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Inside the Koch Brothers’ 2011 Summer Seminar: Part 1
David H. Koch, one of the billionaire brothers who runs Koch Industries, at the Lincoln Center in New York, in this July 9, 2008 file photo. (Photo: Robert Caplin …
Unequal Responsibility for Crime
(Image: JR / Truthout) Consider this August 3, 2001, White House press briefing, in which the editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, Russell Mokhiber, asked a question of …
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Facts That Strain Personal Incredulity
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Somewhere in his writings Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary biologist, talks about anti-evolution types who argue from personal …
NYT on WikiLeaks: Move Along, No Atrocity to See Here
One of the main media tropes regarding WikiLeaks' release of State Department cables last year was that there was either nothing new to be learned, or that private conversations …
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The War on Labor
Bashing unions Makes me quake; We've all got A lot at stake. Here in investor-laden Connecticut, labor scored a rare coup this year. We …
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I Was a “Domestic Terrorist”: Tales From a Post-9/11 America (2)
Locked up: Protesting the 2008 Republican National Convention, Crowder was pepper-sprayed, incarcerated and eventually prosecuted as a “domestic terrorist.” (Credit: Ramsey County Sheriff’s office.) It began with …
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How Prisons Imperil Black Voting Power in Post-Katrina Louisiana (2)
New Orleans - Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Sometimes called “The Farm” because of its plantation-like set-up, it …
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Malawian Government Becomes a One-Man Show
Lilongwe - For the last two weeks, Malawi’s president has been running the country’s 22 ministries on his own after firing his entire cabinet. But political and economic analysts …
Syria at this Moment
The US and Europe have levied sanctions against Syria this past August. Although the US sanctions will not be a difference maker with Syria due to the limited amount …
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Poll Tracks Shifts in Public Attitudes Since 9/11
Washington - In the first of what is likely to be a tidal wave of polling in the run-up to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New …