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The Deal That Saved Detroit (and Banned Strikes)
President Barack Obama tours the Chrysler Auto Plant in Detroit on July 30, 2010. Obama visited the plant in Michigan as part of a tour highlighting the success behind …
Why State Attorneys General Shouldn’t Settle on Robo-Signing
Cynthia Veintemillas, right, an attorney with the Apple Law Firm, meets with her client Patrick Jeffs about his home foreclosure case at the firm's law offices in Jacksonville, Florida, …
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Egypt Defies US by Setting Trial for 19 Americans on Criminal Charges
Police stand watch as supporters of new members of Parliament gather near the People's Assembly building during its session in Cairo, on January 23, 2012. (Photo: Moises Saman / …
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Offshore Everywhere: How Drones, Special Operations Forces and the US Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty as We Know It
Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning. Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve just about every costly toy-cum-boondoggle from the good old days when …
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Anniversaries From “Unhistory“
Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam. June 14, …
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Planned Parenthood
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From a Tin Can to a Killer Vamp: The History of Drone Evolution
“Let Robots Do the Dying,” said Simon Ramo, the aerospace pioneer. The first “robots” that did their dying for us were clunky little tin cans with wings …
Chinese Fascism’s Global Consequences
A smoggy morning exercise drill in China. (Photo: Anonymous friend of Farris) I wake up this morning to the sun slicing warm, golden slits through the barred …
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Oral History Collection Gives Voice to Incarcerated Women
(Image: McSweeney's Books) "Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons" Waldman, Ayelet and Robin Levi San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2011. …
US Leak on Israeli Attack Weakened a Warning to Netanyahu
When Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius this week that he believes Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and June, it was ostensibly …