CounterPunch
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CounterPunch is a biweekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude". It includes a website, updated daily, which contains much more material not published in the newsletter. Running six to eight pages in length, the CounterPunch newsletter primarily publishes commentaries by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair with regular contributions by others. It is noted for its critical coverage of both Democratic and Republican politicians and its extensive reporting of environmental and trade ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Janette Sherman / Joseph Mangano: Is the Increase in Baby Deaths in the US a Result of Fukushima Fallout?
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Alexander Cockburn: Rote Players and Role Players
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Famous Last Words: BP's Inside Game - Commondreams.org Views
by Jeffrey St. ClairBy the morning of May 24, the tide had turned against President Barack Obama in the Gulf. Weeks of indecision at the White House and the Interior ...via NewsRack -
Assange: The Amazing Adventures of Captain Neo in Blonde Land...
Swedish bloggers uncovered the full story in a few hours. The complaint was lodged by a radical feminist Anna Ardin, 30, a one-time intern in the Swedish Foreign Service. ...Posted by William Hardy -
Alan Nasser: Driving Another Nail Into the Coffin of the New Deal
In Cleveland, Ohio last Wednesday and a White House press conference two days later president Obama opted full throttle for Richard Nixon’s Big Lie strategy: when you ...Posted by Peter Henry -
Slow Violence in the Gulf and the BP Coverup
Three vanishing acts are being played out in the Gulf: the disappearing of the oil from the ocean surface by Corexit, the disappearing of the story by the media blockade, and ...Posted by Peter Henry -
The Ambush of Helen Thomas
Not that this will cause American suckers to abandon their programmed reaction to the spin.Posted by fontleroy -
High Noon in Nepal
(Blog Post) In Nepal, people were taught; the poor would always be poor. They long believed it. There would always be kings, lords, myriad deities and foreign patrons to look over them. ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
This Will Be Obama's Legacy
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan answered that he had placed his trust in a flawed theory when he was called before Congress to explain why he, Goldman Sachs ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
The Price Tag on Safety
Posted by Beth Wellington



