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Strong Aftershock as Japan Urges More Evacuations
Tokyo - A strong aftershock off Japan’s Pacific coast on Monday briefly set off a tsunami warning and knocked out cooling at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant …
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In US Prisons, Inmates Sold Into Sex Slavery
In prisons across the country, gangs are selling their fellow inmates into sex trafficking in order to increase their power and profits. Ex-convict Scott Howard, a survivor …
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Google May Face Antitrust Investigation
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are considering launching an antitrust investigation into Google's dominance over the Internet search industry. The DOJ …
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Another Side of Libya, Where The War Seems Far Away
To cover the war in liberated eastern Libya is to spend a lot of time speedily headed somewhere: fleeing the front line as soon as it's collapsed, moving toward …
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Mickey Mouse Wage Hike
Good news, people: America's wages are up—the average worker is making more today than a year ago! How much more, you ask? Get ready to be excited: 58 cents …
Government by People Who Hate You
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisconsin) budget plan would cut $5.8 trillion over the next decade by cutting programs like Medicare. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York …
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The Vote This Week to End Medicare and Social Security
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Virginia). (Photo: republicanconference) Last month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor literally said Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we …
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The Blowback World of Chalmers Johnson
Book cover to Chalmers Johnson's "Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945." (Image: Stanford University Press) In going through my husband’s files, …
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Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Nation Hostage Again and Again
When I was a small boy I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than than everyone else. They demanded the cupcake my mother …
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Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
(Photo: fling93) A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless …