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Smoke on a Bridge: Lebanon Awaits a Verdict
Beirut, Lebanon - Jamal is a Lebanese driver in his late 50s. He appeared unshaven and terribly exhausted as he drove his old passenger van from the airport in …
Treasury Makes Shocking Admission: Program for Struggling Homeowners Just a Ploy to Enrich Big Banks
The Treasury Department's plan to help struggling homeowners has been failing miserably for months. The program is poorly designed, has been poorly implemented and only a tiny percentage of …
In Pakistan, Pledged Donations Aren’t Enough
Islamabad, Pakistan - The Pakistan floods have affected more people than the Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake put together. Over the past three …
Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Block Giant Gender Bias Lawsuit
Retail giant Wal-Mart on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling allowing more than 1.5 million women employees of the company to join together …
Katrina’s Toll Includes Rise in Suicide, Mental Illness
Biloxi, Miss. - The last five years have been a mental health roller coaster for many among the Mississippi Gulf Coast's post-Hurricane Katrina population. Suicides are up since Katrina …
Jennifer Aniston v. Bill O’Reilly and Women’s Equality Day
Jennifer Aniston sparked a classic Bill O'Reilly firestorm when she said a woman doesn't need a man to have children and a perfectly fine life, thank you very much. …
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Alyeska, Federal Regulators Probing Employee’s “Cover-Up” Claims Related to May Oil Spill
An Alyeska Pipeline Service Company employee who has an engineering background filed complaints with federal regulators and BP’s Office of the Ombudsman claiming internal company documents were altered following …
How the American Empire Project Trashed a Planet for Profit, While Selling the Public Lies: An Interview With Dahr Jamail
Seven years ago, angered over the mainstream media's flawed portrayal of the Iraq war, independent journalist Dahr Jamail took it upon himself to report from the front lines of …
Robert Reich | Tax Jujitsu: Why Democrats Should Propose a “People’s Tax Cut“
Republicans are calling the Democrat's proposal to end the Bush tax cuts on the richest 3 percent a “tax increase,” and demagoging that it will hurt the economy and …
Whose Recovery? What Double Dip?
Is there an economic recovery underway? Was there one that has now stopped? Will our current recession, partly recovered from, now tumble downward again in a second or “double” …