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How US Intelligence Distorted Its Own Data on Child Migration
An intelligence center report contradicts claims that violence and poverty in Central American countries are the main forces behind a rise in border crossings, but its assertions are contradicted …
Nestle Has Expanded Its Water Empire to Include Colorado
Not content with bottling water in drought-stricken California, Nestle has added Colorado to its water empire.
Oil Is Back! A Global Warming President Presides Over a Drill-Baby-Drill United States
Considering all the talk about global warming, peak oil, carbon divestment, and renewable energy, you'd think that oil consumption in the United States would be on a downward path.
The Fight for Universal Pre-K: New York Charts a Checkered Path Toward Equal Early Education
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio touted universal pre-kindergarten as a way to fight inequality. But the program shows inequalities of its own.
Forget Tiananmen, You Don’t Want to Hurt the Chinese People’s Feelings – and Miss Out on the Business of the New “New China”!
Twenty-five years ago, the government in Beijing turned its guns on the people who had risen in protests to express their frustration with corruption. The refusal to this day …
Art After War
Soldiers and families turn to the arts for healing, particularly painting, writing and drumming.
Protecting Abortion Clinics – Without a Buffer Zone
The unanimous Supreme Court decision striking down the 35-foot Massachusetts abortion clinic buffer zone has left other such laws in jeopardy.
Even the Council on Foreign Relations Is Saying It: Time to Rain Money on Main Street
The economy continues to teeter on the edge of deflation. The Fed needs to pump up the money supply and stimulate demand in some other way.
How the US Made ISIS: Their Videos and Ours, Their “Caliphate” and Ours
ISIS lives and breathes and grows, and across the greater middle east Islamic extremist organizations are gaining traction in ways that should illuminate just what the war on terror …
But Is It Good for the Jews?
If you are over fifty and were raised in a Jewish household, you either heard this question, “but is it good for the Jews?”