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A Good Fight
So the really big fight — perhaps the defining battle of 2012 — won’t be over Medicare. It won’t even be over Obama’s jobs program. It will …
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Truthout After Ten Years
(Image: JR / Truthout) As one ten-year anniversary slowly recedes in our collective rear-view mirror, it behooves me to make strong note of another. I don't know …
Thirty Days in Kabul, or Afghanistan Seen Through a Keyhole
Afghan police officers, September 14, 2011. (Photo: Kuni Takahashi / The New York Times) As I finalize this article, The Associated Press (9/14) reports that the US …
Rev. Jesse Jackson on Taxing the Rich, Occupy Wall Street Protest and Palestinian Statehood
On Monday, President Obama proposed a new tax on millionaires as part of his plan to close the deficit and responded to opponents who have labeled his plan "class …
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Real Class War Is Working to Keep Those Below You Down
That conservatives are greeting the deficit reduction package Barack Obama presented on Monday – one that includes a new minimum tax on millionaires – with howls of ‘class warfare’ …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Department of Justice Claims Gov. Rick Perry Is in Violation of the Voting Rights Act, and More
In today's On the News segment: Davis denied clemency by a Georgia paroles board today; the post-Reagan generation now has 37 percent of young families living in poverty; Don't …
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Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office. The 7th …
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Mortars Fall on Yemeni Capital as Battles Continue
Sana, Yemen - Government forces lobbed mortars from high ground overlooking the Yemeni capital on Tuesday as deadly violence continued for a third day after a brief lull overnight …
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Where’s the Federal Plan to Tackle Crippling Housing Problem?
Washington - While lawmakers and the president scrap over deficit reduction and jobs plans, they're largely overlooking one of the biggest drags on employment and a major cause of …
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Following a Disaster, Disastrous Suggestions
Hurricane Irene caused flooding in Paterson, New Jersey. (Photo: Fred R.Conrad / The New York Times) Steve Landsburg, the author and economics professor at the University of …