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“A Terrible Sight”: Police Evict Occupy London, Arrest 20 Protesters
Police dressed in riot gear evicted Occupy London and removed the camp's tents at St. Paul's Cathedral just after midnight on Tuesday. Hundreds of police and …

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Rich Presidents of Poor Nations: An African Story of Oil and Capital Flight
Stories of African presidents shipping suitcases of cash to finance political campaigns abroad in exchange for patronage have made the headlines recently, prompting legal probes into illicit wealth accumulation. …

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Japan Weighed Evacuating Tokyo in Nuclear Crisis
Workers in the village of Iitate, about 20 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, during an experimental decontamination effort, in Japan, January 15, 2012. (Photo: Ko Sasaki / …

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White House Applauds Decision to Build Part of Keystone XL Pipeline
Demonstrators protest against the Keystone XL pipeline outside the White House on August 25, 2011. (Photo: Milan Ilnyckyj / tarsandsaction) Washington - With President Barack Obama facing …

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Warren Buffett: “It Is a Myth” That US Corporate Taxes Are High
2012 GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal today to lay out his economic plan, reiterating his desire to cut the corporate …

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Lawsuit Takes Aim at CIA’s “Covert” Attack on Transparency
(Photo: Wikimedia; Edited: Lance Page / Truthout) Last September, the CIA quietly changed its long-standing policy for how it would process certain records requests by implementing a …

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WikiLeaks: Disgraced Judge Said He Was Targeted for Investigation After Ruling Against Halliburton
Samuel Kent, the disgraced former Texas federal judge who resigned in 2009 after receiving a 33-month sentence for lying to investigators and sexual abusing two employees, told a senior …

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Nine Crazy Things Mitt Romney Believes
I believe for every drop of rain that falls, A flower grows. Tom Jones Mitt Romney’s economic address at Ford Field in Detroit received …

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Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Misdirect Is Widespread in Occupy (Part I)
In the first five months, the Occupy Movement has had major victories and has altered the debate about the economy. People in the power structure and who hold different …

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BP Goes to Court
New Orleans - It was the largest marine oil disaster in the United States, and now BP's trial is the largest and most complex environmental lawsuit in US history. …