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President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street
President Barack Obama during a press conference at the White House in Washington, July 15 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) The ability of …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Allegations Fox News Also Into Illegal Phone Hacking in US, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
Koch Brothers’ ALEC Tentacles Creep Into Your State
(Photo: internets_dairy) Thanks to the work from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), investigative journalists like Beau Hodai and The Nation's exposé, we now know that …
Trial Brings Attention to Corruption in the New Orleans Police Department
In New Orleans’ federal courthouse, five police officers are currently facing charges of killing unarmed black civilians who were escaping floods from the failed levees that buckled during Hurricane …
Egyptian Counterrevolution Struggling for a Breakthrough
A vendor arranges Egyptian flags before a morning prayer service at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, July 11, 2011. Almost six months after the Egypt revolution that successfully saw the …
After Fukushima: Winning the Battle for Hearts and Minds in Britain and Japan
With no end in sight to the world’s worst atomic power crisis in a quarter of a century, collusion between Japan’s nuclear industry and its supposedly neutral government watchdogs …
Aiding Insecurity: Four Years of Mexico’s Drug War
A Mexican federal police officer patrols the streets of Acapulco, Mexico, January 28, 2011. (Photo: Adriana Zehbrauskas / The New York Times) Mexico's drug-trafficking organizations constitute a …
G20: Speculation and Agricultural Price Volatility
The G20 agriculture ministers dodged most of the tough issues in their meeting last month in Paris, leaving the heavy lifting on France’s ambitious G20 agenda to finance ministers …
Violence Against Migrant Women Won’t End After DSK Case
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former leader of the International Monetary Fund, appears in court for an arraignment over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a maid in New York, May …
How Murdoch Reporters’ Bribes to British Cops Violate US Law
Rupert Murdoch. (Photo: David Shankbone / Flickr) Imagine you're a Fleet Street reporter at a British tabloid with a pocketful of cash. You meet a trusted source …