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Washington Post Wants Endless War
The Pentagon Washington Post has yet to mention Section 1034 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2012, but you can expect it — if it passes the Senate — …
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Protest in the Golan Heights
Here I am, an hour-and-a-half's drive from the Golan, and I can't figure out what happened there on June 5. There were no independent journalists on either side of …
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Concern Over Republican Embrace of the Ayn Rand Poison
Some say that maybe it is a bad idea to base a political party's ideology on a belief that altruism, democracy and Christianity are "evil." Others say that maybe …
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Front and (Too) Center
Washington - Poor Mitt Romney. With every poll showing him in the lead for the Republican presidential nomination, his heart must sink. …
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Helms-Burton Act: Resurrecting the Iron Curtain
On March 12, 1996, the United States Congress passed one of the most regressive and draconic foreign policy initiatives in recent memory with the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity …
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Acting as if Future Generations Matter
Of all the questions I am asked as an environmentalist, the hardest to answer is how I keep on going given the odds. Social workers, college students, moms and …
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“Lawfare” Is the Latest Form of Israeli-AIPAC Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Israel is hard at work to stop international citizen activists groups from 22 countries that form the Gaza Freedom Flotilla from sailing in less than 3 weeks to bring …
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No Justice in Kafka’s America
A statue of Lady Justice. (Photo: Vassilena ) In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the …
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The GOP’s Medicare Lies
In an astonishing observation, Rep. Paul Ryan recently declared: "Washington has not been honest with you." Gosh, Paul, that possibility never occurred to us! What …
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The Midas Touch: Stomachs Too Big to Fail
[A longer version of this essay appears in "Food," the Summer 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] …