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The United States’ Clandestine Armies Plunge Us Deeper Into Violence
The US empire's taxpayer-funded secret operatives foment the very instability that allows them to continue to proliferate like cockroaches.
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Belt-Tightening Time
“Courage” in Washington Doesn’t Have the Same Meaning
Last week, Vice President Joe Biden did a courageous thing, he promised an audience in southern Virginia that there will be no cuts whatsoever to Social Security in a …
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Medicare
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Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn’t Get in Their Way
He was already telling me about the very important book — with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy …
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The Government Can Track You by Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant
Civil liberties groups say the broad ruling, handed down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio, could have sweeping impacts on the Fourth Amendment privacy rights of …
The Finnish Alternative: Reclaiming Public Education From Corporate Reform
In our concluding episode, we take readers to Finland, in an extensive original interview with world-renowned education expert Pasi Sahlberg, director general of Centre of International Mobility and Cooperation …
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Julian Assange Calls on Obama to End “Witch Hunt“
The WikiLeaks founder took to the balcony of Ecuadoru2019s Embassy in London to address supporters.
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Small Government or Smallish-Sort-of-Mediumish-Nicer-Better Government
It couldnu2019t hurt for the Democrats to have a decent response to the small-government attack line, and that starts with having some kind of understanding of what the federal …
Stand Together as Friends of 30 Million Afghans
Is it at all important, in the midst of the Afghan war and its attendant socio-economic devastation, to wish that two Afghan youth, Ali and Abdulhai, will eventually obtain …