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John Brennan’s Tenet-Like Testimony
Though false intelligence was at the center of the disastrous Iraq War, CIA Director-to-be John Brennan played fast and loose on Iranu2019s nuclear program in his Senate testimony.
Fix the Trade Deficit, Fix the Economy
Yet another report is out showing how the trade deficit is costing us millions of jobs and hurting our economy.
Fuzzy Math: The Chicago Public Schools Budget Crisis
The real bottom line may be that this is Mayor Emanuelu2019s agenda, the facts donu2019t matter, and we have very little say in the decision.
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Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain – Food Sovereignty
From community gardens to just global policy, a national and global movement is growing to reclaim food, land, and agricultural systems from agribusiness and put them back in the …
Bulgarian Charge of Hezbollah Bombing Was an “Assumption”
A closer investigation finds Bulgaria's conclusions of Hezbollah's role in bombing of an Israeli bus are weak.
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An Insider’s View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution
Veteran progressive radio broadcaster Peter B. Collins reviews the rise and fall of that medium.
The True Costs of Tax Breaks and Social Security
Why Social Security is a better deal for all of us that private pensions and tax-exempt savings schemes.
Why Egypt’s Revolution Is So Different
The future of Egypt will be determined by which social force, the bottom or the top, actually succeeds in filling the political void that so far has made the …
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Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement “Inadequate“
Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan in case of an oil …
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Debating a Court to Vet Drone Strikes
There is an interest in applying the model of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to the targeted killing of suspected terrorists, or at least of American suspects.