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Johannesburg, South Africa - As Somalia's drought and famine worsened in recent months, the Shabab militia in the south seized families' crops and livestock and imposed taxes that made …

Cairo - Egyptian soldiers who were sent to crack down on lawlessness in the North Sinai Desert killed a man in a gunfight on Monday and captured a dozen …

The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected …

(Image: JR / Truthout) There’s a side to regulation that most people don’t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the …

(Image: Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Standard & Poor’s has gone ahead with the threatened downgrade of the United States’ credit rating. It’s …

During the recent “Debt Ceiling” debacle, many warned that the failure to lift the debt ceiling would lead to a “first ever” US default and to numerous financial catastrophes, …

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) thanks her supporters after winning the Iowa straw poll of Republican presidential candidates in Ames, Iowa, Aug. 13, 2011. Bachmann's high-intensity, Tea …

The Koch brothers have more than $42 billion to make public policy out of their anti-government ideology, and their assault against public education epitomizes their tactics to remake our …

Beirut, Lebanon - In yet another escalation of its crackdown on dissent, the Syrian government unleashed navy vessels, tanks and a mix of soldiers, security forces and paramilitary fighters …

Washingotn - Really? Of all the ills in the world, of all the problems with the economy, all the difficulties with the tax code, this is the one that …