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What the “Average American” is Asking on 09/08/13
All agree that chemical weapons were used (even Assad agrees); the Administration says that we have overwhelming evidence that Assad's forces deployed these chemicals (Assad denies).
Fair Housing Groups Ask Court to Deny Banks’ Effort to Stop Richmond’s Mortgage Rescue Plan
The brief argues that the actions the securitization industry has threatened to take to block the program, known as Richmond CARES, would amount to illegal redlining and would violate …
A Tale of Two Responses to LGBTI Violence
The US lambasts deteriorating conditions for LGBTI people in Russia but supports the Lobo regime in Honduras despite rampant human rights abuses there.
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Learning From World War I
The deadliness and unreliability of chemical weapons were not the only lessons of World War I. A far more important lesson is that a war can take on a …
From One Nobel Peace Laureate To Another: Open Letter to President Barack Obama
There is no doubt that the use of chemical arms is immoral and to be condemned, but your government has no moral authority whatsoever to justify an intervention.
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Chemical Weapons
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Supertankers to Ply the Great White Slushie: Global Warming’s Latest Feedback Loop
Less predictable are the insane human behavior feedback loops, where the warming climate triggers a self-destructive pathological greed within corporate culture.
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Weather Extremists
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Resisting the Global State: A Perfectly Timed Perspective
An uncannily timely book that can well serve as manual for political education and guide to action.
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The “Systematic Murder” of Philadelphia Public Schools
Philadelphia schools have turned into skeletons of their former selves and are woefully unprepared for the start of classes this year.