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Jim Hightower | The Redistribution of America’s Wealth to the Few
Several of America's top high-tech giants are now breaking with conventional thinking on the offshoring of their factories and jobs, asking a heretofore unthinkable question: “Who needs China?” "Let's …
Robert Scheer | From Jefferson to Assange
All you need to know about Julian Assange's value as a crusading journalist is that The New York Times and most of the world's other leading newspapers have led …
test solutions
In the first “Solutions: Making Government Work” column, editor Dina Rasor outlines an essential first step toward regaining control over the notoriously corrupt Department of Defense contracting system. It's …
WikiLeaks Tracker
Welcome to the WikiLeaks Tracker. Here we'll document the latest developments regarding WikiLeaks: the intricacies of little-noticed cables, the large-scale efforts to suppress the leaks, the response of the …
The Heartbreak of Premature Capitulation
There's this old joke about the French Revolution. A group of prisoners is lined up before the guillotine. One by one, their heads are lopped off. Then, the next …
Leonard Peltier Denied Eighth Amendment Rights
The Eighth Amendment in the US Constitution prohibits, among other things, cruel and unusual punishment of prisoners. This prohibition is the grounds for a lawsuit filed by federal inmate …
Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe Faces Scrutiny in Washington Over Lawsuit Alleging Drummond Supported Paramilitaries
Washington - On Nov. 3, as ex-president of Colombia Álvaro Uribe left a class he teaches at Georgetown University as a visiting scholar, a second-year law student named Charity …
US Officials Seek Law for the Protection of Knowledge
In an interview with Fox News (12/7/2010) Senator Joseph Lieberman stated that not only did WikiLeaks violate U.S. law under the Espionage Act, but the New York Times itself …
Tax Cut Ironies
From The New York Times: “Congressional Republicans in recent days have blocked efforts by Democrats to extend the jobless aid, saying they would insist on offsetting the $56 …
Stop the Next Bad Deal: The Debt Ceiling Fight
If you think the tax cut fight led to a bad deal… it may also lead to an expectation by conservatives they will finally be able to cut, gut …