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US Expands Its Presence in Mexico, Ramping Up Drug War
Mexican federal police agents during training at the Federal Police headquarters in Mexico City, June 30, 2011. The United States is expanding its role in Mexico's fight against drug …
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US Pharmaceutical Companies Testing Drugs on India’s Poor
(Photo: sacks08; Edited: JR / Truthout) U.S. pharmaceutical companies have moved their operations overseas in the past decade, testing their drugs on poor people in such lands …
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Why S&P Has No Business Downgrading the US
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: daliborlev, willc2, _Davo_) Standard & Poor’s downgrade of America’s debt couldn’t come at a worse time. The result is likely to be …
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Riots Flare in London Against Police Violence
Photo taken around 1 AM in the aftermath of Saturday's riots in the Tottenham area of London. (Photo: Nicobobinus) Anarchy gripped parts of London on Saturday night …
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Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s Ongoing Collusion With Terrorists
On a tour led by Libyan government officials, two men survey the damage of building said to be a law school following an alleged air strike by NATO two …
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The People’s Rogue: FDR vs. the Nine Old Men
Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Photo: Wikimedia) The president must have been savoring that afternoon of December 26, 1936. Tea was served, and the president entertained his attorney general …
A Historic Opportunity to Cut Military Spending
(Photo: The Department of Defense) The agreement in Washington to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts has made a lot of people very unhappy. …
UN Challenges Slavery Conditions for Domestic Workers
Andreia Soares, a nanny, plays with the 10-month-old toddler she looks after in her boss's apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 17, 2011. (Lalo de Almeida / The New …
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Spain’s “Indignados” at the Vanguard of a Global Nonviolent Revolt
Thursday night Madrid’s city centre offered a glimpse of what Western democracies have become, as thousands of unarmed nonviolent civilians with their hands up in the air shouting “these …
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Mainstream Media Ignores S&P Attack on Republicans
(Photo: SpeakerBoehner / Flickr) Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption …