Government
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The Billionaires Want More, More, More (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
Nov. 17, 2010 -- The billionaires are on the warpath. They want more, more, more. In 2007, the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income – more than ...
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Americans Voted Few Incumbent Bums Out (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2010 -- For some years a number of groups have been advocating voting out incumbents in Congress, both the House and the Senate, as a path to reform ...
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A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 18, 2010 -- I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on “Education and Youth”. Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, ...
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Food prices may rise by up to 20%, warns UN (John Vidal)
Prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally have risen by up to 40% in just a few months. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Poor harvests put global food reserves under ...
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The Stench of American Hypocrisy (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 15, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Ten years of rule by the Bush and Obama regimes have seen the collapse of the rule of law in the United States. Is the American media covering this ...
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Projecting Power or Promoting Peace: The Prophetic Call for Justice, Kindness, Humility (Robert Jensen)
A version of this essay was delivered at the “People’s Response to the George W. Bush Library and Policy Institute” event at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, on November 14, 2010. Nov. ...
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The Mythical United States of America: Rushing into Backwardness (Prof. John Kozy)
Nov. 14, 2010 (Global Research) -- The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of ...
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It’s Official: Rich Declare War on the Middle Class (Robert Freeman)
Nov. 14 (Common Dreams) -- For the past thirty years the rich have been waging war on the middle class. It’s been astonishingly effective, partly because it has been undeclared. But even that ...
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Bank of America Is in Deep Trouble There May Be Financial Disaster on the Horizon (Joshua Holland)
Nov. 12, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Will Bank of America be the first Wall Street giant to once again point a gun to its own head, telling us it'll crash and burn and take down the financial system if we ...
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Bush's Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe (Dan Froomkin)
Nov. 12, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Huffington Post) -- The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special prosecutor to investigate ...
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Foreign Affairs -- Remaking the Middle East (Jim Miles)
The United States has been trying to remake the Middle East for decades. (Zoriah.net) Nov. 13, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- The title from this issue of Foreign Affairs struck me as rather odd, in ...
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