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The Afghan Syndrome
Take off your hat. Taps is playing. Almost four decades late, the Vietnam War and its post-war spawn, the Vietnam Syndrome, are finally heading for their American grave. …
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Obama Administration Silencing Pakistani Drone-Strike Lawyer
When is the last time you heard from a civilian victim of the CIA’s secret drone strikes? Sure, most of them can’t speak because they’re deceased. But many leave …
Photo Essay: Chicago Spring Takes the Streets
Chicago Spring, April 7, 2012. (Photo: sierraromeo [sarah-ji]) Though it's been a temperate winter, things are heating up in Chicago. With only weeks to go until May Day and …
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Valuing the Oceans: The Costs of Climate Change
When you picture the effects of climate change, does a dying ocean come to mind? Alongside the better-known terrestrial impacts of global warming, there are immense – and costly …
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Twenty-Six Major Corporations Paid No Corporate Income Tax for the Last Four Years, Despite Making Billions in Profits
Last year, Citizens for Tax Justice found that 30 major corporations had made billions of dollars in profits whilepaying no federal income tax between 2008 and 2010. Today, CTJ updated …
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Food Stamps Helped Reduce Poverty Rate, Study Finds
Washington - A new study by the Agriculture Department has found that food stamps, one of the country's largest social safety net programs, reduced the poverty rate substantially during …
How Does Our Government Surveil Us? Let’s Count the Ways
Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. The Washington Post reported there are 3,984 federal, state and local organizations working …
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Can We Just Have the Cake?
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Creationism
Fighting Reported in Half of Syria’s Provinces as Ceasefire Deadline Nears
Beirut - Syrian soldiers battled anti-government rebels in half of the country's 14 provinces on Monday, three days before a United Nations-backed ceasefire is to take effect, anti-government activists …