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Two men were tortured for more than a year inside the CIA's secret prisons program. One committed suicide at Guantánamo Bay. Another was driven “psychotic” from interrogations. These are …
Cuba: New Corporate Utopia?
On the list of America’s most-hated leaders, Fidel Castro gets the award for longevity. Outlasting ten US presidents, from Eisenhower through George W. Bush, Castro has managed to maintain …
Web of Dependency: The Thin New Line
In just a few short years, it has become increasingly apparent that humankind is fast approaching a technological tipping point. Particularly in the West - the First World, the …
Investigation Discovers Lou Dobbs Hired At Least Five Undocumented Immigrants To Work At His Estates
Author, radio host, and TV personality Lou Dobbs - who ended his long career at CNN this past November with an $8 million severance pay package - made his …
Finance Committee Chair Demands IRS Investigate Rove’s American Crossroads and Other Corporate Front Groups
Contributors to these groups beware - you may not be anonymous for long. A big victory Wednesday, September 29, 2010, for democracy as the Chairman of the Senate Finance …
William Astore | Our State Department: A Tiny Branch of the Pentagon
Last week, a quotation and a joke captured the zeitgeist of the American moment. The quotation came from Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, related …
Federal Budgets Are Moral Documents
“... Budgets are moral documents,” states Congresswoman Barbara Lee, but “they don't lend themselves to a moral reading.” She adds that increases in military spending are made at the …
Environmental Justice Comes Back to Life
The Environmental Protection Agency last week resuscitated an interagency working group to tackle environmental justice, an issue that hasn’t been discussed much in Washington in nearly a decade. EPA …
Obama’s Latino Strategy Faces Voting Barriers in Swing States
This week could help decide the fate of the mid-term elections. Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid - facing a close re-election fight in Nevada - brought to the …
Guitars Not Wars
What happens when music fails to inspire, but instead entertains only?