Archive for the ‘u.s.+news’ Category

Crumbling dollar resonates through economy - Stocks & economy- msnbc.com

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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Things in the U.S. sure are tough. Brother, can you spare a euro? Signs saying "We accept euros" are cropping up in the windows of some Manhattan retailers. A Belgium company is trying to gobble up St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the nation’s largest brewer and iconic Super Bowl advertiser.

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Real Journalists Don’t Make $5 Million a Year | Media and Technology | AlterNet

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Unlike the media’s Brokaws and Blitzers, real journalists don’t have cozy relationships with the powerful. Real journalists are feared.

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t r u t h o u t | Congress Poised to Grant Telcoms Spying Immunity

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

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After months of negotiations behind closed doors, a supposed compromise has been reached on an extremely controversial spying bill.

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151 Congressmen Profit From War

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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Who profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq.

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Next Generation of “Family Jewels”?

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

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The CIA’s belated release of its infamous “Family Jewels” sheds light on U.S. intelligence abuses during the CIA’s first quarter century, but this openness may actually obscure a darker reality – that the subsequent three-plus decades have witnessed worse national-security crimes committed under the cloak of greater secrecy and deception.

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Live Vote: Should Bush be impeached? - Politics

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

MSNBC Online Poll Shows 87% of Citizens Want Impeachment

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