Dissent Mag

by Terry Atlas

Global Research, March 12, 2008
U.S. News & World Report - 2008-03-11

This report by the US mainstream press suggests in no uncertain terms that the US is heading for war with Iran and that opposition within the US high command has been significantly weakened with the forced resignation of Admiral William Fallon.

Is the United States moving toward military action with Iran?

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Posted in the database on Wednesday, October 03rd, 2007 @ 23:45:20 MST (475 views)
by Mark Klempner CommonDreams.org

I consider the Internet to be one of the world’s great wonders. And also America’s last hope for a free press.

When I was growing up in the 1970s, there were many people with a lot of things to say, but they generally had no platform. That’s why we needed figures like Bob Dylan to be “the voice of a generation.”

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By Dean Baker

11/03/08 “Commondreams” — - With the release of the February jobs numbers, everyone except for the economists now acknowledges we are in a recession. The economy is shedding jobs at a rapid pace and it is only a matter of time until we see the unemployment rate rising. In addition to greater difficulty finding jobs, workers can look forward to falling wages and reduced access to health care insurance and pension coverage.

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Posted in the database on Thursday, September 06th, 2007 @ 20:56:18 MST (582 views)
from The Independent

Central bank

Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, 1987 to 2006

The man who underwrote the bubble. After the collapse of the dotcom boom in 2000, the attacks of 11 September 2001 and the Enron/ accounting scandals of 2002, the Fed lowered interest rates until they reached a nadir of 1 per cent in June 2003, where they stayed for a year before gently rising. Such historically low levels (negative in real terms), had the desired effect of bolstering financial markets, but also fed through to inflation and, more dangerously, a real estate and financial bubble. It also created the “Greenspan put”.

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by Michel Chossudovsky

What the Western allies face is a long, sustained and proactive defence of their societies and way of life. To that end, they must keep risks at a distance, while at the same time protecting their homelands.

International terrorism today aims to disrupt and destroy our societies, our economies and our way of life. …

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