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Firms See Long-Sought Goal in Sight: Major Pay Cuts Through Two Tiers (Roger Bybee)
Nov. 24, 2010 (In These Times) -- The outlines of a massive new structural downshift in wages are emerging more and more clearly. The largest wage-cutting wave since the Great Depression has already ...
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Wikileaks: Yemeni President Agreed To Cover Up US Attack In Yemen (Scott Shane and Andrew W.Lehren)
Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels Nov. 28, 2010 (New York Times) -- Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as ...
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Next Up: a "Flat Tax" for the Rich (Michael Hudson)
Nov. 26, 2010 (Counterpunch) -- The danger the United States faces today is that the government debt crisis scheduled to hit Congress next spring (when Republicans are threatening to vote against ...
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Obama Administration Weighs Indefinite Detention (Dina Temple-Raston)
Nov. 26, 2010 (NPR) -- It is starting to look like the president who campaigned on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay may end up doing something wholly different: signing a law that would pave the ...
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Global Poverty Doubled since 1970s: UN (Agence France-Presse)
Nov. 26, 2010 -- GENEVA (Agence France-Presse) -- The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown ...
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics (Carmen Yarrusso)
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” --Henry David Thoreau Nov. 24, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Clearly, our government is deeply ...
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Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street (Robert Scheer)
Nov. 24, 2010 (TruthDig) -- Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest level in U.S. history, ...
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US Designates 'Critical' Polar Bear Habitat in Arctic (Agence France Presse)
Nov. 24, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France Presse) -- The U.S. government Wednesday designated "critical habitat" for polar bears who live on Alaska's disappearing sea ice, a move that could impact ...
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Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter (Catherine Rampell)
Nov. 23, 2010 (New York Times) -- The nation’s workers may be struggling, but American companies just had their best quarter ever. American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 ...
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Report: Body Scanner Makers Doubled Lobbying Cash Over 5 Years (Diana Sweet)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Raw Story) -- Multimillion dollar government contracts don't just happen. Ask the companies with the big government contracts to supply Body-scanning machines to U.S. airports how ...
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TSA Gestapo Empire (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 ...
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