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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.
A Marine Remembers: Learning to Kill, Learning Not to Kill
One of my grandsons recently asked me, “What is wisdom?” After some discussion, we together concluded that wisdom comes only with experience. When it comes to war, though, …
US Conservatives Raise a Stink Over Meddlesome Government
Conservatives are convinced that the Environmental Protection Agency is messing with Texas. The state has been battling the federal agency for years over pollution regulations, and now it is …