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From Prosperity to Austerity: Dialing Down Our Expectations
In the middle of the 1982 recession, with the worst unemployment since the Depression, Ronald Reagan gravely looked into the camera and told us that prosperity was right around …
Owned by the World’s Largest “Charity” Organization to Dodge Taxes, IKEA Thwarts Union Organizing
Three years after an IKEA factory moved to the small blue collar town of Danville, VA, the international furniture giant has become the center of a union battle, racial …
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I Remember America
President Barack Obama returns to the Oval Office. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) It has not always been this way. Maybe we're all suckers for the …
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An Inferior Argument for American Superiority
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Aaron Carroll, in his health-care-focused blog “The Incidental Economist,” had a very good takedown of a recent Wall …
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Radiation Detected in Milk, Air and Water – Is America Safe?
(Photo: Speedy314; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Radioactive material from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has fallen in rain on major cities across …
Unequal Protection: The Boston Tea Party Revealed
The battle between the small businessmen of America and the huge multinational East India Company actually began in Pennsylvania, according to Hewes.
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News in Brief: UN Official Denied Visit With Manning, and More
UN Official Denied Visit With Manning The United Nation Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez said that he is "deeply disappointed and frustrated” that his request "for …
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Government Shutdown Averted, but at What Cost?
Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night, to fund the government for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year and avert …
Not Why, but How: To the Shores of (and Skies Above) Tripoli
A president, being the most powerful man in the world, begins history anew -- so at least Americans pretend to believe.
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US Appeals Court Rules Against Arizona’s Immigration Law
Back in July, federal district court judge Susan Bolton imposed a preliminary injunction on parts of the controversial immigration law passed by Arizona last year, SB-1070. She enjoined provisions …