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E.J. Dionne Jr. | Our Imagination Deficit
WASHINGTON — While the United States remains utterly frozen in a debate about budget deficits and all the things that government shouldn't do, other countries are marrying public and …
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Five Eye-Opening Facts About Our Bloated Post-9/11 “Defense” Spending
(Photo: Staff Sgt. Jeff Kaus / U.S. Department of Defense) This week, the National Priorities Project (NPP) released a snapshot of U.S. “defense” spending since September 11, …
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Remembering the Quiet, Unsung Heroes of America
(Photo: Fouquier / Flickr) This Memorial Day, let's remember and learn from our heroes who are gone from us. For me, my heroes are my parents, both …
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Raise Your Hand if You Think the Expansion of Our Nuclear-Industrial Complex Escapes Iran
A sign in the grounds of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, on Sept. 12, 2009. (Photo: Mark Holm / The New York Times) Focal …
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Witness: Pakistani Intel Officer Ordered Hit on Mumbai Jews
This report is part of a ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation. A version of this article appeared in the Washington Post. An officer in Pakistan’s intelligence service chose a Jewish center as …
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Women Lose Livelihood Centres to Militants
Peshawar - Housewife Shahida Jabeen was devastated when she heard the news that she could no longer take sewing and embroidery classes at the local training centre in her …
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Egypt Hunts Down the Right to Love
Cairo - Abeer Fakhry, a young Christian woman, had only wanted to live with a man who would love and respect her, and not with her abusive husband. But …
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How China Plans to Leapfrog the American Economy (and It’s Not What You Think)
Many Americans are already concerned about China’s growing economic challenge to the United States. Indeed, the challenge itself is hardly news anymore. But a new book, Red Alert …
Thomas Pogge on the Past, Present and Future of Global Poverty
Thomas Pogge. (Photo: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Keane Bhatt: Could you begin by outlining the key issues of global poverty and why you consider its existence …
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Theories and Hoaxes Are Blurring Reality
After his End Times prediction failed last week millionaire radio prophet Harold Camping eventually came up with an excuse. During his show “Open Forum” in Oakland on May 23, …