by Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
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webofdebt.com
July 1, 2011
“Wall Street banks have cut back on small business lending… [by] more than double the cutback in overall lending.… [Small business] options just keep disappearing.” –Elizabeth Warren, Chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel
The Wall Street bailout of 2008 has radically altered the banking business. Continue reading
by William Blum
Featured Writer
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www.killinghope.org
3 July, 2011
Image by Mohammad A. Hamama, A reflected version! via Flickr
Libya: Unending American hostility
If I could publicly ask our beloved president one question, it would be this: “Mr. President, in your short time in office you’ve waged war against six countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya. This makes me wonder something. With all due respect: What is wrong with you?”
by Michael Parenti
Featured Writer, Dandelion Salad
www.michaelparenti.org
July 1, 2011
Image by Toni Kaarttinen via Flickr
Excerpted from Dirty Truths.
What does it mean to say we have freedom of speech? Many of us think free speech is a right enjoyed by everyone in our society. In fact, it does not exist as an abstract right. There is no such thing as a freedom detached from the socio-economic reality in which it might find a place.
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