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Robert Reich | The Remarkable Political Stupidity of Wall Street
Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it’s busily shredding new regulations and making …
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Beyond Guantánamo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates
Washington - It is the other Guantánamo, an archipelago of federal prisons that stretches across the country, hidden away on back roads. Today, it houses far more men convicted …
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Peru’s Top Indigenous Leader Says Industry, Traffickers Behind Shaman Slayings
Shaman Wilson showing plants used in preparing a ‘pusanga’ in Peru, September, 2009. (Photo: Howard G Charing) Iquitos, Peru - It's been more than one month since …
Out of the Backyard: New Latin American and Caribbean Bloc Defies Washington
CELAC heads of state pose in front of Simón Bolívar statue at Caracas summit, December 2, 2011. (Photo: Eduardo Santillán Trujillo/Presidencia de la República) Rain clouds ringed …
Ukraine on the Edge
Outside the Pecherskiy district court, police keep supporters of Ukrainian ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko at bay, in Kiev, Ukraine, Oct. 11, 2011. (Photo: James Hill / The New York …
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Short Tales From Bizarro World: The GOP Primaries Edition
Former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Bahwitabah da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie …
Feinstein: Senate Panel’s Probe of CIA Torture Program Concludes It Was “Far More Widespread and Systematic Than We Thought“
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) is questioned by reporters on her way to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, on December 13, 2010. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The …
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Boston Police Pass on Evicting Occupy Protesters
Boston — Relieved protesters at Occupy Boston let out cheers and danced in the streets early Friday morning after learning that, despite an eviction notice, the police would not …
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Occupy Ourselves
In just a few short months we have reached a point of near saturation in which the modifier “Occupy” has been applied to almost every sphere of our beleaguered …
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Occupy Oakland Takes on Foreclosure Crisis
Oakland, Calif. - Last May, Oakland resident Margarita Ramirez lost her home to foreclosure. While the mother of two applied to Fannie Mae through Bank of America for loan …