Economy-Labor
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What will Congress do about the Bush tax cuts?
How ending the Bush tax cuts will help
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Deflation, Not Deficit, Is the Real Threat
The economic specter stalking Barack Obama is not the nonsense debate that captivates deficit hawks [...] -
Dwindling Retirement Savings ‘Undiscussed Explosive Bomb’ Of Recession
After working in executive management for over ten years with a steadily increasing salary, Rick [...] -
Recession was deeper than gov’t previously thought
The recession was deeper than the government previously thought. The Commerce Department, in revisions issued [...] -
Foreclosures Up In 75 Percent Of Top U.S. Metro Areas
Foreclosures rose in 3 of every four large U.S. metro areas in this year’s first [...] - More from Economy-Labor
Health and Wellness
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Do Our Personalities Pilot the Way We Live Our Lives?
The idea that our inborn predispositions dictate how we live our lives was once seen [...] -
Thousands in Gulf Suffer from Misdiagnosed Skin Lesions
Lesions, like those featured [in photo] are being experienced by adults and children in Louisiana. [...] -
Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain
Scientists have found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of tiny blue crab [...] -
More Evidence That BPA Laces Store Receipts
Science & the Public Blog: Problem is, you can’t tell which ones host the hormone [...] -
Is Wall Street Making Life or Death Decisions on Your Behalf?
In the last thirty years, the values of Wall Street have so infiltrated American society [...] - More from Health and Wellness
Crime, Legal Issues
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Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Abu Ghraib Torture Case
|Center for Constitutional Rights|: A group of 72 Iraqi citizens who allege they were tortured [...] -
SEC Accuses Sam And Charles Wyly, Billionaire Dallas Investors, Of Insider Trading Yielding $550 MILLION
Famed Dallas billionaire investors Sam and Charles Wyly made $550 million in undisclosed profits through [...] -
SEC Accuses Sam And Charles Wyly, Billionaire Dallas Investors, Of Insider Trading Yielding $550 MILLION
Famed Dallas billionaire investors Sam and Charles Wyly made $550 million in undisclosed profits through [...] -
Dems Take on Supreme Court’s Giant Sell-Out of Our Democracy to Corporations
The Supreme Court handed over our political system to corporate power, and now some lawmakers [...] -
Should Shirley Sherrod Sue Andrew Breitbart and Fox News?
John Dean: Shirley Sherrod’s story was big news this week. If you missed it, the [...] - More from Crime, Legal Issues
Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism
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California Storing DNA of Innocent People
Reports from Great Britain suggest police make arrests without cause simply to obtain a DNA [...] -
White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity
The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies [...] -
Republicans Block Measure to Ban Foreign Meddling in U.S. Elections
Previously, foreign corporations could legally spending on American elections only through their political action committees. [...] -
Taking Advantage Of Citizens United, Dirty Coal Groups Form 527 To Elect Industry-Friendly Republicans
Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported on coal baron Don Blankenship’s foray into the 2010 congressional elections in [...] -
Sen. Franken: Stop the Corporate Takeover of the Media
Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) told more than 2,000 bloggers and organizers attending the Netroots Nation [...] - More from Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism
Environment
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Michigan Oil Spill Damages Wildlife, Forces Residents To Evacuate
On Monday, a disastrous leak in one of the world’s largest pipeline systems gushed over [...] -
NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA: Past Decade Warmest on Record According to Scientists in 48 Countries
The 2009 State of the Climate report released today draws on data for 10 key [...] -
EPA: 1M gallons of oil may be in Mich. river
EPA says 1 million gallons of oil may have spilled in Mich. river, governor criticizes [...] -
Michigan Oil Spill: Oil Halfway To Lake Michigan, Mayor Daley Responds
Oil from a pipeline spill in Michigan early this week has been on the move [...] -
Assault on America: A Decade of Petroleum Company Disaster, Pollution, and Profit
New report shows how today’s oil and gas industry threatens Americans in countless ways.
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Energy
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Fracking With Food: How the Natural Gas Industry Poisons Cows and Crops
Natural gas drilling operations have mucked up food from Colorado to Pennsylvania. So why is [...] -
Renewable energy: Wind farm ‘mega-project’ is underway in California
The Alta Wind Energy Center — with plans for thousands of acres of turbines to [...] -
US scrambles emergency teams to new Gulf oil leak
The US Coast Guard dispatched emergency teams Tuesday after a boat crashed into an oil [...] -
6 Reasons Nuclear Energy Advocate Stewart Brand Is Wrong
Nuclear energy is a Dark Age technology, defined by unsustainable costs, inefficiencies, eco-destruction, radiation releases [...] -
Clean Energy and the U.S. Handicap: One Man’s Story
On-again, off-again federal support cripples emerging industries in the United States, America’s pre-eminent wind energy [...] - More from Energy
Politics
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Self-Styled Budget Hawk Mike Pence Defends Spending $560 Million On Unnecessary Weapons Program
Recognizing the need to cut spending in light of record budget deficits, Defense Secretary Robert [...] -
Anthony Weiner Goes Ballistic At GOP For Killing 9/11 Responders Health Care Bill (VIDEO)
House Republicans late Thursday were able to corral enough votes to defeat a bill that [...] -
House Republicans Block Bill To Pay The Healthcare For Ill 9/11 Responders
More common to the Senate, GOP obstruction spread to the House Thursday as Republicans blocked [...] -
Biden tags economy ‘Bush recession’
Vice President Biden trotted out a new line of attack against Republicans, terming the nation’s [...] -
Lindsey Graham considering overturning the 14th amendment to end ‘birthright citizenship.’
Politico reports that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who many previously thought would co-sponsor comprehensive immigration [...] - More from Politics
Rightwing World
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Newt Gingrich Suggests Attacking Rest Of ‘Axis Of Evil’ (VIDEO)
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich twice called on the United States to attack [...] -
GOP Lawmaker Slips Up, Admits Tax Cuts Will ‘Increase The Debt’
At the end of the year, President Bush’s tax cuts are set to expire. President [...] -
As Tennesseans Desperately Search For Work, Wamp Suggests Unemployed Are ‘Just Sitting Back Waiting’
This past Tuesday, Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN), who is also a leading candidate for the [...] -
Deficit Hawk Survey Falsely Claimed People Support Cutting Social Security
A high-profile survey funded by anti-Social Security advocates falsely reported that Americans favor raising the [...] -
Bush Memoir Release Has Republicans Concerned
With the 2010 election season underway, Republicans are reportedly concerned about how the impending release [...] - More from Rightwing World
Science & Technology
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Handy Google Search Tips: 19 Simple Tricks You Need To Know
Google may be expanding into cell phones, operating systems, and tablet PCs, but it’s still [...] -
IBM scientists create most comprehensive map of the brain’s network
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published Tuesday a landmark paper entitled [...] -
High-Speed Laser Chips Move Data at 50 Gbps
A new research breakthrough from Intel combines silicon chips and lasers to transmit data at [...] -
BP Tries To Block Release Of Oil Spill Research
Faced with hundreds of lawsuits and a deep need for experts, BP has been offering [...] -
Unbridled Science for Profit Will Reap Catastrophe
Science took a serious wrong turn some years ago when academia/gov’t oversight defaulted and corporations [...] - More from Science & Technology
Religion
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NAE Urges Church to Cancel “International Burn a Quran Day”
Dove World Outreach Center has been featured on Talk2Action before for their visible anti-Islamic protests. [...] -
Pastor Hosting ‘International Burn A Quran Day’: ‘We Have Nothing Against Muslims’
On September 11, 2010, the extremist evangelical Dove World Church — whose pastor, Terry Jones, [...] -
Tim Lahaye, Evangelical Christian Minister, Warns Obama Bringing Us Closer To ‘The Apocalypse’ (VIDEO)
Evangelical Christian minister Tim LaHaye says that the policy initiatives put forth by the Obama [...] -
Finding God After Leaving Religion
Thirty-four million Americans have given up on organized religion, according to the most recent American [...] -
Why Does God Reveal Himself to Some People and Not to Others?
Doesn’t it seem likely that the reason all of us can’t see God is because [...] - More from Religion
Foregin Policy
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Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly Folly
By Ray McGovern: WikiLeaks Bombshell Docs Paint Afghan War as Utter Disaster -- Will We [...] -
Exclusive: Eager for new ‘Curveball,’ CIA may have been duped by Iranian double agent
Despite an Iranian claim that scientist Shahram Amiri was a double agent who gave Iran [...] -
Stop the Madness! People Should be SHOCKED
Ernest F. Hollings: Our only hope is for President Obama to enforce our trade laws [...] -
China’s Threat to National Security; What Will Congress Do?
In October 2008, Chinese officials threatened to liquidate their vast holdings of foreign reserves- $1.33 [...] -
Free Trade is a Failure
No other country loses so many jobs, so much productive, and so much investment capital [...] - More from Foregin Policy
World
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China Becomes Second Biggest World Economy – CNBC
China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades [...] -
Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Pakistanis view US as enemy
Despite billions in aid from Washington and a shared threat from extremists, Pakistanis have an [...] -
UN declares access to clean water a human right
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday recognized access to clean water and sanitation as a [...] -
Israel linked to exiled sheikh’s bid for ‘coup’ in Gulf emirate of RAK
• UK ambassador advising Sheikh Khalid of Ras al-Khaimeh • Tiny UAE state ‘aids trafficking [...] -
U.S.-China Super-Power Collision Looming in South China Sea
Reports of untapped oil and gas reserves have kept tensions up around the waters of [...] - More from World
Military, War
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Oklahoma fathers of dead service members rally against war funding
Fathers of two military personnel killed in Iraq rallied Thursday against a $37 billion U.S. [...] -
Documentary Reveals the Price Paid in Blood for the Senseless War in Afghanistan
Sean Smith’s brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a [...] -
Army report: Service is failing suicidal soldiers
Record number of deaths the result of brass not seeing or doing nothing about signs [...] -
Fallen Soldiers’ Families Denied Cash as Insurers Profit
The package arrived at Cindy Lohman’s home in Great Mills, Maryland, just two weeks after [...] -
American Soldiers Brainwashed with “Positive Thinking”
The U.S. military has become increasingly excited about positive psychology techniques. Maybe a better route [...] - More from Military, War
Social Issues
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World Population Forecast to Top 7 Billion in 2011 – NYTimes.com
With 267 people being born every minute and 108 dying, the world’s population will top [...] -
Top 5 Social Security Myths
Rumors of Social Security’s demise are greatly exaggerated. But some powerful people keep spreading lies [...] -
Unintelligent By Design: Louisiana School District Considers Teaching Creationism
Members of the Livingston Parish School Board in Louisiana may be on the verge of [...] -
We Are in Real Trouble
Frm Senator Ernest F. Hollings: The trouble with the President and Congress is that there [...] -
Study: 10 pct. of Mexicans may “emigrate” to US due to climate change, decreased crop yields
Global warming could drive millions more Mexicans into the United States in search of work [...] - More from Social Issues
Other Recent Articles
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Will California Legalize Pot?
With only a few months to go until the election, the campaign to legalize marijuana in California has only $50,000 in cash on hand. The question now is: How can it win? Today, at least a third of Americans say they’ve tried smoking weed. Is it possible that after half a century of increasingly mainstreamed pot [...]
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