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US Needs Voter Empowerment, Not a New Party
If nothing else, the election of 2010 has taught us that a third political party is not the answer. Like the two existing major parties, it, too, would simply …
Nothing-Backed Securities
Whose moral hazards, which moral buzzards? Is it a good idea to let the foreclosures roll on? Absolutely, say the banking and mortgage industries, among others. “Home repo” is …
Danny Schechter | How Food Prices Feed Egyptian Revolt
Editor’s Note: The coverage of the Egyptian uprising has focused on the political fate of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak and the possible geopolitical fallout for the United States, but …
White House Vows to Implement Health Care Reform, Despite Judge’s Ruling
Senior administration officials vowed on Monday to continue with the full implementation of President Obama’s health care reform law despite a federal judge’s decision declaring the law unconstitutional and …
Ocracy
Media Enable Former Bushies To Rewrite History On Bush Egypt and “Freedom In The Arab World“
Several Bush administration officials have looked to the recent crisis in Egypt in another attempt to rehabilitate former President George W. Bush's image. In a January 30 Washington Post …
Largest Crowds Yet Demand Change in Egypt
Cairo - Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square on Tuesday in scenes of jubilation and protest that cut across Egypt’s entrenched lines of piety, class and …
Tea Party Judge Roger Vinson “Borrows Heavily” From Family Research Council To Invalidate Health Law
The most surprising part of Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling was his argument that the individual mandate was not severable from the health care law as a whole and must …
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Egyptian Protesters Plan March to Mubarak’s Doorstep
Cairo - In the fight to save his embattled regime from a popular revolt, U.S.-allied president Hosni Mubarak's administration has severed the phone and Internet, rounded up journalists, closed …