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GOP Contenders Engage in Feisty Debate, Blasting Each Other, Obama
Ames, Iowa - For months, Republicans vying for their party's presidential nomination focused their criticisms on the record of Democratic President Barack Obama. On Thursday, they fought to defend …
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Politicians and Protesters Assail British Police
London - Britain’s latest convulsion of rioting and looting began with a protest against the police handling of a killing in north London, but it soon turned into something …
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Chemical Warfare: Agent Orange
(Image: LP / Truthout; Adapted: Daniel Fogg, Christopher Najewicz, Martin Wippel) As long as Agent Orange is not addressed, along with the reparations that the US agreed …
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Economic Crisis or Nonviolent Opportunity? Gandhi’s Answer to Financial Collapse
(Photo: Pranav Yaddanapudi / Flickr) On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average fell 634.76 points; the sixth-worst point decline for the Dow in the last 112 years …
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Pelosi Picks Members for “Super Committee“
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader, named the three final appointees Thursday to the super committee on deficit reduction, adding diversity along with budget expertise to a panel …
Ratigan on MSNBC: Obama Must Say Congress is “Bought“
US Navy Vet Sues Donald Rumsfeld for Torture in Iraq; Court Allows Case to Move Forward (Video)
On Monday, a federal appeals court refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two U.S. citizens against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and unnamed others for developing, authorizing and …
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Verizon’s Workers Strike Back at Corporate Greed – You Can Join Them!
The reason you see so many cellphone stores and ads everywhere is because wireless is a very lucrative business. Wireless companies are pulling in billions and their executives are …
Obama’s Legal Duty to Create Jobs Now
The debate about the debt ceiling should have been a conversation about how to create jobs. It is time for progressives to remind the government that it has a …