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Landing signal officers guide a jet onto the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the North Arabian Sea, January 4, 2012. Iran's military sharpened its tone toward the …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) North Carolina State Senator Eric Mansfield was born in 1964, a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Like a number of people I have spoken to, Kate McNeely of New York City gave money to Planned Parenthood and sent …

(Photo: Zol87) It's budget time, again. This means that the deficit hawks will be out in force warning us about the devastating debt burden that we are …

Not content to let Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and Ohio's John Kasich get all the fame (and recall elections, and ballot referenda) for their attempts to curtail union workers' …

President Barack Obama tours the Chrysler Auto Plant in Detroit on July 30, 2010. Obama visited the plant in Michigan as part of a tour highlighting the success behind …

Cynthia Veintemillas, right, an attorney with the Apple Law Firm, meets with her client Patrick Jeffs about his home foreclosure case at the firm's law offices in Jacksonville, Florida, …

“Let Robots Do the Dying,” said Simon Ramo, the aerospace pioneer. The first “robots” that did their dying for us were clunky little tin cans with wings …

A smoggy morning exercise drill in China. (Photo: Anonymous friend of Farris) I wake up this morning to the sun slicing warm, golden slits through the barred …

When Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius this week that he believes Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and June, it was ostensibly …