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“Librotraficantes” Bring Banned Books into Arizona
Phoenix - Tony Diaz, aka “El Librotraficante” (or book smuggler) is arriving in Tucson on Friday with a truckload of Mexican-American books that were effectively banned from the Tucson …
Medicare Costs Too Much and They Better Not Cut It
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) joins other House Republicans to tell members of the media about their plan to reform the Congressional budget process in Washington, December 7, 2011. (Photo: …
Ever More and Ever Less: The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror
By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and …
Corporate Campaign Spending: They Get What They Pay for
(Photo: 401K) Will corporate spending determine the outcomes of the 2012 elections? Academic research shows that when companies spend money on politics, they earn a significant financial …
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Standing Up for Peace
Keene, New Hampshire. (Photo: Dougtone) During a recent city council meeting, the mayor of Keene, New Hampshire leaned over to a council member and whispered excitedly: "We're …
America’s Crimes of War
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Marine Maj. Gen. Mark Gurganus, commanding general, NATO Regional Command-South West exit a U.S. Marine V-22 Osprey at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, March 14, …
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Re-Occupation and Police Raid of Zuccotti Park Set Tone for Radical Spring
Police officers prepare to detain protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement during a rally at Zuccotti Park in New York, March 17, 2012. Scores of Occupy Wall Street …
How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You
Many evangelicals wear their religion on T-shirts and around their necks and on car bumpers and eye-blacks. They hand out tracts on college campuses and stage revival meetings on …
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Scores Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park
Police detain a man and woman during a rally of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at Zuccotti Park in New York, March 17, 2012. The demonstration was in celebration of …
Beset by Online Surveillance and Content Filtering, Netizens Fight On
Egyptian youths use laptops to post video of the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, February 7, 2011. (Photo: Ed Ou / …