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This Thriller Is Both a Joke and No Laughing Matter
Our spymaster-in-chief wants to deny the media the freedom to report on Big Brother's surveillance.
The Backroom Deal That Could’ve Given Us Single-Payer
A quick look at the financial details reveals that health insurance nationalization was always the real “path of least resistance.”
Israel: Legitimacy and Behavior – an Analysis
In the end just existing will not confer legitimacy on Israel, just as merely being a living person does not confer a normal status in society to a criminal.
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Mandela and Arafat
In late February of 1990, just two weeks after being released from prison, Nelson Mandela met with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat.
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American Essentialism
The choice of heaven [or hell] is shown in the conduct of men. — Chinese Proverbt
TransCanada Begins Injecting Oil Into Southern Leg of Keystone XL Despite Reported Anomalies
TransCanada has begun startup processes on the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline despite numerous problems.
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Bill Moyers | The Great American Class War: Plutocracy vs. Democracy
There is nothing idealized about the difference between a society whose arrangements serve all its citizens and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.
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William Rivers Pitt | Here Lies America: Shot to Death
The fact that we can't keep thousands of our citizens from dying by guns, and that even attempting to do so amounts to political suicide, is a shameful epitaph.
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What Europe Needs Now Is Moderate Inflation
Paul Krugman: Europe's inflation problem: It's too low. Moderate inflation is actually a good thing for modern economies.
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Actually Existing Capitalism: Wrecking Societies for the Benefit of Big Capital and the Super-Rich
The evidence suggests that capitalism has become wholly predatory and has given up all pretense of being socially responsible.