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“Terrorism Is Not a Religion” – Somali-American Poet Speaks Out
“See I fought for this country and still got condemned / Find myself marching with people who hated me / Yet I managed to call 'em my friend.” That’s …
The New Scramble for Africa
Is current U.S. foreign policy in Africa following a blueprint drawn up almost eight years ago by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, one of the most conservative think tanks in …
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Perry and the HPV Vaccine: Selling Women’s Health (and Everything Else) to the Highest Bidder
In 2007, Governor Rick Perry shocked both public health officials and his conservative base when he signed an executive order mandating that female students in Texas be vaccinated against …
Fraud Close to $60 Billion in Outsourcing Wars
More than a quarter of a million security contractors have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002, and between them they have managed to “lose” at least $31 …
Does Disclosure Help?
Following up on yesterday’s column about corporate spending, I saw that John Coates (Harvard Law School) and Taylor Lincoln (Public Citizen) have published a study of the relationship between …
Banking for California’s Future
Protesters demonstrate in San Francisco, California on June 10, 2009. California lawmakers are considering the establishment of a state-owned bank as a response to the state's ongoing budget problems. …
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God’s Hand
Her touch was gentler than anything I'd ever felt before - a tiny hand resting on my upper back. Standing in the middle of a tightly packed audience at …
A Political Casualty of 9/11: The Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement
Nine-eleven's ten-year anniversary is sparking retrospectives ranging from lives lost to a War on Terror launched. But media accounts have omitted an important political casualty: the short-lived "anti-globalization" movement, …
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Another Unfortunate September Anniversary
Americans respected the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. with silence, reverence, retrospection. Sept. 11, 2001, changed the world as we knew it, …
Former Sen. Bob Graham Urges Obama to Reopen Investigation Into Saudi Role in 9/11 Attacks
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