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After Fighting the Taliban, Soldiers Return Home to Face Attacks from For-Profit Colleges and Their Lobbyists
After risking their lives abroad, American veterans are returning home to a new set of dangers. For-profit college companies are increasingly targeting veterans and their education benefits as a …
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JPMorgan and US-Europe Banking Contagion: Is Another Global Financial Crisis Brewing?
Late last week, the financial markets were rocked with the announcement that the biggest, and heretofore assumed most stable US bank, J.P. Morgan, lost $2 billion in recent months. …
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Graduation
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First Unplanned Arrests in Chicago NATO Week of Action Have Activists Saying Police Overreacted
In what may be the first unplanned arrests during the NATO week of action, two activists were arrested after protesters from an action at the headquarters of Immigration and …
Romney Has Public and Private Morality Upside Down
He doesnu2019t want to regulate where regulation is necessary ... yet he wants to regulate where regulation is least appropriate - at the level of the individual.
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How Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Remains in “Command” and Continues to “Strike Fear“
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sat stone silent inside the courtroom at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, refusing to answer routine questions from the judge presiding over his arraignment …
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The Targeting of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Image: Counterpoint Press)Below is an excerpt from “The Awful Grace of God” from Counterpoint Press: On April 3, 1968, an American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Memphis was stuck …
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A US Financial Transaction Tax: How Wall Street Can Pay for Its Mess
As we continue to suffer the consequences of the 2008-2009 global financial crash caused by casino capitalism, one idea for bringing some measure of control over speculative financial practices …
The Whole World Is Watching: NATO in Chicago
The NATO summit coming to Chicago in May has brought the eyes of the world to the overlap among questions of militarization, poverty and dissent in a globalized society. …
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Union Rights Are Civil Rights
The right of U.S. workers to organize and bargain collectively with their employers unhindered by employer or government interference has been a legal right since the 1930s. Yet there …