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Airport Gestapo (Paul Craig Roberts)
The Bush Regime’s “terrorist” protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that ...
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American Inequality Highlighted by 30-Year Gap in Life Expectancy (Leonard Doyle)
The United States of America is becoming less united by the day. A 30-year gap now exists in the average life expectancy between Mississippi, in the Deep South, and Connecticut, in prosperous New ...
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Can't Take a Joke (Mary Lyon)
"Outside of basic intelligence, there is nothing more important to a good political cartoonist than ill will." --Jules Pfeiffer
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US Plans to Station Diplomats in Iran for First Time Since 1979 (Ewan McAskill)
Washington move signals thaw in relations
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Wall Street Socialism (Robert Borosage)
This weekend, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, former head of the Goldman Sachs investment house, provided us with a perfect demonstration of Wall Street socialism.
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FBI Announces Investigation into IndyMac Bancorp and Countrywide
The Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced that they are launching an investigation into the now-defunct IndyMac Bancorp and Countrywide, both failed mortgage banks. They FBI said that it ...
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Energy Costs Accelerate Consumer Prices to Second-Fastest Growth Rate in 26 Years (Adam Kress)
Soaring energy prices pushed consumer costs up in June at the second-fastest rate in 26 years.
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Homebuilder Confidence in U.S. Reached Record Low in July (Courtney Schlisserman)
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence among U.S. homebuilders dropped to a record low in July, signaling the housing recession will continue.
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Collateral 50-Would It Surprise You? (Video)
XdAqBQ0aMnE Does the corporate media want war with Iran? It sure seems like it, and that puts them in the company of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Bush Administration.
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Day of Reckoning? Super Rich Tax Cheats Outed by Bank Clerk (Brian Ross & Rhonda Schwartz)
Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned themselves in to the IRS after a bank computer technician in the tiny European country of Liechtenstein came forward with the names ...
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