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America’s Wile E. Coyote Moment
Budget repair bill protesters in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 8th, 2011. (Photo: ra_hurd) The funniest thing about Wile E. Coyote is how far he has gone beyond …
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Food Price Volatility: What Was and Wasn’t Said in the Leaked Report to the G-20
Despite the slight dip in the FAO food price index in March, global food prices still remain 37 percent higher than they were at this time last year. In …
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News in Brief: More Black Men Now in Prison System Than Were Enslaved in 1850, and More
More Black Men Now in Prison System Than Were Enslaved in 1850
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Medicare for Beginners
This isn’t a post explaining how Medicare works in detail. It’s a post about why Medicare matters to you.
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Late to the Game, Again
Washington - I'm no sports nut but I've spent enough time at kids' soccer games to understand that it's impossible to score if you're playing on the wrong side …
State of the Dream 2011
The Buying and Selling of the Pentagon (Part II)
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)
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Lax Enforcement Puts California Schools at Risk in Earthquakes
State regulators have routinely failed to enforce California’s landmark earthquake safety law for public schools, allowing children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws and potential safety hazards …
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Two Unreasonable Women
They're back. Actually, they never left, they just laid low while the heat of political anger blew over. They are the schemers and scammers of Wall Street …
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Not Licensed to Kill: America’s Imperious Attitude in Pakistan Is Wearing Thin
There was a truly bizarre and telling paragraph at the end of a Wall Street Journal news report today on Pakistan’s demand that the US bring home hundreds of …