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"The Zombie Ideas Have Won" – Paul Krugman on $1 Trillion Geithner Plan to Buy Toxic Bank Assets; Water Rights Activists Blast Istanbul World Water Forum as "Corporate Trade Show to Promote Privatization"; Dam Politics: India's Leading Activist Medha Patkar Takes on Corporate Control of Water. Today's Headlines * Report: US Will Appoint “Afghan … Continued
Leftist FMLN Candidate Mauricio Funes Wins El Salvador Presidential Election, Ending Two Decades of Conservative Rule; US Consul General Says Awaiting Israeli Report on IDF Shooting of American Citizen; On Trip to Gaza, Parents of Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Remember Their Daughter Six Years After Her Death. Today's Headlines * AIG to Pay … Continued
Reduce the Rate: Rev. Jesse Jackson Joins Movement Against Crippling Rates on Student Loans; Rev. Jesse Jackson on Attorney Gen. Holder's "Nation of Cowards" Speech, Education Reform, and Sen. Roland Burris; Michael Parenti: Economic Crisis the Inevitable Result of "Capitalism’s Self-inflicted Apocalypse." Today's Headlines * Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years * Pakistan … Continued
Newly Formed 150,000-Strong Nurses' Union Pushes for Single-Payer Healthcare; Burn Your Health Insurance Bill Day: New Group Advocates Direct Action to Demand Single-Payer System; Dr. Quentin Young, Longtime Obama Confidante and Physician to MLK, Criticizes Admin's Rejection of Single-Payer Healthcare; Ahead of Pivotal El Salvador Vote, Rep. Raul Grijalva Leads Congressional Call to Reverse Longstanding … Continued
Economist Ha-Joon Chang on "The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism"; "Sending More Troops Will Not Solve the Problem" – Grassroots Afghan Activist Rangina Hamidi. Headlines * Obama Lifts Stem Cell Research Ban * Supreme Court Limits the Reach of Voting Rights Act * 35,000 Jobs to Be Lost After … Continued
