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The Crimea Crisis Offers President Obama a Chance to Retroactively Earn His Nobel Peace Prize
This newfound inclination to give peace a chance in the Crimea stand off with Russia illustrates what President Barack Obama meant during his State of the Union speech when …
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Spy Agencies, Not Politicians, Hold the Cards in Washington
On television, the story line is about a wicked political schemer, accompanied by his wicked wife. In the real world of Washington, however, politicians look more like impotent innocents …
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Twelve Simple Propositions: Climate Change and the Asia Pivot
A meaningful “Asia Pivot” would meaningfully address the greatest security threat to that region and the whole planet: climate change.
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Paul Krugman | Anger, Not Envy, Is Raising Americans’ Ire
To the extent that people have negative feelings about the 1%, the emotion involved isn't envy - it's anger, which isn't at all the same thing.
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The Joy and Resolve of a Movement Built on Creative Resistance
Art has added vitality and energy to advocacy; and it reaches people at deeper emotional levels and in their hearts conveying what cannot be said with mere facts.
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Hope Dies Last
Last week Guy McPherson had some terrifying things to say about the future of the planet on Thom Hartmann's radio program. He said we are experiencing such a rapidly …
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The People’s Hearing? Why It Matters to All of Us
A war has been waged upon the veterans coming home attempting to get healthcare, and Iraqi civilians are searching for how to heal their children and cancers in a …
An Unconscious Truth Lurking in Ukraine
Just like the two galaxies that had been passing as one, what was originally thought to be a single country, presumed to be a unified body politic, has, in …
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Obama Administration Faces Diplomatic Isolation in Latin America on Venezuela
If the Obama administration wants to improve its relations with the region, it could start by joining the rest of the hemisphere in accepting the results of democratic elections.
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Higher Taxes on Higher Incomes
To avoid waste, reduce inequality and maintain some semblance of market efficiency, income taxes should be used to make money as meaningful to a millionaire as it is to …