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Five Ways the Facebook IPO Teaches Us About How Wall Street Games the System
Facebook’s initial public offering — which so dominated the financial press that Facebook has been on the cover of the Wall Street Journal for nine straight days — has started to …

US Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel
Washington - Negotiations between Iran and the United States and other members of the P5+1 group in Baghdad ended in fundamental disagreement Thursday over the position of the P5+1 offering …

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Occupy Wall Street Librarians Strike Back
Even now, six months after the brutal raid on Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park, we have yet to fully learn the extent of the destruction and violence - …

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Morsi, Shafik, Sabahi: Top Three Presidential Contenders in Tight Race in Egypt
Cairo - Stunned Egyptians awoke Friday to learn that the revolution that led to the first democratic elections here in history appeared to produce a Muslim Brotherhood and a regime …

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Growing Mexican Student Protests Target Televisa, TV Azteca Over Coverage of Presidential Campaign
A spontaneous student movement is bringing attention to allegations that Mexicou2019s media conglomerates offer biased and superficial election coverage, drawing a whiff of Mexican spring to a lackluster presidential …

Chicago Teachers Turn Up the Heat on Rahm Emanuel (Video)
A strike before November? Teachers say they are ready for it.

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War at What Cost? A Veteran Perspective
This coming fiscal year, the United States is set to spend more than $640 billion dollars on the Pentagon and war, accounting for more than 60 percent of federal …

Senate Advances Expanded, “Orwellian” Government Surveillance with FISA Amendments, CISPA
The Senate is closer to renewing controversial measures that critics say would allow the emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens to be monitored without a warrant.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 31 Percent of All American Homeowners Are Underwater on Their Mortgages, and More
In today's On the News segment: Europe is now drawing up plans for the departure of Greece from the euro zone, the housing crisis continues, the pharmaceutical industry is …

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Pictures of Second “NATO 5” Informant, “Gloves,” Published For First Time on Antiwar.com
Now, the other informant, u201cGloves,u201d has in some ways been outed, with two pictures of her up online for the world to see for the first time thanks to …