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Katrina Pain Index: Measuring New Orleans’ Devastation Three Years Later

The United States’ economic crisis and simultaneous wars have left New Orleans as an afterthought. This is what the city looks like today.

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Plan B Damned: My Quest for Emergency Contraception

Unless you have Plan B in your medicine cabinet, it’s highly unlikely you’ll get your hands on a morning-after pill the morning after.

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Yet Another Obscenity Trial? We Should Be Ashamed

Shocking but true: An American city, in the year 2008, asked a jury to declare that a movie of adults having sex is illegal.

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How the Media’s Tarring of Hillary Hurt Obama Too

From the primaries to the convention, the media have become experts at inventing a storyline and skewing facts to support it.

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Are Organic Foods Getting Too Pricey for the Middle Class?

Even Whole Foods and its upper-middle-class customers are feeling the pinch.

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Obama’s Grand Speech: Reason for Hope

Can an acceptance speech make a difference in an election? This was one with the potential to do so.

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Obama’s Progressive, Populist Agenda: “Now Is Not the Time for Small Plans”

Obama has shown the pathway out of the decades-long, ruinous mess conservative rule has created.

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VIDEO: Climate Camp 2008

Undercurrents in association with VisionOnTV reported the people who are making a differenece by working together collectively. When large numbers of determined and well-organised people get together they can turn things around, making a historic difference.The climate camp aimed to do just that. Whether it’s participating in the collective organisation of the camp, taking part [...]

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Standoff with Police as Iraq Vets Demand to Meet with Obama Campaign

With no reply from Obama to their letter asking him to endorse their goals, IVAW marched to the Pepsi Center to demand that their voices be heard.

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Standoff with Police as Iraq Vets Demanded to Meet with Obama Campaign

With no reply from Obama to their letter asking him to endorse their goals, IVAW marched to the Pepsi Center to demand that their voices be heard.

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Conspiracy Files: Lockerbie

By Paul Stott | Few terrorist attacks have had such contrary explanations as the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Sunday evening at 9pm the BBC2’s Conspiracy Files enters the fray, examining some of the claims and counter claims.
One interesting question is whether the programme will feature either of Britain’s two best known [...]

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A UK Window into CIA Abuses

Human Rights Watch | This Wednesday, unless the UK foreign secretary takes rapid action, Britain’s High Court will hold a hearing to assess whether the UK government should be ordered to hand over secret documents to lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee. The detainee in question, Binyam Mohamed, faces possible charges of conspiracy and material support for [...]

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After Biden, the Economic Debate Takes Shape

Sen. Joe Biden shows that he gets what’s going on in America, not with stats, but around middle-class kitchen tables.

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Debate Continues, but There’s Little Doubt Speculators Are Adding to Pain at the Pumps

Many economists are saying that oil markets are working as they should, but their arguments are weak.

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Martin Luther King: ‘I Have a Dream’

Today is the 45th anniversary of MLK’s historic speech.

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U.K. and Australia Fight Breast Cancer with Free Screening for Women 50+

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with one in nine women affected at some stage in their lives.

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New Orleans, Three Years Later

Despite sunny media reports about post-Katrina rebuilding, the facts on the ground reveal a stark portrait of a city transformed.

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Democrats: Don’t Make Afghanistan Your War

Biden, Obama, and the Dems are rallying to escalate the war in Afghanistan. But trading one war for another would be catastrophic.

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Manufactured Famine: How Europe Is Snatching Food from the World’s Poor

A new wave of food colonialism is taking food from the mouths of the poor.

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Half of Baghdad Lacks Drinking Water

Amid soaring temperatures, Baghdad’s Water Authority says three million people in Baghdad have no access to running water.

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The Candidates Need More Than a Patchwork Approach to Health Care

Though Obama’s health plan is far better than McCain’s, it still only tinkers around the edges. What we need is a system overhaul.

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A Truck-Sized Loophole: Corporations, Special Interests to Spend $100 Million on Convention Parties

The parties’ conventions offer plenty of opportunity to skirt the spirit of campaign finance laws without violating them.

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Jim Hightower: If Obama Wins, Who Will Be in His Cabinet — And Who Should Be?

Obama’s advisers will be the ones whispering in the president’s ear and pulling the levers of executive power.

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The Bikini Car Wash: One Sexist Tradition

Bikini car washes, inexplicably sanctioned by many parents, teach girls the best way to turn a buck is by stripping down for men.

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Should Uncle Sam Be Helping CEOs Get Richer?

America’s overpaid corporate execs have plenty of people to thank for their good fortune, including average American taxpayers.

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What 15,000 Reporters Are Doing at the DNC

Drinking, complaining and getting massages are just a few of reporters’ preferred convention activities.

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The Christian Right’s Slick Campaign to Make Abstinence Seem Trendy

Conservatives finally learned that moralizing doesn’t keep teens from having sex. Now they have a creepy new tactic.

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Dems Nominate Obama, Unify and Transform the Party

A hundred years ago, Dems questioned whether to take a stand against lynching. Today, Obama’s nomination completes a long process of transformation.

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If Obama Wins, Who Will Be in His Cabinet — And Who Should Be?

Obama’s advisers will be the ones whispering in the president’s ear and pulling the levers of executive power.

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What a McCain Victory Could Mean: No Money for Health Care and the End of Our Volunteer Army

The price tag for McCain’s war lust would mean virtually every other national priority would be short-changed or neglected.

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