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Unequal Regulation
(Image: JR / Truthout) There’s a side to regulation that most people don’t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the …
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Downgrade of US Credit Rating Is Baseless – Âand Outrageous
(Image: Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Standard & Poor’s has gone ahead with the threatened downgrade of the United States’ credit rating. It’s …
The First Ever Default? Closing the Gold Window, 40 Years on
During the recent “Debt Ceiling” debacle, many warned that the failure to lift the debt ceiling would lead to a “first ever” US default and to numerous financial catastrophes, …
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Straw Poll Winner – Obama
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) thanks her supporters after winning the Iowa straw poll of Republican presidential candidates in Ames, Iowa, Aug. 13, 2011. Bachmann's high-intensity, Tea …
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Want to See How the Kochs Are Ending Public Education?
The Koch brothers have more than $42 billion to make public policy out of their anti-government ideology, and their assault against public education epitomizes their tactics to remake our …
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Syrian Navy Joins Attack on Key Rebellious Port City
Beirut, Lebanon - In yet another escalation of its crackdown on dissent, the Syrian government unleashed navy vessels, tanks and a mix of soldiers, security forces and paramilitary fighters …
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Rick Perry: Tax the Poor!
Washingotn - Really? Of all the ills in the world, of all the problems with the economy, all the difficulties with the tax code, this is the one that …
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Somali Women Bear Superhuman Burden
A Somali woman holds a malnourished child, while waiting for medical assistance from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an active regional peacekeeping mission operated by the …
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New Study Blames Human Beings for Half of Arctic Ice Melt
Anchorage - About half the recent record loss of Arctic sea ice can be blamed on global warming caused by human activity, according to a new study by scientists …
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Why the New Health Care Law Should Have Been Based on Medicare (and What Democrats Should Have Learned by Now)
Two appellate judges in Atlanta — one appointed by President Bill Clinton and one by George H.W. Bush – have just decided the Constitution doesn’t allow the federal government …