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Who’s paying the pro-war pundits?
Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of IS. Shouldn’t the public know about their links to Pentagon contractors?
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Child laborers. In America. In 2014.
Kids as young as 12 report illness from working in tobacco fields. Why isn’t the government doing anything about it?
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U.S. middle class RIP
The American middle class especially has been slowly bleeding out for at least a generation. That process has been accelerating in recent decades, especially during Republican rule but…
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Ebola: To Cuba, a crisis; to U.S., a military campaign
How's this for a juxtaposition on how nations respond to a global health catastrophe. Check out these two headlines from yesterday's news
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Voices: Different migrants treated differently
When the Cubans landed on U.S. shores, there were no protests in Michigan or California calling for the government to ship them back home, as we've seen in recent weeks in response to…
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America dumbs down
The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?
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A Latino voters’ declaration of independence from the Democratic Party in the U.S.
I humbly declare today my independence from the Democratic Party and call upon all Latino voters in the U.S. to do the same, throughout the farcical "Hispanic Heritage Month"…
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Bernie Sanders: “I am thinking about running for president”, (as a Democrat)
The 73-year-old, who has served in Congress — both in the House and Senate — for more than two decades, is in Iowa this weekend to test the waters for 2016.
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Clinton Foundation will honor Coalition of Immokalee Workers
The campaign has prompted some fast-food chains, such as Taco Bell, McDonald's, Burger King and Subway, and supermarket chains, among them Whole Foods, to sign agreements to raise the…
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Mark Berger: A history in sound
Four Oscars and films like The Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, Amadeus, and The English Patient are part of the reputation that precedes Mark Berger, the sound engineer born in southern…
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