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Filling the Empty Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter
Tom Engelhardt discusses modern muckraker Jeremy Scahill new brand of blowback journalism.
Airport Privatization Takes Off in Puerto Rico
Under fiscal stress and the influence of a powerful business lobby, airports are being sold off to private investors.
The Facts on Fracking
Benefits, risks, the New York State debate, and more.
Komen Foundation: Is the ‘Race for the Cure’ actually a ‘Race to Obscure’?
Even more troubling than the revelation of their right-wing anti-choice agenda was the realization among many critics that principal sponsors of the Race for the Cure produce or use …
How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion
The coming decades could see a tidal wave of rebellion and conflict over oil, water, land, and more.
The ‘Organizing Model’ Goes Global
Unions in Europe have been importing the u201corganizing modelu201d from the U.S.
Joe Stiglitz Blasts Our Wealthy-Coddling Tax System for Increasing the Returns on Rent-Seeking
Yes Smith deconstructs Joseph Stiglitz's argument for why the American people should lighten taxes for the wealthy.
Deficits Are Bad and the Sun Goes Around the Earth
Dean Baker: A new study shows we have little reason to fear higher debt levels.
Gitmo Dilemma Remains a Monkey on the Back of US Democracy
With every year that passes, prisoners of the detention camp have grown more and more restless with the uncertainty of their status and treatment while in the prison.
Contaminated Nation: Inhuman Radiation Experiments
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the declassification of top secret studies, done over a period of 60 years, in which the US conducted 2,000 radiation experiments on …