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A Clenched Fist On Every Lapel
Sunday evening, February 27, hundreds of millions of movie fans will watch the 83d annual Academy Awards. These viewers may not be aware of a fact that merits particular …
You Have More Money in Your Wallet Than Bank of America Pays in Federal Taxes
Today, hundreds of thousands of people comprising a Main Street Movement — a coalition of students, the retired, union workers, public employees, and other middle class Americans — are in the …
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Gates Warns Against More Wars Like Iraq and Afghanistan
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a press conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., June 24, 2010. Gates issued a plea late Wednesday for Congress to pass a …
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America as a Free Fire Zone
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. …
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Rallies for Labor, in Wisconsin and Beyond
People congregate outside the Wisconsin Capitol to protest a plan proposed by Gov. Scott Walker to limit public employees' bargaining rights, in Madison, Wis., Feb. 26, 2011. Tens of …
Blind Human Rights Lawyer Beaten and Isolated in Chinese Crackdown
A man brandishing a broom guards the entrance to Dongshigu village, where Chen Guangcheng has been confined since September in China on Feb. 14, 2011. Known as “ruanjin,” or …
Revisiting the FBI’s Dirty War on Black America
Thanks to a CNN documentary airing this week, the tale of FBI informant Ernest Withers is now well known. The black photographer spent years busily documenting the civil rights …
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Pakistani and Indian Newspapers Say US CIA Contractor Raymond Davis is a Terrorist
Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo: colincookman) Pakistani and Indian newspapers are reporting that Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor in jail in Lahore facing murder charges for the execution-slayings of …
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Defections Further Isolate Qaddafi; Security Council Approves Sanctions
A woman holds up a defaced portrait of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi during a protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo, on Feb. 25, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of …
The Dangers of American Fascism
An article in the New York Times, April 9, 1944. From Henry A. Wallace, Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944), edited by Russell Lord, p. 259.