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Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the One Percent
While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties marched into the state’s election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott …
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USDA Ignores Pesticide Ravaging Bee Population, Threatening Global Environment
It has recently been reported that certain research was suppressed concerning the bee decline which has been occurring over the past few years. It seems that the large sum …
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Egypt Today, One Year Later: A Revolution Revisited
One year ago in February 2011, getting to Egypt wasn’t that easy. Back then, my London flight crew suddenly refused, in midair, to layover in Cairo. Instead, we touched …
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Obama Frames His Election-Year Vision in State of the Union Address
Washington - President Barack Obama used an election-year State of the Union address Tuesday night to frame the national debate not as a referendum on him but as a …
Hold Cheaters, Fraudsters and Exploiters Accountable to Get Our Economy Back
The spiral-to-the-bottom and inequality we are suffering is not an inevitable result of globalization, it is what happens when we don't hold cheaters and exploiters accountable and stop them. …
US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central question in the current bellicose debate over whether the world should simply cripple Iran’s …
State of the Union Remarks
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State of the Union: “The Defining Issue of Our Time” and the Definition We Needed
We were hoping to get from President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night a bold, galvanizing vision of how the economy could be made to work once …
Sickened and Still Waiting for Justice: 9/11 First Responders and Cold War Nuclear Weapons Workers Battle for Fair Compensation
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (Zadroga Act) and the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) represent two federal reparatory and remedial compensation …
Blowing the Whistle on Big Pharma
(Photo: Cape Town Craig) Kathleen Sharp: It was a combination of mistakes and toothless power. This blood booster was approved during the biotech rush of the 1980s, …