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Subsidize This: US Eyes Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels, But What Gets Protected?
While trade is often a bone of contention between the United States and China, this week’s visit by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping threw the spotlight on one subset …
Honduras: Our Continuing Catastrophe
(Photo: davidNallah / Flickr) Honduras has become a human rights disaster. The country now has the world’s highest murder rate. And impunity for political violence is the …
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Eastern Europe’s Conservative Crackdown on Reproductive Freedom
Across Eastern and Central Europe, as unemployment surges and the European Union dithers, nationalist conservative and far right parties are on the march. Emboldened right-wing leaders are resurrecting debates …
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Face Masks, Snipers and Aerial Surveillance: Chicago’s Newest Anti-Protest Measures Revealed
(Photo: Chris Smith / Flickr) Each time a new measure that the city of Chicago is preparing for the coming NATO and G8 summits is unveiled, the …
Slavery Lives on in the United States
(Image: Dan Archer) September 22, 2012, will mark the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation, President Lincoln's decisive move to abolish slavery nationwide. President Obama echoed this …
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Tentative Deal Reached to Preserve Cut in Payroll Tax
Washington - Members of a House-Senate committee charged with writing a measure to extend a payroll tax reduction and provide added unemployment benefits reached a tentative agreement Tuesday evening, …
Is $25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Enough?
In partnering with the AG in several states across the country the Obama Administration has brokered a $25 Billion mortgage settlement deal set to relieve distressed homeowners fighting foreclosure …
Occupiers in Conservative Texas City Have Support of Mayor, Some Tea Partiers (2)
Although protesters have been driven from their peaceful occupations of almost every location across the nation, including Wall Street, Los Angeles, UC Davis and Oakland, they have managed to …
Who Are the Millennials?: Bill Moyers Interview With Heather McGhee
Heather McGhee. (Photo: Moyers & Co.) While Republicans are still fighting the culture wars primary by primary, and caucus by caucus, President Obama is campaigning rather feverishly …