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The Great Experiment in Spending
In 1942, Virginia Young, right, a supervisor at an air base in Texas, secured housing for new workers like Ethel Mann. (Photo: Howard R. Hollem / Library of Congress) …
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Iraqi Children in US Raid Shot in Head, UN Says
A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, …
Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri
Washington - In focusing entirely on the alleged links between four Hezbollah activists and the 2005 bombing that killed Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the indictment issued by the Special …
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Power Restored
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Landmines and Cluster Bombs: “Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion“
Sihanoukville, Cambodia - A man who lost his leg to a landmine in Thailand, near the border. (Photo: Dave_B_) Every 20 minutes, a landmine explodes and 50 …
Frank Rich on The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell
New York Magazine's Frank Rich joins Lawrence O'Donnell with a look at the fleecing of America over the last ten years since the September 11 attacks.
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The Trials of Joe McGinniss
(Image: JR / Truthout) On May 24, 2010, Palin posted a photo on Facebook she called, "Just When Ya Think It Can't Get Any More ‘Interesting’ ... …
What a Difference a Decade Makes: Ten Years of “Homeland Security“
(Image: LP / Truthout) On August 5, 2002, President George Bush declared, “We're fighting ... to secure freedom in the homeland.” Strikingly, he did not use the …
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Rick Perry’s Secret Plan to Save Blue States From the Red States
Of all the nonsense Texas Governor Rick Perry spews about states’ rights and the tenth amendment, his dumbest is the notion that states should go it alone. “We’ve got …
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Tea Party Brings Environmental Meltdown to America
(Image: JR / Truthout) For Tea Party zealots it is impossible to utter, hear, read or write the words “freedom” and “liberty” too many times. And, of …