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Monthly Archives: February 2006

37 Million Poor Hidden in the Land of Plenty

Monday, February 20, 2006

19 Feb 2006 | The Observer (UK)
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
by Paul Harris in Kentucky
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Sweden Plans to Be World’s First Oil-Free Economy

Thursday, February 9, 2006

[ This piece about Sweden's commitment to convert to fossil-free fuels shames the rest of the developed world. Sure, Sweden's got ethanol on the table as a possible part of its strategy, contra voices of sanity (like that of James Howard Kunstler), insight (like that of Richard Manning), and manifesto (like the editors of The [...]

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The Defense of the Bush Admin. and Enron: (1) Play Dumb about the Facts and (2) Claim “Good Intentions”

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Trial of the True Believers
7 Feb 2006 | AlterNet
by Onnesha Roychoudhuri

As the trial of Enron’s Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay enters its second week, journalists are again pointing to the connections between the Bush family and administration and the former corporate Goliath. It’s certainly not difficult to unearth the laundry list of ties between Bush’s [...]

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