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Whistling Dixie — Again
Washington - Does Haley Barbour really have a warped and offensive view of America's racial history? Or is he just playing a dangerous game? Perhaps both. …
Scenes from the Wisconsin Protest (Video)
Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Protest from Matt Wisniewski on Vimeo.
Alexander Cockburn | BP Faces Fines of Up to $10 Billion, Plus Jail Time for Guilty Officials
For its huge oil spill last summer in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is facing “the largest criminal fine ever paid in the United States,” according to the man …
David Sirota | The Submerged State
The Great Paradox — that is what future generations will likely call this era, and rightly so. Our children's children will look back and see that just a few …
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The Submerged State
The Great Paradox — that is what future generations will likely call this era, and rightly so. Our children's children will look back and see that just a few …
Outsourcing, Trade Agreements and Employment: Lame Duck or Just Plain Lame?
The Obama plan for employment generation has now come down to this: trickle-down stimulus tax cuts and a pledge to double exports in five years’ time.
Police Brutalize Ray McGovern as Hillary Clinton Talks Free Speech
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday about the failures of foreign leaders to respect people's freedoms, a 71-year-old U.S.
Froma Harrop | Don’t Buy Simple Talk on Budget
In politics, simple phrases can hide complex agendas. The budget debate offers the perfect stage for mouthing “home truths” that are not quite true. Let's air a few examples. …
Waist Deep in the Washington Quagmire
Cutting $100 billion?... easy. If only Washington had a brain. Here’s the latest news from Congress, in case you’ve been in Afghanistan for the last couple of weeks. A …
Protest Wave Rocks Bahrain
Manama - Bahrain, unlike Egypt with its 83 million people, has a population of only just over a million. And so when protesters settled down to sleep at a …