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Republicans in House Reject Deal Extending Payroll Tax Cut
Washington - House Republicans on Tuesday soundly rejected a bill approved by the Senate that would have extended the payroll tax cut for most Americans beyond the end of …
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Spotlight Durban: Durban’s Climate Zombie Tripped by Dying Carbon Markets
Looking back now that the dust has settled, South Africa’s COP17 presidency appears disastrous. This was confirmed not only by Durban’s delayed, diplomatically-decrepit denouement, but by plummeting carbon markets …
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McJournalism: The Unbearable Lightness of Thomas Friedman
One year ago, Foreign Policy magazine placed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman at number 33 on their list the Top 100 Global Thinkers, noting that he “doesn't just …
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Adobe’s Cloudware Announcement Stirs Pricing and Privacy Concerns
Adobe Corporation, these are two words that every contemporary photographer, architect, artist and designer knows well. And it would not be an understatement to describe Adobe’s suite of …
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Children’s “Wish for the Holidays” – Keep Our Families Together
Izamar is asking Congress for one holiday wish: to keep her family together. The18-year-old from Waukegan, Ill., is facing a daughter’s worst nightmare: the prospect of …
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Welcome to Your Future
You find yourself sitting at a big conference table in one of those trying-to-be-classy corporate hotel meeting rooms. There is a pad and pen in front of you. …
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Occupy Chanukah and Christmas
Chanukah was the first recorded national liberation struggle against Greek imperialism, and Christmas celebrates the birth of a hoped-for messiah to free the Jewish people from Roman imperialism. …
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: Banksters Edition
Sixty Minutes’ December 11, 2011 interview of President Obama included a claim by Obama that, unfortunately, did not lead the interviewer to ask the obvious, essential follow-up questions.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: 14,000 US Deaths Linked to Fukushima Fallout
Thom Hartmann here – on the news ...
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George Monbiot: This Bastardised Libertarianism Makes “Freedom” an Instrument of Oppression
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word …