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Early Results in Egypt Show a Mandate for Islamists
Cairo - Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster …
Olbermann Interviews Truthout Writer Jesse Hagopian, Arrested While Trying to Conduct Citizen’s Arrest
Keith Olbermann talks with Jesse Hagopian, a Garfield High history teacher and Truthout author, about his arrested while protesting school budget cuts in Washington on Monday. They discuss today’s …
Occupy Wall Street Camps in Los Angeles, Philadelphia Dismantled in Massive Police Raids
Some 1,000 police officers raided the Occupy Los Angeles encampment in a park outside City Hall over night, arresting scores of people and evicting what has been the largest …
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Unions Beat GOP Candidates as New Hampshire Blocks Anti-Labor Law
GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, on November 29, 2011. Perry urged the …
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Mobilizing Men to End Violence Against Women
United Nations - Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around …
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Occupy Demands: Let’s Radicalize Our Analysis of Empire, Economics, Ecology
Occupy Wall Street, New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: thethingsitdoes) There's one question that pundits and politicians keep posing to the Occupy gatherings around the country: What …
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The Global Occupy Movement Challenges the Transnational Corporate Class Propaganda Machine
The international concentration of wealth and military power is endangering not only the personal freedoms and life chances of billions of people, but the potentiality for life on earth …
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Speculators Drive Cotton Price Volatility, Hurting Farmers and Consumers
Washington - Texas cotton grower Brad Heffington speaks Wall Street's language of hedges, correlation charts and the like as easily as he discusses weevils and pesticides. Yet today his …
Pakistan Border Post Attack a Big Loss for US War Policy
Washington - The U.S. military and the Barack Obama administration have been thrown into confusion by the attack on two Pakistani military posts near the border with Afghanistan Saturday …
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ALEC in Arizona, Democracy in Peril
(Photo: Nick Surgey of Common Cause) What do you get for the corporation that has everything? More of the same—money, power, and influence. That’s the mission and …