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Obama Nurtures His Base With Green Buildings Initiative
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton listen as Gary Le Francois, senior vice president and director of engineering, leads them on a tour of the Transwestern Building …
Despite UN Denial, Numbers Prove Peacekeepers Wreaking Havoc in Haiti
UN peacekeeping troops (MINUSTAH) face off against protesters outside the headquarters of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council in Port-au-Prince, December 8, 2010. (Photo: mediahacker)
What Arpaio Didn’t Do This Time: Over 400 Sex Crimes Ignored
Arizona’s notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio has another scandal to add to his reputation—but this time it’s what the self-proclaimed “toughest Sheriff in America” didn’t do, particularly for the children …
Six Ways to Heal the Economy
The AFL-CIO has come up with an ambitious six-point plan for healing our very sick economy – one of the best plans that have yet been suggested by anyone. …
The Hope of Occupy in the Face of Backlash
Occupy Santa Cruz has had in three days three major setbacks. Perhaps they were fruitless attempts to set back the movement. The last one in the series, that …
Move Your Money, Change the System
Occupy LA - November 5, 2011, Bank Transfer Day. (Photo: too many jennifers) Inspired by the Occupy movements around the country, nearly two-thirds of a million Americans …
Ex-Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Greece’s Fiscal Crisis and Why He Backs Occupy Movement
In an exclusive interview, we speak with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, who is attending the U.N. climate change summit in Durban, South Africa. Papandreou was forced to …
What Israel’s War Against Iran Would Look Like
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gants confer at a press conference on March 16, 2011. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The …
Don’t Embarrass My Moneyed Friends! As Fundraising for Congress Goes Up, Hearings Go Down
Herbert J. Miller Jr., standing, at the Senate Watergate hearings with his client, Richard Moore, in 1973. (Photo: Mike Lien / The New York Times) For people …
Occupy Wall Street Hunger Strikers
Diego Ibanez turned 23 in jail. "It was wonderful. It was for a Times Square march. Going to jail with a lot of comrades and mic checking and singing …