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Tea Party Senate Primary Campaigns to Watch
Tea Party activists helped Republicans win a landslide in the 2010 midterm elections, but they are already unhappy. Less than a year into the new Congress, they see a …
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Hurricane Cost Seen as Ranking Among Top Ten
Hurricane Irene will most likely prove to be one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in the nation’s history, and analysts said that much of the damage might not be …
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Corporate Elites Still Doing a Job on American Workers
On this Labor Day weekend, our country is engulfed in deep economic anxiety, and no doubt you share my heartfelt concern for those Americans who're suffering the worst of …
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Tax Me More Europe’s Wealthy Say
London - Echoing a call by Warren E. Buffett, members of the European wealthy elite are urging their governments to raise their taxes or enact special levies to help …
The Economics of Happiness
(Image: JR / Truthout) New York - We live in a time of high anxiety. Despite the world’s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast insecurity, unrest, and …
Bill McKibben Responds to Press Sec. Jay Carney’s Statements on the Tar Sands Action
We just got some important evidence that this protest is working and that we’re breaking through to the mainstream media and the White House. This morning, President …
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The Election March of the Trolls
We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political …
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Libyan Rebels Set Deadline for Qaddafi Forces to Surrender
Tripoli, Libya — With NATO suggesting that talks were under way between Libya’s combatants, the country’s increasingly self-confident rebels on Tuesday offered forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi a …
Lessons and False Lessons From Libya
Rebels celebrate outside Col. Moammar Qaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, Libya, August 29, 2011. Residents returning to their homes have found that many have been heavily damaged by …
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Eric Cantor Won’t Support Hurricane Disaster Funding Without Massive Cuts to First Responders
In the wake of Hurricane Irene, FEMA is quickly running out of money. Specifically, FEMA’s crucial “disaster-relief fund, used to reimburse local governments and individuals for the costs of …