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More Bucks, Less Bang: The Ineffective Weapons Disease Infects Another Generation of Weapons
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout) In the early 1980s, the Pentagon was in the midst of several new generations of tanks, aircraft and missiles, especially during the …
Why the Rich – Corporations and Wealthy Individuals – Can and Should Pay More in Taxes
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NATO Planes Bomb Tripoli for Hours on End
Tripoli, Libya - Waves of NATO fighter planes hit the Libyan capital Tuesday with one of the largest bombardments of the city since the Western-led alliance began airstrikes almost …
A Brief History of the Patriot Act
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GOP Plan to Run Fake Democratic Candidates
Madison, Wisconsin - The gears of government tend to grind slowly. But in Wisconsin lately they are racing at turbocharged speed. In just the last few weeks, …
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Has Economic Power Replaced Military Might?
(Photo: The U.S. Army / Flickr) Cambridge - At the Cold War’s end, some pundits proclaimed that “geo-economics” had replaced geopolitics. Economic power would become the key …
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Mexican Drug Gangs Build Tanks as War Intensifies
Mexico City - Mexico's rival crime gangs are in an arms race, and the latest sign of that are the homemade “Mad Max” type heavily armored vehicles they deploy …
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Yemeni Leader Severely Burnt, Raising Doubts About His Rule
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen suffered injuries far more extensive than previously known in the attack on his presidential palace last week, with burns …
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There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market
(Image: Bloomsbury Publishers) Thing 1: There is No Such Thing as a Free Market What They Tell You Markets need to be free. …
“War Is Just a Microcosm of Peace” – an Interview With Zainab Salbi
A recent Women News Network – WNN interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder and President of Women for Women International, which held its annual fundraiser luncheon in New York City …