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The Horrific Specter of the “Post-Fleming Amendment” Fundamentalist Christian Military
Recently, a perversion of the sacrosanct principle of freedom of religion enshrined in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution has found its way to Congress through the …
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Australia Has $16 Minimum Wage and Is the Only Rich Country to Dodge the Global Recession
Australia has twice the minimum wage as the US and Big Macs cost roughly the same.
Can Activists Win the PR Battle With the Fossil Fuel Industry?
There is a long history of corporations and the state acting in concert to suppress environmental activism. But in recent years the relationship has deepened.
Final Thoughts on the Swartz Affair
On July 30, MIT released its long awaited report on its role in the prosecution and suicide of internet activist Aaron Swartz. Some will regard its release coinciding with …
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Stumbling to Tehran: A Deeply Flawed Argument for a Very Good Idea
I vividly recall the excitement those of us in Chicago's No War on Iran Coalition felt in October 2007 when Esquire published a profile - as the teaser text …
Operation Red Hat: Chemical Weapons and the Pentagon Smokescreen on Okinawa
In July 1969, a leak of chemical weapons on Okinawa sickened more than 20 US soldiers and laid bare one of the Pentagon's biggest Cold War secrets: the storage …
What they Aren’t Telling the Public About Government Spying in New Zealand
Despite a wave of protests in major cities across the country on Saturday July 27 2013 which, for New Zealand, were reasonably large in size, Prime Minister John Key …
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What Would You Have the President Do?
Joe Firestone: “I think Obama is not due sympathy, but a time of accountability for his actual performance.”
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Five Shameful Ways the US Is Leading the World
The US leads the world in obesity, health care spending, energy use per person, defense spending, and is the most expensive place in the world to have a baby.
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The Surveillance Reforms Obama Supported Before He Was President
Only five years ago, Sen. Barack Obama was part of a group of legislators that supported substantial changes to NSA surveillance programs.