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Obama Proposes a Bailout of Postal Service, Cutting Deliveries
Washington - Warning of an imminent financial crisis, President Barack Obama on Monday proposed bailing out the United States Postal Service, urging that it be allowed to cut mail …
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Ends This Week With Celebrations, Revelations and Questions
The era of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the military’s ban on openly gay service members, will come to an end on Tuesday. And while supporters of the ban continue …
Why Hunger Is Still With Us (2)
Workers at a cassava root plant for starch manufacturing in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, April 1, 2011. The push to make biofuels, especially in China, from such crops as …
Targeting Muslims
(Image: JR / Truthout) In August 2002, police were called to a home in Seminole, Florida, by a woman who said her husband had threatened to kill …
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The End of the Middle Class
The following was originally published in Politico. Finally, Washington has turned its attention back to jobs. With President Barack Obama’s demand that Congress pass his …
Obama’s Arc of Instability, Destabilizing the World One Region at a Time
It’s a story that should take your breath away: the destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called “the arc of instability.” It involves at …
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Keystone XL Pipeline Safety Standards Not as Rigorous as They Seem
Washington - TransCanada and the U.S. State Department have repeatedly touted safety standards for the proposed Keystone XL heavy crude pipeline as robust and unparalleled. As proof, they point …
Taxing the Rich, the Obama Way
Warren Buffett is a tough negotiator, which is one reason why he’s the second-wealthiest person in America. So when the President refers to his new initiative to …
The Global Crisis as a (Brothers) Grimm Story
Once upon a time in the land of US, the ‘job creators’ decided to send as many of the jobs they created jobs as possible to THEM. THEM would …
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Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases
Washington — President Obama called on Monday for Congress to adopt his “balanced” plan combining entitlement cuts, tax increases and war savings to reduce the federal deficit by more …