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Fleeing His Own War on Drugs, Felipe Calderón Finds Refuge at Harvard
Citizens from 28 countries are petitioning Calderu00f3n's fellowship.
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Why Johnny Can’t Read or Win Wars
Johnny isn't able to think critically - and that's the point of a corporate-business model of education.
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It’s 1948 Again – Wake Up!
A new poll found that when the voters didn't know which plan was whose, the policies that most voters preferred were those offered up by the Progressives Caucus in …
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How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act
Jim Crow is alive and well — and he has mounted a new attack on the law Martin Luther King dreamed of: the Voting Rights Act. On February 27, …
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The Deadly Misconception of Long Term Isolation of Liquid Toxic Wastes: Deep Underground Injection Wells Don’t Work
In 2011, a Democratic Congressional Investigating Committee determined that 14 leading oil companies used 2500 different toxic fracking liquids. The liquids contained 750 different chemicals, including 270 undisclosed ingredients …
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Three-Quarters of Progressive Caucus Not Taking a Stand Against Cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
Think the world needs an alternative to corporate media? Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to Truthout and keep independent journalism strong. For the social compact of the …
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The Banal Militarism of Hollywood
Although America is back to making
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North Korea and the United States: Will the Real Aggressor Please Stand Down?
North Korea is really not a significant threat compared to what the US is doing with nuclear weapons.
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I Became an Orthodoxy, All on My Own
Paul Krugman: I guess I'm such a big guy that I'm an orthodoxy all by myself.
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Warren vs. Bernanke: Too Big to Fail?
Thom Hartmann: It's time to stop propping up the banks, and end “too big to fail.”