Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Texas University faculty resist raising funds for endowed chair named after "good-time Charlie" Wilson. Report by journalism professor Robert Jensen.
When University of Texas faculty members opened the local Austin newspaper in mid-August, many were surprised to read that that their institution was raising funds for an endowed chair to honor ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The world's hungriest are the losers as an old colonialism returns to govern relations between wealthy and poor nations. As investigative journalist George Monbiot says, "The rich world's governments will protect themselves from the political cost of shortages, even if it means that other people must starve."
In his book Late ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Press Statement For Immediate Release
Pematang Pauh, Malaysia, 26 August 2008
We won! And our victory is decisive and overwhelming.
I share in the joy felt by all Malaysians on this historic day. This is a victory for the people. And it's great to be back!
On March 8th Malaysians voted for a New ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The massive failure of the US media to report truthfully is sobering. As former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts says, Americans have no awareness of the calamity that their government's pursuit of hegemony is bringing to themselves and to life on earth. What is wrong with Americans?
Thinking ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
The impending global recession has nothing to do with crafty mortgage lenders, opportunistic loan applicants, dodgy rating agencies, or crooked home appraisers. As commentator Mike Whitney says, "The source of the troubles is the Federal Reserve and monetary policies that are designed to rob people of their life savings."
Sharp contractions ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
The sins of a man are visited on the grandchildren in Keith Li's Centipede Horror, where evil bomohs (witchdoctors) cast their scorpion and centipede spells and whose victims die horrible deaths, before they can vomit out the deadly critters. Stephen Tan reviews.
"Centipede is a wormlike animal with a long, flat ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
When Eddie Vedder comes to town as part of his solo tour, Karen Barry Schwarz decides to cosy up to the man. Well... as close as she can get to the Pearl Jam frontman.
So I just spent the week with Eddie Vedder, who was in town this week and flying ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
The bull market tide goes out, leaving the lion city's sovereign wealth firm gasping on the shore. The following report was posted at www.asiasentinel.com.
Nearly five months after its March 31 year-end, Singaporeans should be eagerly looking forward to the publication of the report of the guardian of so much of ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
*Nation-builders, fake intellectuals, fake independent bloggers, fake opposition, fake non-govt organisations, you know who you are.
America's debts are entirely balanced atop its currency. The US dollar is like a circus strongman holding a barbell precariously over his head; as the weight increases... the knees buckle and the over-matched weightlifter crashes ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
The U.S. financial crisis has cut so deep - and the government has taken on so much debt in misguided attempts to bail out such companies as Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) - that even larger financial shocks are still to come, global investing guru Jim Rogers said ...
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