There are four main areas to consider: Awareness (or Attention), Illusion, Fragmentation and Ego. As Krishnamurti taught, Attention is Everything. Without Attention, we are not ourselves. The great attributes of the United States and the way in which they have been squandered. Bill Bonner’s conversation with Neil Barofsky, whistleblower extraordinaire. …
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Today on the program we look at why people in the US continue to pay more for health care that any other industrialized county. Annually tens of thousands die from lack of care and Obama is now proposing cuts in Medicare. We first interview Dr. David Himmelstein is professor in the CUNY …
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The truth about the Cyprus bank horror. “It’s just a business”… How governments and the regulators come running to the banks’ help – at the expense of anybody. Taking over customers’ deposits was not just a one-time result of a sudden, unexpected crisis; it’s been planned at least since December, …
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What can we learn from the US government and intelligence involvement and corruption of Haiti during the past 50 years that serves as a model for what the US does today in corporate colonization of poor nations. With Prof. Joan Mellen Prof. Joan Mellen is a professor of English at …
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Why is US healthcare ranked last among industrialized countries? Why Congress should not expand medical research Why do cancer research studies downplay chemotherapy side effects? Can drinking soft drinks lead to depression? Can H pylori protect against stroke and lung cancer? Vicki’s 20-20 tips are: Great reasons to use fresh …
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Jack provides his running commentary on the fiscal cliff negotiations and then introduces guest, Art Lipow, to discuss the formation and experience of the British Labor party and its lessons and relevance to forming a true second party in the US. The U.S. One party system with two wings—Democrat and …
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A former investigator into allegations that British troops abused Iraqi prisoners resigned because she did not want to be implicated in “a cover-up”, the high court has heard. Louise Thomas, 45, left the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) in July because she thought it was not a genuine investigation but …
Not much news on Fukushima crosses the ocean to our side of the globe anymore, but for thousands of Japanese children and evacuees, the suffering is hardly winding down. About 41 percent of 57,000 children have tested positive for early signs of possible thyroid cancer, and four out of …
Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland’s intelligence service, European national security sources said. Intelligence agencies in the United States and Britain are among those who were warned by Swiss authorities …
Industry leaders will have no problem closing nuclear reactors that don’t generate expected profits. Exelon, the Chicago-based company that owns 17 of the 104 U.S. reactors, recently saw its stock price drop below $30 a share, the same level as mid-2003, and a whopping 70% below its peak of over …
A debt crisis in Europe, an electoral campaign in the United States, and Canada watching from the sidelines; this is how the trans-Atlantic world was depicted in the media over the past months. Though the votes had not yet been counted, warnings suddenly emerged about a fiscal cliff. In order …
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Kabul Bank became Afghanistan’s largest financial institution by offering the promise of modern banking to people who had never had a saving or checking account. What it really dealt in was modern theft: “From its very beginning,” according to a confidential forensic audit of Kabul Bank, “the …
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips talk about US Cuba relations, societial differences between US and Cuba, and the Cuban Five with Ricardo Alarcon President of the National Assembly in Cuba, Martin Garbus US attorney for the Cuban Five, and Gloria La Riva coordinator of the national committee to free the …
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Washington elites have spent much of the last three decades getting hysterical about budget deficits, but they are outdoing themselves in the current budget stand-off which they labeled as the “fiscal cliff”. Their story is that scheduled increases in taxes at the end of 2012, coupled with mandated cuts in spending, …