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Trade is not an end in itself -- the goal is to improve people's living standards.
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There is nothing inherently healthy about tanning. It can give you wrinkles and cancer. Good thing it's gone the way of the Ugg boot.
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Some white people think racism is a thing of the past. It's not.
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A dispute over territory is raising fears that of ethnic clashes between Kurds and Arabs.
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Obama is coming under fire from the Beltway Establishment for questioning trade orthodoxy.
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Obama is coming under fire from the Beltway Establishment for questioning trade orthodoxy.
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Obama is coming under fire from the Beltway Establishment for questioning trade orthodoxy.
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The vigilante group's leader called immigrants a wonderful addition to the American fabric, as well as criminal terrorists.
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This is rare and historic; few can remember a time when a bill supported by the president and the leadership of both parties went down in defeat.
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For four Presidential cycles -- 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 -- the networks have deemed no woman journalist "worthy" of moderating a post-primary debate.
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In Illinois, Colorado and Kentucky, contractors with partisan ties to the GOP will be counting the 2008 vote.
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Bowing to public outrage, the House rejected the bailout and Wall Street swoons. The political bedlam in Washington is as real as it gets.
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Their revolt was anything but an act of courage to protect American families.
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Failing banks? Endless war? Call Homeland Security.
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Michael S. Connell, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, has been subpoenaed in an Ohio vote tampering case.
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The weapons sector remains recession-proof.
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Interviews with supporters at a McCain-Palin presidential rally in Ohio share their heartfelt reasons for embracing the vice presidential candidate.
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Failing banks? Endless war? Call Homeland Security.
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Michael S. Connell, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, has been subpoenaed in an Ohio vote tampering case.
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The weapons sector remains recession-proof.
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Failing banks? Endless war? Call Homeland Security.
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Bowing to public outrage, the House rejected the bailout and Wall Street swoons. The political bedlam in Washington is as real as it gets.
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Michael S. Connell has been subpoenaed in an Ohio vote tampering case.
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The ex-head of the Justice Department's Voting Section parses the GOP's recent threats to target voters who have lost homes to foreclosure.
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Extreme poverty isn't the only reason people are fleeing Mexico these days.
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The interim PM says it's the only way peace can be achieved.
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An estimated 20 million people would lose employer coverage under McCain's plan.
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The fear on Capital Hill is palpable, especially among the Democrats who have led the effort to pass Paulson's boondoggle ASAP.
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The parliament passed a law giving provincial elections the go ahead, but scrapped a clause guaranteeing seats for minority sects.
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The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this.
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News that Wasilla charged rape victims for forensic work has hit the mainstream. But the practice is more common than we think.
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News that Wasilla charged rape victims for forensic work has hit the mainstream. But the practice is more common than we think.
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The scheme would force taxpayers to absorb the pain, while Wall Street execs reap the gain.
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The religious right can be confident that they'd have a fundamentalist in the White House with Sarah Palin.
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If we don't cut back our ever-increasing military spending in a major way, the bankruptcy of the United States is inevitable.
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The government may be preparing for another conflict -- a domestic war on the poor and middle class.
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The 1999 protests against the WTO were dramatic enough to inspire a new feature film, but did they actually make a difference?
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We can't let the talk about alternative energy rise and fall with the cost of gas, or the environment and our economy will pay a mighty price.
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The scheme would force taxpayers to absorb the pain, while Wall Street execs reap the gain.
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The head of the Center for Immigration Studies goes nuts over Obama questionnaire.
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The 1999 protests against the WTO were dramatic enough to inspire a new feature film, but did they actually make a difference?
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The head of the Center for Immigration Studies goes nuts over Obama questionnaire.
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The 1999 protests against the WTO were dramatic enough to inspire a new feature film, but did they actually make a difference?
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The government may be preparing for another conflict -- a domestic war on the poor and middle class.
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The scheme would force taxpayers to absorb the pain, while Wall Street execs reap the gain.
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The scheme would force taxpayers to absorb the pain, while Wall Street execs reap the gain.
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There's strength in numbers, and women migrant workers are organizing themselves and strengthening their networks.
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There's strength in numbers, and women migrant workers are organizing themselves and strengthening their networks.
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It would keep families in their homes and loosen credit markets without rewarding Wall Street's wheeler-dealers for their recklessness.
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Unrepentant liberal, Newman was dedicated to civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, and was determined to elect opponents of war and militarism.
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There are many ways of helping young people navigate these years of sexual exploration. Just don't forget you were once a teen yourself.
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AlterNet's Don Hazen and Joshua Holland weigh in, along with Taylor Marsh, Jane Hamsher, John Nichols and Sheryl Crow.
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The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is -- it's what her candidacy says about America.
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The Sundance hit "FLOW: For Love of Water" is taking the country by storm and waking people up to our water crisis.
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The free market didn't work. People bought when they should have sold, and they need to get spanked. Author Thomas Frank explains why.
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The free market didn't work. People bought when they should have sold, and they need to get spanked. Author Thomas Frank explains why.
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The Sundance hit "FLOW: For Love of Water" is taking the country by storm and waking people up to our water crisis.
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Regardless of what happens on Wall Street, it looks like bad news for women.
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Don't pay attention to the talking heads, here's how to decide who won the debate for yourself.
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Support Barack Obama all you want, but don't assume a Democratic president will relinquish the sweeping authority imbued by the Bush administration.
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This surge in terrorism is a direct response to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Bailing out Wall Street while ignoring the global health needs of mothers and children is both a critical foreign policy and economic issue.
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Bailing out Wall Street while ignoring the global health needs of mothers and children is both a critical foreign policy and economic issue.
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Lawmakers are pushing kleptocratic socialism -- a system where the objective is theft.
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A national day of action tomorrow for green jobs is showing that clean energy can be our modern day gold rush.
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The "Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics" conference in New York presented an older and wiser psychedelic movement.
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The Social Security Administration, whose databases verify new voter registrations, will be shut down in mid-October for three days for maintenance.
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The Supreme Court will decide Monday whether it will take Davis' case. If it doesn't, he likely will be executed, despite evidence of his innocence.
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Smell a rat if Congress approves the Paulson plan without major modifications that might help Main Street as well as Wall Street.
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Activists have been scrambling to inform immigrants in the state about their rights.
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The Bush-Paulson trillion-dollar payoff scheme won't save Wall Street from the mess it created.
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Palin will help to establish a true and irreversible 'fear society' in this once free once proud nation.
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Melting in the Arctic has caused the release of millions of tons of methane -- a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide.
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The "Paulson Plan" would outsource the handling of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets to those who got us into this mess.
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Palin will help to establish a true and irreversible 'fear society' in this once free once proud nation.
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Palin will help to establish a true and irreversible 'fear society' in this once free once proud nation.
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The Bush-Paulson trillion-dollar payoff scheme won't save Wall Street from the mess it created.
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You won't see this stuff in the mainstream media.
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You won't see this stuff in the mainstream media.
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In Argentina, spiraling costs are threatening the most vulnerable.
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Ultimately, women have the power to decide this election. And unmarried women, the largest voting bloc, tend to lean left.
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Troy Davis is scheduled to die tonight. His sister Martina: "This is not just about Troy Davis, this is about a bigger system of injustice."
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A million illicit weapons have entered Iraq in the past five years. Now, "missing" guns are fueling conflicts in Iraq and elsewhere.
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You can help stop the economic hijacking before it's too late.
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Physical and psychological abuse are rampant in women's prisons from the U.S. to Canada to Pakistan.
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Thousands of people of Mexican descent were subjected to unmeetable demands to prove that they are citizens of the US before getting a passport.
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Federal support for water infrastructure has plummeted roughly 70 percent over the last two decades, and now places like New York are in trouble.
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Exercising the right to vote is important part of prisoner rehabilitation, but over 5 million convicted felons are barred from doing so.
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To claim the U.S. can achieve now what the British couldn't in the 19th century and the Russians couldn't at the end of the 20th is pure fantasy.
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Free market ideology comes down to socialism for the rich, capitalism for everybody else.
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The Bush admin has been a nightmare for the environment -- and the nomination of Palin is an insurance policy taken out on its continuation.
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Bush wants to fleece us for hundreds of billions in the financial crisis, but that's just the first layer of a more fundamental economic problem.
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The American economy needs help, but there are other, far more equitable ways to accomplish it.
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McCain has worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home.
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Government action should protect ordinary people, not reward the super-rich and the speculative sectors of the economy.
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The Bush admin has been a nightmare for the environment -- and the nomination of Palin is an insurance policy taken out on its continuation.
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Bob Portman, a former possible VP pick of McCain's disagrees with McCain's suggestion to fire the SEC Chairman, Chris Cox.
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Bob Portman, a former possible VP pick of McCain's disagrees with McCain's suggestion to fire the SEC Chairman, Chris Cox.
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If the economy is on the edge of collapse we need to act. But we can't just give away $700 billion of taxpayer money to the banks.
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John McCain's critical of the bailout of AIG. But it turns out the insurance giant is one of the largest donors to his pet think tank.
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John McCain's critical of the bailout of AIG. But it turns out the insurance giant is one of the largest donors to his pet think tank.
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If Wall Street gets away with this, it will represent an historic swindle of the American public.
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Shedding further light on Palin's pattern of advocating Christian right ideology and her ties to the movement.
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Allegations resurface that McCain made propaganda statements and tried to keep Viet Cong records about him classified.
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If you've been on an emotional roller coaster, you might want to disembark.
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More and more cities are implementing "toilet to tap" programs as the answer to our water crisis. But is it the best and safest option?
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In an electrifying speech, Van Jones explains that we have to invent and invest our way out of the economic and environmental crises.
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Yesterday was the birthday of Guantanamo's child soldier and sole Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, who has been held in isolation since he was 15.
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Obama needs to put himself at odds with the Dem establishment: He did it with Iraq in 2002, and he can do it in 2008 with the economy.
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John McCain has allowed his campaign to slip the normal bounds of political propriety.
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In an electrifying speech, Van Jones explains that we have to invent and invest our way out of the economic and environmental crises.
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John McCain has allowed his campaign to slip the normal bounds of political propriety.
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Suit claims thousands may be disenfranchised in Michigan because officials did not follow the federal law governing voter purges.
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