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Week ending Friday July 29, 2011   

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  1. Tim DeChristopher: I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me

  2. Jeff Cohen: Obama is NOT “Caving” to Corporate Interests

  3. Paul Buchheit: The Question Conservatives Can't Answer

  4. Paul Krugman: 'Centrism': The Cult That Is Destroying America

  5. Christopher Brauchli: The Tax Burden of the Very Rich

  6. Robert Reich: Why Washington is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse

  7. Robert Scheer: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

  8. Holly Sklar: CEOs to Workers: More for Me, Less for You

  9. Glenn Greenwald: On Not Freaking Out With Fear: An Un-American Response to the Oslo Attack

  10. Tom Tresser: None Dare Call it Privatization


Readers Choice | Most Read News...

  1. Scientists: Melting Arctic Releasing Toxic Chemicals
    Unknown amount of trapped persistent organic pollutants poses threat to marine life and humans as temperatures rise.



  2. Obama Offers Billions in Cuts to Entitlement Programs
    The leader of the House Democratic Caucus indicated this weekend that tax-revenue hikes must be included in a sweeping deficit-reduction plan to win the Democratic support it will need to pass.



  3. Experts: Expect Radical Changes as 'Peak Oil' Approaches
    When demand for oil consistently surpasses supply, experts warn that our lives will look "very differently".



  4. Norway PM: 'Meet Terror with More Democracy, Not Less'
    Resilient and peaceful Norwegians won't allow attack to change their way of life .



  5. Arctic Scientist Who Exposed Climate Threat to Polar Bear Is Suspended
    US government conducts 'integrity inquiry' on federal biologist amid lobbying by oil firms for Arctic permits.



  6. What Recession? Profits Booming for Corporate America
    Strong second-quarter earnings while we still see unemployment stuck at 9.2 percent are just the latest proof that booming profits have allowed Corporate America to leave the Great Recession far behind, as well as millions of ordinary Americans.



  7. ALEC Exposed: Warming Up to Climate Change
    As the U.S. suffers through catastrophic tornadoes, heat waves, and other climate extremes, polluting industries and the politicians that serve them want to convince you that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is actually a good thing.



  8. US Squandered Billions on Private Contractors
    Waste, mismanagement and poorly conceived projects mean the United States could have lost more than 15 per cent of the total given out in contracts and grants.



  9. New Study: Mountaintop Removal Killing Residents
    Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the US sanctioned strip-mining practice.



  10. Obama's Former Intel Chief: Stop the Drone Strikes
    Dennis Blair rips Obama White House, strongly criticizing the administration’s reliance on U.S.-directed drone strikes.

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