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President Barack Obama speaks about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Obama hails auto bailout, hits back at GOP critics

President Barack Obama speaks about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama proudly embraced his auto industry bailout Tuesday, telling a raucous labor audience that assertions by his Republican presidential challengers […]

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President Barack Obama speaks about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama proudly embraced his auto industry bailout Tuesday, telling a raucous labor audience that assertions by his Republican presidential challengers that union members profited from taxpayer-paid rescue are a "load of you know what." Obama delivered a politically sizzling and staunchly pro-union speech to the

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Partial remains of 9/11 victims went to landfill

South Pool with September 11 Museum (opening 2012) behind it (Photo by Kai Brinker) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon revealed on Tuesday that some partial, incinerated remains of 9/11 victims that could not be identified were sent to a landfill. The number of victims involved was unclear, but the report said the remains were from […]

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South Pool with September 11 Museum (opening 2012) behind it (Photo by Kai Brinker)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon revealed on Tuesday that some partial, incinerated remains of 9/11 victims that could not be identified were sent to a landfill. The number of victims involved was unclear, but the report said the remains were from people killed when a terrorist-hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon, killing 184 people, and another

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Opinion: Mourning the Messenger – A Look into the Life of a War Correspondent

Screenshot from documentary film: Shooting Robert King, about war photographer Robert King. (MINNEAPOLIS) — Over the past weeks, three foreign journalists have lost their lives covering the crisis in Syria. For me personally, the death of New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid hit the hardest because we had shared a friendship for nearly 20 years. […]

Norbert Schiller
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Screenshot from documentary film: Shooting Robert King, about war photographer Robert King.

(MINNEAPOLIS) — Over the past weeks, three foreign journalists have lost their lives covering the crisis in Syria. For me personally, the death of New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid hit the hardest because we had shared a friendship for nearly 20 years. The two other fatalities were also extremely disturbing. Marie Colvin was the quintessential

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Zbigniew Brzezinski: The man behind Obama’s foreign policy

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Zbigniew Brzezinski is not one to mince his words. When asked by journalist  Fareed Zakaria on CNN this weekend if he prefers President Obama to the alternative in the 2012  election,  the former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 was blunt in his response. “Oh, without a question, without […]

Lisa Barron
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(NEW YORK) MintPress — Zbigniew Brzezinski is not one to mince his words. When asked by journalist  Fareed Zakaria on CNN this weekend if he prefers President Obama to the alternative in the 2012  election,  the former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 was blunt in his response. “Oh, without a question,

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TransCanada moves ahead with Pipeline, Landowners Cling to Property

FILE – In this Sept. 15, 2005 file photo, the marker that welcomes commuters to Cushing, Okla. is seen. Canadian company TransCanada says it will build an oil pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas after President Barack Obama blocked the larger Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. The company says the new project does not require presidential […]

Janessa Schilmoeller
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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2005 file photo, the marker that welcomes commuters to Cushing, Okla. is seen. Canadian company TransCanada says it will build an oil pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas after President Barack Obama blocked the larger Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. The company says the new project does not require presidential approval since it does not cross a U.S. border. The shorter pipeline is expected to cost about $2.3 billion and be completed in 2013. The Obama administration had suggested development of an Oklahoma-to-Texas line to alleviate an oil glut at a Cushing, Okla., storage hub. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Matt Strasen, File)

(MintPress)—TransCanada Corporation announced on Monday its plan to go ahead with construction on the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline despite opposition from landowners and denial of a Presidential Permit granting construction rights for the full pipeline from Canada to Texas. The Gulf Coast Project, which will stretch from Oklahoma

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Quran Burning – The 21st Century Libricide

The burned out pages of the Holy Quran in Izbat Abed Rabo mosque. We found these in the rubble of the mosque destroyed by Israel. (Photo by Al Jazeera English) (MintPress)—US President Barack Obama issued an apology to the Islamic world, after the U.S. military burned copies of the Quran, a holy book for Muslims, […]

Carissa Wyant
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The burned out pages of the Holy Quran in Izbat Abed Rabo mosque. We found these in the rubble of the mosque destroyed by Israel. (Photo by Al Jazeera English)

(MintPress)—US President Barack Obama issued an apology to the Islamic world, after the U.S. military burned copies of the Quran, a holy book for Muslims, in Afghanistan recently, but violence persists in the country as outrage over the action grows. In a letter to Afghan President Hamid Karzi  the President expressed regret that the “religious

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