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Asserting War Powers, House Moves to End Afghanistan, Libya Wars
(Photo: Marines / Flickr) Voting on amendments to the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, the House of Representatives took action to hasten the end of the wars …
Peace No Longer Even Gets Lip Service
Soldiers of the US Army's Alpha Company of Third Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division prepare to fire illumination rounds during a training exercise with the …
In the Battle of the Budget, a Fog of Words
Frank Luntz at Affiliate Summit East 2010. Luntz claimed on Fox that the budget of a country of nearly 300 million people is similar to that of a working-class …
Plenty of Plenty in the New Food Plutocracy
As food prices, both in this country and abroad, continue their steady ascent, the amount we should pay for food remains a contested issue. In a February 21, 2011, …
Immigration for Third Graders
I recently came across an article that brought attention to a particularly troublesome bit of curriculum being employed by an elementary school in Duluth, Georgia. When third-grade …
People First … and Dogs, Too: A Case Study of Throwing Money and High Technology at a Military Problem
US Army Spc. Kory Wiels and his military working canine Cooper take a break after searching a house for weapons and homemade explosives in Arab Jabour, southern Baghdad, Iraq, …
Propaganda for “Justice”: Flattering the State on Libya and Bin Laden
On April 11, The New York Times uncritically repeated the Obama administration's claims that the intervention in Libya was his first “humanitarian war.” With efforts to remove Qaddafi having …
What Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima
Steam rises from the Fukushima #3 nuclear reactor, March 19, 2011. (Photo: daveeza) On April 12, 2011 the Japanese government officially announced that the severity of the …
Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution
Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC. President Abraham Lincoln observed in his first inaugural address, "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow …
Why the Rich Love High Unemployment
The headquarters of JPMorgan Chase in New York. A JPMorgan research report concludes that the current corporate profit recovery is more dependent on falling unit-labor costs than during any …