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September 11 Lessons: Combating Ignorance, Avoiding Arrogance
US soldiers from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade assist American and Afghan soldiers who were wounded December 12, 2010, near the village of Sangsar, southern Afghanistan. Six American soldiers …
Europe Steers Into a Zone of Uncertainty
Paris - With markets still volatile, and politicians only marginally closer to a solution of the euro’s troubles than they were two years ago, the future for the euro …
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California Health Insurers Hire Tobacco Lobbyists, Pay Top Lawmaker Tens of Thousands in Direct Payments
Last month, a popular reform to grant the California Insurance Commission the power to review and regulate proposed insurance rate hikes died a quick death in the state Senate. …
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We Won’t See Mass Prosperity Until We Rebuild Manufacturing
While there are many similarities between our time and the Great Depression, there is a crucial difference: In the late 1930s, the United States produced over one-third of the …
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Ten Years Later: Will We Ever Hold Torturers Accountable?
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse edited by Marjorie Cohn New York University Press New York and London 2011 "There …
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Patient Data Posted Online in Major Breach of Privacy
A medical privacy breach led to the public posting on a commercial Web site of data for 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., including …
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Obama to Congress: Pass My $447 Billion Jobs Plan Now
Washington - With the nation verging on renewed recession, President Barack Obama urged a divided Congress Thursday night to back his new $447 billion jobs package, which he promised …
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Longshore Workers Dump Scab Grain to Protect Jobs
The confrontation between West Coast longshore workers and an anti-union exporter exploded as pickets massed on railroad tracks by the hundreds yesterday to block grain shipments. Police …
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New Documents Suggest DoD Watchdog Covered Up Intelligence Unit’s Work Tracking 9/11 Terrorists
The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses after two highjacked planes crashed into the twin towers of the center, in New York on September 11, 2001. (Photo: …
Qaddafi’s Western Friends
Valletta, Malta - With Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in ruins and Qaddafi himself on the run, it is time to ponder just how he survived in power for so …