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Will Downing Street Memo Recur on Iran?
A decade after the infamous u201cDowning Street Memou201d and its u201cfixedu201d intelligence for invading Iraq, the pressure is on again to make the case u2013 whatever the facts u2013 …
NRC Report on San Onofre: Close Enough for Government Work
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released its report on recent failures at the San Onofre nuclear facility [PDF] on Thursday, stating that, as far as the government regulator was concerned, …
Raising the Minimum Wage Is Cheap and Easy
At the current rate of $7.25 an hour, a full-time, year-round worker would have gross pay of less than $15,000 a year.
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Union Decries Marines’ Sponsorship of Sport Marked by Sexism, Homophobia
In their battle to unionize 12,000 Station Casinos workers, UNITE HERE's Culinary Union Local 226 has found an unusual target: the United States Marine Corps. Local 226 is targeting …
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The Greatest Crimes Against Humanity Are Perpetrated by People Just Doing Their Jobs
The most dangerous forces in the industrialized world are people who are just doing their jobs - the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death …
Anaheim Residents Continue Protests After Cops Open Fire at Women, Kids
On Saturday Anaheim Police Department officers openly fired bean bags, pepper spray and released an attack dog into a crowd that included women and children protesting an officer involved …
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Consequences of Not Seeing the Chains That Oppress
Oh, what a strange and complex world we live in. The good guys and bad guys sometimes appear to say the same thing u2013 that they only want the …
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Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
One of the great works in the establishment of civil and human rights is being shredded before our eyes.
Why the Buenos Aires Bombing Is a False Indicator on Burgas
Immediately after the terror bombing of a busload of Israeli youth in Burgas, Bulgaria, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a u201csenior U.S. officialu201d expressed certainty about Iranu2019s …
Henry A. Giroux: Colorado Shooting Is About More Than Gun Culture
Violence saturates our culture both domestically and in our approach to foreign policy.