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Movies tell the truth at Michael Moore’s film festival
August 9, 2011The film fest in Traverse City, Mich., created an enormously popular event that featured the best in progressive cinema, both challenging and entertaining.
Read moreHonor the troops, leave Afghanistan
August 9, 2011Though military generals claim, as they always do, that progress is being made, it's hard to see that on the ground.
Read moreFAA shutdown and labor’s unhappy anniversary
August 8, 2011It was 30 years ago this month that Ronald Reagan struck the blow that sent the American labor movement tumbling into a decline it's still struggling to reverse.
Read moreCIA use of immunization program has troubling history
August 8, 2011In search of Bin Laden the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency offered immunization shots against Hepatitis B to the poor people of Abbottabad, in Pakistan, as a CIA front program.
Read moreS&P “bond vigilantes” take aim – at us
August 8, 2011Standard and Poor's is a "bond vigilante" for the "investor class" - essentially a finance capitalist business agent with a big economic machine gun.
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