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Murdoch Veterans Portray an Engaged Boss
It was the political scoop of the year, a damning, serialized exposé in The Daily Telegraph about how British politicians were abusing their parliamentary expense accounts to pay for …
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Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose U.S. Media’s Double Standard on “Terrorism“
Numerous news outlets and commentators initially blamed the attacks in Norway on Islamic militants. Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper, The Sun, ran a front-page headline that read, "'Al-Qaeda' Massacre: Norway’s …
Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose US Media’s Double Standard on “Terrorism” (2)
On the News With Thom Hartmann: If Boehner’s Plan Passed, Standard and Poor’s Will Immediately Downgrade US Credit Rating, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Detroit: A New American Frontier
Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: dharder9475) Detroit has become a byword for extreme urban contraction. Yet as the population, industry, and built environment of the city of …
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Speaker Boehner’s Disgrace
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) at the Capitol in Washington, July 25, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) Seldom have we witnessed a …
Unequal Protection: Protecting Corporate Liars
(Image: JR / Truthout) The first direct shot across the bow of the doctrine of a corporation’s “right to lie” by using its “personhood” to claim First …
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Crash Club: What Happens When Three Sputtering Economies Collide?
(Photo: doncav) When my old gang and I were 14 or 15 years old, many centuries ago, we yearned for immortality in the fiery wreck of a …
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Obama’s Latest Debt Ceiling Offer Is to the Right of Gang of Six and Simpson-Bowles – GOP Still Says No
As the Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen noted today, Democrats have bent over backwards to craft a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, only to berebuffed at every turn …
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FAA in Partial Shutdown; Air Traffic Unaffected
Reporting from Washington - The Federal Aviation Administration was forced into a partial shutdown Monday after Congress failed to temporarily extend its funding. The agency was ordered to furlough …