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Eid Celebrations Highlight Food Insecurity in Gaza
Gaza City - Crowds of women waving coupons worth two kilograms of beef line the stairwell to Secours Islamique France’s Gaza City office several hours before the aid agency …
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PBS to Show “Where Soldiers Come From“
The upper peninsula of Michigan is a sparsely populated place with its own sense of identity — something it has in common with Afghanistan. The young men at the …
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Seoul Salvation
His name was on the lips of everyone I talked with in South Korea last week. As an underdog with little name recognition but a long history of progressive …
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Mississippi Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Measure
Voters turned a skeptical eye toward conservative-backed measures across the country Tuesday, rejecting an anti-labor law in Ohio, an anti-abortion measure in Mississippi and a crackdown on voting rights …
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Righting the Voting Income Gap
Long-standing efforts to increase the number of low-income voters have been paying off. Several voting rights groups point to data from the federal Election Assistance Commission that …
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Ohioans Knock Down Law Limiting Unions’ Rights
Columbus, Ohio - A year after Republicans swept legislatures across the country, voters in Ohio delivered their verdict Tuesday on a centerpiece of the conservative legislative agenda, striking down …
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The Risk of the “Cheap” Libya Victory
NATO’s “victory” in Libya has sown many seeds of possible future calamity. But none is fraught with as much danger as providing a new “war on the cheap” model …
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Financial Industry Collects the Most Government Tax Subsidies
A new Citizens for Tax Justice report detailing how little corporations pay in federal corporate income tax also noted that financial firms receive the highest percentage of federal tax …
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Will Grover Come Over?
Brian Beutler has the latest on the Super Committee machinations: Super Committee Republicans are floating a trial balloon that would produce new tax revenue, in …
Former Narcotics Detective Admits Drug Planting Common
(Photo: denovich) Stephen Anderson, a former New York Police Department (NYPD) narcotics detective, recently testified that he regularly saw police plant drugs on innocent people as a …