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Rachel Maddow: The Bikini Graph on Job Gains (Video)
Rachel Maddow demonstrates job growth under Obama vs. Bush using a “bikini” graph:

Report: VA Needs to Improve Services for Growing Number of Women Veterans
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has taken steps to make services available to women veterans, but needs to revise key policies and improve oversight, according to a new …

The Politics of Jobs vs. High Unemployment
Even new employment figures show the US economy's strongest job-creation performance in three years, the Obama White House knows that talking to Americans about jobs requires a delicate political …

Why Torture Is Necessary
Secrecy, torture and the murder of those who resist are necessary parts of this perfect storm of unimaginable violence in the service of unimaginable theft. Of our …

Power Outages Dim Future of Gaza Refugees
At night in Gaza, the narrow alleyways of the refugee camps echo loudly with clatter amidst the darkness. The clatter is the sound of small generators. Families in the …

Army Secretary Backtracks on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal
Backtracking on an earlier statement regarding the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy, Army Secretary John McHugh warned openly gay soldiers that they could still be discharged from the …

Dr. King’s Economic Dream Deferred
Forty-two years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee. To those of us who were alive then, the images …

Not Satisfied with US History, Some Conservatives Rewrite It
Washington - The right is rewriting history. The most ballyhooed effort is under way in Texas, where conservatives have pushed the state school board to rewrite guidelines, downplaying Thomas …

Meet the Toxic 100 Corporate Air Polluters
Amherst, MA - Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released the Toxic 100 Air Polluters, an updated list of the …

GRITtv: Creative Movements for Change in Palestine
This week was the 34th anniversary of Palestinian Land Day, and also a day for awareness of the growing boycott, divestment, sanctions movement. Land Day commemorates the deaths of …