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EDITORIAL Want to secure Social Security? Lift the cap
May 21, 2009Right-wing Republican Party-linked think tanks want to eliminate Social Security. They are using a recent report from the Social Security trustees that indicate the recession has harmed the long-term financial security of the program's trust fund...
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Bring troops home from Afghanistan
May 20, 2009The U.S. Senate is poised to vote before Memorial Day on funds to continue the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through Sept. 30. The House of Representatives has already approved a supplemental appropriation, but we can still...
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COMMENTARY The Pelosi distraction
May 18, 2009The cable news programs are full of indignation about Nancy Pelosi supposedly lying about, and thus insulting the CIA. For those who have been vacationing on another planet, Speaker Pelosi last week claimed that the CIA...
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California governor calls for more deep cuts
May 16, 2009In a move some said was timed to influence California’s May 19 special election, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger May 14 unveiled two proposed budgets to cope with the state’s ballooning deficit. The first would close a...
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BOOK REVIEW The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
May 15, 2009BOOK REVIEW 'The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences' By John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff Monthly Review Press, 2009, 160 pagesThe economic collapse spreading through the world is being blamed on greedy American bankers who...
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