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Kate Clinton and Urvashi Vaid: What Makes Revolutionaries Irresistible?
In honor of Pride month, Flanders talks to political humorist Kate Clinton and author and activist Urvashi Vaid about the LGBT movement, feminism, humor, and irresistible revolutions and revolutionaries.
Henry A. Giroux | Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting
“As historical memory is erased, critical thought is crushed by a sterile instrumental rationality under the guise of mass information and a data storm.”
What Is the Quality of Scientific Evidence Against Iran?
Achieving a nuclear arms deal is in everyone's favor. It will be made easier by rejecting any flawed evidence or analysis being used against Iran.
Follow the Money: How Finance Keeps the Whip Hand
While the NSA argues that the biggest risk of terrorism is the possibility of a hack attack on our banking system by unspecified assailants, the mortal danger facing the …
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Could John McCain Be Responsible for the Next 9/11?
In today's real-life remake of “Charlie Wilson's War,” John McCain is playing the role of Charlie Wilson and Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, is playing the role …
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Presbyterians Divest From the Israeli Occupation: The End of the Beginning?
The US Presbyterian Church's vote to divest from companies involved in the Israeli occupation may be a major turning point in resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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It’s the Oil, Stupid! Insurgency and War on a Sea of Oil
Events in Iraq are headline news everywhere, and once again, there is no mention of the issue that underlies much of the violence: control of Iraqi oil.
Another US Spying Problem in Latin America: The US Drug Enforcement Agency
Meanwhile in Brazil, although both Dilma and former President Lula have called for apologies from President Obama for the abuses, U.S. officials have made it clear that this will …
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Expand Medicare to Serve all Veterans
Medicare is approaching its 50th anniversary as one of the most durable, successful and popular federal programs ever created. Do our veterans deserve any less?
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Tony Blair – War Criminal, Narcissist, Cult of Personality
They used to say that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were the great losers of the 20th Century, but that's just convenient Anglophone propaganda.