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North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Probe of Blue Cross Advocacy Against Public Option
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina recently sent out mailers asking its customers for help lobbying against a public insurance option - and its controversial actions are now …
Elizabeth Warren Warns: Taxpayers Are “Involuntary Investors” in “Shaky” Banks, Risk-Taking Firms
As financial reforms face new delays in Congress, the chair of the Congressional oversight panel on the TARP program, Elizabeth Warren, told Truthout Tuesday that the nation's financial institutions …
US Will Not Join Treaty Banning Landmines
Washington - President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments …
UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture to That of Abu Zubaydah
Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent …
For US, Lessons on Women’s Rights From San Francisco
San Francisco - In 1998, San Francisco stepped up and joined the world. Tired of the U.S. government's refusal to ratify The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms …
NOW | Drowning Nations
Desperate efforts to keep climate change from drowning entire nations. Next on “NOW.”
Obama Denounces Mugabe’s Rule, Honors Zimbabwean Women Activists
Boston - President Barack Obama denounced President Robert Mugabe as a “dictator” and said the 85-year-old leader is on the wrong side of history. The U.S. president made the …
From Radical Republicans to Rich Republicans?
Many would not know it today, but at one time in our nation's existence the Republican Party was on the right side of history. After the Civil War, the …
Forget 2012: I Don’t Believe in the End of the World
As the days pass, so grows the fear of the arrival of December 21, 2012, the end date of the Mayan calendar, and the day on which many people …
Time to Quell Excessive Power of Credit Bureaus, Sometimes Ruling Life or Death
During the past several decades in the US, three credit bureaus have become so powerful, they can make or break American lives. They are Equifax, Experian and Trans …