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The Military’s Role in US Foreign Policy and Torture: Why Is School of the Americas Absent From the National Dialogue?
Protesters demonstrating against the School of the Americas, November 2006. (Photo: crazbabe21) On April 8, 1993, a Newsweek investigation about the Fort Benning, Georgia-based US Army School …
Got Class Warfare? Occupy Wall Street Now!
Class warfare has once again entered the vocabulary of mainstream national politics, but with a strange twist.
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Democrats Suggest Paying for Obama’s Job Plan With Surcharge on Millionaires
Washington - Senate Democrats, divided over how to pay for President Barack Obama's jobs plan, Wednesday tossed out the White House tax proposals and replaced them with one of …
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Mexico Leans to the Right on Abortion
Juarez, Mexico - A recent ruling by Mexico’s supreme court on right-to-life amendments in two northern states has pro-choice supporters fearful of a dangerous precedent that could fly beneath …
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Why is Obama Administration So Confident the Health Care Act Will Pass Court Muster?
The Obama administration has decided to appeal directly to the Supreme Court the Affordable Care Act challenge by Republican attorneys general from 25 states, including Florida, and one Democrat. …
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Fear of an Islamic Planet
It's easy to make fun of Michele Bachmann: her history gaffes, her Christian extremism, her ludicrous political positions. Journalists, though, would be sad to see her leave the Republican …
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Uber-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President
The Koch Brothers, from “The Joker's Wild” deck of cards by Greg Palast and Bob Grossman. Click here to view full card. Hedge fund magnate Paul Singer …
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Occupy Your City and Make History
The Occupy Wall Street protest is a full bore indictment against corporate greed and dysfunctional government. It’s a demand for nation building here at home. People young …
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Something Big Is Happening: Occupy Together
To paraphrase one of Bob Dylan's songs of youthful protest, “Something's happening here, and you don't know what it is, do you Ms. Bellafante?” A New York …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Occupy Wall Street Movement Continues to Grow, and More
In today's On the News segment: Members from several prominent labor unions are expected to take to the streets in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, International Monetary Fund …