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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 …
Stephen Pitt | Dow Up, Liberty Down
Click the image to view larger version. Sharron Angle, Joe Miller and Christine O'Donnell: Dow Up, Liberty Down
A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for the Wars
Two weeks until Election Day, and no one is talking about the wars, The New York Times reports. (Of course, that's not quite true: as the Washington Post reports, …
The Power of Figures and Ideas
As the divorce between Sarkozy and the majority of the French people is turning into a war, it is now clear that decisive progress has been made since the …
Afghanistan War: Doling Out Justice, Afghan Style
Combat Outpost Mizan, Afghanistan - A frantic call came in to the operations center here on one recent morning — a bomb had just exploded a few kilometers away …