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What “Grand Bargainers” Simpson and Bowles Really Stand For
Bernie Sanders: If enacted, the plan put forward by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles will cause major economic pain to virtually every American.
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US As World-Class Bully
The latest international incident involving the United States and Iran occurred on November 1st when fighter planes belonging to Iran shot at a US drone and missed. The Obama …
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Anticipatory Compliance the Obama Way
In his reflections on the destruction of European Jewry, the late Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg described a number of ways in which Jews "tried to avert the full force …
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A War of Gods: Occupy, Community and the Sacred
Our perception of the sacred determines the community we seek. The sacred isn't only a matter of belief; it is also an expression of where we live and whom …
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Ignore Grover…and Learn from Him
Washington, DC - Here's the first lesson from the early skirmishing over ways to avoid the fiscal cliff: Democrats and liberals have to stop elevating Grover Norquist, the anti-government …
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Bungee-Jumping Over the Fiscal Cliff
Extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class while ended them for the rich requires an audacious move on the part of the President and the middle class.
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Austerity: The 1%’s Global Battle Cry
Austerity cuts have become the battle cry for the majority of Americans whose futures are threatened by massive cuts to social security and medicare.
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How Long Until Birth Control Pills Are Sold Over the Counter?
This may not be the fight the Obama administration was looking for, but they may end up having it.
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Santa Claus Faces the Democratic Firing Squad?
What Bernie Sanders and other Progressives understand is Democrats havenu2019t been playing Santa Claus for the last 80 years just to win elections. Theyu2019ve been playing Santa Claus to …
Outlawing Nuclear Weapons: Time for a New International Treaty?
With the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty failing, we need a bold plan to pressure nuclear weapon states to begin negotiations for a new international treaty.