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Top Ten Ways the Right Will Wreck the Recovery
Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood's ability to recover from the recession and this country's …
Thom Hartmann | Cool Our Fever
We live in a democracy and policies represent our collective will. We cannot blame others. If we allow the planet to pass tipping points...it will be hard to explain …
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State and City Budget Crisis: Causes and Solutions (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 …
NATO Challenged Over Kabul Raid That Killed Two Guards
Kabul, Afghanistan - The international Special Forces military team that targeted a Kabul office complex on Christmas Eve day thought they were thwarting a holiday season plot to bomb …
Mexico Buys Corn Futures to Ensure Tortilla Prices Remain Flat
Mexico City - In 2007, massive impromptu street protests threatened the popularity of Mexican President Felipe Calderón. But it was not drug violence or kidnappings that prompted the outcry. …
Coal Ash in Our Stockings
It’s the naughty children who get coal in their stockings, and it seems like Americans must have been naughty this year. Because across the country, we’re awash with coal, …
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The Baby Trade
When Ok Chin was a child, her mother brought her to an orphanage. The family was poor, and her mother heard that the girl would get fed and clothed. …
Bush Intelligence Chief: Obama “Has Been as Aggressive, if Not More Aggressive in Pursuing” Terrorists
For the past two years, conservatives have repeatedly attacked President Obama for supposedly endangering American lives by not being aggressive enough in going after terrorists. But a year after …