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The Man with the Golden Voice: A Great Story But Does It Help the Cause of the Homeless?
Los Angeles - The formerly homeless “golden-voiced” Ted Williams is strolling into his second act – professed to be clean and sober for more than two years and now …
2011: Calling Time on Capitalism
Recent decades have seen a massive redistribution of wealth, imposing the cost of successive crises on the poorest. Enough! The end of 2010 brought renewed Washington rhetoric, media hype …
Eugene Robinson | Defusing a Sociological Bomb
Washington - Race still matters in America and justice is not completely blind. Anyone who believes otherwise should examine the case of Cornelius Dupree Jr., who was ruled innocent …
Back to the Future: Obama Turns to Clinton Economic Team
Washington - In retooling his economic team for the second half of his four-year term, President Barack Obama has gone back to the future, turning to old hands from …
Our Turn To Cry
Bradley Manning and the Case Against Solitary Confinement
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. - Fyodor Dostoevsky In the earliest days of our Republic, a group of …
Wall Street Fat-Cats Flip Public Service Workers the Bird (Video)
The wealthy right wing have always liked to pick on the working class. And now Wall Street wants to blame Main Street for the financial crisis our country is …
Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire
Words matter, as candidate Barack Obama said in the 2008 election campaign. What to make, then, of President Obama’s pep talk last month to U.S. troops in Afghanistan in …
In 2011, Birthright Citizenship in the Crosshairs
Yesterday, a coalition of anti-immigrant lawmakers from 14 states unveiled their much-anticipated birthright citizenship bill. The measure would thwart the 14th Amendment by denying citizenship to the U.S.-born children …
News in Brief: US Spending on Afghan War Highest to Date, and More …
US Spending on Afghan War Highest to Date