(2010-08-02) — Andy Stern, the former chief of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is said to be “giving serious consideration” to an offer from President Barack Obama to appoint him “special ambassador to al Qaeda” with a mission to foster establishment of collective bargaining units among decentralized clusters of contract workers.
The organization’s associates, scattered [...]

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(2010-07-27) — Despite upbeat official assessments of the progress of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding plans, scores of documents just released by WikiLeaks reveal a starkly different picture behind the scenes.
The disclosure of “sensitive information” comes just days after WikiLeaks made public 92,000 secret U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said [...]

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(2010-07-08) — The White House today announced a bold new program consistent with NASA’s top priority to help Muslims “feel good about their historic contribution in science and math and engineering,” as the space agency’s chief, Charles Bolden, recently told al Jazeera TV.
Echoing the words of President John F. Kennedy in March of 1961, [...]

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(2010-06-22) — Despite Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s apparently insubordinate remarks about President Obama in the recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine, the Pentagon announced today that the president cannot fire the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan under current “rules of engagement.”
“We have to be very careful about collateral damage,” said an unnamed Pentagon spokesman. “If the [...]

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(2010-06-17) — Facing a hostile House panel investigating the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP Group CEO Tony Hayward today admitted that the environmental disaster was part of an intentional public relations strategy by the global petroleum firm “to win the hearts of Americans.”
“Let me just start by saying, we blew the rig, [...]

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(2010-06-14) — Vast riches of minerals, perhaps exceeding $1 trillion, lie under the surface of war-torn Afghanistan, Pentagon officials now say, and the White House today announced a plan to protect those subterranean resources from “rapacious capitalists who would rip them from the earth just to make a profit.”
Pentagon sources said the iron, copper, gold, [...]

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(2010-06-07) — Faced with concerns that mounting U.S. debt will depress sales of U.S. Treasury bills, the Obama administration announced today it will launch a $750 billion global ad campaign to encourage skittish investors to take another look at U.S. bonds.
The campaign will feature American entertainment icon Willie Nelson singing the praises of investing [...]

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