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u201cPension reformu201d has become the latest battle cry in a seemingly endless war that has ostensibly been declared against tax-dollar waste.

Dean Baker: Without the government bailout we would have seen the end of Wall Street, and possibly the rebirth of our economy.

The oil and gas industry pumps millions of gallons of highly hazardous hydrofluoric acid into wells underground, endangering Americans,

A lack of knowledge certainly does not serve the people, whose interests apparently conflict with those of the developers.

By setting in motion a possibly catastrophic plan to bomb Syria, President Obama has created what amounts to a ‘doomsday machine’ that could detonate if not disarmed by a …

Fast-food workers feed their families on a pittance while the big corporations resist fair pay and sick leave.

The Obama administration released even less information about Syria's alleged chemical weapons attack than the Bush administration did about Iraq's alleged WMD.

President Obama has sidestepped the political hole he had dug for himself (what we might call the “red line” hole) over his proposed attack on Syria. Having insisted there …

More than chemical weapons, US intervention in Syria is about a political regime change that will favor the West economically and politically.

Some analysts suggest that Obamau2019s failure to line up support from more G20 leaders suggests that the U.S.-created global order is no longer sustainable.