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Speculators Bid Up Coffee Prices
Washington - If you're angry that Wall Street speculators have been driving up the price you pay for gasoline, these same big financial investors now are pushing up the …
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Bernanke Offers No Plan for New Stimulus
Jackson Hole, Wyoming - The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said Friday that the economy was recovering and the nation’s long-term prospects remained strong, an upbeat assessment that …
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Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Lift the Payroll Tax Cap, Ensuring Full Social Security Funding for Nearly 75 Years (3)
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Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Lift the Payroll Tax Cap, Ensuring Full Social Security Funding for Nearly 75 Years (2)
Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a featured speaker at the United Steel Workers 2011 conference in Las Vegas. Sanders focused much of his speech on …
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We Need to Get Active to Recover the Economy and Middle Class
They've got the money but we’ve got the numbers. The billionaires and the giant corporations are making a greed-grab for what's left of our standard of living, even our …
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Rights Commission Rebukes US on Domestic Violence
Washington - In a groundbreaking decision that affirms domestic violence as an international human rights issue, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled that the US should …
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New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Promote Genetically Engineered Crops Worldwide
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: Peter Blanchard, Wikileaks) Dozens of United States diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks dump on Wednesday reveal new details of the …
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Who – and What – Are Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid?
The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, and more prone to be pawns in complicated games that affect the public …
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US May Back Refinance Plan for Mortgages
The Obama administration is considering further actions to strengthen the housing market, but the bar is high: plans must help a broad swath of homeowners, stimulate the economy and …
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From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan Set to Declare Wide Area Uninhabitable Due to Radiation
The worst nuclear disaster to strike Japan since a single bomb fell over Nagasaki in 1945 occurred in the spring of 2011 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant following …