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As tensions escalate, eerie echoes of the run-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are in the air.

Thom Hartmann here – on the news…

(Photo: Lauriel-Arwen / Flickr) The past week has proven to be something of a resurgence for Occupy Wall Street with two major protests featuring thousands of activists …

UE's Republic Windows and Doors Tour. (Photo: mar is sea Y / Flickr) Three years ago, a worker occupation in Chicago saved a factory and sent up …

Washington - When oil and gasoline prices soared last April, President Barack Obama announced to fanfare that the Department of Justice would lead a task force designed to root …

Here’s the good news. The economic pie is growing again. Growth in the 4th quarter last year hit 3 percent on an annualized rate. That’s respectable – although still …

Beirut - The Syrian Army overwhelmed the main rebel stronghold in the embattled city of Homs on Thursday, setting the stage for its elite soldiers to turn their attention …

President Barack Obama talking on the phone in the Oval Office. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) A funny thing happened on the way to the …

Given my own deep prejudice toward religious zealotry, it has not been difficult for me to accept the conventional American view that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme theocratic ruler …

(Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) It is nearly impossible to discuss the vast climate change denial echo chamber and not mention the Koch Brothers, …