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Strengthen Social Security Coalition Puts Both Parties on Notice
More than 60 organizations that represent more than 30 million Americans are banding together to deliver a straightforward message to politicians this fall: Don't mess with Social Security.
Greek Society Begins to Crack Under Harsh Measures
Athens - Every working day, more than a hundred people crowd around the entrance of the merchant and passenger boats' reconstruction industry, well known as ‘The Zone’, in the …
Cut Tax Expenditures to Stimulate the Economy
When Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernanke announced that the Fed was not prepared to fund additional economic stimulus at this time, the market fell, suggesting strongly that Wall Street …
Primer for Ed Reformers (or, It
Just about everybody who’s ever been to school has a theory about what’s wrong with education. And a good many of them have a theory about what would make …
BP Wants Experts to Keep Quiet; House Says No Way
BP's headache continues to get worse. In a July 29 letter to BP America's President Lamar McKay, Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-California) and Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) have demanded …
Dallas Darling | Appeasement and the Politics of Flexibility
At the Senate Armed Services Committee, when General David Petraeus said keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan to fight was an “enduring” mission and that the July 2011 deadline for …
Top Democrats Pressure White House on Afghan War as WikiLeaks Reveals Bloody Realities
The Afghan war is coming under renewed scrutiny as web surfers across the world browse through the bloody battle scenes and military follies described in the thousands of classified …
Gareth Porter | Zombie Neocon Strategy Behind Israel’s “Bomb Iran” Campaign
Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 …
Alexander Cockburn | Will WikiLeaks Help End the Afghan War?
The brave hope of the soldier who sent 92,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks was that the disclosure of willful, casual slaughter of civilians by coalition personnel (with ensuing cover-ups), …
David Sirota | The Deception of Real-World Inception
For all of its “Matrix"-like convolutions and "Alice in Wonderland” allusions, the new film “Inception” adds something significant to the ancient ruminations about reality's authenticity — something profoundly relevant …