All posts by Andrew McCleese
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How corporations avoid paying income taxes
With all the talk about how companies like General Electric and Cisco pay no or very low U.S. taxes, reader Hal Helfan of Oakland wants...
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Pakistan at Impasse With U.S. on Drone Attacks After Meetings With Mullen
A visit by U.S. President Barack Obama’s top military officer to Pakistan underscored disagreements over the use of drone aircraft to target militants in the...
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Otter Signs Order Banning Health Care Reform
BOISE, Idaho -- The governor vetoed a bill to help Idaho block the federal health insurance overhaul and instead, issued a sweeping executive order Wednesday...
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Paul Ryan defends tax breaks for the rich and gets booed at town hall
Constituents in Wisconsin are letting Rep. Paul Ryan (R) know that they aren’t happy with his plan to extend tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.
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Is Big Pharma set to corner the American market on medical marijuana?
The American Independent has previously reported on the growing corporatization of the incipient medical marijuana industry at a time when medical marijuana dispensaries scrabble to...
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Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops
ACLU seeks information on Michigan program that allows cops to download information from smart phones belonging to stopped motorists.
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NATO Running Out Of Ammunition In Libya “Oil Liberation” Campaign
Where does one even start with this one: US launches air campaign against oil rich country under pretext of humanitarian intervention (while ignoring comparable events...
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OECD study: US ‘high on prisons, low on pensions’
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a report stating that the United States has the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens in...
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Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role...
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Rachel Maddow: Obey Your Overlords, Citizen
In a discussion whose every syllable one could have predicted in advance, left-nationalist Rachel Maddow covers nullification, and you’ll never guess: it’s an idea only...
