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Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster
Women make their way down a street past a photo of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside of a mosque in Tehran, Monday, August 21, 2006. Iran's supreme …
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White House to Delay Implementation of Key Anti-Discrimination Order
President Barack Obama while speaking during a news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House, in Washington, April 11, 2012. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The …
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Politics and Happiness, in Perfect Mutual Attraction
Translated by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Bill Scoble. The atmosphere was festive, and combativity was in full force. 70,000 persons had come, yesterday [1], to the Place du …
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Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
Washington - Moving the global economy off its current decline-and-collapse path depends on reaching four goals: stabilising climate, stabilising population, eradicating poverty, and restoring the economy's natural support systems. …
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New Homes Sold Without Underground Rights Spur Fracking Fears
Bert Garrido, a Florida transplant who bought a $400,000 home last year in upper Chatham County, is already having neighbor tensions in his newly adopted state. His concerns are …
Real Talk, Not Hearsay, on the 99% Spring
The 99% Spring initiative has generated considerable hubbub amongst occupiers, a group famously apprehensive about liberal organizations, especially ones that have exhibited close ties with the Democratic Party. Chief …
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Shareholders Call on Companies to Disclose ALEC Ties
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) faces a run on its membership as Kraft, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Intuit, the Gates Foundation and, as of yesterday, McDonald’s broke ties with the …
Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry, Part II
In Part II of this series we will explore the cronyism and self-dealing with the other major military service contract in Iraq, the Restore Iraq Oil (RIO) contract, and …
Second-Degree Murder Charge May Be Hard to Prove in Trayvon Martin Case
Miami - Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey likely has an uphill climb to prove that George Zimmerman acted with the malicious intent required to convict him of second-degree murder …
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald Tells Truthout How the Koch Brothers Endanger Democracy and Our Health
BuzzFlash at Truthout first got to know Robert Greenwald when he and Earl Katz, who is now chair of Public Interest Pictures, were trying to get a film about …