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Harvey Wasserman – Will You Pay as New Reactors Jump $900 Million in Just Three Months?
May 15, 2012Listen to Harvey's show "Green Power and Wellness Hour" weekly at 2pm (Eastern Time) on Tuesday's The projected price for Georgia's Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 millionin just three months -- and that's just for starters. Will you pay for it? The future of new atomic power in the U.S. hangs in the balance. A national grassroots campaign is now working to stop tax/ratepayer handouts and kill the project. Construction there is defined by faulty concret...
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Stephen Lendman – Predatory Capitalism Failed
May 11, 2012Listen to Stephen every Thursday @ 11am and Saturday & Sunday at 1pm (All Eastern Time) on his show "The Progressive Radio Hour." Independent observers knew it long ago. Today's global economic crisis provides added confirmation. In 2008, a staunch champion of the system expressed second thoughts. More on him below. An ideology based on inequality, injustice, exploitation, militarism, and imperial wars eventually self-destructs or gets pushed. Growing evidence in America and Eu...
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[Article] Gary Null, PhD. and Nancy Ashley, VMD – THE POLITICS OF MEDICINE
May 11, 2012THE POLITICS OF MEDICINE By Gary Null, PhD and Nancy Ashley, VMD March 5, 2012 Part 1 of a 3-part Series In 2012, America has become the most overmedicated society in history. Indeed, there is a medication for every condition, and we believe these medications will make us happy, slender, full of energy, and attractive like the people in the television ads. We are even told that we don’t take enough medications as the list of made-up diseases grows longer and longer: restless l...
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Danny Schechter – ICEBERG AHEAD: The Big Money That is Sinking Democracy
May 8, 2012Listen to Danny's Radio show "The News Dissector" weekly on Friday's at 1pm (Eastern Time) I keep thinking of that clear April night 100 years ago when the unsinkable HMS Titanic steamed towards New York. It was actually on its way to dock just a few blocks from where I live at what are now the Chelsea Piers. There was a sense of optimism abroad as a new record for a speedy transatlantic passage was about to be set. There was music, dancing and fine wine. That is, until they saw tha...
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Noam Chomsky – Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline
May 8, 2012By Noam Chomsky The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead -- because victory won’t come quickly -- it could prove a significant moment in American history. The fact that the Occupy movement is unprecedented is quite appropriate. After all, it’s an unprecedented era and has been ...
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