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Lesser-Evil Math Doesn’t Compute: Freedom Plaza Has the Same Name as Tahrir Square
In an electoral system corrupted by money, media, and parties, the US people are offered a choice every four years between two hideously awful candidates for an office that …
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Libyan Rebels Swiftly Reject African Union Peace Plan
Libyan opposition leaders on Monday rejected an African Union “road map” for making peace with Moammar Gadhafi, saying that nothing short of the strongman's immediate resignation would satisfy them. …
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Demanding the Impossible
Washington - Far-right Republicans are winning the budget wars because they understand something that nobody else in Washington seems to grasp: The old truism about politics being the art …
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Pakistan Tells US It Must Sharply Cut CIA Activities
CIA Director Leon Panetta during a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on February 16, 2011. Pakistan's demand that the US scale back …
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News in Brief: Vicente Fox Calls on Mexico to Legalize Drugs, and More
Vicente Fox Calls on Mexico to Legalize Drugs
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The Geopolitics of Stupid
He's an activist who has used the Internet to fight for what he believes in. He is a member of civil society committed to living in truth. He doesn't …
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Lines Drawn for Next Big Budget Battle, the Debt Ceiling
Washington - House Republicans, fresh from their showdown with Democrats over cuts in the current federal budget, promised Sunday to take an even tougher stand on spending next month …
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A Change Maker’s Guide to Economic Paradigms
We are in the midst of a collapsing economic paradigm. This is evident in the widespread wealth inequality, absence of strong civic institutions, corrosive infusion of money into …
Government Calls Native American Resistance of 1800s “Much Like Modern-Day Al-Qaeda“
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a statement concerning the hearing before the United States Court of Military Commission Review in United States v. Al Bahlul, before its …