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With Obama Meeting Tuesday, Israel Eases Gaza Blockade
Jerusalem - Israel on Monday announced a major change in the way it will manage the country's controversial blockade of the Gaza Strip, a move Israeli officials hope will …
Clinton, Obama Stand Up for Civil Liberties and Worker’s Rights … in China and Ethiopia
Finally, a politician has stood up and boldly denounced the creeping fascism that is gradually crushing democracy and political activism. Not mincing her words, or trying to justify the …
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Dangerous Cost Cuts at Alyeska Pipeline: “Yet Another Example of How BP Runs Things“
Over the past several months, Alyeska Pipeline and the company's Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Hostler, have been under intense scrutiny by a Congressional oversight committee and an independent investigator, …
Freedom in the Grace of the World (2)
Earl Shaffer, adrift after serving in the South Pacific in World War II and struggling with the loss of his childhood friend Walter Winemiller during the assault on Iwo …
Freedom in the Grace of the World
Earl Shaffer, adrift after serving in the South Pacific in World War II and struggling with the loss of his childhood friend Walter Winemiller during the assault on Iwo …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | Judicial Change to Believe In
Washington - Here's when you know something momentous has happened to our struggle over the Supreme Court's role: When Republicans largely give up talking about “judicial activism,” when liberals …
The Tea Party Is Dangerous: Dispelling Seven Myths That Help Us Avoid Reality About the New Right-Wing Politics
Few things are more confounding to liberals and progressives than the rise of the Tea Party movement, and the media’s infatuation with it. Just as we breathed a sigh …
BP Used Oil Industry Tax Break to Write Off Its Rent for Deepwater Rig
Transocean, the company that owns the failed Deepwater Horizon rig that caused the Gulf oil spill, used well-known tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland to lower its …
God’s Not on the Side of Union Busters
God may or may not be on the side of unions, but a Catholic scholars group says that being on the other side, that is being against unions, is …
BP Shows US It’s Time for a New Energy Policy Like Europe’s
With toxic black ooze spreading throughout the Gulf of Mexico, it is time for the Obama administration to think seriously about national energy policy. They could learn plenty by …