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Noam Chomsky: Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later
Ten years ago, at a time when lawmakers from both sides of the aisle joined together to authorize endless war, Noam Chomsky’s was the leading voice to call for …
Noam Chomsky: Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later (2)
Ten years ago, at a time when lawmakers from both sides of the aisle joined together to authorize endless war, Noam Chomsky’s was the leading voice to call for …
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Stimulus Tax Cuts Did Spur Growth and Create Jobs
Washington - There is a serious debate over the impact of President Obama’s stimulus. Stanford Economics Professor John Taylor, who served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International …
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A Lost Decade
"To govern is to choose, and the choices made [by the Bush Administration] in 2002 were fateful. The United States began that year shocked and wounded, but with tremendous …
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In Suburb, Battle Goes Public on Bullying Gay Students
Anoka, Minnesota - This sprawling suburban school system, much of it within Michele Bachmann’s Congressional district, is caught in the eye of one of the country’s hottest culture wars …
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Militants Launch Attack on US Embassy in Kabul
Kabul, Afghanistan - Insurgents launched a complex assault against the American Embassy and the nearby NATO headquarters on Tuesday, pelting the heavily guarded compounds with rockets in an attack …
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US Poverty Rate, One in Six at Highest Level in Years
Washington — The portion of Americans living in poverty last year rose to the highest level since 1993, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, fresh evidence that the sluggish economic …
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Economy (2)
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: United States ONLY G-20 Nation Where New Workers Have Less Education Than Retiring Workers, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Growing Up Muslim in a Post-9/11 World
San Francisco - For Muslim and Sikh youth growing into adolescence in the past decade, 9/11 has either been a menacing specter or just a perceived threat. But either …