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Articles for this week from Toward Freedom, offering a progressive perspective on world events:

Depleted Uranium: A Looming Worldwide Calamity:
by Stephen Lendman

Forget about Avian bird flu. The threat of it becoming a pandemic is more a political scare tactic and potential bonanza for drug company profits and its major shareholders' net worth (including Gilead Sciences, the developer of the Tamiflu drug and its former Chairman and major shareholder Donald Rumsfeld) than a likely public health crisis - unless you live around infected chickens or take an unproven safe immunization shot. There are much more other likely killer bacterial and viral threats than Avian that get little attention. Don't worry about possible or unlikely threats. Worry about real ones. Bacteria and viruses untreatable by anti-biotics are good examples. So are global warming and many others. But, there's possibly one threat that tops all others both in gravity and because it's been deliberately concealed from the public – never discussed, explained or had any action taken to remediate it. It's the global threat from the toxic effects of depleted uranium (DU), and like global warming; DU has the potential to destroy all planetary life.
How can something so potentially destructive be hidden and ignored and why?
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Remembering the Day They Kicked Khrushchev Out of the Kremlin:
by Jack Goldfarb

October has ever been a fateful month in Russian history: the October Revolution (1917), launching of Sputnik I, world’s first space satellite (1957), Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), and that startling day, 61 years ago, on October 16, 1964, when the Soviets announced the astonishing ouster of their top leader, Nikita Khruschchev. Khruschchev thus became the first Soviet boss removed from power in a bloodless coup.
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Between the Lines Radio: Former CIA Field Agent Asserts U.S. Intelligence Agencies Broken; Income Inequality in America Deepening; Airborne Toxic
Sediment Endangers New Orleans' Residents and Underreported News Summary from Around the World.
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Why We Fight:
By Rob Williams Documentary director Eugene Jarecki,
director of the "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," has hit a triple with his new film "Why We Fight." There are many compelling reasons why the Sundance Film Festival may have decided to bestow the Jury Prize on "Why We Fight" last year. Jarecki is a talented filmmaker, with a keen aesthetic sense (his celluloid mojo – lighting, camera work, sound, artistic delivery - makes a film like Robert Greenwald’s recent "Wal-Mart" adventure look downright sloppy by comparison). He also is not afraid to
serve up controversy.
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