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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Regroup After Morning Raid on Zuccotti Park
In the smallest hours of the morning, with no warning or apparent provocation, hundreds of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers, some from the department's counterterrorism unit, many in …
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Rebuilding Libya (2)
Muammar Gaddafi’s misuse of governmental instruments and assets for over 42 years has left a gaping political vacuum, a severely impaired civil service, and a virtually non-existent civil society …
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Justices Scalia, Thomas Honored at Fundraiser Sponsored by Health Care Reform Opponents
A few hours after the Supreme Court justices met last Thursday, November 10, to consider hearing challenges to the national health care overhaul, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas …
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Arundhati Roy: Occupy Wall Street Is “So Important Because It Is in the Heart of Empire“
Renowned Indian writer and global justice activist Arundhati Roy is preparing to address Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday. She recently joined us in the studio to talk about the …
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Occupy America
Beginning with Occupy Wall Street in September 2011, a protest movement spread across the United States to 70 major cities and hundreds of other communities. Similar actions emerged in …
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This Is What Revolution Looks Like
Occupy Wall Street protesters react and wave copies of the court order allowing them back into Zuccotti Park as police block them from re-entering, in New York, November 15, …
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Keeping up with the Kandidates
“Are you not entertained?” That was Jon Stewart’s response to Rick Perry’s brain freeze. He said it twice, maniacally. “Are you not entertained?” Stewart’s …
Arundhati Roy: Occupy Wall Street is “So Important Because It is in the Heart of Empire” (2)
Renowned Indian writer and global justice activist Arundhati Roy is preparing to address Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday. She recently joined us in the studio to talk about the …
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Patriotism and The Virtues of Hypocrisy
Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, spoke last month at a Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) …
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Pentagon Whistleblower Suffered Years of Retaliation, OSC Says
A senior auditor with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) was subjected to years of reprisal in violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act after she blew the whistle on …