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Great Game in the Horn of Africa
The United States announced this past week that it is deploying a 100-man mission to assist the Ugandan government in tracking down the remnants of the Lord's Resistance Army …
US Combat Troops Descend on Africa
Ugandan soldiers on patrol in the Congo, looking for tracks of the Lord’s Resistance Army in late March 2010. (Photo: Jeffrey Gettleman / The New York Times). …
Wall Street Firms Spy on Protestors in Tax-Funded Center
Wall Street’s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150 million of …
New Hampshire Polls Show Both Side of the Aisle Agree on Something
Today the business leaders of the Committee for Economic Development and the bipartisan Americans for Campaign Reform released a new poll showing that almost 2/3 of likely Republican Primary …
Occupy Berlin: In the Shadow of the Reichstag
Occupy Berlin, in front of the Reichstag, October 15, 2011. (Photo: Brainbitch) I was not going to write a Solutions column this week because I am on …
Thanks to the 99 Percent Movement, Media Finally Covering Jobs Crisis and Marginalizing Deficit Hysteria
Part of the reason economic policymakers have failed to properly address the poor economy is because the nation’s news media has not properly covered the unemployment crisis. For example, …
Democrats and the Death of Keynesian Economics
President Barack Obama is seen through a window backstage at the General Motors Lake Orion Assembly Plant in Orion Township, Michigan, October 14, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White …
Occupy Wall Street Speaks for America: A “Centrist” Hit Job’s Polling Data Helps Prove It
Thanks to a hit piece by one of those Beltway pseudo-"bipartisans" we can now state conclusively what many of us have long suspected: Occupy Wall Street speaks for the …
US Hawks Behind Iraq War Rally for Strikes Against Iran
Washington - Key neo-conservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are calling for military strikes against Iran in retaliation for its purported murder-for-hire …
Wait, It Gets Worse: Wall St. Responsible for Sky-Rocketing Oil and Gas Prices, Too.
While the issues that resonate the loudest through the various #OccupyWallStreet protests surround bank bailouts, dirty housing foreclosure tactics and crony relationships with politicians, a new report from the …