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Hooray for Oil at Over 100 Dollars?
Sat, January 5, 2008 - 9:07 AM
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By Pascal Riché Rue89 Thursday 03 January 2008 The price of oil over 100 dollars? But that's very good news, one hears here and there. Think about it, explain the advocates of this paradox: expensive oil, it's the beginning of the end of a product that undermines our environment. It's a powerful incentive to change consumption habits; to economize on energy; to invest in solar, wind, biomass, hydrogen; to ship merchandise ... read more 
November 23, 2007
Sat, November 24, 2007 - 8:54 AM
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Editorial The Immigration Wilderness The nation certainly sounds as if it’s in an angry place on immigration. A major Senate reform bill collapsed in rancor in June, and every effort to revive innocuous bits of it, like a bill to legalize exemplary high school graduates, has been crushed. Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York hatched a plan to let illegal immigrants earn driver’s licenses — and steamrollered into the Valley of Death. Asked if she supported Mr. Spitzer, Sena... read more 
What If Our Mercenaries Turn on Us?
Fri, September 7, 2007 - 9:29 PM
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By Chris Hedges The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday 03 June 2007 Armed units from the private security firm Blackwater USA opened fire in Baghdad streets twice in two days last week. It triggered a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, a reminder that the war in Iraq may be remembered mostly in our history books for empowering and building America's first modern mercenary army. There are an estimated 20,000 ... read more 
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medecine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
Sat, September 1, 2007 - 7:52 AM
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Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard for shame!
Sat, August 18, 2007 - 8:46 AM
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The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There ... my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory: Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each... read more
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