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Obama to Name Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as Transportation Chief
In what is seen as an effort to boost minorities in high level positions, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has been tapped for a cabinet position in Obama's administration.
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Congress Thinks Plane Passengers Are More Important Than Kids
One can only wish that Congress would go to bat for kids with disabilities in the same way it has for airplanes.
Seeking Corporate Accountability for Crimes at Abu Ghraib
The Center for Constitutional Rights is still seeking accountability from those alleged to have tortured at Abu Ghraib.
How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched
How industrial toxins entered the American home.
International Intervention in Afghanistan Has Led to Heroin Resurgence
After a decade of US and NATO occupation, opium cultivation is again on the rise in Afghanistan.
Tar Sands Will Be Piped to the Gulf Coast, With or Without the Northern Segment of Keystone XL
Why the health of one woman's farm is not only vital to her, but also crucial to the preservation of the global climate.
Julian Assange on George Bush’s Library and Bradley Manning’s Trial
Activist Medea Benjamin interviews WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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A Hard Day’s Labor for $4.76: The Offshore Assembly Industry in Haiti
As we mourn the deaths of the Bangladesh factory collapse, we explore the implications of sweatshop labor as a model for development.
Time to Renounce the “War on Terror“
Norman Solomon: The “war on terror” continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death.
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When You Cheapen One Life, You Cheapen Every Life
Richard Eskow: The mass killings of innocent workers are routine, and they'll stay that way until we stop treating real people as if they were inputs for someone's simplistic …