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The Price of 9/11
George W. Bush addresses the media on Israel and Lebanon in August 2006. (Photo: Eric Draper / Wikimedia) New York – The September 11, 2001, terror attacks …
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Qaddafi Loyalists Fled to Niger by Convoy, US Affirms
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya, and Washington— More than a dozen high-ranking loyalists of Moammar Kadafi made a desert getaway into neighboring Niger, US officials said Tuesday, but …
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Plan Would Keep Small Force in Iraq Past Deadline
Washington — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year’s …
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What Comes Next for the Tar Sands Action
Dear friends— Here’s the battle plan we promised—a few hours late, because it’s been a big job wrapping up phase one of this campaign. By …
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Perry Tales: Rick Is Not Who He Says He Is
Presidential wannabe Rick Perry is flitting all around the country — hither, thither and yon — spreading little “Perry Tales” about himself and the many wonders he has worked …
CIA’s Push for Drone War Driven by Internal Needs
Washington, (IPS) - When David Petraeus walks into the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday, he will be taking over an organisation whose mission has changed in recent years from gathering …
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Obama Transition Team Member Explains Why Administration Chose Not to Prosecute Torture
If you can think back all the way to January 2009, back when wars were ending, Guantanamo was closing, the Pentagon was getting oversight, employees were going to have …
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Inside the Koch Brothers’ 2011 Summer Seminar: Part 1
David H. Koch, one of the billionaire brothers who runs Koch Industries, at the Lincoln Center in New York, in this July 9, 2008 file photo. (Photo: Robert Caplin …
Unequal Responsibility for Crime
(Image: JR / Truthout) Consider this August 3, 2001, White House press briefing, in which the editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, Russell Mokhiber, asked a question of …
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Facts That Strain Personal Incredulity
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Somewhere in his writings Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary biologist, talks about anti-evolution types who argue from personal …