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Five Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Solyndra
Solar panels line a rooftop at Solyndra's solar panel factory in Fremont, California, October 6, 2010. As California companies finally begin mass production of a new type of solar …
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How Change Is Going to Come in the Food System
(Photo: Kalense Kid) In the forty years since the publication of Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet, a movement dedicated to the reform of the …
“Occupy Wall Street”: Thousands March in NYC Financial District, Set Up Protest Encampment
Demonstrators are marching on Wall Street today on the third day of a campaign dubbed “Occupy Wall Street,” which began on Saturday when thousands gathered in New York City’s …
Robert Reich Debunks Six Big GOP Lies About the Economy
Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington
Washington - While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges — and worst-case …
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Ignorance and 9/11 – an Analysis
The twin towers of the World Trade Center seen through fog from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., on Dec. 31, 1994. (Photo: Keith Meyers / The New …
The Republican Weapon of Mass Cynicism
According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 77 percent of Americans say they “feel things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track” in this country. That’s …
I Am Troy Davis (T.R.O.Y.)
Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?
As the American right lurches from traditional conservatism – a go-slow approach to governing that stresses the importance of continuity and social stability – to a far more reactionary …
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Duane Buck, Rick Perry and the Politics of Death
Simple rule for killers: If you are going to murder someone in the United States, don't try to get the job done in Texas. Keep the hostage alive in …