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UPDATE: Congress launched an investigation into the planned rate hike. Please see this report for details. Editor's note: This report has been updated and includes detailed responses from …

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania), a fierce critic of the Iraq war, died Monday at age 77 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia. Murtha was the first Vietnam War …

San Francisco - It's almost a cliché these days that this city and its sister to the east, Oakland, stand as the primary incubators of some of California's infamously …

In this guest essay from www.killinghope.org, historian William Blum addresses this media asymmetry and the late Howard Zinn's heroic effort to address the imbalance: Progressive activists and writers continually …

In an interview during the Super Bowl pre-game show yesterday, President Obama announced his plan for a bipartisan health care summit that would be broadcast on TV later this …

Nashville - “English only.” Under this pretext, this reporter gets nothing but monosyllables and a pronounced lack of interest on the part of my intended interview subjects once they …

They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. - Bob Dylan, "I Shall …

Tom Engelhardt: Introduction Washington’s Greatest Afghan War Danger: Self-Deception

Laura Chinchilla won Costa Rica's presidential election in a landslide victory Sunday that is eliciting cheers from women across Central America. San Jose, Costa Rica; and Panama City - …

Environmental NGO's have been uncritically thumping the green tech funding plank and they're generating funding that could be harder to hold onto than a fistful of sand in the …