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Democracy in Egypt: The US and Israel Can Adapt and They Will
Democracy is coming to Egypt. People outside of Egypt who consider that inconvenient to their current policies may kvetch, but ultimately they can adapt and they will, because as …
Walmart, Food Deserts and Genuine Sovereignty
Let us begin with a “defining moment,” courtesy of the Oxford World Dictionary: Commissariat (kÉ’mɪˈsÉ›Ërɪət) Definition: chiefly Military department for the supply of food and equipment. Origin: late …
Chamber Of Commerce Continues Decades-Long Assault Against Clean Economy
At a Washington DC press conference, U.S.
60 Minutes: Putting the BS in CBS
The reason people in Tunisia, Egypt, and other parts of the world have been influenced to some extent by the work of Wikileaks is that they have read or …
Our Brave Men and Women … Meet the Banks
Events keep on underlining the gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Nowhere is this more true than with the disparity between the way we talk about our soldiers …
Recession Takes Severe Toll on Low-Income Renters
Washington - Rising rents, stagnant wages and high unemployment led more than 7 million U.S. households either to live in substandard dwellings or pay more than half their monthly …
Napolitano: In Two Years We
On Monday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told a gathering in El Paso what is not new news, but what is staggering every time it’s repeated. “In both …
Clashes Erupt in Cairo Between Mubarak’s Allies and Foes
Cairo - President Obama’s calls for a rapid transition to a new order in Egypt seemed eclipsed on Wednesday as a choreographed surge of thousands of people chanting support …
Science Is Not a Four-Letter Word
By labeling climate science “the greatest HOAX perpetrated on the American people” and recently claiming “the fix is in,” Sen. James Inhofe is charging scientific experts with not mere …
Ronald Reagan, Enemy of the American Worker
The 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth is coming up in February, and before the inevitable gushing over what a wonderful leader he was begins, let me get in …