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William Rivers Pitt | Making Sport of Veterans for Profit and Ratings
Fox, along with mega-sponsor Bank of America, has been “honoring” the veterans.
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The Short Life and Drone-Delivered Death of Tariq Aziz
The reporter describes his interactions with Tariq Aziz, a schoolboy from the tribal regions of North Waziristan u2013 before and after Aziz's death by drone attack.
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Republican War on Food Stamps: One Giant Lie
This Friday, the SNAP program will be slashed by $5 billion anyway, thanks to the expiration of the 2009 Recovery Act that increased funding to that program.
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Boys, Toys, and Guns — A Fatal Mix
Officers sworn to serve, protect, and keep the peace should not show off their guns to children and put them in their eager hands.
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GOP Still Worried About “Those People“
The current Republican obsession with attacking programs that benefit Americans in need, ranging from food stamps to health care reform, isn't about some philosophical commitment to small government; after …
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Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University
To the extent that universities do not fight to be safely ensconced at the
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Time for America to Be a Level Playing Field Again
The lack of income equality in the New York City is a microcosm of our economic crisis as a whole.
Hymn to the Koch Brothers
Donu2019t be ashamed, my Koch Brothers; the world is full of students whou2019ve begun to lose a grip on their bladders.
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Drone Island in the East River
Here is the real danger: We're making murder in its most recognizable form acceptable.
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19 Young Activists Changing America
These activists know that the radical ideas of one generation are often the common-sense ideas of the next: They are practical idealists.