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As Port Huron Turns 50: Peace and Justice Activist Tom Hayden on Rag Radio
Peace and justice activist Tom Hayden, a driving force in SDS and the Sixties New Left, was our guest on Rag Radio on January 6 and January 20, 2012. …
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Parents Stand Up for Teachers Under Attack
With Mayor Emanuel aligning himself with an extremist group focused on attacking teachers, a group of Chicago parents has decided it’s time to speak up in their defense. …
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Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy
Black Bloc anarchists, arms locked together, demonstrate against the World Bank in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2011. (Photo: Collin David Anderson) The Black Bloc anarchists, who …
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America’s Plutocrats Play the Political Ponies
Life sometimes imitates art. Life also sometimes imitates political cliché. The cliché in this case: the notion that tunnel-vision political reporting has reduced campaigns for American public office to …
The Deal That Saved Detroit (and Banned Strikes)
President Barack Obama tours the Chrysler Auto Plant in Detroit on July 30, 2010. Obama visited the plant in Michigan as part of a tour highlighting the success behind …
Why State Attorneys General Shouldn’t Settle on Robo-Signing
Cynthia Veintemillas, right, an attorney with the Apple Law Firm, meets with her client Patrick Jeffs about his home foreclosure case at the firm's law offices in Jacksonville, Florida, …
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Egypt Defies US by Setting Trial for 19 Americans on Criminal Charges
Police stand watch as supporters of new members of Parliament gather near the People's Assembly building during its session in Cairo, on January 23, 2012. (Photo: Moises Saman / …
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Offshore Everywhere: How Drones, Special Operations Forces and the US Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty as We Know It
Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning. Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve just about every costly toy-cum-boondoggle from the good old days when …
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Anniversaries From “Unhistory“
Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam. June 14, …
From a Tin Can to a Killer Vamp: The History of Drone Evolution
“Let Robots Do the Dying,” said Simon Ramo, the aerospace pioneer. The first “robots” that did their dying for us were clunky little tin cans with wings …