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Economic Update: Crisis/Individual Lives
Economic updates of airline delays, minimum wages for tipped workers, global military spending, and profit-driven Bangladesh building collapse.
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Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Want to Eliminate Your Overtime Pay, and More
In today's On the News segment: Republicans want to eliminate your overtime pay; a Bloomberg analysis indicates that everyday employees are the only ones who are not benefiting from …
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Fukushima: A Dire SOS Message
There is nothing clean, carbon-wise, about nuclear power, and the only thing green about it is the glowing radioactivity.
The Lesson of WMDs: Obama and US Military Divided Over Syria
Has Syria crossed the ‘red line’ that warrants a US military invasion? Has it not? The political establishment in the US seems at odds over itself.
Bush’s Legacy Ought to Be on Trial; Instead, It’s Put on Display
Kill a few, they call you a murderer. Kill tens of thousands, they give you $500 million for a granite vanity project and a glossy 30-page supplement in the …
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The Last Lost Cause, Review of “In Fear Itself“
Was the mid-century dominance of southern Democrats essential to the defeat of Hitler and the triumph of American democracy?
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This May Day in Berlin: 7,000 Imported Police, With Marching Routes Exposed
This year, the city government brought in an estimated 7,000 auxiliary officials from across Germany to aid in controlling the May Day protests.
High Unemployment Due to Lack of Demand, Not Lack of Skills or Education
Jesse Rothstein: Low wages and lack of purchasing power the real structural problem, skills training and more education is not the critical solution.
Isabel Allende on “Maya’s Notebook,” Drug Addiction, 1973 Chilean Coup and Death of Poet Pablo Neruda
The best-selling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is out with a new book, “Maya's Notebook: A Novel.”