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Spending Caps: The Republican Plan with Lipstick
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Mubarak to Face Trial for Killing of Protesters
Cairo - Egypt’s top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered former President Hosni Mubarak to stand trial in connection with the killing of unarmed protesters during the 18-day-revolt that forced him …
Why the Rich Love High Unemployment
The headquarters of JPMorgan Chase in New York. A JPMorgan research report concludes that the current corporate profit recovery is more dependent on falling unit-labor costs than during any …
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It’s Time to Take Back Our Civil Liberties
It took the United States government nearly 10 years to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden in retribution for the September 11, 2001, attacks. Over that same period, …
Company Believes Three Reactors Melted Down in Japan
In a belated acknowledgment of the severity of Japan's nuclear disaster, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said Tuesday that three of the stricken Fukushima plant's reactors likely suffered fuel …
The Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan
A view of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant. After the recent earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, new attention has been brought to the legal …
Playing the China Card
Soldiers of the Pakistani Army on patrol in South Waziristan, Pakistan, on October 29, 2009. (Photo: Tyler Hicks / The New York Times) Washington often acts …
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News in Brief: Warren Prodded to Run for US Senate Seat in Massachusetts, and More
Warren Prodded to Run for US Senate Seat in Massachusetts Even as activists and advocates are pushing for a recess appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the …
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The Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens Has Been Drugged
Movements for justice have historically been driven by a small percentage of any population. One percent of Americans nonviolently occupying Washington DC, could make Cairo and Madison and Madrid …
Obama’s Sister: What Our Mother Taught Us
In 1984, YES! Publisher Fran Korten worked alongside Barack Obama's mother, Ann Soetoro, at the Ford Foundation's office in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ann's daughter, Maya, who was 14 at the …