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James K. Boyce | The Three R’s of Real Security
Security – protection from natural and accidental disasters as well as from deliberate efforts to inflict harm – is a basic human need. To a large extent it is …
Woodward and the Military: Who’s Using Whom?
Bob Woodward's affect is that of a human tape recorder. He claims that he is no more than a passive chronicler of events. Yet, he has played a significant …
Memo: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck to Plot 2010 Election
In 2006, Koch Industries owner Charles Koch revealed to the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore that he coordinates the funding of the conservative infrastructure of front groups, political campaigns, …
Hemp Is the Far Bigger Economic Issue Hiding Behind Legal Marijuana
Prop 19 will open up California to hemp, a multi-billion-dollar crop that has been a staple of human agriculture for thousands of years. Hemp is the far bigger economic …
Deception and Devastation: The Ignored Dark-Sides of Suffering Joblessness
Two of my oldest and dearest friends in life are unemployed and suffering – facing full-blown collapse monetarily and mentally. Both have graduate degrees, multiple skills, commendable work records …
Judge Rejects Obama’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Argument
Washington - A district court judge Tuesday rejected the Obama administration's claims that allowing gays and lesbians to begin openly serving in the military could hurt their efforts to …
China Denies Any Rare Earth Mineral Export Embargo
Beijing - China sought Wednesday to reassure the world it had not and would not use its chokehold on supplies of critical rare earths for political purposes, and pledged …
Jim Hightower | Corporate Corruptistan
The teabag forces are out front in today's politics, noisily trying to oust Democrats and install a new Congress that they think will end "business-as-usual" in Washington. Nice political …
News in Brief: Alleged Anti-Gay Assaults in New York City Classified as Hate Crimes, and More
Alleged Anti-Gay Assaults in New York City Classified as Hate Crimes
France: Support for the Protest Movement Is Still Gathering Momentum
Far from being on the ebb, social anger against the French government’s pensions reform grows stronger every day. The IFOP poll we publish today shows that 57% of French …