U.S. Politics Archive

  • Wikileaks

    92,000 Secret Docs About Afghan War (WikiLeaks)

    More than 90,000 secret military records of the US war in Afghanistan were published online Sunday providing new evidence that Americans have been misled for years about the war in Afghanistan. The White House quickly lashed out at the release of the documents. National Security...

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    Dems Remove $17.9B Bank Tax from Financial Overhaul

    Large Wall Street firms have scored a key victory on Capitol Hill with the removal of a major tax from the financial reform bill. On Tuesday, Democrats stripped the $17.9 billion dollar fee on large financial institutions as part of efforts to win the support...

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    Study Ranks US Last on Healthcare

    A new comparative study on healthcare has ranked the US last behind six other industrialized countries. The Commonwealth Fund evaluated the US along with Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand on “quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives.” The study says the US...

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  • Healthcare bill passed

    Healthcare bill passed

    In political news, the healthcare bill has passed.  I honestly didn’t think the bill had a chance in hell of passing.  What did you guys think? A major victory for President Obama and congressional Democrats, the House has approved a landmark measure that would expand...

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  • Spectrem Group: The rich and the poor

    Spectrem Group: The rich and the poor

    A new study says the number of millionaires in the United States grew by 16 percent last year. The jump in wealthy households coincided with a rising unemployment rate and stagnant wages for most American workers. The research firm Spectrem Group says that if income...

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  • Haiti under control

    Haiti under control

    Amid this catastrophe, imperial powers and corporate vultures are circling, eyeing the profits to be made from reconstruction. The Street, an investment Web site, published an article, misleadingly titled “An Opportunity to Heal Haiti,” that lays out how U.S. corporations can cash in on the...

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  • History of Haiti

    History of Haiti

    So many people do not know that one of the reasons Haiti is a poor country is because of direct involvement from the United States stemming all the way back to 1910.   Watch and listen to the below report which talks about the conditions in...

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  • Emails Show Fed Tried to Keep Details of AIG Bailout Secret

    Emails Show Fed Tried to Keep Details of AIG Bailout Secret

    Newly disclosed emails show the New York Federal Reserve attempted to keep secret many of the details of the AIG bailout, citing national security grounds. The emails were released last week by the New York Fed ahead of a congressional hearing on the bailout. The...

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