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It’s Not the Budget Deficit; It’s the Trade Deficit
The Wall-Street-financed crew that is pushing to gut Social Security and Medicare is used to playing fast and loose with facts and logic to advance their agenda. Unfortunately, many …

Terrorism Law, the New McCarthyism
Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the first encounter with the free speech and association rights of American citizens in the context of terrorism since …

Obama, Tea Parties and the Battle for Our Brains
Over the past couple of weeks, The New York Times has been reporting on results from the cognitive and brain sciences that confirm past research in those fields partly …

Major Fallout Predicted Over Obama’s Nuclear Power Proposal
While President Obama has announced an offer of $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for two new nuclear reactors, worries about potential cost overruns, health risks and safety concerns lead …

Afghan Push – Hype or History in the Making?
Few signs on the ground of the “spectacular advances” claimed by the combined U.S. and Afghan forces. Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan - Six days into the battle for Marjah, the …

The Senate’s Reconcilable Differences
The United States is in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Millions of Americans continue to lose their jobs, homes, life savings and ability to …

New Grist for Hype on Iran
Here we go again. A report issued Thursday by the new Director General of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano, has injected new adrenalin …

Enact Health Care With 51 Senate Votes
This week the President is hosting a bipartisan gab-fest at the White House to try to tease out some Republican votes for health care. It's a total waste of …

Nanotechnologies: Are We All Nanogrub Guinea Pigs?
After GMO, nanotechnologies come uninvited onto our plates: nanofoods, treated with nanopesticides and contained in nanopackaging, are on the rise. At stake: colossal financial profits for manufacturers and environmental …

Explain Something to Me: Fixing What’s Wrong in Washington … in Afghanistan
Explain something to me. In recent months, unless you were insensate, you couldn't help running across someone talking, writing, speaking, or pontificating about how busted government is in the …