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CNN’s Objectivity Questioned in Sacking of Mideast Reporter
Washington - CNN's firing of Octavia Nasr, the editor responsible for the network's Middle East coverage, over a Twitter post in which she expressed her sadness over the death …

News in Brief: Bomb Attacks in Pakistan and Iraq Shake the Region, and More …
A suicide bomber attack has killed 65 people and wounded over 100 in a volatile Pashtun region of northwest Pakistan, reported Reuters. The attack was thought to be targeting …

Politics, Power, and the Environment Beyond BP
Washington has a blind spot when it comes to the environment. BP and the oil spill brought the government's failures into the spotlight, but the same problems crop up …

BP Exploiting Workers in the Gulf (Video)
More GRITtv Hundreds of workers in the Gulf Coast cleaning up BP’s oil disaster have reported symptoms of nausea, vomiting, nose bleeds, and headaches, but those “almost all …

David Sirota | Are Low Taxes Exacerbating the Recession?
As the planet's economy keeps stumbling, the phrase “worst recession since the Great Depression” has become the new “global war on terror” — a term whose overuse has rendered …

“Inside Out” Tells It Like It Might Be
It's quite a pleasure to spend a morning sitting in Charlottesville, Virginia, where all the bookstores display thrillers by local boy John Grisham, and read a thriller as good …

Russia-US Swap Brings Spy Scandal to a Close
New York - The spy scandal of the decade may soon come to a swift close, as Russian and U.S. officials negotiate a deal to swap the alleged Russian …

Washington Still Has Problems With Democracy in Latin America
Imagine that Barack Obama, upon taking office in January 2009, had decided to deliver on his campaign promise to "to end business-as-usual in Washington so we can bring about …

Scientists Urge US to Move Quickly to Study Gulf Oil Spill
Washington - Frustrated with limited data on the BP oil gusher, a group of independent scientists has proposed a large experiment that would give a clearer understanding of where …

The Military-Industrial Complex’s Win, Part II
Barack Obama's crippling inheritance as President of the United States is the near-five-decade failure of the nation's political leadership to heed President Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning that "in the …