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Netanyahu’s Scheme for Palestine
This geopolitical line dance ignores Netanyahuu2019s stomping on the Palestinians, as Max Blumenthal tells Dennis J Bernstein.
The Ten Hardline Conservatives Pulling the Strings of the GOP Shutdown
Just looking at the rank-and-file members of the “suicide caucus” isn't enough - it's like focusing on the marionette rather than the puppet-master.
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The Sad, but Very Serious, Tale of the Right Honorable Saboteur
Once upon a time, there was a government official with a plan. He had become convinced that the way to fix the economy was to send out teams of …
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The Answer to the Great Question of Education Reform? The Number 42
For those who have invested millions in
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Henry A. Giroux | The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown
What Americans are witnessing is a politics that celebrates a form of domestic terrorism, a kind of soft militarism and a hyper-masculine posturing in which communities are organized around …
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The Anarchy of the Tea Party
As a catastrophic US debt default looms, Republicans' new talking point is that “Democrats won't negotiate!” But ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar sees an anarchic method behind the madness.
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The Right’s Obamacare Rhetoric Is Completely Detached From Reality
The old saying that u2018you're welcome to your own opinions but not your own facts' seems quaint in today's political environment.
Operation Streamline Shutdown: Si Preguntan Porque? – If They Ask Why?
Scouring media outlets nationwide, it is evident that Operation Streamline u2013 which was shut down by human rights activists on Oct 11 in Tucson u2013 remains u201cAmericau2019s dirty little …
The Demise of the Left (and How to Revive it)
Although most polls indicate that Americans are putting the blame on Republicans for the government shutdown in terms of actual politics, the Republicans are winning. The debt ceiling is …
Bullying and the Power of Pity
Pity is a powerful tool. And President Obama wields it with mightu2014saying recently that the Republicans are just u201ctrying to mess with meu201du2014in his ongoing Iu2019m-the-good-guy posturing with a …