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Ray McGovern on Activism and the Military Industrial Complex
The past 50 years have shown that President Eisenhower? was spot on, as we would say today, about the Military Industrial Complex and what to expect if Americans were …
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Immunity and Impunity in Elite America
As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, severe income and wealth inequality …
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NAFTA Is Starving Mexico
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) became the law of the land, millions of Mexicans have joined the ranks of the hungry. Malnutrition is highest among the …
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FBI Uses Maps to Track Muslims and Fight Fake Crime
Back in 2004, FBI Special Agent Bill Shute set out to prove a point. A self-described “visual learner,” Shute thought that if you took arrest data from court records …
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The Bush Tax Cuts and the 99 Percent
I forgot to alert you to my latest Atlantic column, which went up on Monday. To my mind, Occupy Wall Street is a protest movement, and a valuable one, …
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Rick Perry Outlines Flat Tax, Social Security Proposals
Gray Sourt, SC — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, hoping to reinvigorate his flagging bid for the Republican presidential nomination, unveiled a new economic plan Tuesday in South Carolina that …
Out of Iraq: What Will the War Service Industry Do Now?
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In September, I wrote a column about how the Government Accountability Office and I were concerned about how the military was going …
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Poverty Eliminated!
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Founder Says WikiLeaks, Starved of Cash, May Close
London - Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said on Monday that his Web site could be forced to shut down by the end of the year because a …
Wisconsin Democrats Allege Governor Walker Used Taxpayer Dollars for Campaign Web Site
“At Best Inappropriate, At Worst Against the Law” With Walker facing an “imminent recall,” the website consists of “propaganda” and “cherry-picked facts” designed to help Walker's reelection, …