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You Have More Money in Your Wallet Than Bank of America Pays in Federal Taxes
Today, hundreds of thousands of people comprising a Main Street Movement — a coalition of students, the retired, union workers, public employees, and other middle class Americans — are …
Gates Warns Against More Wars Like Iraq and Afghanistan
West Point, N.Y. — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for the United States to …
Rallies for Labor, in Wisconsin and Beyond
Madison, Wis. - With booming chants of “This will not stand!” at least 70,000 demonstrators flooded the square around the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday in what the authorities here …
Defections Further Isolate Qaddafi; Security Council Approves Sanctions
Benghazi, Libya - Moammar Qaddafi found himself on the weekend even more isolated in his last major stronghold of Tripoli, as a former top aide declared he was forming …
Pakistani and Indian Newspapers Say US CIA Contractor Raymond Davis Is a Terrorist
Pakistani and Indian newspapers are reporting that Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor in jail in Lahore facing murder charges for the execution-slayings of two young men believed to by …
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UK Guardian Reports Raymond Davis is Working for the CIA
A report in the British Guardian newspaper is confirming that Raymond Davis, the man jailed in Lahore, Pakistan charged with murdering two young Pakistanis who were almost certainly themselves working for …
Wisconsin: Health Care, Democracy and the Middle Class Are at Stake
“Mom’s in intensive care. Mom says: Go to Madison.” Such was the conversation with my sister last week as demonstrations erupted across Wisconsin to stop Governor Walker’s union-busting, …
Democracy? Not So Fast: Address Culture of Police Brutality
Hey, I'm about the last guy in the world to rain on Egypt's parade. I love the place - I used to live there. Its people are kind, smart, …
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Qaddafi, Bush and the Iraq Big Lie
While the US government expresses outrage over the brutality of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi toward his own people, we’re missing a complex but significant wrinkle that ties Qaddafi to America’s …
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Climate: Putting People Over Money
While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in the US, the world's leading producer of CO2 emissions per capita, those already living with the effects, …