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How You Pay the Tax Bills of Oil and Gas Investors
Thanks to corporate America's tireless work shifting its tax burden onto the backs of the middle class, you're probably paying a little bit of the income taxes of deep-pocketed …
Louisiana Backs Oil Industry, Wants Drilling Moratorium Thrown Out
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is supporting a legal challenge that seeks to reverse President Obama’s six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. While the administration …
Unrest in Pakistan: Moving Beyond US National Interest
“The military is the muscle that protects the ruling elite from the wrath of the people,” says Pakistani political analyst Dr. Mubashir Hassan. "Right now, people are out on …
Obama Vows to End Homelessness in Ten Years
Washington - The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious plan that aspires to end homelessness among some of society's most vulnerable groups within the next decade. "Opening …
Hearings Reveal Lapses in Private Security in War Zones
Washington - Jerry Torres, CEO of Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, has a motto: “For Torres, failure is not an option.” A former member of the Green Berets, one of …
The Question of Presidential Leadership
Two days after his meeting with President Barack Obama and one day after his front man, Tony Hayward, performed dismally before Congress, Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP, removed …
Protecting Our Water Commons: Interview With Robert Kennedy Jr
Whose job is it to protect our waterways? Water quality laws and enforcement are only as strong as the popular movements that press for them. Unless we stand up, …
Are Napolitano’s Mass Spying Powers a Greater Threat to Civil Liberties Than Under Bush?
According to a June 18 AP article, Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano has defended monitoring Internet communications as a “civil liberties trade-off the US must make to beef up …
Will Brown Take Position on Water Bond, Peripheral Canal?
Democrat Jerry Brown, the California attorney general and former two-term governor, and Republican Meg Whitman will face off this November in what is expected to be one of the …
Report Finds US Tax Money May Be Funding Afghan Insurgents
Washington - Private security contractors protecting the convoys that supply U.S. military bases in Afghanistan are paying millions of dollars a week in “passage bribes” to the Taliban and …