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Tet Kole on the Needs of Haitian Farmers Tet Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti) is the oldest peasant group in Haiti, born covertly in …

This week, the taut but surprisingly emotional thriller, "Fair Game," hits selected theaters. It's about the Bush administration's retaliation against CIA operative Valerie Plame and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson …

In the next-to-last US Senate race to be determined, Sen. Patty Murray (D) of Washington State has won reelection. That leaves just Alaska, where incumbent Lisa Murkowski – a …

Anonymous millionaires just helped elect dozens of ultraconservative congressional candidates, by pumping millions of dollars into national Tea Party organizations. And guess what's at the top of the legislative …

Surprise - Feds Support Ruling Against Biotech Gene Patents

It is now the morning after. Republicans, as expected, are celebrating a sweeping victory. Democrats are licking their wounds. Meanwhile, record numbers of people are still contending with the …

Recently, many commentators have equated recent European complaints about the weak American dollar with American complaints about the undervalued Chinese renminbi. Take, for example, commentary published Oct. 14 in …

Washington - The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives will mean a new lineup of powerful committee chairmen devoted to tough fiscal discipline, dramatic changes in health care …

It's bad enough that we lost progressive champions like Russ Feingold, and that the leadership and committees of the House will be taken over by advocates of domestic austerity …

When I was down in Guantánamo a few months ago, a veteran German journalist let it slip that she didn’t much care for the place. “This,” she confided in …