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Globalization: The Idiocy of Interdependency
Were there no European union there would be no Greek crisis beyond Greece, Greece would have retained its currency and paid its price for budget problems in the value …
Globalization: The Idiocy of Interdependency (2)
Were there no European union there would be no Greek crisis beyond Greece, Greece would have retained its currency and paid its price for budget problems in the value …
David Sirota | “I Want My Country Back”: The Motto of Mad Men
For most of us, conjuring concise and cogent catchphrases is nearly impossible. In fact, the skill can seem like the black magic of mystical mad men.
News in Brief: US Adds Jobs as Markets Look Unstable and More
Jobs numbers released this morning indicate that the US added 290,000 jobs in April, but the unemployment rate rose slightly to 9.9 percent as previously discouraged unemployed people began …
Flying Over the BP Oil Disaster (Video)
Hurricane creek keeper John Wathan (hcreekkeeper) took a flight over the Gulf of Mexico to document the BP oil disaster:
Eugene Robinson | Our First Line of Defense
Washington - The system worked. Authorities responded to the attempted Times Square bombing about as well as anyone possibly could — proving, once again, that viewing terrorism exclusively in …
Our First Line of Defense
Washington - The system worked. Authorities responded to the attempted Times Square bombing about as well as anyone possibly could — proving, once again, that viewing terrorism exclusively in …
Pentagon Bans Reporters From Covering Guantanamo Military Commissions
Washington - The Pentagon Thursday banned four reporters, including one from McClatchy Newspapers, from covering future military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, charging that they'd violated ground rules by …
Interrogator Says Guantanamo Detainee Omar Khadr Was Told He’d Likely Be Raped in US
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - To get teen terror suspect Omar Khadr to cooperate, a former U.S. Army interrogator testified Thursday, he told the wounded Canadian a “fictitious” tale of …
Who Was Slowest in Responding to BP Spill? The Right
The current drumbeat of commentary on the right that the Obama administration was too slow in responding to the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf raises two obvious …