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War Drums Beat Ever More Loudly Over Iran
The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to be reversed.
Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform
This punitive approach to poverty has driven poor mothers of color further to the margins of the economy, making them even more politically invisible.
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Never Mind Super PACs: How Big Business Is Buying the Election
Defending their new privilege of secret corporate electioneering, trade associations have bitterly opposed any attempts, postu2013Citizens United, at reform.
Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza: Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height
Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten u201cstimulus packagesu201d of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped …
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Economic Crisis Encouraging Factory Takeovers in Spain
At least 40 struggling companies have been converted into cooperatives with workers assuming management.
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Election Countdown 2012: Protesters Gather in Charlotte for the Convention, and More
This week in the Election Countdown protesters are gathering in Charlotte;National media focus on but largely misunderstand what's happening in New Orleans; The fatal shootings of two apparently emotionally …
Waste More, Want More: America Throws Out Good Food
We are throwing away away up to 40% of our food, the research finds.
Resource Wars Connect Yanomami Massacre and Shell’s Arctic Drilling
Two pieces of news came in this morning: one about the massacre of an Yanomami settlement in the Amazon, and the other about Obama green lighting Shellu2019s drilling in …
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IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity
Contrary to the impression conveyed by most news media coverage, the report provides new evidence that Iranu2019s enrichment strategy is aimed at enhancing its bargaining position in negotiations with …
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Raising the Minimum Wage Is the Least We Can Do to Civilize America
Mark Weisbrot: Contrary to prevailing myths about who would benefit from a proposed increase in the minimum wage, 88 percent of the 28 million workers affected are not teenagers.