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US govt beating up bankers for its own mistakes
- President Obama’s odd presidency takes another lurch towards the surreal as he actually manages to have some observers sympathizing with the banksters. 18
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US drones strategy relies ‘too much on killing people, too little on solving the problems’
- US policymakers don’t even claim that all the targets of their drone strikes are posing a threat to the US, Phyllis Bennis, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, told RT. 4
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Green energy rethink: 'Paying huge amounts of money to do nothing'
- We need to stop paying for incredibly expensive green energy, and make sure it gets cheaper as fast as possible, otherwise huge amounts of money will be wasted on doing nothing, Bjorn Lomborg, a professor at Copenhagen Business School, told RT. 8
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‘Against the interest of mankind’: US abuses position of world power with mass surveillance
- The abuse of surveillance power makes it clear the US should be stripped of its exclusive rights to control and monitor world information, and financial regulation, the former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told RT. 1
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World Cup 2014: Why Brazilian footballers are fighting back, and getting political
- The massive wave of protests that shook Brazil this June during the Confederations Cup football matches has surprisingly come onto the pitch. 1
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China, gold prices & US default threats
- In the very days when a deep split in the US Congress threatened a US government debt default, the gold price should normally jump through the roof, yet the opposite was the case. It is worth a closer look why. 23
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‘Wall Street banks are scapegoats in Washington’s game’
- The US government is targeting Bank of America, JP Morgan and other Wall Street banks as if they somehow created the housing bubble crash – but this isn’t true, economist Jeffrey A. Tucker tells RT. 1
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Grid pro quo: Green power not green light for citizens’ pockets
- The popularization of green power is leading to energy price growth and extra charges for EU citizens, at the same time not solving the problem of carbon emissions, Fred Roeder, director of Young Voices international advocacy group, told RT. 14
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‘Sisi regime in Egypt paves the way for another Israeli invasion of Gaza’ – Hamas spokesman
- Morsi did not take sides in Palestine, but when he was ousted the situation changed completely, Hamas’ representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said in an exclusive interview with RT’s Nadezhda Kevorkova. 10
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Europe turns blind eye on home-bred radical Muslims to preserve ‘pool of agents’
- With hundreds of European Muslim youths going abroad to fight international jihad, governments chose to ignore a possible blowback problem, seeing local minority communities as a pool of potential recruits, Oxford University historian Mark Almond told RT. 11
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