By MICHAEL COOPER and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH When the city of Scranton, Pa., found itself down to its last $5,000 in the bank last week, its Democratic mayor took a highly unusual step: he unilaterally cut the pay of city… Read More ›
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IMF reduces US economic growth forecast
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday lowered its estimates for US economic growth for this year and next, and urged policy makers to do more to help the housing sector and support the tepid recovery. In its annual… Read More ›
Guantanamo upgrade: US to spend $40 mil on renovation
Despite promises to close Guantanamo Bay, Washington is now preparing to invest tens of millions into renovating the controversial facility’s infrastructure. The Pentagon is planning to install a $40-million fiber optic cable at Guantanamo, and the base’s commanders say such… Read More ›
Former Argentine dictators found guilty of kidnapping babies
Justice at Last for Argentina’s Stolen Children LONDON — Jorge Rafael Videla was the tall, thin one in the triumvirate of senior officers that seized power in Argentina’s 1976 military coup. El Flaco, they used to call him – “the… Read More ›
On the Day of American Independence
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›
Chris Collins: ‘People Now Don’t Die From Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer’
By Elise Foley GOP congressional candidate Chris Collins knows health care is expensive these days, but he argues it’s for good reason: People are no longer dying from deadly forms of cancer. “People now don’t die from prostate cancer, breast… Read More ›
Homeless Students Top 1 Million, U.S. Says, Leaving Advocates ‘Horrified’
by Saki Knafo and Joy Resmovits Back in November of 2005, Diane Nilan had what she now concedes may have struck some people as a “crazy notion.” She’d been working as advocate for homeless families in Illinois, getting frustrated by… Read More ›
World’s Richest Gain $21.4 Billion as Batista Falters
The world’s richest people added a combined $21.4 billion to their collective net worth this week as the wealth gap between billionaire Carlos Slim and Eike Batista widened to more than $50 billion. Batista’s net worth fell $4 billion. Shares… Read More ›
Why Washington and Moscow want a backroom deal over Syria
The scene is set for a Clinton-Lavrov meeting that could still ring the death knell for the Assad regime Months of futile diplomatic tussling, UN deadlock and finger-pointing over Syria have boiled down to a dramatic, last-ditch effort this weekend… Read More ›
Game Over: Scans of Over 50 Ron Paul Newsletters
For a certain segment of the Ron Paul fanbase, no evidence of his disseminating hateful, paranoid material will ever be enough. Citing James Kirchick’s piece in The New Republic wasn’t sufficient, because Kirchick could have just been “making everything up.”… Read More ›
Study: Mega Bank JP Morgan Chase Receives A $14 Billion Annual Subsidy From The U.S. Government
By Pat Garofalo JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified on Capitol Hill today for the second time in two weeks, appearing before the House Financial Services Committee to discuss the trading debacle that has cost his bank billions of… Read More ›
Many US police use cell phones to track: study
WASHINGTON — Many US police departments use cell phone tracking, often without court orders, to find suspects and investigate criminal cases, according to a study released Monday. The survey released by the American Civil Liberties Union found that “the overwhelming… Read More ›
Michael Parenti: U.S. Aggression & Propaganda Against Cuba
Why the unrelieved U.S. antagonism toward Cuba? by Michael Parenti In recent times, U.S.-Cuban relations have gone from bad to worse. Under the Administration of George W. Bush, the U.S. boycott has been more stringently imposed. Anti-government agitation within Cuba… Read More ›
US to deploy more than 3,000 troops to Africa
All of those troops leaving Afghanistan during the next two years will have to go somewhere, right? The US Army will deploy thousands of soldiers across the continent of Africa during 2013. The Army Times confirms that the US military… Read More ›
Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises
A critical document from President Barack Obama’s free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises. The leaked document… Read More ›
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