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Reid Schedules Final Vote on Health Care Bill for 8 AM Christmas Eve
The Hill reported this afternoon that a final vote on the Senate health care bill will take place at 8 am Christmas Eve, about 11 hours earlier than originally …
Save Social Security – Ten Questions for the Deficit Commission
It is possible that there is going to be a “deficit commission” to look for ways to reduce our country’s budget deficits. I have some questions for them to …
Democrats Win Two More Health Care Votes as Time is Running Out for GOP
Washington — The Senate Tuesday morning voted to approve a Democratic-authored package of compromises and cut off another Republican effort to engage in extended debate, inching the historic health …
Probe Confirms CIA Operated Secret “Black Site” Prisons in Lithuania
Lithuanian government officials confirmed that the country's intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret black site prisons in the country where alleged high-value al-Qaeda operatives were to be …
President Obama’s Muse?
Since last week's Nobel Prize ceremony, Reinhold Niebuhr, the most influential American theologian of the 20th century, has been given insufficient attention from the mainstream media. President Obama often …
Turning Activists Into Voters in Uruguay: The Frente Amplio and José Mujica
Torrential rain didn't keep voters away from the polls on Sunday, November 29 when José “Pepe” Mujica was elected president with 52 percent of the vote. The 74-year-old agricultural …
Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions
Dr. Helen Caldicott, the pioneering Australian antinuclear activist and pediatrician who spearheaded the global nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s and co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has joined …
Democratic Representative Going to GOP (2)
Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican. According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the …
Democratic Representative Going to GOP
Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican. According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the …
Adequate, Negative, Sustainable: What Kind of Growth?
The ever-more-fashionable idea that we should desire and organize shrinkage in the economy to fight against the destruction it generates may seem a priori totally idiotic: how can anyone …