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Senate Rejects Resolution to Repeal EPA’s Air Pollution Standards
The Senate voted 46-53 on Wednesday to reject a resolution to repeal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards aimed at reducing the amount of toxic pollution emitted from coal burning …
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Hope Dies at Guantanamo
Of the 800 men and boys held at Guantanamo since 2002, 169 remain. Of those prisoners, 87 have had their release approved by military review boards established during the …
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Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?
When it comes to international energy politics, it is not Bush but his vice president, Dick Cheney, who has been providing the role model for President Obama.
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Paul Krugman | Welcome to the 1930s
Financial powers, at home and abroad, are sinking us into the flawed economic ideals of the 1930s.
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The World’s 99% Knows Capitalism Is Failing and Believes That Change Is Possible
But to the young indignados and protestors elsewhere in the world, capitalism is failing to produce what was promised, but is delivering on what was not promised - inequality, …
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Another View: The Myth of the Postal Service’s Finances
The health of the Postal Service lies largely in the hands of Congress, which has made a tremendous accounting strategy error. The pre-payment strategy could bankrupt the post office …
Election Countdown 2012: Quebec Plagued by the Gangrenous Social Crisis of Law 78, and More
Daily countdown to the election, with links that keep you in the know!
Exposed: The Other ALECs’ Corporate Playbook
How is it that no matter whom we elect as our state representatives - Democrat, Republican, or other - we most often end up with policies that privilege the …
President Correa, Please Protect Julian Assange From My Government
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested political asylum from Ecuador.
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If High Court Upholds Arizona’s SB 1070, Priests and Rabbis Could Be Prosecuted for Providing Humanitarian Aid
While supporters and opponents rush to opine on the civil rights implications of the court's decision, few appreciate the serious risks to church autonomy and people of conscience.