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The Zero Economy
(Image: JR / Truthout) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday no jobs were created in August. Zero. Nada. Well, not quite. The strike at …
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“Divinity of Doubt”: An Agnostic Probes the God Question
With books like “Helter Skelter” and “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” under his belt, author Vincent Bugliosi is no stranger to writing about controversial topics, and …
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
(Photo: Carolyn Tiry / Flickr) Barbara Stanwyck: “We're both rotten!” Fred MacMurray: “Yeah - only you're a little more rotten.” -"Double Indemnity" (1944)
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Quick Things to Bring Manufacturing Jobs Home
Here is a fact about bipartisanship and civility in Washington: the Republicans in Congress will obstruct anything President Obama proposes to create jobs and help the economy, period. A …
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US Awash in Oil and Lies, Report Charges
Uxbridge, Canada - With four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining domestic demand, the United States is awash in oil. …
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Beyond PTSD: Soldiers Have Injured Souls
(Photo: United States Marine Corps / Flickr) John Fisher got his soul back when he visited a cemetery in Greece. Shelley Corteville felt “rocketed” …
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China Benefits as US Solar Industry Withers
Workers at Sun Zone Solar Power Inc., in Changsha, China, on September 3, 2010. (Photo: Timothy O'Rourke / The New York Times) Hong Kong - The bankruptcies …
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Files Note Close CIA Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit
Walid Musbah, a self-proclaimed fighter loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, in the custody of rebels near Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound, in Tripoli, Libya, Sept. 2, 2011. (Photo: Moises Saman …
How Prisons Imperil Black Voting Power in Post-Katrina Louisiana
A prison cell at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. (Photo: michele molinari / Flickr) New Orleans - Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the most notorious …
Will Top Obama Economist Fight for Jobs?
President Barack Obama speaks with Alan Krueger, a former Treasury Department official and Princeton economist, beside him in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Aug. 29, …