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JOBS: It’s That Simple!
The plutonomy of the wealthy may be booming, but in the realonomy where ordinary Americans live and work times are still tough.
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Iran-Contra Redux? Prince Bandar Heads Secret Saudi-CIA Effort to Aid Syrian Rebels, Topple Assad
Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud u2014 Saudiu2019s former ambassador to the United States u2014 is leading the effort to prop up the Syrian rebels, therefore reprising his role in …
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Big Oil Gets Green Light to Explore Ecuadorian Amazon
Ecuador President Rafael Correa is a petro-Kenysian who failed to sell Yasuni National Park in carbon markets and to international donors, and now he's turned a blind eye to …
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A Hundred Arrested Protesting Walmart Firings
Thousands of people participated in Thursdayu2019s protests, according to OUR Walmart, and 100 were arrested.
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Obama Warned on Syrian Intel
A dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the Official Story.
Slash and Burn: The War Against California Pensions
u201cPension reformu201d has become the latest battle cry in a seemingly endless war that has ostensibly been declared against tax-dollar waste.
The Financial Crisis and the Second Great Depression Myth
Dean Baker: Without the government bailout we would have seen the end of Wall Street, and possibly the rebirth of our economy.
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The Century-Long Challenge to Respond to Fukushima
Radiation continues to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi site into groundwater, threatening to contaminate the entire Pacific Ocean. The cleanup will require an unprecedented global effort.
Glenn Greenwald on Secret NSA Program to Crack Online Encryption
“There is no form of human commerce ... that is ever invulnerable to their prying eyes,” says Greenwald.
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Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition
“The most pernicious development is the incorporation of the black prophetic tradition into the Obama imperial project,” Cornel West tells Chris Hedges.