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Afghanistan Helicopter Crash Makes 2010 Deadliest Year in Afghanistan War
Nine NATO soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash Tuesday in Afghanistan. Nearly 2,100 NATO troops have died in the nine-year Afghanistan war, with 529 alone this year. Nine …
Basel III: Tightening the Noose on Credit
The stock market shot up on September 13, after new banking regulations called Basel III were announced. Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief. The megabanks, propped …
Sarah Van Gelder | Pioneers of the New Normal
Americans are facing a troubling reality. The economic recovery we were promised has not materialized. There’s growing talk about a “new normal”—a new way of life to take us …
Eugene Robinson | Sharia as New Red Menace?
Washington - Boy, one thing I really hate is when American judges try to impose harsh Islamic sharia law. You know, with all those grisly lashings, stonings and beheadings. …
DREAM Activists: Rejecting the Passivity of the Nonprofit, Industrial Complex
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is …
Robert Reich | Who Should Get the Tax Cut – the Rich or Everyone Else?
Who deserves a tax cut more: the top 2 percent — whose wages and benefits are higher than ever, and among whose ranks are the CEOs and Wall Street …
Exclusive: Interview With Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Almost nine years into longest war in US history, at a time when the US spends more on its military budget than the rest of the world combined and …
DREAM Movement: Challenges With The Social Justice Elite’s Military Option Arguments And The Immigration Reform “Leaders“
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is …
Will Tea Party Climate Repeal
With the global-wide kerfuffle about an Islamophobic minister, Rev. Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, threatening to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, little attention last week …
Elections Are a Waste of Time — If
A pithy idea - now going around in some progressive circles - is that elections are a waste of time. The idea can be catchy. It all depends on …