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Americans have always believed that hard work will bring rewards, but vast numbers now cannot meet their bills even with two or three jobs. More than one in 10 citizens live below the poverty line, and the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening

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This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday February 19 2006 on p32 of the World news section. It was last updated at 13:31 on February 27 2006. The flickering television in Candy Lumpkins’s trailer blared out The Bold and the Beautiful. It was a fantasy daytime soap vision of American life with little relevance to the reality of this impoverished corner of Kentucky.

Note - video: “Money goes to foreign wars while millions live in poverty” below the article

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by Ray McGovern

Events of the last week offer a metaphorical glimpse at the delusion pervading President George W. Bush’s White House and other enclaves of Iraq supporters in Washington. Bush and the First Lady spent last Monday clowning with the Easter Bunny (White House counsel Fred Fielding having donned the costume).

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from chycho.com

In September of 2007, the city of Windsor, which borders the United States, officially asked for financial assistance from Ottawa to deal with American refugees flooding into Canada. This is proving to be the tip of the iceberg, and only the first wave of economic refugees that have been created in the United States.

Note - video - “The consequence of the US subprime meltdown” and “The United States is bankrupt”below the article

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By Dr Gideon Polya

31 March, 2008
Countercurrents.org

The world is facing a global food crisis, or more specifically a biofuel-fuelled world food price crisis that is threatening the very lives of billions of people according to the Chief Scientific Adviser of the British Government and fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Professor John Beddington FRS (see: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23336840-11949,00.html ).

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By David Usborne

01 April, 2008
The Independent

We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.

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Posted April 1st, 2008 at 9:15 am

For quite a while, the debate over blogs in the Defense Department was over whether U.S. troops should be allowed to have them at all. On the one hand, some officials were concerned about security breaches, with troops inadvertently sharing compromising information online. On the other, some saw blogs as a morale-boosting outlet for the troops.

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By Paul Craig Roberts

01 April, 2008
Countercurrents.org

The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.

If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression–a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard–by the Bush Regime could be prevented.

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