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“Humanitarian intervention” in Syria is a hoax
September 4, 2013The language the administration is using to argue for an attack on Syria is morally bankrupt power politics, not humanitarianism, and would violate international law.
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To ease or not to ease, that is Fed’s question
September 4, 2013The Jackson Hole conference attended by many of the world's top economists, central bankers and policy makers revealed divisions over current Fed stimulus policy.
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Sequester sends San Jose, Calif., rents through roof
September 3, 2013Some 17,000 tenants on the Federal Section 8 housing program in Santa Clara County recently received rent hikes of 10 percent or more. The area has very nearly the highest housing cost of any place in...
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Rim Fire the latest record-breaker in year of unrelenting disasters
September 3, 2013As the changing climate continues to trigger disaster and disruption, California's Rim Fire, which has burned 235,841 acres, is the latest to be added to this year's list of brushfires.
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Calif. prison hunger strike nears two-month mark
September 3, 2013The strikers' core demands include ending long-term solitary confinement and group punishment, and offering SHU inmates more constructive programs and activities.
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