Information Clearing House Newsletter October 17, 2011: Who Are The One Percent in America?

17 October 2011 — Information Clearing House

U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot
By Gareth Porter
The information about two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29434.htm

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Da Nang International Airport – Agent Orange and the Removal of Dioxin

17 October 2011 — AOAG

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Da Nang, Vietnam. Photo: Chuck Palazzo

 Da Nang International Airport
Agent Orange and the Removal of Dioxin: Status

History

Da Nang International Airport is the 3rd largest airport in Vietnam. Over 1 million passengers travel through the airport annually. This number is expected to rise to over 4 million passengers by 2020. In anticipation of this growth, there is a major project underway to expand the runways as well as the construction of a new international terminal. After the project is complete, the airport will have a total capacity of 6 million passengers per year.

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The march of the neoliberals By Stuart Hall

12 September 2011 — The Guardian

We are living through an extraordinary political situation: the end of the debt-fuelled boom, the banking crisis of 2007-10, the defeat of New Labour and the rise to power of a Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition. What sort of crisis is this? Is it a serious wobble in the trickle-down, win-win, end-of-boom-and-bust economic model that has dominated global capitalism? Does it presage business as usual, the deepening of present trends, or the mobilisation of social forces for a radical change of direction? Is this the start of a new conjuncture?

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