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Debacle! How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission …
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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 …