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Officers Put on Leave After Pepper Spraying Protesters
The University of California, Davis, said on Sunday that two police officers had been placed on administrative leave after using pepper spray on seated protesters in a widely recorded …
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Lawmakers Concede Budget Talks Are Close to Failure
Washington - Conceding that talks on a grand budget deal are near failure, Congressional leaders on Sunday pointed fingers at each other as they tried to deflect blame for …
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Military Moves In as Violence Rages in Streets of Cairo for Second Day
Cairo - Egypt's interim military rulers battled a reinvigorated protest movement calling for its ouster Sunday, as thousands of demonstrators forced troops to retreat from Tahrir Square for a …
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City Dismisses 9 Cases of Occupy Sacramento Protesters
The Sacramento City Attorney’s office today dismissed nine misdemeanor cases of protesters arrested at the Occupy Sacramento encampment at Cesar Chavez Park – and pro bono lawyers said they …
What the Labor Movement Can Learn From an Art Auction
Occupy Wall Street Rally at Sothebey's auction house, November 9th. (Screengrab: toolbox303) Disruptive tactics were the basis of labor's revival in the 1930s. Most labor historians call …
Tightening the Noose: The International Atomic Energy Agency Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: indigoprime, D Sharon Pruitt) A diplomatic, economic and military noose is being steadily tightened around the Islamic Republic of Iran. …
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Syria Uprising Falls Victim to Power Plays
Syrian women at a makeshift refugee camp in the town of Khirbet al-Jouz, along the Syrian-Turkish border, Syria, June 10, 2011. (Photo: The New York Times) Syrians …
Deal May Fail; Super Committee Co-Chair Says Bush Tax Cuts are the “Sticking Divide“
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the Democratic co-chair of the congressional super committee, said this morning on CNN’s State of the Union that the super committee charged with crafting a …
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Occupy Nashville Infiltrates and Disrupts Rumsfeld Fundraiser
Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Thursday, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in Nashville …
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Heather Ault: Visualizing 4000 Years of Choice
(Image: ©Heather Ault) Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control their fertility for more than 4000 years. The …