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Broken, Not Broke: The Economy According to Richard Wolff
(Photo: Joseph Cote / Flickr) As the ‘great recession’ continues, Economist Richard Wolff says failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different name. Now …
Families Still Stream to Food Banks, and Budget Cuts Could Kill that Lifeline
Over the past month, it seems that the news of a natural disaster striking a different area of the country has been a nightly occurrence. Whether a tornado or …
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Is This the Way the World Ends?
(Photo: NASA / Flickr) The purported end of the world came and went, and, to the surprise of few, the rapture did not come to pass on …
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Paradoxes of Iranian Society Spur on Heroic Women
Washington - Haleh Sahabi is the latest Iranian woman to die in political violence. On Wednesday, security forces attempting to cut short the Tehran funeral of …
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Rep. Rohrabacker Asks Iraq to Pay US Back for Iraq War; Iraqi Spokesman Asks Him to Leave
Yesterday in Baghdad, while on a congressional delegation visit, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said that Iraq should repay the United States for the war there that President Bush started …
The “Judicial Insider Trading” of Justice Clarence Thomas and Wife “Ginni”
He had inappropriate sexual entanglements with a number of women and lied about it repeatedly to the American people. Yet nobody —- save for one Colorado law school prof—- …
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Accused Sit in Jail as Military Courts Drag Feet on Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. (Photo: Matthew G. Bisanz / Wikimedia) Washington - Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Brian W. Foster served nearly a decade …
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At Least 21 Killed in Afghanistan Attacks
Kabul, Afghanistan - At least 21 people were killed in a series of attacks across Afghanistan on Saturday as a U.N. agency announced that May had been the deadliest …
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America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm
(Photo: Gilson Geoffrey / Flickr) Laugh me off as the idealistic son of a physician (which I am), but I still thought the doctor's ethos of "first …
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Think Outside the Bars: Real Justice Means Fewer Prisons
(Photo: Thiago Souto / Flickr) A white woman with gray hair pulled neatly into a bun raises her hand. She keeps it up, unwavering and rigid, as …