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CIA Bribes Afghan President to Gain Influence, Mostly Ends Up Empowering Warlords and Encouraging Corruption

By Alex Kane / AlterNet

The massive payments were made in an effort to influence Hamid Karzai and his inner circle, the New York Times reveals.

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We Are in the Middle of a Global Civil War

By Pepe Escobar / Asia Times

The Book That Exposes How America's Imperial Global War on Terror Makes Life Much More Dangerous for Us at Home

By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch.com

Austerity Brings Unemployment to New Highs in Spain and France - So Why Do Pols Keep Pushing It in the U.S.?

By Kenneth Thomas / Middle Class Political Economist

John Kerry's Middle East Diplomacy Will Fail If He Keeps Coddling Israeli Apartheid

By Phyllis Bennis / Al Jazeera English

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U.S. Doesn't Want You to Know Which Latin American Security Forces It's Training

The Madness of the Willful Destruction of Our Dependable Popular Way of Life

'I Am Still a Prisoner': Yemeni Journalist Jailed at Obama's Request Now Under House Arrest

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Europe's Harsh Austerity Policies Are Leaving Domestic Violence Victims Stranded

Claudia Ciobanu / Inter Press Service

Discredited Harvard Austerity-Pushers Reinhart and Rogoff Keep Lying to Protect Themselves

Dean Baker / Beat the Press

Calls for Corporate Accountability Rise as Death Toll from Bangladesh Factory Collapse Climbs

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

The Top 10 Most Inhuman Henry Kissinger Quotes

Fred Branfman / AlterNet

'A Kaleidoscopic Sense of Possibility': Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

At Least 82 Killed in Bangladesh Garment Factory Building Collapse

Shafiq Alam / AFP

Watch: Yemeni Activist Tells Senators that Drone Strike on His Village 'Empowers Militants'

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in the Name of Fighting the 'War on Terror'

Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill / Democracy Now!

France Approves Gay Marriage Despite Right-Wing Protest, Attacks by Skinheads

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Death Threats, a Fired Bullet and Cold Cells: Hear Guantanamo Horror Stories as Mass Hunger Strike Continues

Jason Leopold / Truthout

How Argentina is Taking on Rapacious Vulture Funds in the 'Debt Trial of the Century'

Eric LeCompte / YES! Magazine

Will White America Think Twice About Calling Itself 'Caucasian' After Boston Bombings?

Sarah Kendzior / Al Jazeera English

Economic Slowdown Coming - Even for the Fatcats

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Unbelievable! Bowles and Simpson Release New Deficit-Reduction Plan Based on Discredited Austerity Research

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Robert Greenwald Exposes the War on Whistleblowers and the Rise of Our National Security State

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now!

How Boston Exposes America’s Dark Post-9/11 Bargain

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon

Resource Shock: How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion

Michael T. Klare / Tom Dispatch

What It's Like to Have Your Home Town Attacked by American Drones

Farea al-Muslimi / Al-Monitor

Meet the 28-year-old Student Who Exposed Two Harvard Professors Whose Shoddy Research Drove Global Austerity

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Gang Steals $650,000 Worth of Rhinoceros Heads From Irish National Museum

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Noam Chomsky: How Close the World Is to Nuclear War

Noam Chomsky, Laray Polk / Seven Stories Press

Robert Reich is a Good Man But He Falls Into the Austerity Trap

William K. Black / New Economic Perspectives

Dirty Tricks Again? Venezuela Accuses U.S. of Coup Plot After Deadly Post-Election Protests

Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh / Democracy Now!

What America's Leaving Behind in Afghanistan: Trained Militias Accused of Rape and Murder

Jennifer Norris / Foreign Policy in Focus

Is Austerity Behind the Spike in Heart Attacks in Greece?

Dawn Foster / OpenDemocracy

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