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GOP-Style Democrats Moving to Sell Out Poor, Liberals: Lessons From the DC Budget Fight
A homeless man in Washington, DC. (Photo: Daquella manera) It's been less than two weeks since a guerilla campaign by local activists managed to restore about 20 …
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“Merchants of Doubt”: A Review
American physicist Frederick Seitz, founding chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute. (Photo: Laura Gilpin / AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives) Merchants of Doubt is a …
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News in Brief: Gingrich Restarts Presidential Campaign, and More …
Gingrich Restarts Presidential Campaign
Dharna for Bank of America
April 15th (tax day) 2011 was marked by mass protests at Bank of America's from New York to Los Angeles. Most of these protests included music, bull horns, drums, …
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FBI Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds
Washington - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or …
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Obama Weighs Scale of Afghanistan Withdrawal
Washington - The Obama administration opens an internal debate this week on the size of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan amid growing doubts in Congress about the cost and …
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Ninety Percent of Petraeus’ “Taliban” Captures Were Civilians
A guard from Task Force Peacekeeper closes a gate at the detention facility in Parwan, Afghanistan, on September 22, 2010. (Photo: Adam Ferguson / The New York Times) …
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EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Claim Intelligence on Bin Laden, al-Qaeda Targets Withheld From Congress’ 9/11 Probe
Stencil graffiti of Osama bin Laden in Bucharest, Romania. (Photo: Bixentro / flickr) On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, just as he has done in years past, …
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Auditors Says Missing Money Meant for Iraq May Have Been Stolen
Washington - After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and …