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The Shadow Class War of 2010
Washington - The 2010 election is turning into a class war. The wealthy and the powerful started it. This is a strange development. President Obama, after all, has been …
David Sirota | Follow Wyoming on Fracking Regs
Frank Sinatra once said that if he could make it in New York, he could make it anywhere. Thanks to new drilling rules, environmentalists can now say the same …
Alexander Cockburn | Kooksville – There and Back
Memo to Christine O'Donnell, the Sarah Palin of 2010, target of a thousand vulgar jokes on the talk shows, now desperately taking out ads in the state of Delaware, …
How Hank Paulson’s Inaction Helped Goldman Sachs
Washington - Henry Paulson has received widespread acclaim for his bare-knuckled decision-making as the treasury secretary at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, but former federal regulators say …
You May Say I’m a Dreamer: Happy Birthday, John Lennon
Three decades after John Lennon’s death, the world continues to mourn the loss of a musical genius and one of the strongest voices for global peace. Lennon …
IMF Leaves Question Unresolved: Can World Avert Harmful “Currency War”?
World financial leaders agree on the problem. They just don't have a ready solution to the risk that the global economic recovery will be undermined by nationalistic elbowing over …
Global Doors Slam Shut on Immigrants
Tultitlan, Mexico - In this town of 800,000, illegal immigrants beg in the middle of streets and linger along the railway tracks that clack incessantly with boxcars ferrying food …
Tea Party Leaders Are Not Anti-Establishment
“What happened to the country that loved the underdog and stood up for the little guy?” -Glenn Beck, “We Surround Them”, 3/12/2009
Tea Stained: The Tea Party and Its Claims to Feminism
It all started with Sarah Palin. Or did it? Maybe it started a few months earlier, when Hillary Clinton downed a shot of whiskey and made some offhand, wrong-footed …
Raids on Activists May Indicate FBI Abuse of Power
On the heels of a series of FBI raids on anti-war activists, an FBI whistleblower and constitutional rights groups are calling out the agency for overstepping its bounds, fearing …