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President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street
President Barack Obama during a press conference at the White House in Washington, July 15 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) The ability of …
Debating the Debt
Truthout follows the debt ceiling debate: Reading the Debt Ceiling Tea Leaves to Predict the Future Monday 18 July 2011 by: Jack Rasmus, Truthout | …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Allegations Fox News Also Into Illegal Phone Hacking in US, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work
During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the wake …
Koch Brothers’ ALEC Tentacles Creep Into Your State
(Photo: internets_dairy) Thanks to the work from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), investigative journalists like Beau Hodai and The Nation's exposé, we now know that …
ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition
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America’s Disappeared
(Photo: meggesje) Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly …
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WikiLeaks: Haiti Disaster Capitalism’s Latest Electroshock Patient
Naomi Klein was asked today about what additional case studies she would add to future editions of her 2007 “Shock Doctrine”. Klein's answer: Greece and Wisconsin. Fair …
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Why Did Congress Waste Six Months
Washington - The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation's debt limit with a crusade to slash spending has already had a high cost, …