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Al Gore: My Vision of the Future
Al Gore: "Indeed, I am an optimist - though my optimism is predicated on the hope that we will find ways to see and think clearly about the obvious …
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Sonia Sotomayor: From a Bronx Housing Project to the Supreme Court
Justice Sotomayor has emerged as a verbal match for the sardonic remarks of Justice Antonin Scalia.
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American Militarism: Costs and Consequences
As the military expands, the Department of State declines.
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Our Food System Is in Crisis Due to Technology Run Amok and Monopolizing Corporations
Monsanto may be perceived as the evil empire when it comes to food, but it is just the tip of the iceberg,
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“Kill Anything That Moves” Military Doctrine Began in Vietnam
This week's Progressive Pick is a top-selling investigation of the American war on Vietnamese civilians and the enduring legacy of atrocities that government secrecy cannot erase.
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Noam Chomsky: Global Democratic Uprisings and New Challenges to US Empire
Noam Chomsky continues to offer trenchant analysis of how US hegemony is a self-destructive force.
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Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World?
Noam Chomsky: I think talk about American decline should be taken with a grain of salt.
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Howard Zinn: Lincoln and Emancipation
Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate.
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Criminalizing Dissent and Punishing Occupy Protesters: Introduction to Henry Giroux’s “Youth in Revolt“
A new generation of young public intellectuals offer us both critique and hope.
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Can a Paradise Be Built in Hell?
Rebecca Solnit: To be passive in the face of disappointment is to ensure that injustice prevails.