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Solyndra “Scandal” Is About Big Oil, King Coal Power And Intimidation
Last week big oil/big coal sent a not-subtle message to the country's investment community: if you back companies or technologies that compete with us we will crush you. Our …
The Obama Tax Plan: A Test for America
Most Presidents of the United States end up with a catchphrase attached to their tenure, a memorable line that defines them. The buck stops here. Ask not what your …
Department of Defense’s Unending Nightmare: Pass an Audit by 2017?
(Image: JR / Truthout) Don't count on it. The Department of Defense (DoD) still holds out hope that they will be able to pass a financial audit …
US Knows Pressure on Pakistan Won’t Change Policy
Washington - The U.S. threat last week that “all options” are on the table if the Pakistani military doesn't cut its ties with the Haqqani network of anti-U.S. insurgents …
MIA: Obama’s New Common-Sense Immigration Policy
Matias Ramos shows the ankle monitoring device he had to wear for ten days. (Photo: Michael Vanacore) Now that the electronic shackle is off, it's really nice …
Freedom Isn’t Free at the State Department
On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables hemorrhaged out onto the Internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department …
Is Scott Walker John Doe?
Wisconsin has been riveted in recent days by reports that more of Governor Scott Walker's top aides may be implicated in a secret “John Doe” investigation into potentially illegal …
Hey, We’re Number … Uh … 36!
Fidelia Perez sits in a hospital room after receiving emergency dialysis treatment at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, in this October 13, 2009, file photo. (Photo: David Walter …
Digital Art and Culture: A 21st-Century Paradigm Shift
“The Ever Evolving Egg” by Max Eternity. Click to view larger. At a time when extreme, economic austerity measures are being considered and/or enacted by a number …
How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate “Killing Machine“
Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: …