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US Identifies Army Sergeant in Killing of 16 in Afghanistan
A soldier identified as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, appeared in this photo and in an article in High Desert Warrior, a military Web site, in 2011. (Photo: Spc. …
In Afghanistan, the Dam Breaks
The news just keeps getting worse in Afghanistan for the United States. Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project has warned for years that the premises of a counterinsurgency there …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: SOPA Corporate Creep, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news… You need to know this. The largest online protest in the history of the Internet may have derailed SOPA and PIPA earlier …
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Why Republicans Aren’t Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas Pump
(Photo: Paulo Ordoveza / Flickr) Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic …
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MF Global, MBS, and the Goldman Resignation
Matt Taibbi has a good piece on the important and public resignation of a former Goldman executive, Greg Smith. The essence of Smith’s piece is …
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The Fetishization of Balance
I generally don’t bother reading Thomas Friedman. A good friend gave me a copy of The World Is Flat, and I started reading it. Somewhere in the first one …
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Thirteen Reasons Goldman’s Quitting Exec May Have a Point
An executive at Goldman Sachs left the firm today with a bang, penning a New York Times op-ed accusing the company of increasingly putting profits ahead of clients. Greg …
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GOP Strategy for Hispanic Voters: It’s the Economy
Pueblo, Colorado - For many years, and multiple election cycles, Republicans talked about the growing Hispanic vote in America like moonstruck, misunderstood boys at a high school dance. They …
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79,000 Unemployed South Carolinians to Lose Long-Term Jobless Benefits
Extended federal unemployment benefits are being phased out for almost 80,000 jobless workers in South Carolina despite the state’s high 9.3 percent jobless rate. About 6,500 people will lose …
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On Bank of America, Occupy Wall Street Has Told You So
(Photo: Mike Fleshman / Flickr) “What's going on today, guys?” asked Detective Rick Lee, or, as he's more widely known, Hipster Cop. I was standing outside the …