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Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
This is a re-post of a November 10, 2010 piece from Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) which is particularly relevant to the conversation about the shooting spree in …
Dean Baker | The Progressive Case Against Obama’s New Team
Most reports on the selection of William Daley as President Obama's new chief of staff and Gene Sperling as the head of his National Economic Council included a few …
How a Red Herring About WikiLeaks Killed Whistleblower Protections
WikiLeaks killed our whistleblower protections bill—sort of. After an unbelievable roller coaster of fear and fallacies, votes on and off, and a flurry of activity, when the lights went …
Put Lou Dobbs Out to Pasture
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Back in the …
A Disturbing Meeting at the Gym
At the local YMCA today, I ran into a boy who was a childhood friend of my son's. As my kid goes to a public arts high school in …
Richard Wolff | Unemployment I: The Cost of Economic Crisis (Video)
Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New …
Empire of Bases 2.0
The United States has 460 bases overseas! It has 507 permanent bases! What is the U.S doing with more than 560 foreign bases? Why does it have 662 bases …
Federal Murder Charges Filed in Giffords Shooting Case
A 22-year-old man was formally charged Sunday with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in a shooting rampage that killed six people and critically wounded …
Simon Johnson | The Bill Daley Problem
Bill Daley, President Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, is an experienced business executive. By all accounts, he is decisive, well-organized, and a skilled negotiator. His appointment, combined with …
How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them
In a recent AlterNet article, we detailed how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) helped increase the “FCC Line Charge” (SLC), now capped at $6.50 per line, that is imposed …