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Suspect in Times Square Bombing to Face Terrorism Charges
Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday that the Justice Department will charge the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing with terrorism and mass destruction. Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized …
Wall Street Profits, Subsidies and Lobbyists
Wall Street bankers are strutting around like little banty roosters these days, crowing about the phenomenal profits their banks are raking in. Citigroup has just announced that its profits …
Bolivia Throws Down Gauntlet, Demands Real Climate Action
It was a rounding error: 3, 3.5 million dollars, the amount of funding in climate aid that the United States had taken away from Bolivia, in explicit retribution for …
Noriega Sleeps in Prison in France
Original French Title: Noriega Dort en Prison en France The ex-dictator, ex-drug-trafficer, ex-agent of the CIA, extradited from the United States, arrived yesterday [1] in Paris. Condemned in absentia, …
Europe Must Change in Order Not to Implode
French Title: L'Europe Doit Changer Pour Ne Pas Imploser Another European summit is to take place on May 10th. Confronted with the risk of a crash, the need …
Hammering Out a Contract: Exploiting Low-Paid Workers at a Vo-Tech School
Art Welch, the in-school suspension supervisor at the Columbia-Montour Area Vocational Technical School (Vo-Tech) in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, earns $8 an hour, only 75 cents above minimum wage. In the …
News in Brief: US Reveals Size of Nuclear Arsenal and More …
Reuters reported on the United States disclosure of the current size of its nuclear arsenal, numbers which used to be secret to bolster nonproliferation efforts. According to the Pentagon, …
Crazy? Stupid? Tea Party Supporters Are Neither
They're the kooks, the wing nuts, the fringe of American politics — a tiny but vocal and overexposed remnant of the tattered quilt of conservatism. This is how too …
Can Brazil Save the World From War With Iran?
Sao Paulo - For the last several decades, fundamental international issues of war and peace have been largely determined by a small group of countries, especially the five permanent …
Demonizing Iran: Media Beating War Drums
Last month, The Wall Street Journal had a lead story about Israeli planning to possibly “go it alone” in an attack on Iran if the US were not to …