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Inflation in China Poses Big Threat to Global Trade
Shanghai - As the United States and Europe struggle to get their economies rolling again, China is having the opposite problem: figuring out how to keep its revved-up growth …
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A Year Later, BP’s Oil Is Still Damaging the Gulf Coast
Oil streaks a giant log on the beach near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on August 2, 2010, one example of the devastating after-math of the BP drilling disaster. (Photo: Jeff …
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How Many Chernobyls Before We Get It?
A stenciled figure by the elevators in a sixteen story residential building facing the central square of Pripyat, a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern …
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News in Brief: Ohio Anti-Worker Law Faces Repeal, and More
Ohio Anti-Worker Law Faces Repeal Democracy Now! reports that organizers in Ohio recently won a bid to begin a repeal effort targeting the state's new anti-labor law. …
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Gulf Residents Leery of What’s Next After BP Oil Spill
The BP oil spill is one year old this week. The whole disaster killed or injured 28 rig workers, thousands of birds and hundreds of marine animals, and spewed …
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A Report From the Poetry Trenches: Rexroth, Bukowski and the Politics of Literature
Bukowski loved the idea of poetry wars. Even at the lowest level of mimeo magazines, when he was co-editing Laugh Literary & Man the Humping Guns with Neeli Cherry, …
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In 12 Years, Income for Richest 400 Americans Quadruples, Tax Rate Nearly Halved
New data released by the IRS reveals that, over a period of 12 years, tax rates for the richest 400 Americans were effectively cut in half. In 1995, the …
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Sexual Assault in the Military Bill Introduced in the House
On Wednesday, Representatives Mike Turner (R-OH) and Niki Tsongas (D-MA) introduced the Defense STRONG (Sexual Trauma Response, Oversight and Good Governance) Act that would increase the legal rights and …
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Hard-Pressed Homeowners Face Another Threat: Association Dues
Estrella Bryant was at risk of losing her San Francisco town house last year. Bryant, 70, had not fallen behind on her mortgage payments. Instead, she owed …
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Ethnic Media Still Lack Visibility at Media Reform Conference
Mohsin Zaheer, editor of Sada-e Pakistan, has been at every National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) since its inception in 2003. He said he has also seen the lack …