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By Steven Hill
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By Michael Lewis
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U.S. Navy (CC BY 2.0)
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Amid the continuing U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf, a defense source reportedly tells The Washington Post that Pentagon strategists believe it would take three weeks to pretty much wipe out Iran’s military capability.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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Ryan Devereaux
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The New York Times may not have seen fit to give Occupy Wall Street’s May Day protest—a daylong, citywide event involving thousands of people—the front page prominence it deserves. But other publications did.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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DoD
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First the president spoke to the troops, then to the American people. In a live address from Afghanistan, Barack Obama echoed his predecessor: “I will not keep Americans in harm’s way a single day longer than is absolutely required for our national security.”
Posted on May 1, 2012
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After a trip to Afghanistan cloaked in secrecy, President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a “strategic partnership agreement” with Hamid Karzai that promises continuing U.S. support for the Afghan president’s nation.
Posted on May 1, 2012
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Members of the British Parliament had harsh words for the man at the top of News Corp., stating in a report that a proclivity for keeping himself in the dark about his employees’ activities made him unfit to lead an international company.
Posted on May 1, 2012
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Deepwater Horizon Response (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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You read that correctly. Two years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 people and spilling nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the company got the go-ahead to build three new rigs in the region.
Posted on May 1, 2012
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Poster Boy NYC (CC BY 2.0)
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Wondering where to go and what will happen during Occupy Wall Street’s May Day protests? You’re not alone. With the knowledge that Occupy events rarely go according to plan, Natasha Lennard at Salon tries to lick the revolutionary chaos into manageable order.
Posted on Apr 30, 2012
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In the wake of the 2008 crash and the widespread government-imposed austerity that followed, high levels of long-term and youth unemployment across the globe are in danger of becoming fixed, according to an annual report by the International Labor Organization.
Posted on Apr 30, 2012
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has outlined for the U.S. Senate a northern border surveillance program using unmanned drones that now extends from North Dakota to eastern Washington.
Posted on Apr 30, 2012
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It seems the viral horde that spread the message of African warlord Joseph Kony got what it wanted, or maybe just had it all along. For about six months, U.S. Green Berets have been training and supporting soldiers in four nations on the hunt for the Lord’s Resistance Army leader.
Posted on Apr 30, 2012
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Israeli institutions’ decision-making processes exclude women, Arabs and Mizrahim; television shows reflect how isolated white America is actually becoming; meanwhile, can women reclaim and redefine “slut” during the war against women? These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 29, 2012
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The Nation
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Looking for a worthy cause? Don’t stop, but do pause awhile at The Nation magazine’s recently created “Take Action” page. Once a week, Nation editors suggest an urgent issue, required reading and practical steps for action.
Posted on Apr 28, 2012
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By putting an office in Nevada, where there is a zero percent corporate tax rate, Apple avoids paying the millions of dollars in taxes that would be levied in California, the home of its headquarters.
Posted on Apr 28, 2012
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foto.bulle (CC BY 2.0)
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Workers at a Chinese factory owned by the electronics manufacturer Foxconn threatened to leap from the roof of a building in Wuhan in a protest over wages and working conditions, echoing the tragedy of laborers who jumped to their deaths for similar reasons two years earlier at other company plants.
Posted on Apr 28, 2012
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shaire productions
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The springtime doldrums appear to be back as the rate of growth of the U.S. economy slowed to 2.2 percent, down from 3 percent at the end of last year.
Posted on Apr 27, 2012
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