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News in Brief: Fed Gave Secret Bailout to Foreign Banks, and More
Fed Gave Secret Bailout to Foreign Banks Without public disclosure, the Federal Reserve doled out money totaling at least $30 million to three foreign banks at interest …
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“Death Squads” Target Salvadoran Journalists
Death threats targeting journalists were distressingly common during the tumultuous Salvadoran Civil War that took place in the late seventies and eighties. Over the course of the war, a …
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El Salvadoran Government and Social Movements Say “No” to Monsanto
On the morning of Friday, May 6th President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador’s left-wing FMLN party, arrived at the La Maroma agricultural cooperative in the department of Usulután for …
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“Angola 3” Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement
Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have entered their 40th year in solitary confinement in the Louisiana prison system. A series of events in New Orleans last month marked the …
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Republicans Announce Jobs Plan – This Time It’s Different
Republicans announced something they called a “jobs plan” today. This time it's different. It really is. This time it really will create jobs instead of just handing even more …
Asserting War Powers, House Moves to End Afghanistan, Libya Wars
(Photo: Marines / Flickr) Voting on amendments to the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, the House of Representatives took action to hasten the end of the wars …
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Execution First … Trial Later: Congress and the National Labor Relations Board
Legal procedure professors who taught current members of Congress must be pulling their hair out. Lately their former students sound more like the Queen of Hearts with their threats …
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Serbia Says Jailed Mladic Will Face War Crimes Trial
Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general held responsible for the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, was arrested on Thursday, signaling Serbia’s …
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Chevron Banks on a Profitable Political Agenda
With 43 lobbyists and a federal influence-peddling budget of at least $35 million this past election cycle, Chevron must have an ambitious agenda for the politicians in Washington, DC. …