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Big Bill For Levee Upkeep Comes To New Orleans

In this Saturday, March 10, 2007 file photo, Daren J. Eller watches as pumps put in place by the Army Corps of Engineers extract water from New Orleans’ 17th Street Canal into Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File) In the busy and under-staffed offices of New Orleans’ flood-control leaders, there’s an uneasy […]

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In this Saturday, March 10, 2007 file photo, Daren J. Eller watches as pumps put in place by the Army Corps of Engineers extract water from New Orleans' 17th Street Canal into Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

In the busy and under-staffed offices of New Orleans' flood-control leaders, there's an uneasy feeling about what lies ahead. By the time the next hurricane season starts in June of 2013, the city will take control of much of a revamped protection system of gates, walls and armored levees that the Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $12

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France To Recognize Palestinian State At UN

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 file photo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) France announced Tuesday that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week. With the announcement, France […]

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 file photo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

France announced Tuesday that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week. With the announcement, France becomes the first major European country to come out in favor, dealing a setback to Israel. The timing of the announcement appears aimed at swaying other European nations. Foreign

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Catch-22: ACLU Challenges Warrantless Wiretapping, Government Denies Monitoring

Iranian photojournalist Maryam Rahmanian uses her computer to check a newly launched website Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (CHICAGO) — Throughout its history, America always governed extrajudicially. Post-9/11, it became more repressive than ever. Modern technology makes it easy. Big Brother has lots of ways to spy. It can be done from space, […]

Stephen Lendman
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Iranian photojournalist Maryam Rahmanian uses her computer to check a newly launched website Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

(CHICAGO) -- Throughout its history, America always governed extrajudicially. Post-9/11, it became more repressive than ever. Modern technology makes it easy. Big Brother has lots of ways to spy. It can be done from space, eyes in the sky on drones, secret agents, neighborhood snoops or electronic monitoring of phones, emails and other personal

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Colorblindness And The Myth Of A Post-Racial America

In this Nov. 21, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the Thanksgiving holiday in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) President Obama’s candidacy, nomination and election was hailed as some sort of seismic shift in race relations in this nation and represented an epic turning […]

Edward Rhymes
بواسطة Edward Rhymes
In this Nov. 21, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the Thanksgiving holiday in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

President Obama’s candidacy, nomination and election was hailed as some sort of seismic shift in race relations in this nation and represented an epic turning point in how we view ethnicity; a post-racial America, if you will. Nevertheless, this writer contends that Barack Obama’s presidency revealed to us not only how far we have come, but how far

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Study: States Face Increased Medicaid Costs Even If They Don’t Expand Program

A medical student checks on a patient in the hallway of the emergency room at Harborview Medical Center Wednesday, March 12, 2003, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) If state officials think they can escape a fiscal quagmire by refusing to expand Medicaid under the federal health law, they might want to reconsider. State Medicaid costs […]

Phil Galewitz
بواسطة Phil Galewitz
A medical student checks on a patient in the hallway of the emergency room at Harborview Medical Center Wednesday, March 12, 2003, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

If state officials think they can escape a fiscal quagmire by refusing to expand Medicaid under the federal health law, they might want to reconsider. State Medicaid costs will jump $76 billion, or nearly 3 percent, over the next decade if all 50 states decide to expand Medicaid eligibility in 2014 under the federal health law. But state

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The Vast Majority Of Gaza’s 1 Million Children Suffer From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A Palestinian boy looks from the rooftop of a destroyed house in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Fatima Qortoum was just 9 years old when she saw the brains of her brother, 7-year-old Ahmed, fall out of his head. He was struck with shrapnel after an Israeli airstrike. That was 2008. […]

Erin Cunningham
بواسطة Erin Cunningham
A Palestinian boy looks from the rooftop of a destroyed house in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Fatima Qortoum was just 9 years old when she saw the brains of her brother, 7-year-old Ahmed, fall out of his head. He was struck with shrapnel after an Israeli airstrike. That was 2008. Last week, another one of Fatima's brothers, 6-year-old Mahmoud, was critically injured when an Israeli attack knocked him to the ground, leaving a nearly

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