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Human Rights Watch: Abuses by All Sides Fueling Crisis in Somalia
A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses all sides in the Somali conflict of committing war crimes. The report, "'You Don't Know Who to Blame’: War Crimes in …
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How Austerity Is Ushering in a Global Recession
Not only is the United States slouching toward a double dip, but so is Europe. New data out today show even Europe’s strongest core economies – Germany, France, and …
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Chile’s Student Rebels: Views From the Trenches
Radio Toma, loosely translated as “Occupation Radio,” broadcasts non-stop information about the protests being staged in front of the University of Chile’s main building – literally a stone’s throw …
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Perry Reveals Plan for Total US Anarchy
Texas Gov. Rick Perry announces his candidacy for president at the RedState Gathering, a meeting of conservative activists, in Charleston, SC, August 13, 2011. Perry's entrance into the already …
Keeping a Curious Bush Secret
More than three decades ago, on Oct. 19, 1980, then-Republican vice presidential candidate George H.W. Bush supposedly took an afternoon trip to visit a family friend in Washington, an …
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Egypt Deploys Soldiers to North Sinai
Cairo - Egyptian soldiers who were sent to crack down on lawlessness in the North Sinai Desert killed a man in a gunfight on Monday and captured a dozen …
Why Do the Koch Brothers Want to End Public Education? (Video)
Read Robert Greenwald's Op-Ed: Want to See How the Kochs Are Ending Public Education?
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Why the New Health Care Law Should Have Been Based on Medicare (and What Democrats Should Have Learned by Now)
Two appellate judges in Atlanta — one appointed by President Bill Clinton and one by George H.W. Bush – have just decided the Constitution doesn’t allow the federal government …
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Vice President of NRA, Wayne LaPierre: Old Dog, Old Tricks
To quote Lawrence O'Donnell from his show back in February, Wayne LaPierre is “Washington's lobbyist in favor of murderer's rights, always to use the gun of their choice.” There …
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Special Ops: The New Face of War
American and Iraqi Special Operations commandoes on a joint operation mission in search of two suspected car bombers in western Baghdad, June 22, 2011. (Photo: Joseph Sywenkyj / The …