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McConnell Supports Deficit Spending on Big Corporate Tax Breaks While Opposing Emergency Spending for Unemployment Benefits Unless Paid For
The package of tax breaks that McConnell supports expire every year or two and are routinely renewed with little debate by Congress despite their huge costs.
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Famous First Words: “I Have Been Unfaithful to My Husband”
The stunning directness and immediacy of the opening line of Sigrid Unset's first novel, “Marta Oulie,” are sustained throughout its pages.
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Iraq Near Implosion: The ‘Bad Years’ Are Back
This time the US has little leverage over Iraq to control the events from afar.
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Teflon, Fatalism, and Accountability
“Teflon is, I believe, an apt metaphor for the protective veneer of privilege and power.”
Where Risk and Resilience Meet: Elaine Enarson Talks Gender Disaster
Elaine's work re-imagines risk prevention beyond prepping: the meaningful steps that communities, organizations and governments should take long before the first sirens go off.
Misread Telexes Led Analysts to See Iran Nuclear Arms Programme
Early suspicions led to US intelligence assessments saying Iran was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons for a decade.
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Do We Learn Anything from History?
Our decision makers have no respect for the lessons of history.
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Union-Backed Candidate Wins First Round in El Salvador Election
Ten unionists were martyred in a 1989 bombing by right-wing death squads, targeted because they were union leaders.
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How the UN Can Ignore 8,000 Deaths in Haiti
Many more Haitians will die from cholera, a disease brought to their country by the very people who were supposed to be saving them from disaster.
Washington’s Military Aid to Israel: Fake Peace Process, Real War Process
We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid.