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Abortion at Risk: Where Does Your State Stand?
In the wake of Republican victories in the November midterms, abortion rights have taken a pummeling. On the federal level, as mapped out in the latest issue of Ms., …
Israel Sides With Its Loyal Ally in Cairo
On Tuesday, February 1, I watched Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give a talk about the ongoing events in Egypt. In essence, he said that if the demonstrations against …
Plan B for Health Care Reform: It’s Called “Medicare for All“
My colleague, Bo Cutter, has noted the likelihood of continued challenges to health care reform in the wake of the recent Florida State Supreme Court decision to invalidate the …
Jim Hightower | The Kochs Are Coming
Rancho Mirage, California - The multibillionaire Koch brothers are used to running their nefarious network of political front groups from behind closed doors, keeping their identities and self-serving involvement …
US Officials: Cairo Clash Shows Army Won’t Push Mubarak Out
Washington - The Egyptian military's failure Wednesday to keep pro- and anti-government forces from clashing violently in Cairo's Tahrir Square provided persuasive evidence that the army has no intention …
Donald Rumsfeld, “Defender of the Constitution” (Really)
Here's what I thought when I heard the Conservative Political Action Conference has decided to honor former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with something CPAC calls the "Defender of …
WATCH LIVE: Al Jazeera Coverage of Situation in Egypt
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Medea Benjamin | Not Leaving Until Hosni Does
Tonight our CODEPINK delegation in Cairo returned to Tahrir Square after the terrible events of this afternoon, when Mubarak's thugs busted up their peaceful protest with rocks, sticks and …
US Must Shift Paradigm Away From Its Current View of Arab World
It cannot be lost on any informed observer of the Arab world that the tremendous political momentum of the past week, although spontaneous, is focused, reasoned and democratic. Protests …
Wallace Shawn | Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Really a Stage?
In most reasonably large towns in the United States and Europe, you can find, on some important public square or street, a professional theater.