The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing
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The Age of Mass Killing Comes to Syria & France Pushes Gov’t in Exile
In recent months, the uprising in Syria has become bloodier and bloodier. In the beginning, in spring and summer of 2011, the crowds were largely […]
Top Ten Pieces of Bad News for Romney on Eve of Convention
1. Ron Paul declined the opportunity to speak at the Republican Convention because he does not “fully support” Mr. Romney. Paul as the leader of […]
Plot to Provoke war with Iran thwarted by Navy analyst
Shorter WaPo: In spring of 2007, someone in the Bush administration (unindicted co-conspirator Richard Bruce Cheney? Neocons?) Sends uber hawk Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff […]
Tampa Area Republicans terrified of Tea Party, Ryan (Guzzo)
Paul Guzzo writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: As Republicans from all over the nation converge upon the City of Tampa to celebrate […]
South Africa: Label West Bank Squatter Products; Israel: You Apartheid State!
Having Avigdor Lieberman as a foreign minister is one of the worst things that could happen to Israel. I was in Brazil last year this […]
Just Deserts: Iraqis get Iraq’s Oil, not Bush/Cheney (Muttitt)
Gregg Muttitt writes at Tomdispatch: Mission Accomplished for Big Oil? How an American Disaster Paved the Way for Big Oil’s Rise — and Possible Fall […]
Top Five Worst Planks in GOP Platform
These are the promises that the Republican Party is making to us if it wins: 1. Outlawing abortion altogether, with no exceptions for the life […]
Syrian Official: Resignation of al-Assad on the Table
Admittedly, the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad could go on faltering for a long time. And it is very hard to know what is going […]
Hurricane Isaac may Threaten RNC convention of Climate-Change Deniers in Tampa
Hurricane season comes every year in the Mexican Gulf, so it is no real surprise that a tropical depression in the Atlantic may well turn […]
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