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The SF LGBT Pride Committee Has Nothing to Be Proud of Over Bradley Manning
Glenn Greenwald's article in The Guardian titled “Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced” has internationally publicized the cowardly decision of …
In Praise of Richard Falk
Shortly after the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in …
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The Cure
Cancer cells don't know they are cancerous! Though this may be an obvious fact even a so what fact to many, if we think more critically about this we …
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CNN Has Not “Jumped the Shark,” It is the Shark
Cable news networks thrive on tragedy. That's nothing new. What is new is the incredible, monomaniacal programming mantra that has taken over CNN—the ever-more inane and dementia-addled granddaddy of …
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One Hospital Charges $8,000 … Another Charges $38,000?
In major cities across our nation, the range of prices for similar or the same medical procedures looks more like the ups and downs in the wildly volatile stock …
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In the Wake of West, Texas: 1,000 Toxic Chemical Accidents You Have Not Heard Of
The April 17 explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 15 people and injured 200 was perhaps one of the most severe chemical accidents of its …
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Mark Sanford Makes a Comeback; South Carolina Voters Send Former Governor Back to Congress
Many voters said it was Sanford's record of looking out for taxpayers while he was in Congress for three terms and governor for two terms that convinced them to …
Lessons From the US-Korea Nuclear Crisis
One final lesson that applies to all nuclear crises is that the only way to assure that nuclear weapons are not used again is to abolish them.
Obama’s Patronage System: Pritzker Nomination for Commerce Department, Limp-Wristed Dodd Frank
The consternation at the not-exactly-a-surprise nomination of billionaire Penny Pritzker to be Commerce Secretary, is sadly much less than is warranted.
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FBI Spiked Chechen Jihadi Investigation
The FBI is making sure that no one knows about our government playing footsie with terrorists.