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The Math Behind “Class Warfare” – a Middle Class Under Attack
Washington - President Obama said on Monday that his proposal would bring taxes for millionaires in line with those paid by the middle class. This “is not class warfare; …
Postal Service: Death by Bathtub Drowning
A resident of Lawrence, Kansas, sends mail at the US Post Office on April 18, 2011. (Photo: Steve Hebert / The New York Times) President Obama announced …
Republicans Battling Windmills Instead of Budgeting
The question that everyone should be asking is: Why is the House GOP only proposing a short-term continuing resolution? This should be the moment when either individual …
Four Trillion-Dollar Tax Cuts = Four Trillion-Dollar Budget Cuts
This past Monday, September 19, President Obama revealed his proposals for how to pay for his $447 billion tax cut/jobs bill announced last week. In the same speech, he …
Can Solyndra’s Breakthrough Solar Technology Outlive the Company’s Demise?
The politically charged investigation into Solyndra's collapse has overshadowed the fact that the fate of a groundbreaking technology hangs in the balance. The politically charged investigation into …
Iraq: We Lost $1.2 Billion in Equipment Going in; How Much Will We Lose Getting Out?
(Image: JR / Truthout) On December 31, 2011, the United States has committed to the government of Iraq that they will be removing their troops and contractor …
Thirty Days in Kabul, or Afghanistan Seen Through a Keyhole
Afghan police officers, September 14, 2011. (Photo: Kuni Takahashi / The New York Times) As I finalize this article, The Associated Press (9/14) reports that the US …
Happy Constitution Day
(Actually, it was on Saturday.) I just read Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W.W. Norton, 2009), by Kim Phillips-Fein. It’s …
The Keystone Pipeline: Too Dirty for George W. Bush?
The Keystone XL pipeline, recently approved by the US State Department and awaiting President Obama’s declaration that it is in the “national interest,” will carry oil that is too …
Why Hunger Is Still With Us (2)
Workers at a cassava root plant for starch manufacturing in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, April 1, 2011. The push to make biofuels, especially in China, from such crops as …