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Hey, We’re Number … Uh … 36!
Fidelia Perez sits in a hospital room after receiving emergency dialysis treatment at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, in this October 13, 2009, file photo. (Photo: David Walter …
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Only Conservatives Can End the Death Penalty
Washington - How can we end the death penalty in the United States? Every so often, one capital case receives wide attention and makes a public spectacle …
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Nothing but Dogs in This Hunt
Washington - Here's my question for the Republican Party: How's that Rick Perry stuff workin' out for ya? You'll recall that Sarah Palin asked a similar question …
Manufacturer Suggested Retail Prices Suggest Comics Companies Think Women’s Work Is Worth Less
Last time on Ladydrawers, MariNaomi and Anne Elizabeth Moore looked at around 30 of the most recent books from some of the biggest comic-book makers in the US to …
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Occupy Wall Street Protest Enters Second Week; 80 Arrested at Peaceful March
It is day 10 of the "Occupy Wall Street" campaign. On Saturday, more than 80 protesters were arrested as hundreds took part in yet another march to Wall Street. …
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Wall Street Donated $41 Million to Supercommittee Members
(Photo: independentyouth; Edited: JR / Truthout) Wall Street has given $41 million in campaign contributions to the members of the Congressional "supercommittee" charged with finding $1.5 trillion …
Digital Art and Culture: A 21st-Century Paradigm Shift
"The Ever Evolving Egg" by Max Eternity. Click to view larger. At a time when extreme, economic austerity measures are being considered and/or enacted by a number …
How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate “Killing Machine“
Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: …
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Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President
(Image: HarperCollins) President Barack Obama dances lightly down the four marble steps to the Rose Garden and across the flagstones to a waiting lectern. He still glides, …
The Terrible Post-9/11 Truth: Our Government’s Been Hijacked
Democracy has been commandeered by a self-interested gang. About a year after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, I visited Oklahoma City and went to …