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Iraq Sees Alarming Rise in Cancers, Deformed Babies
Baghdad - The guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years …
Recovery Without Employment
The developing world at this yearend 2009 is emerging from the most violent recession since the deflation of the 1930's, with growth of 0.9% in the United States and …
In Afghan Debate, Few Antiwar Op-Eds
Elite papers marginalize public opposition.
The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care
Cleveland Clinic is both highly effective and fiercely efficient. So why are its methods so rare?
Robert Parry | How the War Hawks Caged Obama
Two of President Barack Obama’s most acclaimed Cabinet appointments – keeping Republican Defense Secretary Robert Gates and picking former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State – …
Afghanistan: Our 177th Colony
During a televised football game on Sunday, an announcer welcomed the members of the U.S. military viewing the game in 177 nations around the world. When the news came …
“Commission” Is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare
The “experts” who could not see the $8 trillion housing bubble that wrecked the economy are now telling us that we have to create a special commission so that …
From Seattle to Detroit: Ten Lessons for Movement Building on the Tenth Anniversary of the WTO Shutdown
For five days in 1999, 80,000 people from Seattle and from all over the country stopped the World Trade Organization from meeting. Despite extreme police and state violence, students, …
US Vies for Turkey Missile-Defense Contract
Istanbul, Turkey - American, Russian and Chinese companies vying to sell Turkey high-altitude anti-missile air defense systems will have to submit their best offers by Tuesday if they want …
Jonathan Alter | Enter the Foxulists: The Faux Populism of Palin, Dobbs, and Beck
With unemployment surging and the public mood souring, populism is in the air.