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America’s Shame: The US Government’s Human Trafficking Dilemma
For Vinnie Tuivaga, the offer was the answer to a prayer: A job in a luxury hotel in Dubai—the so-called Las Vegas of the Persian Gulf—making five times what …
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The Group Trying to Swift Boat Obama
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at the Washington Convention Center, in Washington, April 27, 2012. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times) A secretive right-wing …
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Austerity as a Bridge to Nowhere
Washington, D.C. - Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that's what it was, given Sunday's election results in Europe. Perhaps I should also …
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Neo-Nazi Party Plots Rise as First Effort to Form New Greek Government Fails
Athens - Election advertisements for Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party called for “taking the dirt out of the country,” “cleaning up Athens” and planting landmines along the borders to …
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Corruption Accounts for as Much As 14 Dollars Out of Every Tank of Gas
(Photo: jcarlosn)You pay a hidden premium every time they fill up your gas tank. The prices are high at the gas station, but part of the price you pay …
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Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets
Natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Helen Slottje / shaleshock.org) The “Rogers” family signed a surface-use agreement with a fracking company in 2009 to close their 300-acre dairy …
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The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb
Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S. More than a year after the triple …
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Corporations Win in Battle Against Investment Regulation
In a world where governments are increasingly subservient to global finance capital, multinationals are gaining ground in the fight against state regulations that aim to protect the environment, public …
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Food Stamp Foolishness
Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Agriculture proposed that ketchup be counted as a vegetable in the school …
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To Protect Military Budget, House GOP Plans to Cut 25 Percent From Programs “Directly Benefiting the Poor“
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), center, House Budget Committee chairman, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 29, 2012. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times) …