Detroit Continues to Imitate Fallout 3: Urban Hunter Snipes Food Among the Ruins

April 3, 2009

Glemie Dean Beasley is hunting raccoons in the wreckage of Detroit. “‘Starvation is cheap,’ he says as he prepares an afternoon lunch of barbecue coon and red pop at his west side home.” Beasley claims he could easily feed himself just with the wildlife in the old factory in his backyard. Welcome to America.

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Man Dies During G-20 Protests in London

April 2, 2009

A man died last night during the G20 protests in central London as a day that began peacefully ended with police saying bottles were thrown at police medics trying to help him. The man had collapsed within a police cordon set up to contain the crowds who had assembled in central London and the City […]

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New Signs That Recession May Be Hitting Bottom

April 2, 2009

WASHINGTON – New signs that the recession could be nearing a bottom emerged Thursday, as factory orders were far better than expected and the Dow industrials surged over 8,000 for the first time in two months.

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Nixon: G-20 Protesters Aiming at Wrong Target

April 2, 2009

Anticapitalist protesters gathering in London for two days of demonstrations are missing the point. If there is one myth the credit crunch has surely exploded, it is that the financial system is a free market. The world is in a mess because the financial system wasn’t capitalist enough.

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While POTUS is Overseas, Senate Rejects Fasttrack for His Cap and Trade Measure

April 2, 2009

In a strong vote Wednesday the Senate firmly rejected President Obama’s plan to try to push through a carbon emissions cap-and-trade program through fast-track procedures, making clear that getting any bill done this year will be a struggle.

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Kaletsky: Two and a Half Cheers for G-20

April 2, 2009

Forget the stage-managed rows, walkouts and last-minute reconciliations, today’s G20 summit will end in agreement, amity and mutual congratulation. The summit’s success is preordained in two and a half ways.

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Foreman: Blood on the Streets in Beirut

April 2, 2009

Last month in Beirut I was caught up in a physical attack on Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American journalist, by pro-Syrian thugs. It was my first visit to the Lebanese capital – as the guest of the New Opinion Group, an anti-Syrian NGO. The violence came as a surprise, partly because we were walking down one […]

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Cohen: America Agonistes

April 2, 2009

LONDON — Pax Americana, unlovely but effective, has endured for more than 60 years, the consequence of the post-war development of the United States as a European and Asian power. It has averted the worst, but it is safe to say that it is closer to the end than the beginning of its life.

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Iraq’s Tenuous Future and American Resolve

April 2, 2009

I have always felt that just as important as the increase in troop numbers and the new counterinsurgency strategy, which involved getting US troops out into the streets of Iraq and partnering with the Sunni Awakening groups, to the growing stability and strength of an Iraqi society and government, was the fact that all actors […]

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Jobless Claims Continue to Rise, Jump to 26-year High

April 2, 2009

WASHINGTON — New U.S. claims for state unemployment benefits jumped last week to a 26-year high while total claims soared to a fresh record, highlighting the risk of what could be a nearly historic drop in March payrolls due for release Friday.

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