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Why Is the German Left Unconditionally Supporting Israel?
Hermann Dierkes was personally attacked and called an anti-Semite, because he dared express solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle.

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How Enterprise Zones Are Killing the California Dream
Controversial job creation program in California puts the unemployed at risk.

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NYC Public Libraries Under Attack, Facing Privatization and Budget Cuts
The financial crisis has given mayor Bloomberg the opportunity to make cuts to libraries.

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Judge Frees Patriot Coal to Eliminate Retiree Benefits for 20,000
A bankruptcy court has decided that a St. Louis coal mining company is free to rob 20,000 of their pensions.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Received Letters Poisoned With Ricin, and More
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the non-profit group he founded called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, each received a letter containing the deadly poison ricin.

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When Economic Prudence Is Seen As Folly
Paul Krugman: We've entered a looking-glass world in which virtue is vice and prudence is folly, and in which doing the responsible thing is a recipe for economic failure.

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Immigrants Take Message of Citizenship to the President
President Barack Obama sat in a chair at the White House on Tuesday and, as two participants recalled, made eye contact with immigrants as they discussed the reasons their …

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Defined by Debt: How the Strike Debt Movement Redefined Occupy
A shift in focus within Occupy camps mirrors the Quebec student movement by looking at the effect of student debt.

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War on Democracy in Wisconsin: Bill Would Enact Voter ID, End Disclosure, Limit Early Voting and Expand Lobbyist Influence
A Wisconsin legislator has managed to bundle nearly all of the excesses associated with dirty elections into a single bill that good government advocates are describing as a 'sweeping …

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Hundreds Protest Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees in North Carolina
Opponents say the genetically altered trees would turn forests into mono-crop fuel generators.