By Evelyn Pringle 24 April, 2007 Countercurrents.org W hen President Bush announced "Mission Accomplished," and the end of the war in May 2003, he also said we would help the citizens of Iraq rebuild their country. "Now that the dictator's gone," he stated,...

AP Photo: Barbara Walters, left, co-host of ABC's The View, and Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of... Rosie O'Donnell has tossed off countless one-liners and quips in her career. On Monday, she had one line she said she never imagined she'd utter: "Please...

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Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Edwin G. Foulke Jr., left, of OSHA, and Eric Peoples, an injured worker, testified Tuesday at a Congressional hearing. Graphic Shift on Safety Loosening the Rules Limits on Actions This is the second article in a series...

Labor group says fund bosses rake in millions as workers lose ground Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times Wednesday, April 25, 2007 The Masters of the Universe on Wall Street keep getting richer -- and that has some people worried. A report released Tuesday...

By Elana Schor April 24, 2007 Corporations targeted for doing business with the Sudanese government, which faces sanctions for its complicity in the Darfur genocide, gave more than $580,000 to congressional candidates during the 2006 cycle through the...

The Nation -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich has now filed his three articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney , and the Ohio Democrat is clearly serious about the holding the vice president to account for manipulating intelligence to fabricate a threat...

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was always good for a laugh, which is probably why on the occasion of his death people outside of Russia are not calling him words like scum and monster, but instead recalling him fondly, with a smile, as one would a retarded...