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Joe Bageant: Breaking The Beer Barrier
June 7, 2008 (World News Trust) -- This is the text of a presentation by Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus , to the National Conference On Media Reform June 6-8 at the Minneapolis ...
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Media Shit Storms and Heartland Reality -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 17, 2008 There seems to be no end to the media mediocrity we must suffer in this country. Now we have the Obama Guns, God and Bitterness shit storm, ...
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The Audacity of Depression -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant at Innies CafeRage fatigue, plastic dirt and happy hour in techno-totalitarian America Joe Bageant -- World News Trust April 3, 2008 One of the best things about the hundred or so book ...
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The Audacity of Depression -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 2, 2008 Rage fatigue, plastic dirt, and happy hour in techno-totalitarian America One of the best things about the hundred or so book festivals in ...
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Political Ponerology: A Science of Evil Applied for Political Purposes (Dale Tavris MD, MPH)
(World News Trust) -- I define evil as the exercise of political power -– that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion -– in order to avoid extending one’s self for ...
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A 'perfect storm' of hunger (Edmund Sanders and Tracy Wilkinson)
The U.N.'s World Food Program is struggling as costs of food and fuel skyrocket while the numbers of people needing help surge across the globe. Millions are in danger. April 2, 2008 -- KHARTOUM, ...
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Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf Risks Collapse, U.K. Group Says (Alex Morales)
March 25, 2008 (Bloomberg) -- An Antarctic ice shelf bigger than Connecticut risks collapse because of global warming after a retreat that began on Feb. 28, the British Antarctic Survey said. The ...
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A Credit Card You Want to Toss | Robert Berner
Bank of America abruptly notified cardholders in good standing their rates would skyrocket if they didn't opt out fast. Is BofA greedy or needy? Robert Berner -- Newsweek Feb. 7, 2008 -- Credit-card ...
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Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business (Matthew Rothschild)
Matthew Rothschild -- The Progressive Jan. 7, 2008 -- Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The ...
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Health Care Fraud: One Reason Gov't-Sponsored Universal Health Care is Essential (Dale Tavris M.D.)
Dale Tavris, MD, MPH -- World News Trust Health care is too important to the well being of the American people to entrust it to for-profit corporations. A 2004 report by the Institute of Medicine ...
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Iraqi asks Americans to carry on the struggle in “Open letter to Cindy Sheehan”
by Kathlyn Stone A chorus of voices has reached out to Cindy Sheehan following her resignation as the face of the anti-war movement. CodePink thanked her. Progressive Democrats of America gave ...
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