Drill, Baby, Still?
http://www.commondreams.or g/video/2010/07/19-0 Amer ican Bird Conservancy: Many Gulf Spill Cleanup Efforts Ineffective and Harming, not Helping Birds http://www.commondr eams.org/newswire/2010/07/ 19-2 --------... ...
Deficit hawks or war hawks?
Foundation for Economic Education by Sheldon Richman 07/16/10 Last week’s TGIF asked if the American people can afford a world-girdling foreign policy more befitting an empire than a republic. Look at... ...
Can America afford an empire?
Foundation for Economic Education by Sheldon Richman 07/09/10 [I]f the deficit is to be eliminated it will have to be through dramatic budget cutting. In the current fiscal year the federal government... ...
$27bn later, Afghan security forces have made no measurable progress
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a- world-news-mainmenu-35/977 2/ -------- US to blame for Afghan slaughter Villagers in Baghran district of Helmand province reported that children and women were killed by the... ...