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Panetta to Offer Strategy for Cutting Military Budget
Washington - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is set this week to reveal his strategy that will guide the Pentagon in cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from its …
Year of Global Uprisings, From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: A Special Look Back at 2011
Today we look back at 2011, a year that saw the U.S. killing of Osama Bin Laden, the ouster of a dictator in Egypt and the death of one …
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New Graphic Novel Reveals the Orwellian Underworld of the Iranian Theocratic Regime
(Image: First Second) Over the past few years, Amir, an Iranian human rights activist and documentary filmmaker living in the United States, struggled to tell anyone who …
ALEC – America’s Secret Political Power
A participant in a protest against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) holds a sign in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 29, 2011. (Photo: Mentatmark) Scottsdale, AZ - …
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As Big Bank Stocks Plunge, CEOs Continue to Reap Huge Salaries
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Company, talks with the media after testifying in front of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, on Capitol Hill in Washington on …
Year of Global Uprisings, From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: A Special Look Back at 2011 (2)
Today we look back at 2011, a year that saw the U.S. killing of Osama Bin Laden, the ouster of a dictator in Egypt and the death of one …
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The Roots of the Republican Party Crack-Up
With the Iowa caucuses just days away, the Republican crack-up threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any other time since the GOP's eclipse …
Keystone Jobs Versus Competitive-Dollar Jobs
The new great hope for job creation in Washington is the Keystone pipeline, a plan to create a pipeline that would transport oil from Alberta, Canada, as far as …
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How Will the Occupy Movement Evolve?
Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park in New York, October 8, 2011. (Photo: Michael Falco / The New York Times) Many supporters of the Occupy demonstrators …
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Rumsfeld-Era Propaganda Program Whitewashed by Pentagon
A controversial public relations program run by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's Pentagon was cleared of any wrong-doing by the agency's inspector general in a report published last …