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Op-Ed
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Fix the Debt
"In an unprecedented move, Obama — who rarely even makes calls to the Hill — is taking a group of Republican Senators out to dinner tonight. On the menu? …
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MA Prosecutor Lets Rumsfeld Walk, Charges Protester Instead
Shaun Joseph, a man arrested for disorderly conduct during a protest demanding the arrest of Donald Rumsfeld, begins his trail.
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William Rivers Pitt: The Sequester is Good for You, and Other GOP Lies
William Rivers Pitt: This is all happening because the GOP would have us all believe that the country is broke.
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On Climate, Defense Could Preserve and Protect, Rather Than Kill and Destroy
The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions, but almost nothing on the existential threat of the millennium.
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Noam Chomsky: Will Capitalism Destroy Civilization?
There is capitalism and then there is really existing capitalism.
Americans for Peace Now: Don’t Co-sponsor AIPAC’s Bills for Iran War
As AIPAC pushes legislation that brings the US closer to war with Iran, Robert Naiman urges Americans to support peace.
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Right Wing Crazies Aren’t Crazy Anymore
America was once the u201cland of the free and the home of the brave.u201d Itu2019s time we became that once again.
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More to Fear Than Fear Itself: The War on Terror’s War on Human Rights
The US should head the UN human rights rapporteur's demand to release information about CIA programs under Bush.
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If the Dalai Lama Were Pope
The Dalai Lama on a visit to Berlin in May, 2008. (Photo: Jan Michael Ihl)Despite Vatican efforts to keep the public eye focused on pomp and circumstance, speculation about …
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Parties to Genocide
One would think that that a certain troubled country seeking absolute security from the possibility of a terrorist attack - by trashing its constitution and giving its president the …