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Nine Pictures of the Extreme Income/Wealth Gap
Many people don’t understand our country’s problem of concentration of income and wealth because they don’t see it. People just don't understand how much wealth there is at the …
Gareth Porter | Deferring to Petraeus, National Intelligence Estimate Failed to Register Taliban Growth
Washington - Despite evidence that the Taliban insurgency had grown significantly in 2010, the U.S. intelligence community failed to revise its estimate for Taliban forces as part of a …
Richard D. Wolff: “Austerity” Comes to America (VIDEO)
Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New …
News in Brief: Labor Protests Grow in Egypt, and More
Labor Protests Grow in Egypt
Egypt Post-Mubarak: Key Facts on the Military’s Long-Standing Role
Hosni Mubarak resigned as of this morning, ending a 30-year rule as Egypt’s head of state and leaving control in the hands of Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed …
Military Industrial Humor
James Kwak | Bad Data
To make a vast generalization, we live in a society where quantitative data are becoming more and more important. Some of this is because of the vast increase in …
Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs
“In keeping with established practice, FDA does not review or approve products for the purpose of lethal injection. FDA has not reviewed the products in this shipment to determine …
Russ Baker | Giving Chase: Egypt, O.K. – but What About America’s Oligarchs?
With all the attention on crowds of ordinary people rising up and asserting themselves against corruption and self-dealing by an oligarchy, we’re missing what the oligarchs are doing right …
Egypt Insider: Mubarak’s Fall Was Years in the Making
Cairo, Egypt - “To the palace!” chanted the thousands of protesters who'd already besieged state television offices in Cairo and were beginning a perilous march on the presidential residence …