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Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don’t Matter
Former Vice President Dick Cheney at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) "Deficit terrorists" are gutting governments and forcing the privatization …

Backdoor Bailouts: Banks Play Shell Game With Taxpayer Dollars
The Federal Reserve propped up banks with big infusions of cash during the depths of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. Banks that took billions of dollars from …

An Arab Spring for Women: The Missing Story From the Middle East
A woman wears a Tunisian flag during a protest outside government buildings in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 21, 2011. (Photo: Holly Pickett / The New York Times) …

Fukushima: Monitoring the Invisible
Sous chef Eric Fricker, of La Bernadin restaurant, checks fillets of red snapper for radiation, in New York, April 5, 2011. Restaurant owners are taking all precautions to be …

What Can Be Found in the WikiLeaks “Gitmo Files“
McClatchy Newspapers writes “the US military set up a human intelligence laboratory at Guantanamo,” the Washington Post details new classified military documents obtained by the “anti-secrecy organization” present “new …

The Battle Is Over Money, Not Philosophy
Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Ever since House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan put …

Enhanced Drone-Strike Accuracy Makes Accidents Look That Much More Suspicious
"When the US began drone strikes in Pakistan in 2006, drone attacks were notoriously inaccurate," wrote retired Pakistani military officer Shaukat Qadir at Counterpunch in an article about the …

Is It Fear of Uprisings or Altruistic Punishment?
(Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who …

The Celestial Computers of Ancient Greece
The Antikythera Mechanism at the Boston Museum of Science. (Photo: davelin66) Just before Easter 1900, Greek sponge-fishers were on their way to the waters of Tunisia when …

Black Legislators on Frontline Against AZ-Style Immigration Bills
New York - As immigrant advocates battle hardline immigration bills in state capitols across the country, they’re receiving crucial support from caucuses of black legislators.