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The Indefensible Drones: A Ground Zero Reflection
Libby and Jerica are in the front seat of the Prius, and Mary and I are in back. We just left Oklahoma, we're heading into Shamrock, Texas, and tomorrow …
Froma Harrop | The Rich Are Not Going to Give Us Jobs
Let's cut the baloney about jobs and rich people's taxes. If corporate profits automatically turned into jobs for the little folk, the unemployment rate would be plummeting. It happens …
Weary of Drug War, Mexico Debates Legalization
Mexico City - A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs — once a taboo suggestion — is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and …
California Public Schools Invited BP To Help Develop Environmental Curriculum
When students in California return to school this fall, they will have a brand new environmental curriculum — developed, in part, by oil giant BP. The Sacramento Bee reported …
Mediated Racism: Orientalism, Birtherism and the Muslim Community Center
Anti-Obama conspiracy theories have gone viral in right-wing peer groups and within right-wing media outlets. The opposition to Obama is reaching crisis proportions. Just one third of Americans can …
CIA Rendition: US Court Throws Out Torture Case, Citing State Secrets
Washington - A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit seeking to hold a government contractor partly responsible for a secret CIA program to …
Obama Pitches $300 Billion Tax Break Package for Businesses
Obama travels to Cleveland to pitch a tax break package worth as much as $300 billion for businesses. But economists are skeptical that many jobs can be gained this …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | It’s Not Over Till It’s Over
Washington - President Obama decided this week to raise the stakes in this fall's election by making the choice about something instead of nothing but anger. In the process, …
Time for Helicopter Ben to Drop Some Money on Main Street
The Federal Reserve is proposing another round of “quantitative easing,” although the first round failed to reverse deflation. It failed because the money went to banks, which failed to …
Obama Unveils New Economic Plan: ‘Progress Has Been Painfully Slow’
TRANSCRIPT The White House released the following remarks on the economy that President Barack Obama delivered this afternoon in Ohio. Good afternoon, Ohio. It's good to be back. In …