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AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent (2)
A man sits on a sled used to transport goods from Egypt in a tunnel beneath the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, on June 27, 2010. Two …
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Obama Says Military Force Is Option to Keep Iran From Getting Nuclear Weapons
Washington — President Barack Obama insisted Sunday he'd call for military action to prevent Iran from securing a nuclear weapon, even as he urged Israel and its supporters to …
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Treating Sick Rich Folks
Nancy Hemenway, a senior financial services executive and hospital patient, reads a newspaper in the library of the Eleven West wing at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, …
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A Real Job for the Vice President: Leading Congress
The vice presidency has been a joke for most of the nation’s history. The first vice president, John Adams, said it was “the most insignificant office that ever the …
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How to Fund an American Police State: Real Money for an Imaginary War (3)
At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. …
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Guantanamo Prison’s True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington. (Photo: Troy Page / Truthout) British journalist Andy Worthington, the author of "The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison," …
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Are the War Hawks Watching? In Lauded Iranian Film, Self-Interest Yields Tragedy
(Image: FilmIran / Sony Pictures Classics / Memento Films) It's hard not to view the Oscar for Best Foreign Film awarded to Iran's "A Separation" as at …
Overdue Overdraft Overhaul
If bankers are as smart as they are well paid, why don’t their overdraft fees work? Why don’t the fees discourage overdrafts? Why did these fees swell 17% in …
Did the NYPD’s Spying on Muslims Violate the Law?
Last August, the Associated Press launched aseries detailing how the New York Police Department has extensively investigated Muslims in New York and other states, preparing reports on mosques and …
Why the Environmental Movement Is Not Winning
A searing new report says the environmental movement is not winning and lays the blame squarely on the failed policies of environmental funders. The movement hasn't won any "significant …