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Chile: Student Protests Spread Throughout Region
In support of Chile's ongoing student protests, and voicing their own demands, thousands of people took to the streets in more than a dozen cities in Latin America Thursday …
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Anger Soars Over Pakistan Attack
Peshawar - “Enough is enough. Pakistan should respond aggressively to these unprovoked and unwarranted NATO air strikes,” says local shopkeeper Muhammad Omar. Public anger is boiling over as the …
Military Detention Versus We the People
An Army spokesman in one of the detainee areas in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 9, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) …
Seven Surveys Make A Trend For Fox And Viewers
The release yesterday of yet another survey indicating the more you watch Fox News the less they know, has once again shone a spotlight on one of the unique …
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NATO Raids Kill Pakistan Troops, Raising Tensions
Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistani officials said Saturday that NATO aircraft had killed at least 25 soldiers in strikes against two military posts at the northwestern border with Afghanistan, and …
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Obama Granted Fewer Requests for Clemency Than Any Other President in the Last Century
President Barack Obama’s Nov. 21 pardons of three marijuana offenders are extremely unlikely to indicate any shift in the White House’s pot policies. The three had already served their …
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
(Photo: Páll Hilmarsson / Flickr) An Italian radio program's story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the …
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Rolling Sympathy Strikes Harass Food-Service Giant
Taking advantage of contracts that allow members to honor picket lines, Teamsters spread short, rolling sympathy strikes to nine states at the nation’s second-largest food service company. …
Democracy or Plutocracy? A Chart
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Capitalism and the Spy Market: An Analysis
(Photo: emmma peel / Flickr) The trend toward an ever greater abuse of power through the act of spying has apparently created its own capitalist market. And …