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Author of “Pity the Billionaire” Maps Our Ideological Fantasy World
(Image: Metropolitan Books) Thomas Frank is the author of “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right” (Metropolitan Books). He wrote several …
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The Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised
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Tax the Rich
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Death of Private Danny Chen: Military Admits Chen Was Target of Race-Based Hazing on Daily Basis
U.S. Army investigators have released explosive new details about the death of Private Danny Chen, who allegedly took his own life just weeks after he was deployed to Afghanistan …
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Ten Years of Guantanamo: What Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Knew
The Bush administration deceived the American people about the certain danger posed by Guantanamo Bay detainees – the “worst of the worst” as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called them …
The Year of Voter Suppression
Claren Merritt, 3, looks up at her father Andy Merritt as he casts his ballot in Atlanta, on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (Photo: Erik Lesser/The New York …
Gaming the Global Economy
While members of the 99 percent made New Year’s resolutions to shave a few bucks off the grocery bill, turn the heat down, or maybe donate a few dollars …
The Cost of Trickle-Down Government Job Creation: $1.5 Million Per Worker
(Photo: Gamma Man) Suppose I were to tell you that for the past two years the federal government has been spending nearly $1.5 million to create one …
Judy Miller Alert! The New York Times Is Lying About Iran’s Nuclear Program
(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: indigoprime, D Sharon Pruitt) It's deja vu all over again. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is trying to trick America …
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The Lasting Damage of Iraq
Madrid - The folding of the American flag in Iraq amid a collapse of public security and a severe crisis in the country’s fragile political order seals a tragic …