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Just Three Corporate Front Groups Spent 13 Times as Much as the Entire Labor Movement to Buy Judicial Elections
After the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in American elections, the decision’s defenders claimed this wasn’t such a big deal because unions …
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TransCanada’s $100M Oil Spill Bond: True Value Debated as Neb. Pipeline Session Nears
Washington - TransCanada's offer to fund a $100 million performance bond if it fails to clean up a future oil spill in Nebraska's sensitive Sandhills might sound like a …
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UN Votes to End Foreign Intervention in Libya
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to end its authorization on Monday of the foreign military intervention in Libya, the legal basis for the NATO attacks …
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Occupy the Amazon: Brazilian Amazon Groups Invade Site of Dam Project
Buenos Aires - Waving bows and arrows and dressed in war paint, hundreds of members of indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon invaded the construction site of the Belo …
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Department of Justice Balks at Turning Over Guantanamo Detainee’s “Power-of-Attorney” Document to His Lawyers
(Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Attorneys for Abu Zubaydah say they have been trying to mount a meaningful defense for the “high-value” detainee, who has been in …
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Occupy Oakland Protesters Remain in Legal Limbo After Release From Jail
Nine protestors who were arrested during the police raid on Frank Ogawa Plaza early Tuesday morning were released Thursday afternoon after spending more than two days in jail. …
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Iraq War Vet Hospitalized With Fractured Skull After Being Shot by Police at Occupy Oakland Protest
Thousands of people reclaimed the Occupy Oakland encampment in front of City Hall Wednesday after police dispersed them twice on Tuesday — first in a pre-dawn raid on the …
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Occupy Updates: Oakland Protesters Tear Down Fence to Reclaim Space, NYPD Gets Violent During Solidarity March (2)
The latest from the Occupy movement: —Thousands strong, Occupy Oakland protesters reclaimed their park last night by tearing down the fence that had been erected after Tuesday …
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Occupy Updates: Oakland Protesters Tear Down Fence to Reclaim Space, NYPD Gets Violent During Solidarity March
The latest from the Occupy movement: —Thousands strong, Occupy Oakland protesters reclaimed their park last night by tearing down the fence that had been erected after Tuesday …
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Top Romney Adviser Tied to Christian Militia that Committed Atrocities in Lebanon’s Civil War
When GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced his foreign policy advisers earlier this month, one of the names raised some eyebrows among Middle East watchers in Washington: Walid Phares, …