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All Parties Ignore the One Way to Reduce Health Care Costs: Single-Payer
In a recent full-page newspaper advertisement, IBM touted massive medical savings through computerization. It's a promise they've made before, starting with a report issued in 1961. If only these …
Generals Who Don’t Just Fade Away: The Newest in Self-Dealing Maneuvers
Gen. Douglas MacArthur was one of the major generals of World War II and Korea, but he will also always be known as one of the generals who was …
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Matt Taibbi: Bank of America Is a “Raging Hurricane of Theft and Fraud”
There are two things every American needs to know about Bank of America. The first is that it's corrupt. This bank has systematically defrauded almost everyone with whom it …
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ALEC Climate Change Denial Model Bill Passes in Tennessee
The month of March has seen unprecedented heat and temperatures. A rational thinking, scientifically-grounded individual could only posit, "Well, hmm, I bet climate change has something to do with the …
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French Muslims Fear Stigmatisation After Killings
“The murderer is gone, and now it's us who will have to live with the consequences.” That's how a Muslim shopkeeper summed up for IPS the death and legacy …
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West Coast “Green” Jobs Data Shows Promise
A group of West Coast leaders has made its first attempt to quantify how many jobs have been spurred by the clean economy, a sector that includes engineers who …
JOBS Act: The Dumbest “Bipartisan” Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall
Here we go again. Once again the ‘bipartisan’ consensus in Washington, fueled by an intoxicating brew of conventional wisdom laced with campaign cash, has repealed some of those 'cumbersome …
Citizens’ Insurrection by the People of the Left at the Bastille
Original French Article: Insurrection citoyenne du peuple de gauche à la Bastille, By Mina Kaci and Marie-José Sirach Translated Tuesday 20 March 2012, by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Isabelle …
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Total Information Awareness: Sweeping New Surveillance Measures Approved in the US
Washington - The Obama administration is moving to relax restrictions on how counterterrorism analysts may retrieve, store and search information about Americans gathered by government agencies for purposes other …
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Predators on the Border, Hawks Across the Border and a Homeland of Drones
Drones are proliferating. First, the Pentagon joined with military contractors to breed fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as airborne drones are formally called. Although major new drone species …