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Alyeska, Federal Regulators Probing Employee’s “Cover-Up” Claims Related to May Oil Spill
An Alyeska Pipeline Service Company employee who has an engineering background filed complaints with federal regulators and BP’s Office of the Ombudsman claiming internal company documents were altered following …
How the American Empire Project Trashed a Planet for Profit, While Selling the Public Lies: An Interview With Dahr Jamail
Seven years ago, angered over the mainstream media's flawed portrayal of the Iraq war, independent journalist Dahr Jamail took it upon himself to report from the front lines of …
Robert Reich | Tax Jujitsu: Why Democrats Should Propose a “People’s Tax Cut“
Republicans are calling the Democrat's proposal to end the Bush tax cuts on the richest 3 percent a "tax increase," and demagoging that it will hurt the economy and …
Whose Recovery? What Double Dip?
Is there an economic recovery underway? Was there one that has now stopped? Will our current recession, partly recovered from, now tumble downward again in a second or "double" …
New Attacks on Birthright Citizenship: “Anchor Babies” and the 14th Amendment
Recently, the somewhat repugnant term “anchor babies” has entered the immigration debate, as certain conservatives call for a reassessment of the 14th Amendment, claiming it wrongly protects the children …
William Rivers Pitt | It’s Called (facepalm)
I've been online for a number of years now, in forums and chat rooms and in the reply sections of online articles, and the jargon has never failed to …
Amid John Boehner Blast at Obama, Hints of How GOP Would Rule
Washington - House Republican leader John Boehner Tuesday called on President Obama to extend the Bush tax cuts, fire his economic team, and listen to the fears and “entrenched …
Task Force: Military Suicide Prevention Efforts Inadequate
Washington - A Defense Department task force devoted to preventing suicide in the military presented a grim picture of the trend Tuesday, with suicides rising at a near steady …
News in Brief: Election Night Provides Mixed Results, and More
Election Night Provides Mixed Results
What You Will Not Hear About Iraq
Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part …