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Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work
During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the wake …
Koch Brothers’ ALEC Tentacles Creep Into Your State
(Photo: internets_dairy) Thanks to the work from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), investigative journalists like Beau Hodai and The Nation's exposé, we now know that …
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America’s Disappeared
(Photo: meggesje) Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly …
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WikiLeaks: Haiti Disaster Capitalism’s Latest Electroshock Patient
Naomi Klein was asked today about what additional case studies she would add to future editions of her 2007 “Shock Doctrine”. Klein's answer: Greece and Wisconsin. Fair …
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Why Did Congress Waste Six Months
Washington - The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation's debt limit with a crusade to slash spending has already had a high cost, …
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Cameron Calls in Parliament as the Hacking Scandal Grows
London - Prime Minister David Cameron cut short an African trip on Monday and ordered a special parliamentary session back home to debate the widening phone-hacking scandal just hours …
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Scotland Yard Leader Quits Over Tabloid Scandal
London - Britain’s top police official resigned on Sunday, the latest casualty of the phone-hacking scandal engulfing British public life, just hours after Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive …
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Scotland Yard Chief Quits Over Murdoch Hacking Scandal
London - The commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Services, Sir Paul Stephenson, resigned his post on Sunday just hours after his officers arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of …
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The Audacity of Free Trade Agreements
Congress could vote any day now to strike a new blow against already-battered U.S. workers and the unemployed. Committees in the House and Senate recently marked up …
Trial Brings Attention to Corruption in the New Orleans Police Department
In New Orleans’ federal courthouse, five police officers are currently facing charges of killing unarmed black civilians who were escaping floods from the failed levees that buckled during Hurricane …