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James Murdoch Steps Down From British Broadcaster
London - BSkyB, the British satellite broadcaster partly owned by the News Corporation, said on Tuesday that James Murdoch had resigned as chairman to shield the company from the …
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In the Great Recession, Even Death Is Too Expensive for the Poor
Rita is only in her 30s, but she knows all about death. What she didn't know until recently is how expensive it is, especially now in the Great Recession, …
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Taliban Attacks Kill Nine Afghan Police Officers
Kabul, Afghanistan - A series of Taliban attacks over the past two days have left 9 Afghan police officers dead and 14 missing, in the latest sign that insurgents …
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The ROBS Act
Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people's cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. …
Time to Acknowledge the American Fear Machine
On Sunday night - a homemade explosive device was detonated outside a window of a Planned Parenthood office in Wisconsin - but you haven't heard a peep about it …
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Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform
For Barkan’s other writing on the self-proclaimed “education reform movement,” click here, here, and here. If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The …
Will Pumping More American Oil Lower Gas Price?
TRANSCRIPT: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. As the 2012 elections draw ever nearer, the rhetoric about the cost …
The Fashion Industry’s Perfect Storm: Collapsing Workers and Hyperactive Buyers
Sina Phin, a garment worker, right, ironing shirts at the New Island factory in outlying Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in April 2005. (Photo: Michael Nagle / The New York Times) …
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The Assault on Public Education
Timothy White, chancellor at University of California, Riverside, at his office in Riverside, California, July 5, 2011. Sharp tuition increases, coupled with cutbacks in services, threaten to erode a …