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Thatcher’s Record: It’s All Smoke and Mirrors By Tim Holmes
Beneath the tide of stirring political rhetoric, it is worth taking a careful look at the woman’s true record in and out of office. What follows is an attempt to shed light on several key areas of that record. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Selective Outrage – Iran And Libya
News that a fourth scientist in two years, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, had been assassinated in Iran by an unknown agency generated minimal outrage in the press. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 22 August 2011
22 August 2011 — williambowles.info Former WikiLeaks associate destroyed potentially explosive documents The Tech Herald by Steve Ragan – Aug 22 2011, 06:00 Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesperson for WikiLeaks, is said to have destroyed more than 3000 documents, taken when he left the organization. Based on statements from WikiLeaks, the documents would have been Continue reading
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South Africa Tells Exactly Why It Is Terrified Of A Walmart-Massmart Merger
The sheer scale of Walmart’s international operations made government’s intervention necessary. Walmart’s revenue is estimated to be $408 billion – larger than South Africa’s GDP. In 2004, Walmart, if it was measured as a country, would have been China’s 8th largest trade partner and would have a GDP larger than 75% of countries worldwide. In… Continue reading
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Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class By James Petras
During Obama’s Presidency, Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment has been frozen, resulting in a net decrease of over 8 percent, which is exactly the amount spent chasing just 5 dozen ‘Al Qaeda terrorists’ in the mountains bordering Pakistan. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 