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Gun “Background Check” on Pentagon
Norman Solomon: The nation's largest buyer of firearms, the Pentagon, needs a background check if we are to curb gun violence.
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Letter From Bulgaria: What’s Taking Us to the Streets?
Protests are waging in Bulgaria, but the media will not cover the demonstrations. Here is a first-hand account of one Bulgarian's grievances.
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If Women Were in Charge
While women have made great strides across the globe and right here in the United States, there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done.
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Clean-Car Battle Shows How to Fight for Emissions Reduction
The auto campaign provides three key lessons on how to take the next steps to fight climate change.
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Playing Into Assad’s game
The US media has been especially emetic recently in their coverage of the sequester. While cuts to human services, education, health care, and environmental protection are huge, most of …
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Bad Beef, Bad Policy, and a Sad Memory
Conversation in Germany these days, when not about soccer, dealt often with beef which was part horsemeat, high-priced organic “bio” eggs which weren't all they claimed to be or, …
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Is America “a Racist Country?”
“America is a racist country,” Mychal Denzel Smith wrote earlier this month in an articleat the Nation. Smith called on whites to acknowledge racism's pervasiveness and eliminate it. I …
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Sister Simone: A Eulogy for a Haitian Heroine
On this International Women's Day, we rerun a 2005 piece on one of our greatest heroines, Marie Simone Alexandre. Though she died eight years ago, her life and message …
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Sequester This! A Story of Sabotage and Theft
‘The sequester,’ like ‘the fiscal cliff’ and the ‘debt ceiling,’ is an intentionally crafted, make-believe crisis.
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What Rand Paul and Ted Cruz Exposed About the Drone Strikes
Americans are learning the truth about the executive's elastic definition of