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The SF LGBT Pride Committee Has Nothing to Be Proud of Over Bradley Manning
Glenn Greenwald's article in The Guardian titled “Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced” has internationally publicized the cowardly decision of …
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The Cure
Cancer cells don't know they are cancerous! Though this may be an obvious fact even a so what fact to many, if we think more critically about this we …
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CNN Has Not “Jumped the Shark,” It is the Shark
Cable news networks thrive on tragedy. That's nothing new. What is new is the incredible, monomaniacal programming mantra that has taken over CNN—the ever-more inane and dementia-addled granddaddy of …
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One Hospital Charges $8,000 … Another Charges $38,000?
In major cities across our nation, the range of prices for similar or the same medical procedures looks more like the ups and downs in the wildly volatile stock …
Lessons From the US-Korea Nuclear Crisis
One final lesson that applies to all nuclear crises is that the only way to assure that nuclear weapons are not used again is to abolish them.
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Hang Together or Hang Separately: The Battle Against Austerity
The piecemeal fight against shrink-the-government policies is unworkable; we need comprehensive solutions.
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If the Oceans Die – We Die
As lawmakers in Washington continue to ignore the most pressing issue facing our planet today, we are about to pass a very disturbing environmental milestone.
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No Redemption for George W. Bush
Mr. Bush should be blocked from redemption of any kind, ever: he misled us into a war that probably killed hundreds of thousands of people, and he did it …
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How Little Has Changed
How little has changed: Some excerpts of writings on the capitalism of the 19th and early 20th Centuries – excerpted from my book, a work still in progress, Let's …
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April 27th is the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) – Extraordinary Harlem-Based Intellectual and Activist
Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the …