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More Western Banking Will Not Help the Mediterranean Pro-Democracy Struggle
(Photo: makeroadssafe / Flickr) Writing for the Washington Post on March 10, 2011, David Ignatius reported that “White House officials like” the idea of the European Bank …
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Pay Up Now, Corporations: We’re Organized, Aware of Your Tax Havens and Ready to Boycott
(Photo: Steve Rhodes / Flickr) PayUpNow.org is an online effort to “uncut” the cutbacks by promoting boycotts of corporations who pay little or no federal income tax. …
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Starship Amerika
President Barack Obama is actually siding with police who want to use GPS devices to track you without a warrant. It always disturbed me when on “Star Trek” the …
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Congress: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks
(Photo: Kevin Burkett / Flickr) Remember that scene in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” when Jimmy Stewart arrives in the capital for the first time? The freshman …
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Love Hurts
(Photo: yewenyi) I write this in solidarity with the millions who recently marched throughout Europe calling for the media's recognition of women's dignity. The march, which began …
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I Was Banned in Croatia: How a Sci-Fi Author Was Recruited to Keep a President From a War Crimes Indictment
It's not every day a science fiction author is hired to write a presidential biography. But in 1997, I was asked to write one about the president of Croatia, …
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Hedging, Delusion and Dishonesty in Afghanistan
“The Americans have not been honest about this, even among themselves.” That's how Mullah Attullah Lodin, deputy chairman of the High Peace Council of Afghanistan, sees our …
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The Best Remedy for the Price of Gas
There is no magic wand that will bring down the price of gasoline, which has once again crossed the $4 mark in California. But there is a long-term solution …
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Knock, Knock – “It’s the IMF …“
For years we have read reports about the International Monetary Fund telling Mexico, Argentina, Greece, Lithuania, Russia ... whoever... to get their economic house in order. Invariably, these reports …
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The Draft – the Disconnect Between the US Military, Its Wars and the American Public
There's a new push to reinstate a Selective Service draft again. Two mainstream authors familiar with military history have put forth the reasons a reinstituted draft could solve a …