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Rep. Donna Edwards on Why She Voted Against Debt Deal: “A Bad Framework for the Future”
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Federal Circuit Court Rules That Corporations Can Patent Human Genes, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Debt and Empire
To: General Petraeus, Langley HQ From: Operative 650, Kabul office Re: Memo XE1955 General Petraeus: First, I would like to introduce myself. I …
Part One: FEMA and Disaster – a Look at What Worked and What Didn’t From a FEMA Insider
An Urban Search and Rescue Team bring victims of the flood waters of New Orleans to dry land by boat, August 30, 2005. (Photo: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA ) …
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“Until the Day I Die”: Gerta Louisama on Haitian Women Winning Their Rights
Gerta Louisama is a member of the Executive Committee and the National Women's Committee of Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen, Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti, Haiti's largest and …
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Who Gains From Debt Deal? The Pentagon, for One
The last-minute deal that Congress is considering to raise the federal debt limit probably will mean trillions of dollars in government spending reductions for most agencies. But one department …
Tea Partying Like It’s 1954
In the early fifties, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) used his position to smear establishment Americans as agents of the Soviet threat. (Photo: History In An Hour) The …
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In Arab World First, Mubarak Stands Trial in Egypt
An ailing Hosni Mubarak, who served longer than any ruler of modern Egypt until he was overthrown in a revolution in February, was rolled into a courtroom in a …
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Syria Storms Center of Rebellious City (2)
With heavy shelling, Syrian tanks stormed through the restive city of Hama on Wednesday, occupying a central square that had witnessed the largest protests against the rule of President …
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Does Debt Deal Put Mortgage-Interest Deduction in Play?
Washington - Just as Social Security and Medicare benefits were dangled above the shredder in the debt ceiling debate, another of Washington's sacred cows could end up on the …