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GRITtv: What’s the Value of Government Regulation?
The hearings on the financial crisis are getting underway, but the real solutions will need to come out of Congress. Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that we’ve seen meltdown capitalism; …
Ukraine Election: Free, Fair and Headed for a Runoff
Viktor Yanukovich will face off with Yulia Tymoshenko in closely watched contest. Kiev, Ukraine - Ukrainians brace themselves for a bitter second act of their national political soap opera, …
US: Anti-Arpaio March Reignites Pro-Immigrant Movement
Phoenix, Arizona - Over 20,000 people marched in the streets of Phoenix Saturday in the first mass mobilisation of the year, calling for an end to the criminalisation of …
Afghanistan: Women Dying and Torture Run Amuck
Two reports coming out of Afghanistan illustrate the depth of hypocrisy and subterfuge characterizing the US/NATO intervention in that country. One could cite a myriad of such examples, so …
Election Experts Issue “Orange Alert” for Massachusetts Special Election
Groups urge Secretary of State Galvin to take action to detect election tampering.
Murders at Guantanamo: Exposing the Truth About the 2006 Suicides
It's hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month's Harper's Magazine, but let's try this: The three “suicides” at Guantánamo …
Hard Lessons of a Rookie Year
Washington - President Obama begins his second year in the White House with such anemic approval ratings, you'd think he was another Ronald Reagan: Among recent presidents, only the …
US Security Company Offers to Perform “High Threat Terminations” and to Confront “Worker Unrest” in Haiti
We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | What Obama Can Learn From Reagan
Washington - In June 2008, before the financial implosions that would come a few months later, I asked two smart financiers who happened to be Republicans about the future …
Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Working-Class Hero
“I AM A MAN,” the signs proclaimed in large, bold letters. They were held high, proudly and defiantly, by African-American men marching through the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, in …