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Over Last Ten Years, General Electric’s Effective Tax Rate Was 2.3 Percent
The Obama administration unveiled its corporate tax reform plan last week, which would lower the top rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, billing it as an effort to …
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Sorry’s Not Good Enough in Afghanistan. Here’s Why
As violence continues following the burning of Korans by ISAF in Afghanistan, insiders in Washington, D.C. and in the media are wasting quite a bit of breath asking the …
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We’re a Country. Deal With It
Again and again (and again and again) we hear — and learn the hard way — that our “keep government out of it” approach to economic and manufacturing policy …
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Apple Turns to the Larry King of Sweatshop Scandals
Apple's chosen monitor has long been criticized by anti-sweatshop activists. Wracked by weeks of bad press over the conditions under which its products are made, this …
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New Fukushima Report: “Devil’s Chain Reaction” Could Wipe Out Tokyo
A new independent report on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster reveals that Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan feared events following the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami would …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: All Eyes on Michigan for Critical GOP Primary, and More
In today's On the News segment: Polls show a dead heat between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in Michigan, the Supreme Court is set to hear a case that …
WikiLeaks: Leaked Emails Expose Inner Workings of Private Intelligence Firm Stratfor, a “Shadow CIA” (2)
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun publishing what it says are 5.5 million emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a private U.S.-based intelligence-gathering firm known to some as …
Report from Kabul: Deadly Protests over U.S. Koran Burning May Be Turning Point for U.S. Occupation (2)
The U.S.-led NATO occupation in Afghanistan is facing a storm of violence and outrage over the burning of copies of the Koran by U.S. troops at the Bagram Air …
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What Do Republican Presidential Candidates Say on Foreclosure Crisis? Not Much
As we've detailed, President Obama's plans to help homeowners have come up short time and again. We recently looked at Obama's latest proposals, most of which are unlikely to …
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Known Unknowns in the BP Oil Disaster Trial
A ship floats amongst a sea of spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, June 16, 2010. (Photo: kk+) A …