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Massachusetts Senate Votes for Childbirth Without Chains
The bill unanimously passed by the Massachusetts Senate prohibits shackling during labor and delivery and sets minimum standards for pregnancy-related care for people in prisons.
Why Is It That So Many Reporters Seem To Know So Little About Obamacare?
A great many reporters and editors at our most esteemed media outlets know very little about the policies available in the Exchanges.
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Gar Alperovitz and Michael Albert: A Conversation on Economic Visions
Two theorists of democratic control of the workplace debate participatory economics, the need for markets and balanced job complexes, and real-life experimentation with alternative economic forms.
“Commemorating” the Vietnam War: One Marine’s Perspective
A Vietnam veteran reflects on the ill-considered official commemoration of that war.
CIA and NSA Wrongdoing Requires Independent Investigation, Says Former Church Committee Staff
Burt Wides, a former chief investigator for the Church Committee, who helped create the Senate and House intelligence committees, says these oversight bodies are now too entwined with the …
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Thanking Me for My Service
A visitor to my home today saw my retirement plaque, which marks my twenty years of service in the US Air Force. He immediately thanked me for my …
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Obama’s Drones Made Simple
Among those targeted and killed by drones have been United States citizens.
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Five-Minute Glass: What Our Government Sees When It Looks Out the Window
US diplomats and functionaries and citizens have to get out from behind our walls, out from behind the 5-minute glass, feel the pain we have caused.
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The Cancer Stage of Reaganomics
Our young people are drowning in a sea of debt, and it all started with Reaganomics.
Hundreds of Tribal Representatives Join Huge Rally to Oppose Fracking
Hundreds of indigenous people from California and across the country gathered with a crowd of over 4000 activists at the State Capitol in Sacramento on March 15 to send …