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Rivals Say Maliki Leading Iraq to “Civil War“
Baghdad - Less than 24 hours after the US military withdrew the last of its occupation forces from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an arrest warrant for Vice-President …
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Capitalism and Loneliness: Why Pornography Is a Multibillion-Dollar Industry
(Photo: Dave 77459 / Flickr) Massive social changes in the US labor force and in commerce have transformed the economy and powerfully affected personal relationships. Since 1970, …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Justice Department to Bring Charges Against BP Over 2010 Oil Spill, and More
TRANSCRIPT: Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
TV Analysts’ Collusion With the Military: Disgraceful but Legal?
(Photo: james_gordon_los_angeles / Flickr) I wasn’t going to look at the news on Christmas Day. I had just had successfully prepared a Christmas Eve dinner for my …
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Romney and the Art of Unpredictable Predictability
Manchester, New Hampshire - No matter what happens in Iowa, Mitt Romney has a safety net in New Hampshire. And that could rank as the year's most …
Canada’s Become a Home for Record Fracking
Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp. performed what the company proclaimed was the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever. …
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Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, “Serial Fabricators” and the Tale of Iran and 9/11
(Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times) Behind a mysterious December 22 Associated Press story about “finding of fact” by a District judge in Manhattan Friday …
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Carelessly Mistaking Theater For Policy
Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination engaged in a debate at Fox News forum. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) One crucial thing you need …
Author Russell Banks on Writing Through the Voices of Outcasts, Criminals and Revolutionaries
We speak with acclaimed novelist Russell Banks, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for drawing on his working-class background to write about criminals, outcasts and revolutionaries. "I know that …
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